Teaching: Overview
The educational effort within the QCCC programme has been structured to maximize cross-disciplinary interactions. Instruction is entirely in English. The QCCC programme offers beginners an orientation programme including lab rotations. During the Ph.D. programme the students carry out their research work in the group of one of the participating faculty members. The work should integrate theoretical and experimental aspects.
In these areas the students attend seminars, workshops, colloquia, conferences and tutorial courses (see also curriculum):
ENB Tutorial
In the beginning, all students meet weekly for approx. 4
hours to learn the basic topics like theory of entanglement,
complexity, control theory, laser photonics, basic experimental set-ups
etc. The presentations include on the students’ own work and on
relevant work for the plenum.
Workshops
At the end of each term, all participants assemble for 3-4
days for a workshop on topics of common interest in the research field.
Contact platforms with industrial representatives as well as training
programmes for scientific presentation will be included.
QCCC Colloquium
The students are also encouraged to regularly attend
this colloquium in which all doctoral candidates must present and
discuss their Ph.D. work to a larger audience before writing up their
theses.
QCCC Think Tank Seminar
In the 2nd year, all PhD students will form
groups of 2 (one theorist one experimentalist). These groups elaborate
novel projects and ideas, e.g. for industrial cooperation, the
externships in the 3rd year or postdoc projects. The proposals will be
discussed, scrutinized, and improved in a dedicated QCCC-Research
Seminar.
Exchange with partners abroad
Within the 3rd year, each PhD student is
obliged to spend some 3 months in an associated partner group abroad.
Tutorial courses: Each student has to be ready to assist a course held
by his supervisors.
Conferences
Every year, each student attends an international
conference of choice (e.g. Gordon Research Conference, NATO-ASI, QCMC).
Attendance is mandatory for participants of the QCCC programme.
Requirements for admission to the Ph.D. defense are:
- Completion of the written Ph.D. thesis
- Acceptance in a peer reviewed journal of at least one first-author-paper reporting a substantial part of the thesis results.
- Presentation of the PhD work in the QCCC colloquium
- List of colloquia attended within the last three years
- Certificate of the attendance of the QCCC curriculum
- Document of attendance of an international conference