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Please, find attached the announcement of a CASE Studentship.
Could please forward it to the MIST mailing list?

Thank you

Giota Petkaki


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We invite applications for a STFC CASE PhD studentship, to be held in 
the Physics and Astronomy Department at the University of Glasgow and 
carried out in collaboration with the Natural Complexity group at the 
British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The project will be on "Particle 
acceleration in complex, turbulent electromagnetic fields", and it will 
be supervised by Dr A.L. MacKinnon (Univ. of Glasgow) and Dr P. Petkaki 
(BAS). Applicants must have, or expect to have a First or Upper Second 
Class honours degree or an MSc, in Physics, Mathematics, or other 
relevant discipline,. We are looking for somebody enthusiastic and 
motivated with a taste for theoretical or modelling work. An interest in 
space/solar physics or astrophysics would be desirable. Some experience 
of numerical programming, in FORTRAN/C or other high-level languages, 
would also be advantageous. The student will spend at least one month 
per annum physically working in BAS, in the multi-disciplinary 
environment of the Natural Complexity Group.

The studentship will pay a stipend of £12,600 per annum to an eligible 
student. Candidates must hold a UK passport or have been ordinarily 
resident in the UK throughout the 3 year period preceding the date of 
application for the studentship. Students with a relevant connection to 
an EU country other than the UK may their have fees paid but are not 
eligible for any maintenance stipend. However, an EU candidate may be 
eligible for a full award if a 'relevant connection' with the UK has 
been established. For further information regarding the eligibility 
criteria, please visit the STFC Website:
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/Grants/Studs/studentships.aspx#Eligibility 

The project will study the energisation of charged particles in 
turbulent space plasmas. The project will involve using fractional 
calculus methods to describe (non-Gaussian) properties of turbulence, 
and developing computer code to follow particles in the presence of 
such turbulence. Ultimately the results of these calculations will be 
compared with observations of energetic particles in space and with 
X-ray observations of the Sun, to constrain the properties of the 
regions where particles are accelerated to high energies.

Email (Alec MacKinnon) [log in to unmask] or (Giota Petkaki)  [log in to unmask] for further details.
Applicants will have to apply formally through the Physical Science
Graduate School, University of Glasgow.


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Dr Panagiota Petkaki
British Antarctic Survey
High Cross, Madingley Road
Cambridge, CB3 0ET
+44 (0) 1223 221 292
+44 (0) 1223 221 226
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