Do I have to attend at specific times?

No, the timetable at the bottom of this page shows dates that the material for the sessions was made live on the web page, i.e. session one became live Wednesday 24th June and are still available so you can access the materials at your leisure.  We issued model answers for some of the activities two weeks after the materials go live, to give you time to try it out yourself first, some of these are available now but try have a go on your own first.

We expect that the total minimum time you will spend on the masterclass is 8 hours if you use all of the provided materials in all the sessions.  There are opportunities to spend longer on directed independent research too.

 
Are the talks live, like a zoom meeting?

No, so that you can access the materials at any time you want to, the talks have been pre-recorded by the speakers and we will share these on the relevant session section.


How do I submit the practical work and challenge questions?

Due to the high numbers of people accessing the web site, we are unable to accept work to be marked for the practical activities. You should fill in the editable Lab workbook PDF and save it for yourself (suggestion, save as and then add your name to the end of the filename). We will release model solutions 2 weeks after the activities become available, you can compare these to your own and try to reflect on way you could improve your results.

If people would like to send us their answers to the challenge questions we are happy, and interested to see what results you got, however once again we will release model answers that you can compare to your own.

All of the work you do is useful to you and we design our model solutions to try to give overall feedback, you can also share this work with your teacher and see what they think!

We are very excited to launch the website and provide the activities to you and we very much hope you enjoy completing them as we did creating them!

Best Wishes

LivNuclear Team

@LauraHBPhysics  @livuniphysics  @livuniphysoutreach

Session 1
Wednesday 24th June - Radiation Shielding

Talks by
Miss Jaimie Platt, PhD student at the University of Liverpool
Mrs Jess Heaps, Health Physicist at Rolls Royce

Activities
Undertake a virtual experiment to study the attenuation of gamma radiation in materials
Design shielding for a nuclear industry problem


Session 2
Wednesday 24th June - Nuclear Shapes and Sizes

Talks by
Prof Bradley Cheal, Professor at the University of Liverpool
Dr Liam Gaffney, Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool

Online activities
Use our interactive map to discover where nuclear physics researchers do their experiments and perform independent research about the facilities


Session 3
Wednesday 1st July - Nuclear Instability

Talk by
Prof Rodi Herzberg, Professor at the University of Liverpool

Activities
Build your own decay chains
Investigate the decay equation


Session 4
Wednesday 1st July - Nuclear Medicine

Talks by
Dr Amina Patel, Medical Physicist at Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals
Dr Laura Harkness-Brennan, Reader at the University

Activities
Discover how much radiation dose is received in different medical procedures
Test your knowledge in our online quiz


Session 5
Wednesday 8th July - Gamma Radiation and the Inverse Square Law

Talks by
Dr Ren Cooper, Deputy Head of the Applied Nuclear Physics Program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Miss Olivia Voyce, PhD student at the University of Liverpool

Activities
Undertake a virtual experiment to study the inverse square law
Use your knowledge of the inverse square law to design the geometry of a gamma detection measurement

Session 6
Wednesday 8th July - Essay Competition

Submit your essay by Wednesday 22nd July.   to win prizes

1st place: £100 Amazon voucher, signed copy of “Introduction to the Physics of Nuclear Medicine by L Harkness-Brennan” and access to a mentor from the University of Liverpool Nuclear Physics Group for the 2020/2021 school year
2nd place: £50 Amazon voucher and access to a mentor from the University of Liverpool Nuclear Physics Group for the 2020/2021 school year

Talks with guidance on the essay topics and tips for writing by:
Dr Laura Harkness-Brennan, Reader at the University of Liverpool
Dr Helen Vaughan, Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool
Careers Showcase

Videos available from speakers in the nuclear sector who will talk about their career path and information about their current role.