EOSAM 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.

The Advance Programme for the EOS Annual Meeting 2008 is now available:

Complete Advance Programme (incl. general information, early-bird registration, hotel list, travel information...; pdf-file; 4.2 MB)
Overview, oral and poster programme only (pdf-file; 2.4 MB)

Early-bird registration

Early-bird registration (credit card payment; 24 kb)
Early-bird registration (bank transfer; 18 kb)

Technical co-sponsors

• Synopsis
• Topics
• Abstract submission and deadlines
• JEOS:RP - special publication offer
• Chairs
• Programme Committee
• Contact

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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Abstract Submission and deadlines

• The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended to Monday, 16 June 2008 at 12 noon (CET).
• Notification to authors: 10 July 2008 (+++ post-poned to Monday, 14 July - the EOS apologizes for the delay +++)

Prospective authors are invited to submit their abstract 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 the template.

How to submit an abstract

• step 1: click on the link submit an abstract (on the top of this page)
• step 2: follow the instructions and fill in the required data
• step 3: click on submit at the end of the page
• step 4: your paper has been submitted sucessfully

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-Juergen Hartmann, OptecNet Deutschland, Germany
• 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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Contact

European Optical Society (EOS)
Petra Bindig
Hollerithallee 8
30419 Hannover, Germany

Phone: +49-(0)511-2788-155
Fax: +49-(0)511-2788-119

E-Mail: paris@myeos.org
URL: www.myeos.org

Sub-Conferences

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