Honours Research Project
The honours research project is 8 units and will consume a large fraction of your available time for the academic year. A short typed thesis must be submitted at the end of two semesters and assessment will be on the basis of this thesis, a brief seminar on the thesis topic and an oral examination on the thesis material. A ten page progress report must also be submitted to your advisor after one semester.
Projects are necessarily restricted to problems on which one or more staff members have the expertise and interest necessary to give detailed supervision and for which facilities are immediately available. In practice this means that the projects are closely tied to the on-going research in the department.
A list of research projects is available here.
However, this is not exclusive, as many staff members do not write project descriptions. To fully inform yourself of the research carried out in physics you should browse the physics research webpages. A list of current research areas is below:
Astrophysics and astronomy
Atom optics and Bose-Einstein condensation experiment
Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum-atom optics theory
Biophotonics and biophysics
Condensed matter physics theory
Laser diagnostics of hypervelocity flows
Mathematical physics
Nano-optics and quantum dots
Optical Nanoprobe Laboratory
Organic Photonics and Electronics
Quantum computing theory
Quantum Information Science Initiative
Quantum Nanoscience
Quantum Technology
Atom optics and Bose-Einstein condensation experiment
Bose-Einstein condensation and quantum-atom optics theory
Biophotonics and biophysics
Condensed matter physics theory
Laser diagnostics of hypervelocity flows
Mathematical physics
Nano-optics and quantum dots
Optical Nanoprobe Laboratory
Organic Photonics and Electronics
Quantum computing theory
Quantum Information Science Initiative
Quantum Nanoscience
Quantum Technology
More details about the honours projects can be found in the course profile, accessed via these pages
Semester 1: PHYS6487 - Physics Honours Research Project
Semester 2: PHYS6488 - Physics Honours Research Project
Semester 2: PHYS6488 - Physics Honours Research Project
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