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The most basic of all sciences, physics is the key to understanding our world at a fundamental level. A physics student working abroad will gain a broader perspective, more insights, and access to exceptional technologies and instruments, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

Notes from the Field

MIT freshman conducts experiments on radiation detection methods at renowned nuclear institute in Russia
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Physics major Alex Andriatis explores new ground at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
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Physics major Anju Apte researches multiband superconductors via holography at KU Leuven
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Physics, math, and computer science major Ishaun Datta creates new methods to identify dark matter at Frascati National Laboratory
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Physics undergrad interns at the Weizmann Institute of Science Astroparticle Physics Lab
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Physics major, TJ Wilkason, uses new kinds of physics to search for dark matter at CERN
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Physics major Christian Ferko sports a hard hat for work in an underground service cavern at CERN
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Details about MISTI Physics Opportunities
MISTI helps physics students find world-class research positions and internships with variety of hosts, from startups to venerable universities, in countries like Brazil, Germany, Israel, and Switzerland.

Sample Hosts

  • CERN
  • DESY
  • EDF
  • Free University
  • IFAE Institute for High Energy Physics
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  • Universitat Heidelberg
  • Universite de Lyon

Sample Projects

  • Explore the various properties of carbon nanotubes and boron nanotubes – which are the key to the future of material and electrical engineering, in Brazil.
  • Work with a team to characterize an upper-atmosphere research jet’s custom-built spectrometer, which enables precise data extraction on atmospheric gases, in Germany.
  • Help begin new analysis channel for the Higgs boson in which the Higgs boson decays into a Z boson and photon, in Switzerland.
  • Derive recursion relations to perturbatively solve anharmonic systems, generalize this to arbitrary potentials that can be expressed as a power series, and automate the procedure, in Germany.
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