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It is very rare for someone in physics to go on a work placement in industry, although it does depend on the institution.  One of the other postgrads in my group (who graduated from Bath, England) worked for a year at the synchrotron light source at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England, for a year during her undergraduate degree. 

It is though a different story when you get to postgraduate level.  I regularly go away to Daresbury Laboratory to do experiments at the MEIS and XPS facilities and I could get to go to Japan for up to a month to do some experiments.  One of my friends is currently in California for a total of 9 weeks callobrating with a theorist (this is the second time she's been this year, although her last visit in May only lasted 5 weeks), and another friend has moved permanently over to the SLAC in California.

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You bunch of haughty physics-snobs!

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All those abbreviations. tongue

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179 Reply by [TI] Lateralis (edited by [TI] Lateralis 26-Oct-2008 16:37:35)

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Heh.  Want abbreviations?  Try this... tongue 

On a daily basis I grow my own experimental samples of NiMnSb or MnSb on GaAs substrates using MBE.  Growth is monitored in-situ using RHEED.  Some surface characterisation is performed using SEM and AFM, but nothing beats the resolution we can get with our STM and TEM.  Near-surface chemical and some rough bonding environment information is obtained using HRXPS.  EDAX is used from time to time, but the resolution of EDAX is much worse than that of XPS and is not surface specific.  MEIS and CAICISS experiments - which are complimentary ion scatterig techniques - are used to provide quantitative surface structure information.  Using the CASTEP code, DFT calculations are performed in conjunction with MEIS data to obtain the electronic band structure in the near-surface region.  Spin-resolved PE is  used to gather information on the band structure of the material in the vicinity of the Fermi level in the two different spin bands.  These data are then compared with DFT.   Other techniques I have used include: LEED, AES, XRD and VSM.  SQUID and HRXRD will be used in the near future.

... And these are just techniques I use.  There's a whole bunch more out there, each with their own acronym.  tongue

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Hahaha. I just had to ask. xD

DFT = Discrete Fourier Transform, right?

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lol

Do you do computer science? tongue 

No, to me it stands for Density Functional Theory.

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Electrical Engineering. smile

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cool stuffs  smile

keep it up all of you smile


and yea, i asked about the 18+ thing, becoz i d seen some kiddies wandering around as well (no offence humi ;pp, mebbe we should make it 21+ ;P:P)

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that's discriminatory against UK students X( when i turn 21 i will already have my BA X(

I was using a metaphor that means God is watching us. You've heard this, there's a toilet on the roof.

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btw Lat are you in the badminton club or do u just play with friends?

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> Charlie Manson wrote:

> i canada it's 4-3-3-ish

4 bachelors degree - 3 years for a masters - 3 years for your Phd

You forgot, the first 1-2 years of booze, drugs, and sex. Sadly, I'm a late bloomer and only getting 1/3 atm sad

> Charlie Manson wrote:

> masters without a bachelors? wha? that's the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Here in order to get a Masters, you need to spend 4 years in your bachelors, and another 3-4 on top of that. That's friggin bizarre, ok that's it, after this semester I'm moving to the UK to go to school.

My Uni has an overseas campus in Harlow England smile So if I play my cards right, next year or two I might be spending a semester studying over there smile smile

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@ Archangel

I am in the badminton club, Arch.  Not in any of the teams though, but I am going to be joining the advanced singles ladder and attending the advanced practice sessions.

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@ CT - I kind of skipped that phase... well, actually I've incorporated that into my schooling process. Right now I'm about to go into a midterm half sloshed. Should be interesting.

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sowwie archie smile

*bakes pizza

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*savin' th' thread*

thar were bein' a Halloween drink off at me school, who could drink th' most beer in 5 minutes without pukin', i got 12 down, an' I came in second, which got me 100$ first place with 200$ an' a flat o' beer.

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ye can do a 1 year msc aswell

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I were bein' wonderin'.  How many universities out thar uses LaTeX, Ya swabbie!

At Aalborg University in Denmark, where I'm studyin', we more or less only use LaTeX fer our project reports.  Oho!  I ha'nae really heard o' anyone else usin' it, Hornswaggle However, 'tis mostly only th' science an' engineerin' studies that use is.

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Just about anyone that is anybody in a (*proper*) science subject (e.g. physics, chemistry, biology, maths) uses LaTeX fer reports.   Physicists almost exclusively deal in TeX primarily because it handles images, figures, table, maths and references much better than any ordinary word processing package, but also because physics journals (e.g, Physical Review, Applied Physics Letters ...) will *only* accept papers that be written in TeX.  Anything else is instantly rejected.   I suspect the same is true of other journals relating to biology, chemistry and maths.   Not only that though, but LaTeX is actually frequently used for making presentations fer conferences and the like by physicists in my (physics) research group.

So you're not unique in anyway, shape or form Snowflake.  =P  LaTeX is extensively used and is quite often the only thing that can and/or be used in physics.

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I have no notion what ye scallywags be talkin' about "LaTex" i figured ye meant th' gloves ...  but erm i use Word fer all me classes .., pass the grog!  an' personally now that i think about it who has t' type anythin' fer biology/chemistry?  O_o

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I sort o' had th' feelin' that we weren't th' only ones (read: sarcasm wink). 

I were bein' talkin' t' someone an' they said that they di'nae use TeX fer their projects, eventhough it were bein' a form o' tachnical study.  The whole electronics engineerin' study more or less swore t' TeX.  The ones I know that be on th' humanistic studiesm writes their projects in Word or th' likes.  However, if ye write yer report in somethin' other then TeX, ye're ill sought upon.


(me english grammar isn't at its best, atm.  Changes may occur.  - I've had 1 bottle o' wine, qhuarter bottle o' whiskey, an' a couple o' beers, to be sure.  Bear with me, okay.)

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"Just about anyone that is anybody in a (*proper*) science subject (e.g. physics, chemistry, biology, maths) uses LaTeX fer reports."

From my experience (at least in the UK) most people performing medical and biological science related research use Word, Endnote and Powerpoint for preparing publications, reports, presentations etc. Indeed, quite a few journals publishing biology related research (including very high impact factor journals, such as, Nature) will only accept documents submitted as a Word document/file.

To summarise I would say that LaTeX is used more by people doing physics, maths etc rather than being used as the "gold standard" by all scientists. tongue

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Ah, true dat about biology. tongue  I didn't mean to imply anything with that comment and meant to edit it before submitting, but I was distracted with cooking and forgot. tongue  No offence intended though. 

Surprised about Nature though...  All physics journals, at least all those organised by IoP, APS and Elsevier, which is practically all of the good ones and a few not so good, strongly prefer manuscripts written TeX with ecapsulated postscript figures primarily because the structure and layout of TeX documents is far easier to edit than other document formats, although they do, with a heavy sigh, grudgingly accept MS Word documents. 

PS. I've just checked Nature Physics - they do accept manuscripts written in TeX.  I've also just checked Nature - they accept PDF and EPS files, file formats TeX manuscripts can be easily converted to.  Phew!

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Don't worry I didn't take any offence. tongue

Just thought I would point out that use of LaTeX is not universal to all science disciplines. smile

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LaTeX is truly awesome though. tongue

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