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Exciting bursary opportunity £360 for 6 half days research collaboration between January-March
Collaborate both with Centre for Academic English (CfAE) and with other undergraduates across college to identify how CfAE can optimise its support of students to equip them to communicate successfully both at Imperial and in their careers. You will collect data through four focus groups and analyse your results, recommending the next steps for CfAE. Find out more in CfAE's StudentShaper advert!
Please email Julie Hammond if you would like more information, june.hammond@imperial.ac.uk
University of Oxford - Condensed Matter Physics Open Day 2024
Passing Along a Start-up Internship Opportunity
Run by Harvard founders, Ladder Internships is a selective start-up internship program for college students. In the program, students work 1-1 with top start-ups on real-world projects. Companies in the program cover industries like AI & Machine Learning, healthcare, finance, and biotech. The company founders come from places like the Y Combinator, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, and McKinsey & Company.
The next application deadline for the winter cohort is Nov 24th. Students can apply here!
Are you passionate about science? Interested in public engagement? Love pubs?
It’s not too late to become a volunteer for Pint of Science 2025. Why not attend our Recruitment evening/ social to find out more and meet new people?!
What is Pint of Science? Pint of Science is an international science festival that happens annually over three evenings in May. From 19-21st May 2025, science researchers will be making their way from the lab to public venues such as cafes and pubs to share their research stories with the public over a nice cold pint of their favourite drink.
What’s involved for volunteers? Pint of Science is a great way to learn team-working, event management and public engagement. Not only is it a great boost to your CV, it’s also excellent for meeting new people and generally having a laugh – how often do you get to run your own festival in your spare time?!
Recruitment Evening/Social: We are hosting an introductory session on Tuesday 19th of November at 5:30pm in G38 Royal School of Mines. The session includes all the information about Pint of Science and all the perks it involves. This will be followed by snacks and a social.
If you want to get involved, please complete this form to register your interest by Thursday 21st November. You can fill in the form before or after the introductory talk.
Our events include the following topics:
- Beautiful Mind (neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry)
- Atoms to Galaxies (physics, chemistry, maths, astronomy)
- Our Body (medicine, human biology, health)
- Planet Earth (geosciences, plant sciences, zoology)
- Tech Me Out (biotechnology, robotics, computers)
- Our Society (law, history, politics, policy, languages)
- Creative Reactions – where science meets art.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact:
Solomon (s.hirsch23@imperial.ac.uk)
Josh (j.hollowood23@imperial.ac.uk)
Saoirse (saoirse.coveney20@imperial.ac.uk)
Many thanks,
Solomon Hirsch, Josh Hollowood and Saoirse Coveney
(Imperial College London - Pint of Science Coordinators)
Oxford Chemistry Graduate Open Days
Oxford Chemistry will holding a number of graduate open days, for students interested in our postgraduate courses. The main event will take place online on Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th November. There will be a live-streamed admissions talk, online posters and video clips, and opportunities to drop-in and meet our research supervisors and groups via Teams.
To find out more and register, please visit: Information for applicants | Department of Chemistry (ox.ac.uk)
General information about our graduate degrees is available here: https://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/postgraduate-study
Physics 2023 Nobel Prize Winner Talk on Attosecond Physics
Anne L’Hullier, one of the 2023 Physics Nobel Prize Winners, is coming to Imperial to give a talk on Attosecond Physics on 26th November at 11am in Blackett Building Lecture Theatre 1.
If you wish to attend, please register via EventBrite
This is a first come, first seated event. Once Lecture Theatre 1 is full, extra seating will be available in Blackett Lecture Theatre 3 where the event will be live-streamed.
Judith Baylis
Light & Matter Senior Administrator
New 100 seat space opens at the Abdus Salam Library
Library Services are pleased to announce the opening of a new Group Study Space on level 4 of the Abdus Salam Library. The area features over 100 study spaces in an array of different types of furniture such as 2, 4 and 6-seater meeting pods, standing desks and moveable furniture.
Whilst the main study furniture is bespoke and brand-new, we were very happy to be able to re-use a number of reclaimed whiteboards, a printer and a table and benches in the ‘tea-point’.
The ‘tea-point’ also includes a hot water boiler and cold vending machines.
Later in the year we will be adding to this space by opening two bookable group study rooms on the same floor.
We look forward to welcoming you to the space soon and please send your feedback to library@imperial.ac.uk.
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Teaching Internships - Summer 2025 - at Alexandra Park School
Dear Imperial College London Undergraduates and Masters Students,
We have a great summer Teaching Internship opportunity for you at an outstanding North London School.
This programme is being offered in partnership with the Get into Teaching service Teaching internships | Get Into Teaching GOV.UK (education.gov.uk) and is designed to offer undergraduates (at any stage of their degree) and masters students the opportunity to experience teaching in a secondary school.
You will need to be interested in teaching one of the subjects below and be studying a related subject:
- Maths
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Computing
- Languages (French and Spanish only)
Teaching Internships are three weeks in duration, and you will be paid £425 per week.
The Teaching Internship at Alexandra Park School (N11 2AZ) will run from Monday 16th June 2025 to Friday 4th July 2025. You must be able to attend the full three weeks.
If this is of interest to you, please complete an application form
Applications open: Monday 2nd December 2024
Closing date for applications: Monday 6th January 2025
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be invited to an interview during February 2025.
Unfortunately, this opportunity is not available if you have already undertaken a paid teaching internship or have a confirmed ITT (Initial Teacher Training) place for next academic year 2025-2026.
For more information visit Internships NRTA | New River Teaching Alliance or contact Kate Dowling kdowling@alexandrapark.school
Good luck with your application.
Online Mentoring
Dear Student,
I am looking for someone willing to do online mentoring/tutoring for three A level physics students. Initially, there will be 10 one-hour online sessions (one per week) with all three A level students together, and you will be paid the standard rate (starting from £14.88).
The students, and their North London school, would be grateful for any kind of mentoring and help with physics questions/ problems as they had no permanent physics teacher last academic year. The school would organise Teams meetings, and one of their staff would be pro forma logged in into the meeting, which makes everything simpler from the safeguarding point of view.
As a former A level physics teacher, I would be able to help you with any questions on how to approach A level questions/problems, how to structure the sessions or with any other problem you might encounter.
If you are interested or have any other question, please send me an email. Ana Soldner-Rembold: a.soldner-rembold@imperial.ac.uk
Imperial Energy Projects
Nicholas, the head of the Imperial Energy Projects; these are projects that the Imperial Energy Society Committee has designed for the student body to work on, with some internal and others with external partners such as Rolls Royce.
Attached are the project details. Students sign up using this form (deadline is Sunday the 20th of October): https://forms.gle/cM7zJ366sGiCB6NP8
These projects are an excellent opportunity for physics students to learn about a topic of interest, build up their soft and hard skillsets, and are generally a great accompaniment alongside their course.
I have included an FAQ below which will hopefully pre-emptively respond to the main questions we have received thus far.
FAQ:
How qualified do I need to be to join a project?
As long as you have a keen interest in a project, it's appropriate for you to join the team. Each team is there to innovate and share knowledge, meaning that if you don't have experience in the field, you will be able to quickly learn, and if you are familiar, you will have the opportunity to strengthen your understanding by explaining concepts to others.
What is the time commitment?
You can take varying responsibility within your team, depending on your ability to commit time, throughout the year; the average weekly commitment is 3 hours.
Graduate Analyst
The Company
Vega Insight provides a unique view on commodity markets through data analytics and
machine learning. Founded by a team of data scientists, machine learning engineers,
market experts and traders, with a growing international customer base consisting of energy producers, utilities, banks and investment funds.
The Role
The position is open for a graduate analyst to join our team and work on development of our analytics platform and production of market analysis reports. We are seeking to expand our current focus on European energy markets to cover multiple commodities across different sectors. Your input will directly assist the expansion of our product offering.
Skills
• Quantitative background with experience in data analysis and financial modelling.
• Basic familiarity with economics and commodity markets (useful but not essential).
• Preferred tech stack is Excel/Tableau/SQL/Python
Education
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree, preferably in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Economics, but we welcome applications from all educational backgrounds with demonstrated analytical capacity.
Details
Work mode: We are currently working remotely with available office space in London.
Pay: £30,000
Duration: 3-month fixed contract (permanent contract subject to satisfying initial review).
Application Process:
1. Please send your CV to talent@vegainsight.com.
2. Please provide at least one reference (supervisor/employer).
3. If shortlisted, you will be asked to attend a couple of interviews with our team.
- Screening: technical fit interview with an analyst.
- Screening: cultural fit interview with a senior manager.
- Final stage: interview with CEO.
4. Further instructions will be emailed to you.
Application Deadline: 1st October 2024
Start date: 1st November 2024
Opportunity to help with GroundBIRD remote telescope observations
We are looking for around five students who are interested in helping with remote observations with the GroundBIRD telescope. This is a Cosmic Microwave Background telescope observing from Tenerife, and we particularly need help with observations in the UK afternoon/evenings (approx. 2pm-8pm). It is a unique opportunity to engage in observing with a research telescope. You will be watching the telescope status remotely during observations and, if the weather gets bad, stopping observations as needed. No previous experience is needed. The role is voluntary (unpaid), can be done from any location, and only requires checking conditions every ~15 minutes (more or less often depending on weather forecasts), so can be done in parallel to studying etc. Contact Mike Peel at m.peel@imperial.ac.uk for more information.
Imperial College Business School PG Information Session
Imperial College Business School is delighted to invite current Imperial students to an Information Session taking place on campus at 2pm on Wednesday 4 December 2024.
This session is designed for students studying across departments at Imperial, to learn more about their postgraduate study options in the Business School. We will cover:
- An introduction to our MSc and MBA programmes
- Application information and guidance
- Careers support
- Student life
- Q&A
Registration is required. Please complete this registration form to secure your place.
This event is being held ahead of our round 2 admissions deadline and final scholarship deadline, which is coming up on 9 January 2024.
Application fee waiver
We are also pleased to offer current Imperial students an application fee waiver, to waive the £100 MSc application processing fee. Please complete this short form using your Imperial email address to receive your application fee waiver code. Please note that this code is valid for 2025 entry only.
If you have any questions about the information session or application fee waiver, please email us on business.school@imperial.ac.uk
Fully funded 4-year PhD position - University of Warwick
The position is for an October 2025 start date and in close collaboration within Femtosecond X-ray Group at European XFEL, Hamburg led by Chris Milne.
The project is predominantly experimental and will involve the development and application of ultrafast THz and X-ray spectroscopies (pump-probe, photon correlation) to examine lattice fluctuations and ion transport in energy materials. Work will be performed both at the table-top and at free-electron laser facilities. There is significant room for international travel to beamlines/to visit collaborators and you will learn a range of skills in optics, data analysis/coding, and (quantum) condensed matter.
Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
The official advertisement and information on the formal application can be found at: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/capturing-ultrafast-dynamics-in-energy-materials-using-x-ray-free-electron-lasers/?p177149
Please contact me Raj Pandya (raj.pandya@warwick.ac.uk) James Lloyd-Hughes (j.lloydhughes@warwick.ac.uk) or Chris Milne (christopher.milne@xfel.eu) in advance of any official application and with any informal enquiries.
Fire evacuation assembly points for Blackett & Huxley
Dear all,
Thank you for the feedback provided following the triggering of the fire alarm in the Blackett Building last Tuesday. Please see below for the assembly points that should be used when evacuating from Blackett (points A or B) and Huxley (points A or C). You must use the nearest escape route which may not be the same route you normally use. For example, in Blackett there are the east and west stairwells which connect floors 0-7, in addition to the main stairwell which connects all floors. Always use the break glass to release exit doors and keep roads clear in case emergency vehicles need access.
Further information on fire safety can be found here: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/estates-facilities/health-and-safety/fire-safety/
