PhD Courses

The LNMB offers a biennial PhD program. The academic year is composed of three trimesters, each having a duration of 9 or 10 weeks. The last week of these is reserved as a back up in case one of the lectures must be cancelled.

PhD representative
The PhD students of the LNMB have elected a PhD representative. The 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 Lotte Weedage (UT), l.weedage@utwente.nl.

PhD Courses 2020/2021

First Trimester (September 7 - November 9)

MQSN (Multi-class Queues and Stochastic Networks )
NSP (Networks and Semidefinite Programming ) Note that in previous years this course was taught in the second trimester
CAO (Convex Analysis for Optimization)

Second Trimester (November 16 – December 14 and January 25 – February 22)

NP (Networks and Polyhedra)
AlQT (Algorithmic Methods in Queueing Theory)
CGOR (Cooperative Games with applications to OR)

This course is composed based on the earlier courses CG and OR-G

Third Trimester (March 1 – March 29 and April 12 - May 10)

Registration
Please register preferably not later than one week before the start of the course (the deadlines mentioned below are the hard deadlines after which the registration system no longer accepts further registrations).

Trimester 1 (Deadline 08-10-2020)
Trimester 2 (Deadline 16-12-2020)
Trimester 3 (Deadline 01-04-2021)

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
11.00 - 12.45	Course MQSN	Course NP *	Course RA *
12.45 - 13.15	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
13.15 - 15.00	Course NSP *	Course AlQT	Course MDP
15.15 - 17.00	Course CAO	Course CGOR	Course AMD

* In cooperation with DIAMANT

Location
All LNMB courses will be taught on-line until further notice. Upon registration for a course, students receive a link for the video connection.

Credits
The course load (including exercises) is 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.

Indicative PhD Course program 2021/2022

The program of the PhD courses of the year 2019/2020 can be found here. That program is indicative for the academic year 2021-2022 as well.