npcam,Nanoscience – Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials

simon12345

i'm thinking of doing the npcam course
wondering about:
course load-is the course hard???
possible careers???
also,i don't do physics in school(i do applied maths,chemistry,biology instead)
will this be a huge disadvantage???
and any more additional information you can think off? thanks:)

ride-the-spiral

I'm not an NPCAM student, but I'm infirst year theoretical physics so we do mostly the same physics modules (we do mechanics with maths is the only difference). To be honest you'll be fine without having done physics, they assume pretty much no prior knowledge and there's a good few people in physics who would not have done it for the leaving. Even then they go past the LC course fairly quickly in each module. Also, based on the physics' mechanics papers, having done applied maths should make that section of the course fairly easy.

Can't tell you much about the chemistry or maths parts unfortunately.

PurpleFistMixer

As far as careers go, materials science is huge at the minute. The word "nano" seems to be some kind of funding magnet*. And the fact that CRANN exists at TCD should let you know that they're big into it.



*bitter theoretical physicist

simon12345

would crann be the main destination for postgraduates???

PurpleFistMixer

I'm not sure... personally two of my friends are now doing PhDs in CRANN, one from (n)PCAM and one from normal physics, but I presume people go elsewhere as well. CRANN is just pretty handy and all.