Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Tuesday, 20 January 2015

REF submissions online

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Just before Christmas I posted about the results of the REF2014 exercise, which the British government will use to decide how to alloca...

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Samarium from the stars

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Over the Christmas period, I enjoyed time with my family, sharing presents, eating more food than normal, and suchlike. One of the per...

Friday, 9 January 2015

Reflections on time in Oxford

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A friend from my undergraduate days has just written a very thoughtful blog post on his time there. It's kind of aimed at students w...

Saturday, 3 January 2015

Rila 2014 proceedings online

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Over the Christmas-New Year break, I didn't do much nuclear physics stuff, but while I visited family and friends for the first ...

Thursday, 18 December 2014

REF for Surrey Physics

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As everyone in the UK University world is aware, today is the day that the results of the REF – the "Research Excellence Framework...

Wednesday, 10 December 2014

MPhys student placement prize

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At Surrey, we send our MPhys students away for a year of their studies to perform a research project at an external institution. This i...

Monday, 1 December 2014

Gruesome extracurricular activities

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In the past I've reported on some of the successes of Surrey physics students in their academic endeavours. This time it's th...

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