Projects - Summer 2015

First name Family Name Research title Supervisor Ahmed Al-Jawahiry Systematics of Quark and Lepton Mass Matrices Paul Harrison Alessandro Barp Differential Topology and Spin Transport in Skyrmion Magnets Gareth Alexander Adam Bennett Investigation of NiCdO Semiconducting Alloys Chris McConville James Blake Modelling Exoplanetary Transits to Investigate the Bulk Properties Don Pollacco Andrew Borrill Searching for inflated planets around nearby stars Peter Wheatley Joe Bright Probing the structure of burnt-out stars through asteroseismology Boris Gaensicke Ben Brown Transducers for measuring high pressure fields inside ultrasonic Rachel Edwards Ryan Calladine Ultrasound to measure liquid level inside pipes Steven Dixon Jordan Carr OOMMF STUDIES OF NANO-ARRAYS Thomas Hase Danny Cieszynski Development of a light calibration system for the Hyper-Kamiokande Steven Boyd Rory Claydon Pulsed Oesophageal Doppler Blood Flow Measurements Steven Dixon Peter Collett Dosimetric effects caused by Couch tops during radiotherapy Jon Duffy Ben Coltman The two-interacting particle problem of excitons in an Aharonov-Bohm Rudo Roemer Chris Davis How does a Bohm particle localise? Rudo Roemer Jeffrey Ede Time-Frequency Decomposition in Ultrafast Spectroscopy James Lloyd-Hughes Amy Elliott Image processing and registration for radiotherapy planning Jon Duffy Stephen Farr Ultrasonic based measurements of osteoporosis Steven Dixon Jack Fawcett Models and experiments of the response of ultrasonic baths to Rachel Edwards Mark Goddard Superconductivity in Heusler alloys Martin Lees James Gott Low temperature ultrasonic measurement of superconductors Rachel Edwards Ben Griffith Developing cross-platform delivery for release and development Rudo Roemer Jake Haynes Measuring the flow field of Chlamydomonas under strong confinement. Marco Polin Thomas Hicken A combined study of the spin polarisation in two spintronic Jon Duffy James Kohout Modeling non-equilibrium dynamics on atoms deposited on graphene David Quigley Matthew Lane Computational modelling of thermoelectric materials ab-initio Julie Staunton Melissa Liow Stellar superflares in K2 Kepler data Anne-Marie Broomhall Jake Lishman Implementation and Control of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centre Experiments Gavin Morley Matthew Lloyd How do surface cell proteins in Synechococcus WH8102 inhibit Marco Polin Harry Manners The Implementation of a Tracking Algorithm for Neutrino Interactions Gary Barker Ian McCheyne Automated Classification of Astronomical Spectra Thomas Marsh Edward Millard Ultrasound to measure liquid level inside pipes Steven Dixon Sofina Mohamad Johari Using Solid-State NMR to Probe Intermolecular Interactions Steven Brown Lewis Mosby Fabrication of nanodiamonds for quantum technology and probing Gavin Morley Alvin Panis Next generation composite ultrasonic transducers for industrial Nishal Ramadas Matt Pearce Electrons in superconductors and other functional materials Paul Paul Goddard Tom Pickford Phase transitions and dynamics of confined fluids Jon Duffy Rebecca Prince Using ultrasound to measure liquid level inside a pressurised Steven Dixon Alex Simpson Developing a graphical user interface for the FELIX suite of Rudo Roemer Timothy Sit Optical readout particle tracking technology Yorck Ramachers Charlotte Slade Topological Insulators Geetha Balakrishnan Amanda To Computational electromagnetism model for nanoplasmonics James Lloyd-Hughes Joanna Watts Growth of two-dimensional heterostructures Neil Wilson Taylor Wheeler Single quantum systems in diamond Mark Newton John Woolley Speeding up geometry optimisation in atomistic simulations with David Quigley size="3" face="Times New Roman">

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