PhD Courses

The LNMB offers a PhD program as a biennial program. Each academic year nine PhD courses are taught in three trimesters, each having a duration of 10 weeks. Within the first 9 weeks of a trimetser one lecture for each course is given; the last week can be used if a lecture has to be cancelled in the first 9 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 Mathijs van Zon (EUR), vanzon@ese.eur.nl

PhD Courses 2017/2018

First Trimester (September 11 - November 13)

Second Trimester (November 20 – December 18 and January 22 – February 19)

Third Trimester (February 26 � March 26 and April 9 - May 7)

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 04-10-2017)
Trimester 2 (Deadline 19-12-2017)
Trimester 3 (Deadline 24-03-2018)

If you are a new PhD student, please fill in first 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
11.00 - 11.45	Course MDP	Course IntPM *	Course AGT
12.00 - 12.45	Course MDP	Course IntPM *	Course AGT
12.45 - 13.15	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
13.15 - 14.00	Course AC *	Course NCG	Course RO
14.15 - 15.00	Course AC *	Course NCG	Course RO
15.15 - 16.00	Course IPM	Course ATS	Course SP
16.15 - 17.00	Course IPM	Course ATS	Course SP

* In cooperation with DIAMANT

Location
The courses are given in the Uithof (buildings of the Utrecht University), in the Hans Freudenthalgebouw, Room 611AB, Budapestlaan, Utrecht.

Credits
The credits 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 2016/2017

The program of the PhD courses of the year 2016/2017 can be found here.