Congratulations to our 2023 Winter graduates who had their ceremony last month! We held post-graduation celebrations in the Physics Senior Common Room, attended by graduates, their guests, fellow PGRs and their supervisors to reflect on their time as PGRs. They go on to a variety of positions with some staying in Exeter and others […]
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Graduation Celebration Summer 2023
Congratulations to our 2023 Summer graduates who had their ceremony last week! We held post-graduation celebrations in Physics 124, attended by graduates, their guests, fellow PGRs and their supervisors to reflect on their time as PGRs. They go on to a variety of positions across academia and industry with some staying in Exeter and […]
PGR Presentations Conference
On 2nd and 3rd October, our CDT PGRs held a two-day conference of CDT PGR presentations at Manor House Hotel, Okehampton, following last year’s successful PGR Presentation Conference at Escot House, Ottery St Mary. The conference involved a mix of presentations and team-building activities to help cohort-bonding and to welcome in the first years. As […]
Graduation Celebration Summer 2022
This year we celebrated not only our Summer 2022 graduates, but our 2020 and 2021 graduates as well, who were finally able to attend an in-person ceremony. We held post-graduation celebrations in Physics SCR, attended by their fellow PGRs and supervisors. These graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations, including both academia (two […]
CDT Summer Conference and Summer Ball 2022
Final year PGRs Hannah Barnard and Dean Patient organised this year’s Summer PGR Conference and the accompanying Summer Ball, both events taking place on 10th June. Hannah comments on the experience of running these events and the motivation behind them: As a result of COVID over the last year or two, the social interaction amongst […]
March Movie Night: Shaun of The Dead
March 6th saw the latest of the CDT film nights with the theme being “firsts” to mark the first movie night arranged solely by new organisers Emily Glover and David Newman. The winning film was “Shaun of the Dead”, the first of Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy”. About 25 of the XM2 PGRs (and a few […]
CDT Movie Night: Films from the 2010s
The first CDT movie night of the year took place on Friday 24th January, with the theme of films from the 2010s. The winning choice was Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, with 30 PGR attendees. A big thank you to organisers Ned Taylor and Elizabeth Martin, who are now stepping down to focus on writing […]
CDT’s Christmas Movie Night
To round off 2019, the CDT PGRs chose Home Alone for their Christmas movie night. Third year PGR Ned Taylor, one of the organisers, says of the event: Some of the CDT gathered at the top of the Physics building to celebrate the festive period. The evening commenced with the watching of the animated short […]
XM2 Graduation Winter 2019
Congratulations to Thomas Collier, Henry Fernandez, Cameron Gallagher, Santiago García-Cuevas Carrillo, Ben Hogan and Cheng Shi, who graduated on Friday 13th December. We held a post-graduation celebration in Physics SCR, attended by their fellow PGRs and supervisors. These graduates have gone on to a variety of destinations, including both academia (three of our graduates have stayed […]
CDT Film Evening: Catch Me If You Can
The theme for this month’s film social was Nostalgic 00’s. 30 PGRs gathered to watch the poll winner, Catch Me If You Can, suitably refreshed by pizza!