Undergraduate Physics Internships

Neodymium

I will be starting a joint degree in physics and maths in the coming weeks and have been researching undergraduate internships run by various different universities and institutions. My ambition is life is to go into physics research and have been trying to find undergrad. physics internships to strengthen my chances of getting into msc./phd physics programs after I have finished my degree, while also giving me the opportunity to learn more physics.

So far I have found:
Tyndall Undergrad. Programme: http://www.tyndall.ie/content/tyndall-undergraduate-programme
UCD: http://www.ucd.ie/physics/undergraduatesummerplacements/
ESA: http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Careers_at_ESA/SEMYYKFTFQG_0.html
Oxford: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/astro/summer_students/
DESY: http://summerstudents.desy.de/
Fermilab: http://ed.fnal.gov/interns/programs/ipm/
Cern: https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_portal.show_page?p_web_site_id=1&p_text_id=7
STFC: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About+STFC/491.aspx
Caltech LIGO:http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LIGO_web/students/undergrads.html
Brookhaven National Lab.: http://www.bnl.gov/education/program.asp?q=116 (not entirely sure if it is open to students outside the US)
Los Alamos: http://www.lanl.gov/education/undergrad/
SFI CLARITY: http://www.sfi.ie/news-events/noticeboard/clarity-undergraduate-internships-2012/
http://www.stsci.edu/institute/smo/students

I will add more links as I find them.

It would be great if you could let me know of other undergraduate internships which you might know of.

krd

You could probably look up American ones too...........And Iran...The Iranians are looking for physicists. Iran would be far more interesting and hands on - like working on the Manhattan Project.

Justin1982

I think your putting the cart before the horse to be honest.

I'd recommend stall the ball and focus on the degree itself. You'll have plenty of experimental lab crap to try get working each week and I'd imagine the course work load will be fairly full on. Focus on doing that right and probably come 3rd or 4th year you'll be given the opportunity to work with an experimental group to gain experience.

What will really drive your chances of getting a msc. or phd after finishing a degree is your results from your last two years in college which is generally split as 40% for 3rd year and 60% for 4th year. You need to be aiming for a II-1 or a I to be considered for a phd and you'll probably get into a masters with a II-2 and then if your good enough you'll be able to get into a phd.

During the summer breaks in college, see if you can get an internship or experience with an experimental group. Even harass an observatory or a lab for work experience.