MERTON PHYSICS
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WELCOME TO MERTON PHYSICS!
These pages have just been started, so everything is heavily under construction.
While we are working on the new content, here are some existing links:
UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS
- The Physics Undergraduate Admissions Entry on the Official College Pages
- The Physics Undergraduate Admissions Entry on the Official University Pages
- The Undergraduate Admissions Entry on the Official Department of Physics Pages
- Get a taste of it before applying: UNIQ Summer School in Physics (where a number of Merton tutors and graduate students teach)
Merton College has one of the largest graduate student intakes amongst the older undergraduate colleges. In Physics, we take as many graduate students every year (8) as we do undergraduates. We also have one of the largest graduate scholarship programmes in Oxford --- wich includes dedicated scholarships in Physics.
LIFE HERE
- The JCR and the MCR
- THE OCCAM LECTURE
- Oxford Physics
- Fellows' teaching (lectures and notes):
- James Binney's Quantum Mechanics Lectures on iTunes (2nd year) and his lecture notes on various things
- Alan Barr: Subatomic Physics (3rd year)
- Simon Hooker: Laser Physics (3rd year)
- Alex Schekochihin: Statistical Physics (2nd year)
- A website, whystringtheory.com,
that introduces string theory to general public (a match made in
heaven!), co-developed by a Merton (then-)3rd-year Charlotte Mason
- Some talks by 2nd-year students about topics they found fascinating (mediated by Prof Artur Ekert): 2012, 2013
- Spot a Merton undergraduate karaoke-ing "Waka, Waka" in this video from the Climate Negotiations in Durban (2010)
- Merton flag being flown off the axis of the Earth at the South Pole (in 2013, by a Merton Physics alumnus Tony Hansen)