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 (students & supervisors) should register. When registering, you can request accommodation for the night before the Open Day in the RAL hotel, in which case it will be booked & paid for by our secretariat. Students will be reimbursed for their UK travel costs, but those who are abroad should participate via Zoom.
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 .
During the morning, we'll all be together to attend talks about all the PhD projects. At RAL, this will be in meeting room CR12/13 (in building R68), or you can join online via this PLENARY ZOOM LINK .
When the Open Day & chats are over, PhD applicants should fill in this SURVEY to let us know which of the PhD projects they would like to be considered for. (Can differ from your application, if you've changed your mind).
Individual discussions for applicants visiting RAL in person (23rd Feb.):
During the Open Day afternoon, each PhD project will be assigned an individual discussion room in building R1 (& a Zoom room listed below if a remote PhD supervisor is joining) and the project supervisors will have a series of 18 minute discussions (+ 2 mins for students to move between rooms) with individual students. 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. Applicants can sign up (with whiteboard & pen) for these discussions during the lunch break, and will already be signed up for a discussion on any project that they expressed a preference for in their application. Applicants who have a free 20 minute slot during the afternoon can also chat in the PPD Exhibition Area (R1 East wing) to PPD staff/students about life at RAL.
A photo of the whiteboard with the chat schedule will be uploaded HERE.
Individual discussions for applicants participating online (24th Feb.):
We are currently arranging chats via Zoom on 24th Feb. (or 27th Feb. for a a few projects) for those who can't come to RAL in person, using the Zoom rooms listed below. Online participants should sign up for these (but wait until the afternoon of 23rd Feb. after they have listened to the morning talks) via these (Doodle) Polls links. They can sign up for up to 6 of their favourite projects, but no more than one time slot for any given project.
Project 1, Project 2, Project 3, Project 4, Project 5, Project 6, Project 7, Project 8, Project 9, Project 10, Project 11 . (Missing links will be added).
Discussion rooms / Zoom links for each PhD project.
The physical rooms & Zoom links the individual discussions between students and supervisors are listed below. (Students joining via Zoom will enter a Zoom waiting room until the supervisors admit them).
DETAILS BELOW WILL BE UPDATED IN COMING DAYS.
All discussion rooms are near the R1 coffee lounge and shown in this MAP.
Project 1: neutrino physics with T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande (PPD/Lancaster)
- In person room: Conference Room 23 (in R1 North wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97909376774
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/93514898824
Project 2: Muon Collider physics studies (PPD/Warwick)
- In person room: Conference Room 26 (in R1 North wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98259523179
- 27th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94610004656
Project 3: Muon Collider machine-detector interface studies (PPD/Oxford/JAI)
- In person room: Conference Room 27 (in R1 North wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97850850254
- 27th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97850850254
Project 4: CMS ECAL Upgrade & Beyond-SM Physics (PPD/Bristol)
- In person room: Office 1.59 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/99207243740
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/95307426957
Project 5: CMS Tracker Upgrade & Exotic Higgs Physics (PPD/Bristol)
- In person room: Office 1.55 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom links:
- 23rd Feb, https://ukri.zoom.us/j/93737660635
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/95028281064
Project 6: CMS L1 Trigger Upgrade & Beyond-SM Physics (PPD/Bristol)
- In person room: Office 1.63 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/93239790415
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98727878868
Project 7: LHCb Mighty Tracker & New Physics (PPD/Manchester)
- In person room: Office 1.64 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98485657307
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/98642989014
Project 8: Dark Matter Search with Proportional Counters (PPD/Birmingham)
- In person room: Office 1.80 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85079006963
- 24th Feb. https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85401834955
Project 9: Silicon Detectors for the DarkSide20k dark matter experiment (PPD/Oxford)
- In person room: Office 1.79 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
Project 10: Long-baseline atom interferometry with AION (PPD/Cambridge)
- In person room: Office 1.78 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94400443811
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/94920312059
Project 11: Next-generation neutrino experiments in nuStorm (PPD/Warwick)
- In person room: Office 1.77 (in R1 East wing)
- Remote Zoom link:
- 23rd Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/93357129504
- 24th Feb. https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91852226414
Informal chats with current RAL students/staff about any topic you like
- In person room: PPD Exhibition Room (in R1 East wing)
(Reserve room 1.42 in R1 East wing)
