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I currently teach several undergraduate courses at Surrey:

  • Level: HE1 – Space, Time & Relativity (Module code PHY1022). This first year course introduces the field of Special Relativity along with a few lectures at the end on General Relativity. Go to website containing lecture notes and other course resources.
  • Level: HE3 – Mathematical Methods (Module code PHY3020). This final year 10 credit module covers topics such as linear vector spaces, line and surface integrals, complex variable theory and complex (contour) integration methods. No lecture notes available yet as teaching this course for first time in 07/08.
  • Level: Masters – Theoretical Physics (PHYM001). This 30 credit M-level course contains within it the Mathematical Methods module, the module on nonlinear physics and a 10 credit Problem Solving component.

Past teaching:

  • Mathematics: Level 1 Maths III (module developer) (1991–94, 96–01)
  • Mathematics: Level 1 Mathematics I (module developer) (1996–01)
  • Quantum Mechanics: Level 2 core module on quantum mechanics (1992–95, 2001– 07)
  • Fortran Computing Coursework (Level 2) (2003–07)
  • Principles of Relativity: Level 1 half module (module developer) (1996–99)

    • Introduction to Scattering Theory, postgraduate lectures (1991–94).

  • Computer Skills, introductory course on computing (1996–2003)

External Teaching:

  • Invited lecturer on Nuclear Reaction Theory at 8th National Postgraduate School on Nuclear Physics, University of Wales, Bangor, 3?16 September 1995
  • Invited lecturer on Structure and Reaction Studies with Halo Nuclei at Euroschool on Exotic Beams (European Postgraduate Summer School), Leuven, Belgium, 31 August ? 4 September, 1998.
  • Few-body models of direct nuclear reactions, 10 lectures as part of ECT* Marie Curie Doctoral Training Programme, Trento, Italy, 25-29 Aug 2003.

    • Direct Nuclear Reactions, course of 12 lectures delivered to French postgraduate students at Institut de Physique Nucléaire, Orsay, France, 18-20 May 2005.

Supervision of research students:

Past:

  1. Matthew Bush (1993-97), PhD, September 1997, Spin-dependent interactions in the three-body eikonal model (supported by EPSRC research studentship), with J.A. Tostevin.
  2. John Brooke (1996-99), PhD, September 1999, Non-eikonal corrections to nuclear few-body scattering models (supported by EPSRC research studentship), with J.A. Tostevin.
  3. Neil Summers (1998-2001), PhD December 2001, Beyond the adiabatic model for the elastic scattering of composite nuclei (supported by EPSRC research studentship), with R.C. Johnson.
  4. Steven Young (2000-2004), PhD June 2004, Probing halo nuclei with the pion photoproduction reaction (supported by Project Studentship on Grant GR/M82141).
  5. David Howell (2003-2007), on knockout reactions as probe of exotic nuclei, supported by EPSRC studentship
  6. Christine Carter (2004-2008), on (p,2p) quasielastic reactions as probe of exotic nuclei, supported by EPSRC studentship
  7. James Broomfield (2005-2009), on model independent methods in electron scattering, supported by EPSRC studentship.
  8. Adrian Cannon (2005-2009) on modelling proton radioactivity in proton-rich nuclei, supported by EPSRC
  9. Elizabeth Cunningham (2006-2010) on scattering models on unstable nuclei

Current:

    PhD examinations:

    • Internal examiner, University of Surrey: Bulent Gonul, 1994
    • Internal examiner, University of Surrey: Adam Sergeant, 1998
    • External examiner, Chalmers University, Gothenburg: Martin Smedberg, 1998
    • External examiner, Cairo University: Badawi Abu-Ibrahim Ibrahim, 2000
    • Internal examiner, University of Surrey: John Mortimer, 2001
    • External examiner, Bergen University: Giedre Sapragonaite, 2002
    • External Examiner, Bergen University: Henning Heiberg-Andersen, 2002
    • External examiner, University of Brighton: Nico Orce, 2003
    • Internal examiner, University of Surrey: James Stott, 2003

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