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My REU letter: comments? criticisms?
Hey everyone,
I wrote the following REU letter, it's for a Canadian university. (NSERC is kind of like the Canadian equivalent of the National Science Foundation). I'd greatly appreciate it if you all could evaluate it. Any things I should add or take out? Anything that should be rephrased? Is the length alright? It kind of feels short to me at the moment...
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I'm a student in the Physics Specialist Program at the University of Toronto. My career intention is to pursue graduate study in physics. The two fields that I am seriously considering to pursue are experimental particle physics and experimental condensed matter. This is a direction I have taken myself toward, as my interest in physics is in quantum mechanics and interactions at the atomic and subatomic levels. For this reason, I am particularly interested in matter in the presence of high-energy radiation and magnetic fields. Related to this, I am attracted to research into high Tc superconductivity as well as cooling and trapping techniques for cold atoms. In the high energy area, what interest me are neutrino oscillations and the interaction of particles with the Higgs field. I intend that by participating in the NSERC USRA program, I will gain further practical experience in the use of modern experimental apparatuses in physics that I first became acquainted with in my 3rd-year experimental physics laboratory course.
If you are looking for a student with previous physics research experience, I am currently working with a professor to design an optical imaging system using CODE V software for his cold atoms apparatus. I was a research assistant this summer responsible for performing IR/Raman frequency calculations with GAUSSIAN software on large carbon-based molecules. In 2005, I was a member of a group researching Bose-Einstein Condensate as part of my second-year physics laboratory course.
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Thanks a lot,
Vince
Hey everyone,
I wrote the following REU letter, it's for a Canadian university. (NSERC is kind of like the Canadian equivalent of the National Science Foundation). I'd greatly appreciate it if you all could evaluate it. Any things I should add or take out? Anything that should be rephrased? Is the length alright? It kind of feels short to me at the moment...
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I'm a student in the Physics Specialist Program at the University of Toronto. My career intention is to pursue graduate study in physics. The two fields that I am seriously considering to pursue are experimental particle physics and experimental condensed matter. This is a direction I have taken myself toward, as my interest in physics is in quantum mechanics and interactions at the atomic and subatomic levels. For this reason, I am particularly interested in matter in the presence of high-energy radiation and magnetic fields. Related to this, I am attracted to research into high Tc superconductivity as well as cooling and trapping techniques for cold atoms. In the high energy area, what interest me are neutrino oscillations and the interaction of particles with the Higgs field. I intend that by participating in the NSERC USRA program, I will gain further practical experience in the use of modern experimental apparatuses in physics that I first became acquainted with in my 3rd-year experimental physics laboratory course.
If you are looking for a student with previous physics research experience, I am currently working with a professor to design an optical imaging system using CODE V software for his cold atoms apparatus. I was a research assistant this summer responsible for performing IR/Raman frequency calculations with GAUSSIAN software on large carbon-based molecules. In 2005, I was a member of a group researching Bose-Einstein Condensate as part of my second-year physics laboratory course.
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Thanks a lot,
Vince
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