Responsibilities:
1. Work with the scientific team to define a procedure for calculating sample orientations.
2. Outline, implement and test a software method using Mantid Python methods.
3. Write test cases for use with continuous integration practices.
4. Identify and integrate additional features for increasing the scientific benefits of this work.
Requirements:
1. You are in full-time education at university and will be returning to university/your studies once the summer placement has concluded.
2. You have the right to live and work in the UK for the duration of the placement.
3. Working towards a degree in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Computer Science.
4. Experience programming in Python.
5. Knowledge of the principles of diffraction & the reciprocal lattice.
6. Ability to translate real-world problems into computer code solutions.
7. Good written and oral communication skills.
8. Ability to work in a team.
Desirable:
1. Experience in writing software documentation.
2. Experience with continuous integration and writing test cases.
Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell, Oxfordshire.
The successful applicant will work with instrument scientists and software scientists to develop a software algorithm to calculate the orientation of samples measured on several scientific instruments at ISIS. The resulting product will utilize existing Python routines, and will rely on the applicant creating a procedure using these routines. The procedure will be written in a user-friendly way to take user inputs and calculate the solution. You will primarily work with instrument scientists based in the Excitations group, which is composed of eight scientists who use the neutron instruments at ISIS to perform fundamental scientific experiments on novel materials.
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