The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Volume 5
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics (JIST) volume 5 is currently being compiled; new papers have and will be added to it over the next few weeks making for another interesting instalment in the journal. For those of you that are unfamiliar with JIST I’ll summarise it briefly: JIST is a student journal run by […]
LIGO and Love
Hello, my name is Osarenkhoe and I’ll be taking over the Natural Science Blog for the duration of the academic year. I’m currently in the fourth and final year of the course. A large portion of this year has and will continue to be spent working on my research project, studying nanoparticles produced using a […]
Convergence failures and hidden electronic states: the world of computational chemistry
With just over a week before 4th year project reports are due in for Natural Sciences, everyone’s quietly busying away attempting to tie everything together. My project has been half computational and half experimental, and although much of my effort is now in writing up I can’t convince myself to stop running simulations to try […]
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Volume 4
The Journal of Interdisciplinary Science, or JIST, is a journal run by third year natural sciences students both at the University of Leicester and their counterparts in the ISci programme at McMaster University in Canada. Taking place in the second term, students submit short articles and engage in a review process analogous to a scientific […]
UCAS Days and Energy Efficiency
Around this time of year the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science hosts a series of UCAS days to prospective students, offering a tour of the labs, seminar rooms, the department’s research and computer suites, along a talk giving an overview of the course, an informal interview, and even a free lunch! For someone thinking of going […]
Writing a project report
One of the most important pieces of work on the natural sciences course in both third and fourth year is the report detailing your research project done throughout the year. Moving from five-week long module deliverables to such a large piece of work felt pretty daunting to me, and considering nearly every waking moment in fourth […]
Attending a spectroscopy and dynamics conference
This week I got the opportunity to attend the annual meeting of the Spectroscopy and Dynamics Interest Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Taking place over three days at Nottingham University, around 150 delegates from across the UK and as far as America and Iceland came together to discuss current developments in the field. […]
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