Selecting my fourth year modules and project

I recently selected my fourth year project for my MSci Physics with Space Science course at UCL. The project title is "Modelling the highest energy collisions in the world".

It involves modelling the types of collisions likely to be happening at CERN's LHC using Monte Carlo methods with Rivet (from what I can gather from the short meeting I had yesterday with my project supervisors).

Hopefully, depending on how closely the LHC experiments run to schedule, there will also be the possibility of comparing the simulated results with actual results from the LHC.

UPDATE2: Seeing as they just killed a magnet at the LHC it doesn't look like there'll be any data to compare the models to.

UPDATE3: I'll actually be working on b-jet shape analysis and using the results to tune the Monte-Carlo programs for the LHC.

For my other modules I'll hopefully be doing:

• Lasers and Modern Optics
• Atom and Photon Physics
  
• Advanced Quantum Theory
• Quantum Computation and Communication
• Particle Physics

That is, I will be doing them just as soon as the infuriatingly crap invention that is UCL's Portico decides to let me select all of those modules, rather than randomly saying that one or several are invalid selections (depending on the order in which I input them).

I'd be the first to say that it would be easier for everyone to make students enter their course selections online, but until Portico is even remotely reliable there should at least be one form of backup method for selecting modules (spelling them out by making holes in the Portico server with a claw hammer sounds like a good backup method :) ).

UPDATE: Portico has finally let me select my modules! I (half) take back everything bad I've said about it. :)