Students of the University of Malta are invited to submit their application for participation at the international physics student contest PLANCKS24.
PLANCKS is a physics competition for bachelor and master students taking place annually in May since 2014. It provides physics students from all over the world with the opportunity to get in touch with each other. The intention is to increase international collaboration, host social activities and stimulate the personal development of individual contestants. By bringing physics students from various parts of the world together, a setting to exchange ideas and experiences, and to challenge each other, is created.
The Department of Physics of the UM is organising preliminaries to select the Maltese team consisting of 3-4 students to participate at the PLANCKS2024 edition.
Travel and lodging cost will be covered by the Department of Physics.
An expression of interest to participate has to be submitted individually by each student (specifying course of study and year) before Sunday 18 February 2024 by sending an email and (in cc) to the email address. Students of the University of Malta from the 2nd year of study onward are eligible to apply for the competition.
Further info is available online.
Selection rules:
Each team will have a ranking based on
- 40% based on average grades from previous exams;
- 40% based on a written exam consisting of exercises from previous Plancks;
- 20% oral examination. Training for PLANCKS24 contest will be provided on the weekends after February.