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This course provides students with the opportunity to carry out an extended, in-depth project, incorporating both research and practical components. It can be conducted at partner institutions of the Joint Master in Advanced Microscopy with Artificial Intelligence, called MICROSCOM. The project will always be supervised by faculty members from the Department of Physics and Astronomy participating in the master's program. Students will enhance their abilities in project management, data analysis, and communication in top-tier research or industry environments. In undertaking this project, students will acquire essential skills in a first-class training environment, forming a strong foundation for scientific leadership careers in academia and industry. The course aims to prepare students for leadership roles by enhancing their research and practical skills. Additionally, it ensures students can apply their knowledge to real-world applications, effectively contributing to the field of computational microscopy.

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This course requires courses taken in earlier semesters of the International Master in Computational Microscopy "MICROSCOM", students must have submitted 75% of assessments to progress to the master's thesis project and must meet a grade point average (GPA) of D to progress to this course.

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1) Performance during project (40%)

2) Project dissertation (40%)

3) Oral presentation (20%)

(1) To provide advanced training and experience in the principles and practice of advanced microscopy and artificial intelligence, using advanced instrumentation, methodology and software as appropriate, and in the critical analysis of experimental data

(2) To develop problem solving abilities, critical assessment and communication skills, to a level appropriate for a career of leadership in academia or industry

(3) To employ these skills in preparing and writing a dissertation on an extended and demanding project.

(4) To encourage students to work effectively, to develop a professional attitude to what they do and to take full responsibility for their own learning

(5) To give students experience of real-world research settings in industry and/or academia

At the end of the course students should be able to:

(1) Recover, evaluate and summarise the professional literature and material from other sources concerned with a chosen area of physics or astronomy

(2) Prepare a written analysis of the current position in the chosen area, which should include a critical

comparison of material from the sources he/she has identified and a summary of likely future developments.

(3) Define, with the help of colleagues and taking into account the time available, a suitable area of work for a project and hence make a preliminary definition of goals to be achieved during the project

(4) Make an appropriate safety assessment for the work proposed; with the help of colleagues, analyse what experimental/theoretical/computational methods might be necessary to achieve the goals of the project and hence decide how the project tasks should be organised

(5) Perform the practical part of the investigation, taking due account of experimental errors of measurement and possible assumptions and approximations in analytical and computational work as appropriate

(5) Revise the goals and strategies for completion of the project in the light of results achieved and

difficulties encountered.

(6) Write a report on an extended piece of project work, which should include a critical evaluation of the significance of the work and how it compares with work done in the same area, both within the local area and as reported in the general scientific literature

(7) Prepare an abstract of the work performed of length about 250 words in the accepted scientific format.