The National Student Survey (NSS) at Heriot-Watt is now open.  Find out more [go to main University site]  Go to http://www.thestudentsurvey.com/

January 2010:  PhD projects - a revised list of PhD projects available for 2010 start is available on our PhD studies page. [find out more].

December 2009:  Dr Robert Hadfield has delivered a state of the art superconducting-single photon detector system to the UK National Physical Laboratory. This advanced detector system will be used by NPL researchers in quantum metrology and quantum information processing experiments. This work demonstrates the tremendous value of Heriot-Watt physics research to the UK scientific community...[read more] 

Laser Summer School comes to Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University (news item: November 2009):  The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has announced £26,000 of funding to the Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics summer school to be held from 11 - 21 August 2010 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. Branded as SUSSP66, the summer school is the 66^th in a series of Physics summer schools co-organised by the Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics (SUSSP) charity, which ran its first summer school in 1960... [read more].