DrMark Scott

I am the Computational Physics course leader alongside Dr. James Owen. Computational Physics is a third-year option course which goes through the basic (and more complicated) algorithms that under-pin almost all scientific computing. It includes a substantial coursework component where students get hands-on experience of implementing and presenting the results from these algorithms.

I was the Head of Experiment for the Radioactivity experiment in the 2nd Year Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory until June 2023. The lab was updated for 2019 with brand new equipment, new data acquisition software and new radioactive sources. The aim of the lab is to introduce students to a realistic experimental setup, where the data pass through many stages between the initial sensitive instrument and the final analysis. The lab encourages students to think about what is happening at each stage, to assess the likely impact of systematic uncertainties and to learn a bit about the interaction of particles with matter. For 2020 I transposed the laboratory to an online setting, with a GEANT4 simulation used to model the lab equipment.