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 10th week is typically reserved as a back up in case one of the lectures in the first 9 weeks must be cancelled, but may be used as a regular slot at the discretion of the lecturers.

PhD course program 2023/2024

First Trimester (September 11 – November 13)

Second Trimester (November 20 – December 18 and January 22 – February 26)

IntPM (Integer Programming Methods)
NCG (Noncooperative Games)
ATS (Advanced Topics in Stochastic Operations Research) Former course name: MAB (Multi-armed Bandit Theory and Applications)

Third Trimester (March 4 – March 25, April 8 – May 13)

Registration

If you are a new PhD student (haven't attended LNMB PhD lectures before), please first complete the Form for New PhD students. Then you can register for any of the courses in the program. If you have attended LNMB PhD courses before, you can directly register for the courses:

Registration for the courses: Please register at your earliest convenience to make sure you obtain the needed information prior to the start of the course (including the links to the video lectures). Late registration is possible up to the fourth lecture, after which the registration system no longer accepts further registrations. For external students, if you wish to drop the course, please cancel your registration within the same deadline.

Trimester 1 (lectures start on September 11, 2023)
Trimester 2 (lectures start on November 20, 2023)
Trimester 3 (lectures start on March 4, 2024)

Time-Table of the PhD courses

The courses are given on Mondays according to the following schedule:


	Trimester 1	Trimester 2	Trimester 3
11.00 - 12.45	Course AsQT	Course IntPM *	Course AGT
12.45 - 13.15	Lunch break	Lunch break	Lunch break
13.15 - 15.00	Course AC *	Course NCG	Course RO
15.15 - 17.00	Course IPM	Course ATS	Course SP

* In cooperation with DIAMANT

Location

The courses will be given at the Campus Utrecht Science Park again; if needed some lectures can be online. Upon registration for a course, participants receive a confirmation by email from an automated system. In the first week of September the latest information will be sent to all participants.

Credits

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

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 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 want to provide input for the LNMB PhD program. The current PhD representative is
Ties Schalij (Tilburg University), t.m.schalij@tilburguniversity.edu.

Indicative PhD Course program 2024/2025

The PhD programme has a cycle of two years. The programme of the PhD courses of the year 2022/2023 can be found here. This program gives an indication of the program for 2024/2025.