At Surrey, we send our MPhys students away for a year of their studies to perform a research project at an external institution. This is a bit different to most UK MPhys programmes, and derives from Surrey's history of always sending out its students on traditional sandwich years.
Thanks to the nature of the Physics Department's research strengths and our external research links, quite a proportion of our students go on placements in nuclear physics. One such student, Tom Dyer, is on placement right now at AWE (the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment) and got to present his work at a conference (SPIE Security + Defence Conference, Sep 2014). This is already a great thing for an undergraduate student to be able to do as part of their studies. That wasn't enough for Tom, though -- he also had to go ahead and win the prize for the best student paper in the "Electro-Optical and Infra-red Systems: Technology and Applications" section. His work is on using fibre-optic cables to make tamper-indicating enclosures for use in nuclear arms control. The full paper is available here (though you might need to access it from a IP address inside a subscribing institution - I'm not entirely sure).
Well done, Tom!
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