The first SEPnet Summer School for Physics graduates in the SEPnet consortium took place in the week beginning 9th June 2014 at the National Physics Laboratory, London. Students attended a broad range of workshops to highlight areas of employment and research that are applicable to scientists holding a PhD in Physics.

The Patterns and Security workshop was delivered by Tony Mansfield (Industrial Speaker, NPL) and Stuart Gibson (Academic Lead, University of Kent).   Presentations on the cutting edge biometric technology and an introduction to pattern recognition, were followed by a hands on activity in which students performed a hierarchical clustering of objects.

Patterns and Security workshop activity: students with their hierarchical clustering of fruit and associated dendrogram.

Below is Wordle reflecting the students’ experiences of the summer school.