BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:RAL/PPD 2026 PhD Open Day DTSTART:20260227T093000Z DTEND:20260227T164500Z DTSTAMP:20260615T012100Z UID:indico-event-1771@indico.stfc.ac.uk CONTACT:pappddirector@stfc.ac.uk DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Ian Tomalin (STFC)\n\nThe open day will be held as a hybrid meeting\, online and in-person. UK-based students will be invited to come to RAL\, while all others will be invited to participate online.  All participants (i.e. invited students + PhD supervisors) should regist er. When registering\, you can request accommodation (inclusive of breakfa st) for the night before the Open Day in the Cosener's House hotel (Abing don\, Oxfordshire) in which case it will be booked & paid for by our secre tariat. Students will be reimbursed for their UK travel costs (by Emailing this form for UK bank accounts or this form for non-UK bank accounts + a single photo of all their receipts to ppdadministration@stfc.ac.uk )\, but those who are abroad should participate via Zoom video-conferencing. We'v e booked taxis to take people from the hotel to RAL on the morning of the Open Day\, departing at 8:50am.A map to help you travel to RAL is map_to _RAL . A map showing you the inside of the RAL site is map_inside_RAL . Y ou must enter RAL via the Main Gate\, from where a PPD staff member will b e waiting to give you a site pass & guide you to the meeting room.  (If y ou have a car\, park inside the RAL site\, after first stopping at the mai n gate). You should bring a document with you to prove your identity.Durin g the morning\, we'll all be together to attend talks about all the PhD p rojects. At RAL\, this will be in Conference Room CR03 (building R61)\, or you can join online via this PLENARY ZOOM LINK ( password = 070036 ).Lunc h will be also be served in CR03. It will be followed by afternoon intervi ews between individual students and the supervisors of their preferred pro jects in the Particle Physics Dept. (1st floor of building R1). When the Open Day & interviews are over\, PhD applicants should fill in this STUDEN T'S PROJECT PREFERENCE SURVEY to let us know which of the PhD projects th ey would like to be considered for. (This can differ from your application \, if you've changed your mind).Afternoon interviews & Particle Physics De pt. tours:Each PhD project will be assigned an individual discussion room in building R1 shown in this map of R1 (& a Zoom room listed below if a remote PhD supervisor/student is joining). Each interview will be 28 mins long (+ 2 mins for students to move between rooms). Half this time is for  the student to ask questions about the project and half is for the super visors to ask questions to the student. The map also shows the PPD Exhibit ion Room & coffee lounge.Interview & PPD Tour BookingsThis INTERVIEW SCHED ULE  (which may be updated until 12:45 on 27th) shows which students will talk to supervisors in each time slot\, All students attending person hav e been booked into time slots already for the two projects their applicati on said they preferred. These candidates can optionally sign up via the po lls below for interviews on a 3rd project after 27th. (Candidates informed that they are on the RESERVE list can sign up with these same polls\, but only for the specific projects that invited them).During the lunchbreak\, Ian Tomalin can book you into tours of the ATLAS + Darkside-20k cleanroom + LHCb lab. These tours are shown on the INTERVIEW SCHEDULE. Applicants who have free time during the afternoon can visit the PPD Exhibition Are a (R1 1st floor) to talk to PPD staff/students about life at RAL.  and f rom where tours of the ATLAS + Darkside-20k clean room + LHCb lab will lea ve. Or they can go to the R1 coffee lounge to relax.We'll take taxi bookin g requests (e.g. leaving at 16:45 to Didcot station) during the lunch brea k. Discussion rooms / Zoom links for each PhD project.SOME ZOOM ROOM AND DOODLE POLL LINKS BELOW STILL NEED ADDING.During the Open Day\, interview s with the supervisors of each project will take place in the physical roo ms listed below. In the few days after the Open Day\, Zoom interviews will take place with students who could not attend the Open Day in person. Pr oject 1: Searching for Dark Matter beyond WIMPs with Novel Detector Techno logies (PPD/Oxford)In person room: Conference Room CR21 (in R1 North wing) 5th Mar.: Zoom link HERE and Doodle Poll HERE to sign up for interviews.  Project 2: Dark matter. new physics & radioassay at the Boulby mine (PPD/ Edinburgh)In person room: Conference Room CR22 (in R1 North wing)2nd Mar.: Microsoft Teams link HERE and Doodle Poll HERE to sign up for interviews.  Project 3: Searching for dark matter in final states with low-momentum l eptons at the ATLAS experiment (PPD/Liverpool)In person room: Conference R oom CR24 (in R1 North wing)5th Mar.: Zoom link HERE and Doodle Poll HERE to sign up for interviews. Project 4: Probing multi-parton dynamics & ex otic scalar production with the ATLAS experiment (PPD/Warwick)In person ro om: Conference Room CR25 (in R1 North wing)2nd Mar.: Zoom link HERE and Doodle Poll HERE to sign up for interviews. Project 5: LHCb: Measurement of the unitarity angle alpha and development of the Mighty Tracker readou t (PPD/Glasgow)In person room: Conference Room CR26 (in R1 North wing)3r d Mar.: Zoom link HERE and Doodle Poll HERE to sign up for interviews. Pr oject 6: Commissioning & calibration of the Hyper-Kamiokande's far detecto r & development of its first neutrino oscillation experiment (PPD/Liverpoo l)In person room: Office R1.1.50 -- R1.1.51 (in R1 East wing)2nd + 3rd M ar.: Zoom link HERE and Doodle Poll HERE to sign up for interviews. Infor mal chats with current RAL students/staff about any topic you like or to j oin tours of PPD facilities.In person room: PPD Exhibition Room (in R1 Eas t wing)  \n\nhttps://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/1771/ URL:https://indico.stfc.ac.uk/event/1771/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR