The Scottish Doctoral Training Centre in Condensed Matter Physics

该中心的主题领域是核心学科凝聚态物理学（CMP），这是一个影响众多技术和其他科学领域（如工程，生物物理，光子学，化学和材料科学）的研究领域。它要继续这样做，就需要培养在理论和实验方面接受过核心知识工具国际领先培训的人才。多年来，我们在世界各地的许多同事都向我们发表评论（有些人在他们对该中心的支持信中），我们的博士培训缺乏严谨性，不利于我们的毕业生在国际市场上。因此，2005年《国际物理学评论》也表达了同样的观点也就不足为奇了。一个具有完全国际基准培训内容的中医药DTC将弥补这一不足，并使我们能够为英国提供一代中医药工作人员，他们将推动该领域本身的发展，并为跨学科科学和技术的许多其他领域做出贡献。从希望成为我们工业协会正式附属机构的公司和组织提供的大量支持信中可以看出。我们特别提请注意这些公司所涵盖的学科范围。除了Detica等科学咨询公司和Oxford Instruments和e2v等科学设备制造商预计将成为我们的核心用户之外，该名单还包括科学出版商，软件公司，能源部门的小型和大型公司，大型跨国公司，如联合利华和东芝欧洲，以及金融和专利法部门的代表。这表明，拥有我们将拥有的高水平核心技能的毕业生具有关键吸引力：他们拥有雇主所珍视的跨学科能力，在这个世界上，多年的职业培训有时会很快被技术或知识范式的转变所破坏。随着英国开始实施这一冒险的DTC计划，创建这样的中心将促进核心技能的发展至关重要。在这样做的过程中，我们将为明天的跨学科奠定基础，从而补充今天的支持。

The theme area of this Centre is core-discipline Condensed Matter Physics (CMP), a field of research that impacts on numerous technologies and other fields of science such as engineering, biophysics, photonics, chemistry and materials science. Its continued ability to do so requires the production of people who have received internationally leading training in its core intellectual tools, both theoretical and experimental. Many of our colleagues world-wide have commented to us over the years (and some in their letters of support for this Centre) that the lack of rigour of our PhD training disfavours our graduates in the international market-place. It was therefore no surprise to hear these sentiments echoed by the 2005 International Review of Physics. A DTC in CMP with a fully internationally benchmarked training component will rectify this deficit, and enable us to provide the UK with a generation of CMP staff who will both advance the field itself and contribute to many other fields of interdisciplinary science and technology.National need for the graduates that we will produce is high, as demonstrated by the large number of support letters provided by companies and organisations who wish to be formally affiliated with our DTC as Industrial Associates. We draw particular attention to the range of disciplines covered by these companies. In addition to the scientific consultancies such as Detica and manufacturers of scientific equipment such as Oxford Instruments and e2v, who would be expected to be among our core users , the list includes scientific publishers, software houses, companies small and large from the energy sector, large multinationals such as Unilever and Toshiba Europe, and representatives of the finance and patent law sectors. This evinces a key attraction of graduates possessing the high-level core skills that ours will have: they possess a discipline-hopping ability prized by employers in a world where years of vocational training can sometimes be undermined very quickly by a technological or intellectual paradigm shift. As the UK embarks on this adventurous DTC scheme it is therefore vital that centres like this which will advance core skills are created. In doing so, we will be laying the foundations for tomorrow's interdisciplinarity, and therefore complementing the support of today's.