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THE INFO HERE NEEDS UPDATES.
The 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 & supervisors) should register. When registering, you can request accommodation (inclusive of breakfast) for the night before the Open Day in the Cosener's House hotel (Abingdon, Oxfordshire) in which case it will be booked & paid for by our secretariat. Students will be reimbursed for their UK travel costs (by Emailing this form and a single photo of all their receipts to pappddirector@stfc.ac.uk ), but those who are abroad should participate via Zoom video-conferencing. We've 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 . You must enter RAL via the Main Gate, from where we'll guide you to the correct venue. (If you have a car, park inside the RAL site).
During the morning, we'll all be together to attend talks about all the PhD projects. At RAL, this will be in Conference Room CR03 (building R61), or you can join online via this PLENARY ZOOM LINK (password given in invitation Email) .
Lunch will be also be served in CR03. It will be followed by afternoon interviews between individual students and the supervisors of their preferred projects in the Particle Physics Dept. (1st floor of building R1).
When the Open Day & interviews are over, PhD applicants should fill in this STUDENT'S PROJECT PREFERENCE SURVEY to let us know which of the PhD projects they would like to be considered for. (This can differ from your application, if you've changed your mind).
Each PhD project will be assigned an individual discussion room in building R1 shown in this map of R1 (TO BE UPDATED) (& 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 supervisors to ask questions to the student.
Interview & PPD Tour Bookings
This INTERVIEW SCHEDULE (which may be updated until 12:45 on 27th) shows which students will talk to supervisors in each time slot, All students attending person have been booked into time slots already for the two projects their application said they preferred. Projects 2 & 3 still have free slots, so during the lunch break (and not before) students who are physically at RAL can talk to Ian Tomalin to sign up for these. Ian Tomalin will update the spreadsheet accordingly. Interviews with remote students will only take place in the days after 27th.
During the lunchbreak, Ian Tomalin can book you into tours of the ATLAS + Darkside-20k cleanroom. These tours will be shown on the INTERVIEW SCHEDULE. They depart from the PPD Exhibition Room
Applicants who have free time during the afternoon can visit the PPD Exhibition Area (R1 1st floor) to talk to PPD staff/students about life at RAL. and from where tours of the ATLAS + Darkside-20k clean room will leave. Or they can go to the R1 coffee lounge to relax.
ALL THE MEETING ROOM, ZOOM ROOM AND DOODLE POLL LINKS BELOW STILL NEED ADDING.
During the Open Day, interviews with the supervisors of each project will take place in the physical rooms 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.
All discussion rooms are near the R1 coffee lounge and shown in this MAP .
Project 1: Searching for Dark Matter beyond WIMPs with Novel Detector Technologies (PPD/Oxford)
Project 2: Dark matter. new physics & radioassay at the Boulby mine (PPD/Edinburgh)
Project 3: Searching for dark matter in final states with low-momentum leptons at the ATLAS experiment (PPD/Liverpool_
Project 4: Probing multi-parton dynamics & exotic scalar production with the ATLAS experiment (PPD/Warwick)
Project 5: LHCb: Measurement of the unitarity angle alpha and development of the Mighty Tracker readout (PPD/Glasgow)
Project 6: Commissioning & calibration of the Hyper-Kamiokande's far detector & development of its first neutrino oscillation experiment (PPD/Liverpool)
Informal chats with current RAL students/staff about any topic you like or to join tours of PPD facilities.