MAP training & career for students

With its world-class infrastructure, about 100 senior scientists and its network of world-renowned collaborators, MAP offers young researchers training and tuition in a wide variety of scientific disciplines and technologies. Proliferation of these fields into academic and industrial laboratories will entail excellent career opportunities. Concerted and balanced interdisciplinary training for graduate students will be organised within the framework of two new graduate schools:

• the MPQ-LMU-TUM International Max-Planck Research School in Advanced Photon Science (IMPRS-APS)
• and the TUM-LMU-MPQ International PhD Programme of Excellence in Quantum Computing, Control and Communication (IPPE-QCCC).

The two schools will fund some 50 graduates until 2011. Within MAP we plan to broaden the scope of IMPRS-APS and IPPE-QCCC and use them as a core of the MAP tuition and training programme for graduate students.

In addition to the wide range of basic and advanced lecture courses offered by MAP faculty, our world-renowned key collaborators have accepted our invitation to spend a sabbatical in Munich at some time during the period 2007–2011 as MAP Visiting Professors and give a guest lecture course in the field of their expertise.

Furthermore, MAP students will be encouraged to spend a few months at one of our key collaborators’ laboratories to broaden their scope and acquire experience with international collaborations. MAP’s programme for promoting young researchers will be rounded off by those of the Student Chapter of the Optical Society of America in South Germany, which was founded by LMU-MPQ-TUM graduate students.

Together with students funded from other sources, we expect a total of 100–120 PhD students to participate in MAP’s training and tuition programmes and graduate during the period 2007–2011.