PhD courses

The courses in this portfolio will be offered on compact form, which implies that lectures and practical training will be scheduled so as to facilitate attendance by PhD candidates from all the partner institutions. A possible arrangement is that lectures are concentrated in two series of one week duration each. Students traveling from other institutions to attend couses may apply for financial support to cover travel and lodging.

Courses on compact form available in the academic year 2010/2011

Course name	Institution	Semester	Study points	Lecturer	Form for visiting students
FE8126: Low-Voltage/Low-Power Analog CMOS	NTNU	Fall 2010	5	Trond Ytterdal	Form from NTNU
FE8100: Quantum Computation and Quantum Communications (course home page)	NTNU	Fall 2010	7.5	Johannes Skaar	Form from NTNU
OPT9005: Optics for Micro and Nanosystems Lectures in week 43	HiVe	Fall 2010	5	Muhammad Nadeem Akram	Form from HiVe
ENE9005: Energy Harvesting	HiVe	Fall 2010	5	Einar Halvorsen	Form from HiVe
FYS 9230 Modelling and design of micro- and nanosystems	UiO	Fall 2010	10	Liv Furuberg	Form from UiO
Bio600P, BioMEMS, with MEMS background*	HiVe	Spring 2011	5	Frank Karlsen and Lars Roseng
AUT9005: Acoustic Transducers	HiVe	Spring 2011	5	Lars Hoff

* BIO600P will be a short version of the BIO610P course, without mandatory labs.

IMPORTANT! Forms to fill out for visiting students Course at NTNU? PhD-candidates at Vestfold University College or University of Oslo who plan to take any of the courses given at NTNU need to fill out this form. You also need to submit a confimation that you have been accepted as a PhD student at your home institution. More information available here The deadline for visiting student applications at NTNU is 15. September 2010 for the fall semester of 2010 and 15. February 2011 for the spring semester of 2011. The same deadlines are also for registrations to courses. If the deadline has already past, contact the course teacher to check out the possibilities to follow the course anyway. Course at UiO? PhD-candidates from NTNU or Vestfold University College who plan to take any courses given at University of Oslo needs to fill out this form. You also need to submit a confimation that you have been accepted as a PhD student at your home institution. More information is available here. Registration deadline for courses at UiO is 1. September for the fall semester of 2010. If the deadline has already past, contact the course teacher to check out the possibilities to follow the course anyway. Course at Vestfold University College (HiVe)? PhD-candidates from NTNU or University of Oslo who plan to take any courses given at Vestfold University College need to fill out this form in English or the Norwegian form. You also need to submit a confimation that you have been accepted as a PhD student at your home institution. More information is available here. Send the form to Tone Gran at HiVe by e-mail or regular mail: Att.: Tone Gran. Høgskolen i Vestfold, Fakultet for teknologi og maritime fag, Postboks 2243, 3103 Tønsberg,
Travel support PhD candidates may apply for financial support to cover travel and subsistence, when attending a PhD course at institutions other than their own. Our travel grants are limited to NOK 2000 pr roundtrip, with a maximum of four roundtrips per course. Documented costs for accommodation are covered up to NOK 800 per day for the duration of the course. Daily allowances (kostpenger) is limited to NOK 200 per day. The maximum support for one course is NOK 20 000. Your expenses will be reimbursed based on original receipts. Please fill out the application form
Financial support for lab courses It is also possible to apply for travel support to attend lab courses at partner institutions.
Financial support to establish new PhD courses on compact form If you teach a course at NTNU, UiO, or HiVe within the nanotechnology field that you think might be suitable for students at the partner institutions as well as for those in your own institution, you might consider reorganizing the course and teach it on compact form. The PhD Network can contribute financially to new courses or reorganization of old courses that are within the scope of the network. The network can provide NOK 20.000 per 5 credits (studiepoeng) for the reorganization of already existing courses, and NOK 40.000 per 5 credits for the establishment of new courses. Additional support might be given based on applications. The financial support is given for the preparation of courses, not to run them, which implies that each course can only expect to get support one time. Travel support for guest lecturers If you would like to invite a guest lecturer to a PhD course which is part of the PhD Network course list, you may apply for financial support from the Norwegian PhD Network on Nanotechnology for Microsystems. Contact us if you have any questions.
Other courses We are currently working on a register of PhD courses offered with support from the network. : Our goal is to offer PhD level courses on the following topics: Tools and methods for nanostructuring and characterization Advanced design and modelling of micro- and nano systems ASICs for MEMS/NEMS Nanophotonics and optical micro- and nano systems Nanotechnology for biological sensors and biofunctionality Ferroelectrica and dielectrica for microelectronics and MEMS/NEMS Mesoscopic physics The network can also contribute financially to the development of new courses within the areas mentioned above. Contact us for further information.