EOS Workshop on Masters and PhD Education in Photonics

This education workshop is part of the EOS Annual Meeting 2008 and will be held from 29 September - 02 October 2008.

• Synopsis
• Topics
• Paper contributions and deadlines
• JEOS:RP - special publication offer
• Chairs
• Programme Committee

Synopsis

Higher education in Europe is changing, with many, but not all countries adopting the Bologna model of a 3-year first degree, 2-year masters and 3-year PhD. New "European" masters programmes are emerging, and the nature of the PhD degree is changing, with an increased emphasis on professional skills. Many of the changes are driven by external influences and sometimes with little input from either university supervisors, or the students themselves. The goal of this informal workshop is to discuss these changes, and exchange ideas and experience to ensure that the very highest quality of masters and PhD education can be maintained. It is aimed largely at those teaching masters courses and supervising PhD students in photonics, as well as masters and PhD students themselves.

Topics

• Skills and competences taught in photonics masters courses
• Quality control of masters and PhD education in photonics
• Role of industry in masters and PhD education in photonics
• Role of the EU in masters and PhD education in photonics
• Co-tutelle and joint degrees in photonics
• Summer schools in photonics
• Distance learning: internet courses, tutorials, seminars in photonics
• The supervisor-student relationship in PhD studies: monitoring progress
• The balance of academic courses, professional skills and the thesis in the PhD
• What is the purpose of the PhD thesis in photonics?
• Life after the masters and PhD: career prospects in photonics

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Paper Contributions

Prospective authors are invited to submit their scientific paper in one of the listed topics. The abstract shall cover a minimum of half a page and a maximum of two pages and shall be submitted online with the responsible author’s contact data. The EOS guidelines for abstracts can be downloaded at www.myeos.org/abstractguidelines. Should you work with Latex-files, please click here to download the guidelines and here to download the template.

Deadline of submission: 06 June 2008

JEOS: RP - Special publication offer

All attendees of the EOS Annual Meeting receive a 20% discount on the publication rate for the e-journal of the EOS: the Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications (JEOS:RP, www.jeos.org). The paper submitted to JEOS: RP must be an original contribution that is connected to one of the topical meetings and must be submitted no later than 01 December 2008. The special publication fee for attendees of this event is 280 euros (instead of 350 euros).

Chairs

• Chris Dainty, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
• Pierre Chavel, Institut d'Optique - Graduate School, Orsay, France

Programme Committee

• Roel Baets, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
• Marc Bondiou, Institut d'Optique - Graduate School, Orsay, France
• Joseph Braat, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
• Hans-Peter Herzig, Université de Neuchâtel, IMT, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• Ajoy Kar, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Malgorzata Kujawinska, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
• Agnès Maitre, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
• Thomas Pertsch, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena, Germany
• Lluis Torner, ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
• Kenny Weir, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
• Urban Westergren, KTH – The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

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Sub-Conferences

• EOS Annual Meeting 2008
• EOS Topical Meeting on Biophotonics - TOM 1
• EOS Topical Meeting on Terahertz Science and Technology - TOM 2
• EOS Topical Meeting on Nanophotonics, Photonic Crystals and Metamaterials - TOM 3
• EOS Topical Meeting on Micro- and Nanoscale Photonic Systems - TOM 4
• EOS Topical Meeting on Organic Photonics - TOM 5
• EOS Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics: Materials, Devices and Spatio-Temporal Effects - TOM 6
• EOS Topical Meeting on Dynamical Optics - TOM 7
• EOS Workshop on Masters and PhD Education in Photonics
• Sponsorship Opportunities