IOP Groups

PhD thesis prizes 2009

The competition is open to all students whose PhD examination took place in the calendar year 2008. Entries should be made in the form of a citation (max. 500-word) from the PhD supervisor and an electronic version of the thesis (pdf file on CD). The names and contact details of the PhD examiners should be provided as references. Publications or patents resulting directly from work performed by the candidate will also be considered.

Examples of subject areas are:

• Nonlinear optics and spectroscopy
• Advances in laser science
• Coherent and incoherent sources of light
• Metamaterials
• Laser cooling, trapping and manipulation
• Quantum optics
• Microstructured photonic structures
• Magneto-optics
• Nanophotonics and plasmonics
• Quantum information processing

Deadline: 26 June 2009
Value: Total prize fund of £250
Submission Format: Electronic copy of thesis (pdf file on CD)
Submission Address: Dr Martin McCall
Department of Physics
Imperial College London
SW7 2AZ
m.mccall@imperial.ac.uk
Tel:020 7594 7749
Fax: 020 7594 7749

Please enclose contact details including an email address

The QEP Group Committee will treat all nominations in confidence.

Past winners

2007 - Sarah Croke
Strathclyde University
PhD title: Maximum confidence measurements.

2003 Dimitris Angelakis (Imperial College)

2004 Hyunseok Jeong (Queen’s University Belfast) and Seán Martin O’Flaherty
(Trinity College Dublin)

2005 Jörg Evers (Universität Freiburg)

2006 John Morton (Oxford University)

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