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Does anyone want to host a Summer Student? You’ll need to have funding available as we aren’t allowed to offer unpaid positions. If so, please go ahead and reply to him, but cc me in so I know you have contacted him.</div>
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<b>From: </b>Oliver Ng <oliver.ng@new.ox.ac.uk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 31 March 2026 at 10:37<br>
<b>To: </b>Emma Chapman (staff) <Emma.Chapman@nottingham.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Enquiry about possible undergraduate research opportunities<br>
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Dear Dr Emma Chapman,</div>
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I am currently a first-year physics undergraduate student at the University of Oxford, and I am very interested in the research being done in cosmology at the University of Nottingham. I was wondering if there are any opportunities for me to undertake a short
research placement during the summer vacation, or work shadowing experiences in cosmology.</div>
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I have rich experience in programming in Python and C#, in particular I’m passionate in building and optimizing neural networks to (for example) identify handwritten numbers. In addition, I also enjoy training reinforcement learning agents to complete dynamic
tasks, such as balancing a ball on a platform. I am also passionate in using my programming skills to model physical phenomena, for example visualizing hydrogen wavefunctions using an interactive graph.</div>
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I also have extensive data analysis experience. I have handled datasets of >2GB in financial data using pandas to formulate and backtest trading strategies, and also analyzed other datasets to train my neural network models. I have also achieved the highest
grade in over half of my assessed practicals in my first year and I have enjoyed learning vital experimental skills in the process.</div>
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I am extremely eager to learn more and apply my data analysis and programming skills to cosmology, where data analysis and computational modelling play a central role. I believe the School of Physics and Astronomy is the best opportunity for me, having done
the Future of Physics Work Experience here before. It was a wonderful experience which has opened my eyes to modern physics research and inspired me greatly to pursue research - many thanks to you for organizing and managing the entire work experience!
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I would be grateful for any opportunity to contribute to any work in cosmology, even in a small way, while learning from the research process. </span></div>
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Please also find my CV attached to this email. Thank you very much for your time and consideration.</div>
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Kind regards,</div>
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Oliver Ng</div>
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