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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Bold","sans-serif";color:#005393">75th SUSSP and 20th STFC Summer School in<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Bold","sans-serif";color:#005393">Nuclear Physics and its Applications<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Bold","sans-serif";color:#005393">University of St Andrews, Scotland, 5th - 17th August 2019.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">This two-week residential graduate school follows directly after the International Nuclear<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">Physics Conference (INPC), held in Glasgow, and is targeted at PhD students in theoretical,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">experimental and applied nuclear physics. The international school aims to broaden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">the participants’ knowledge by providing lectures and skills-based practical sessions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">across a wide range of topics at the forefront of nuclear physics research and its applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">It includes sessions on careers and on nuclear physics outreach and offers all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">participants a chance to present their research. Lectures in the following topics are delivered<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">by internationally leading researchers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Nuclear structure and reactions, exotic nuclei, gamma ray and laser spectroscopy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Neutron star physics and nuclear astrophysics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Hadron structure and spectroscopy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Heavy-ion physics: quark-gluon plasma<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Applications (medical physics, industrial and cultural applications)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Nuclear instrumentation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Public engagement<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">Daily tutorial sessions consist of supervised mini-projects designed to develop a range<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">of skills needed for nuclear physics research. They are built broadly around the following<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">four areas:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Theoretical modelling and calculations<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Simulation of an experiment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Data analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">• Advanced analysis techniques and neural networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">The school prides itself on its strong collegiate and social character: there is free time<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">after lunch with access to sporting facilities, an organised excursion day and a free day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">for sight-seeing. More information and registration details are available on the school<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">We look forward to welcoming you to St Andrews!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"AvenirNext-Regular","sans-serif";color:black">Alessandro Pastore and Daria Sokhan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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