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Courses
Master classes
The scheduled master classes are:
2006-2007: Symplectic Geometry and Beyond.
2007-2008: Quantum groups, affine Lie algebras and their applications.
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2008-2009: Aspects of Calabi-Yau Geometries
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2010-2011: Moduli Spaces
Dutch master program in Mathematics
The Dutch master program in Mathematics organizes joint courses in mathematics. Amongst these we would like to mention for the first semester of the academic year 2006-2007:
Tuesdays, Universiteit Utrecht:
10:15 - 13:00 hrs: Symplectic Geometry (8 cp)
Instructors: Heckman, G.J. (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)14:00 - 16:45 hrs: Lie Theory (8 cp)
Instructors: Moerdijk, I. (Universiteit Utrecht), Boer, A.L. (Universiteit Utrecht)
and for the second semester of the academic year 2006-2007:
Thursdays, University of Amsterdam:
Master Student's Seminar on Index Theory and Anomalies (6 cp)
Instructors: E. Opdam, H. Pijls, J. Stokman, T. Quella (all University of Amsterdam)
Dual Bachelor degree programs in mathematics and physics
Amsterdam UvA dubbele bachelor wiskunde-natuurkunde
Utrecht Double Major Mathematics-Physics
Nijmegen dubbele propedeuse natuurkunde en wiskunde
Master programs in mathematical physics
Amsterdam UvA Master in Mathematical Physics
Nijmegen Master in Mathematics, core theme: Mathematical Physics
Specialized Master Classes on key cluster themes
The cluster plans to organize a yearly `Master Class' (MC), with the same format as the Master Classes that have been organized for over a decade now by the Mathematical Research Institute MRI, often in collaboration with the Stieltjes Institute. (These are so-called Research Schools in Mathematics, through which the various Dutch universities collaborate, mainly in the education of PhD students.) In particular, all three cluster locations have extensive experience with this format.
An MC of the type in question is a one-year program for students who are at the end of their Master's Degree and have not yet started on a PhD project. The aim of the MC is to train a small group of students in a specific subdiscipline, and prepare them for PhD research in this area. Through the cluster funds we will make a number of student grants available, to attract the most excellent students from abroad. The MC lectures will also be open to students in mathematics and theoretical physics who are completing their Master's Degree at one of the cluster locations. The most talented students from the MC will be recruited as PhD students in the cluster. The theme of the MC will differ from year to year.
For the current relevant Master Classes, see the top of this page.
PhD program in geometry and quantum theory
We intend to create several PhD positions during the cluster period, to which others will probably be added from other sources. Although international recruitment will always be an option, our experience shows that an infrastructure of the kind described so far will suffice to attract excellent students to this PhD program. Our PhD students will benefit from the coherence of the cluster in general, as well as from all of the specific activities to be listed now.
Spring Schools
In 2004, 6 of the 23 cluster participants were involved in the MRI Spring School and Workshop on Lie Groups in Analysis, Geometry and Physics, which drew more than 50 applications from abroad (and was thereby sizeably overbooked). In 2006, there was a similarly successful Spring School on Abelian Varieties. The cluster intends to participate with similar intensity in future MRI Spring Schools.
Research Seminars
The Master Class will be followed by a research seminar around the same theme in the following year.