As part of the UDM Programme, we offer UDM Industrial Mathematics Internships, where a PhD student has an opportunity to spend between 3 and 6 months working in a company on a defence-related project.

Internships are designed to create new long-term collaborations between the host company and the Intern's academic research group. We encourage Expressions of Interest in UDM Internships from academic research groups and PhD students not currently working with defence experts in electromagnetic remote sensing (EMRS). Of particular interest to the current phase of the UDM Programme are academic research groups with expertise relevant to one or more of the following challenge areas identified through interviews with industrial representatives of EMRS DTC:

• Algorithm development under constraints of hardware;
• Definition and measurement of information content in data and image streams with respect to military objectives;
• Measures of algorithm performance outside the design specification;
• Mathematical theory to support computer experiments.

The UDM Internships are jointly funded by MoD and EPSRC and are part of a wider Industrial Mathematics Internships Programme. The details of five specific project opportunities are being prepared in collaboration with the host companies (Thales, Selex and MBDA). See the list of current expressions of interest for Industrial Mathematics Internships for more details of specific projects as they become available.

Academics and students requiring more information should contact Dr Vera Hazelwood.