PhD Courses

The LNMB offers a PhD program as a biennial program. Each academic year ten PhD courses are taught in three trimesters, each having a duration of nine weeks.

PhD representative
The PhD students of the LNMB elect a PhD representative. This representative attends the board meetings of the LNMB and can be contacted if you have problems regarding the PhD courses or suggestions regarding other matters concerning the PhD students of the LNMB. The current PhD representative is Caroline Jagtenberg (CWI), c.j.jagtenberg@cwi.nl

PhD Courses 2014/2015

First Trimester (September 15 - November 10)

Second Trimester (November 17 – December 15 and January 19 – February 9)

Third Trimester (February 16 � March 30 and April 13, 20)

Registration
Please register as soon as possible, preferrable not later than one week before the start of the course (the deadlines mentioned below only represent the date at which the registration system no longer accepts further registrations).

Trimester 1 (Deadline 05-10-2014)
Trimester 2 (Deadline 15-12-2014)
Trimester 3 (Deadline 15-03-2015)

If you are a new PhD student, please also fill in the Form for New PhD students

Time-Table of the PhD courses
The courses are given on Monday according to the following schedule:


	Trimester 1	Trimester 2	Trimester 3
10.15 - 11.00	Course MQSN	Course NSP *	Course RA *
11.15 - 12.00	Course MQSN	Course NSP *	Course RA *
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
13.00 - 13.45	Course NP *	Course AIQT	Course AsQT & RO
14.00 - 14.45	Course NP *	Course AlQT	Course AsQT & RO
15.00 - 15.45	Course CAO	Course CG	Course ORG
16.00 - 16.45	Course CAO	Course CG	Course ORG

* In cooperation with DIAMANT

Location
The courses are given in the Uithof (buildings of the Utrecht University), in the Mathematical Building, Room 611AB, Budapestlaan, Utrecht; except for the courses AsQT, which is given in the Buys Ballot Lab, Room BBL 007, Budapestlaan, Utrecht.

Credits
The credits (including for the attendance of the course) for participants who have passed the exercises successfully are 4 EC per course. In case the courses are only attended (or when the exercises are not passed successfully), then the workload is set at 1 EC. At the end of each course the participants receive a certificate with the grade and the credits involved.

Evaluation
After the course every participant is asked to fill in an evaluation form which will be distributed around two weeks after the course.

PhD Courses 2013/2014

The program of the PhD courses of the year 2013/2014 can be found here.