Welcome

James Kermode
Director

We would like to welcome you to the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems (HetSys).

We hope that you will enjoy developing your mathematical and problem-solving skills with our training and find your time here to be productive and invaluable for your future career. We also look forward to learning about your ideas, insights and innovations.

We hope that by working together, you can build on your collective strengths, develop research skills and take advantage of the network of professional contacts you will create through this experience.

HetSys brings together colleagues from across the Science Faculty and the Centre’s industrial and international partners to deliver excellent training in computational modelling of ‘real world’ systems required by industry and academia. The models you will develop will be implemented in robust and reusable software allowing the reliability of your results to be carefully assessed.

Welcome onto our programme! Please let us know if you have any questions.

Pre arrival essentials

Please work your way through the arrivals checklist.

Induction materials

The HetSys CDT recruits students from across the physical sciences: this brings valuable diversity to our cohort but it also means that not all students are at the same level of knowledge in any of the subject we build upon in the taught course. When the year begins, we launch relatively quickly into workshops in multiscale materials modelling, so there is not much time to revise material that we would normally expect the majority of the cohort to have studied previously but which a few have not previously seen. As a result, we have put together material for self study over the vacation before you begin your course. This focusses on three areas:

Once you have completed the self assessment tests for quantum mechanics and mathematics, please email the completed tests to .

The results of these tests do not inpact your offer in any way, they are purely to help us gauge you understanding.

International Students:

To prepare for your study in the UK you may wish to take the International Student Success online course developed by Epigeum (part of SAGE Publishing) in 2022, with staff and students in UK universities.

It offers practical advice on living and studying in the UK, peer communication, confidence building, and mental health strategies and takes an average of 2 to 4 hours to complete the core content.

Arrival essentials

• Once you have arrived, you can collect your Warwick ID Card.
  Information on how to do this can be found here.

• Read information on computing, including the Laptop Terms and Conditions on the HetSys Computing Webpage. Your HetSys laptop will be given to you during the induction week.

• Attend the events scheduled as part of the HetSys Induction Week. The Induction Sessions are mandatory, even if you are a previous Warwick student. The full Induction Week schedule will be published during the summer.

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