You will learn in modern teaching facilities. Our undergraduate laboratories are equipped with everything required to investigate the physics learned about in lectures. Facilities include 46 spacious general-purpose work stations, two optics rooms with 11 work stations and four specialist vibration-free surfaces for sensitive experiments. The laboratories are open access with two members of staff offering technical support during normal working hours. The School of Physics and Astronomy is currently installing telescope facilities for observational astronomy research projects.
You will undertake a research project supervised by academics in the Astronomy Unit. The Astronomy Unit exists to further world-class research in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Queen Mary. With over 15 staff the Astronomy Unit is one of the larger astronomy groups in the UK.Major research programmes undertaken by the Astronomy Unit include involvement with the NASA-ESA Cassini mission to Saturn, the VISTA telescope in Chile, and projects in cosmology, extrasolar planets, and solar physics. |