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Physics: University of Cambridge

Degree 
MPhil, PhD
Address
Physics: University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Subject
Physics
App Deadline 
MPhil: none specified; PhD: apply as early as possible. PPARC studentships are allocated in January (High Energy Physics) and early March (Astrophysics). EPSRC studentship interviews are held mainly in January/February/March.
Telephone 
+44 (0)1223 337420
E-mail 

admi...@phy.cam.ac.uk

Website 
http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk



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The Cavendish Laboratory was opened in 1874, the first Cavendish Professor being James Clerk Maxwell. It has an unrivalled international reputation, claiming no fewer than 24 Nobel Prize winners.

Key research areas

The Laboratory has thirteen research groups/sectors.

  • Astrophysics:

    This group operates several of its own instruments at its observatory near Cambridge. It also maintains a close association with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. Research topics include millimetre-wave astronomy, astrophysics and optical interferometry observations and instrumentation

  • High Energy Physics:

    The group uses the large accelerators at CERN in Geneva for experiments while detector design and development and physics analyses are carried out in Cambridge

The remaining 11 groups/sectors are in the area of condensed matter physics:

  • Atomic, Mesoscopic and Optical Physics (AMOP)
  • Biological and Soft Systems (BSS)
  • Detector and Optical Physics (DOP)
  • Inference (INF)
  • Quantum Matter (QM)
  • Nanophotonics (NP)
  • Optoelectronics (OE) & Microelectronics Research Centre (ME)
  • Semiconductor Physics (SP)
  • Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture (SMF)
  • Theory of Condensed Matter (TCM)
  • Thin Films Magnetism and Materials (TFMM).

Research areas include:

  • Quantum effect devices
  • Superconductivity
  • Conducting polymers
  • Polymers and Colloids
  • Amorphous solids
  • Electron microscopy
  • Electron structure theory and computation
  • Structural phase transitions
  • Thin films and interfaces
  • Quantum Monte Carlo simulations
  • Inferential Sciences
  • Physics of Medicine
  • Cold Atoms
  • Quantum information and systems

Research collaborations

  • They collaborate with other departments - especially Engineering, Chemistry, Materials Science and the Institute of Astronomy - in some areas of research and this interdisciplinary activity is likely to increase further.
  • They work closely with industrial collaborators and have inspired many industrial developments in the Cambridge Science Park and elsewhere.

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