Programme
Structure of the programme
The duration of the Mamaself Masters course is two years (120 ECTS credits). The academic programme is split into two years with 60 ECTS credits for each. The language of instruction and examination is English. The student will stay one year in one institution and a second second in another institution. It is not possible to stay the two years at the same site in Munich. The second year will be split in two semesters : the first one at a university, the second one is dedicated to the Master thesis project and can be conducted at another university or at Large Scale Facilities.
YEAR 1
The first year consists of lectures and practicals at one out of the four universities yielding 60 ECTS. This part of teaching ”Materials Science” will take place at one of the four universities : University Rennes1, University of Torino, Techsnische Universität München and Ludwig Maximilians Universität München.
YEAR 2
Summer school
The second academic year will start with a summer school of two weeks, where both lectures and practicals (comprehensively corresponding to 7 ECTS) will offer an excellent introduction into the use of “Large Scale Facilities”. The core of the lectures will all be given by the four scientists responsible of the Master in each of the four universities (W. Paulus, C. Lamberti, W. Petry and W. Schmahl) exhibiting a huge background in this area. Each year the core lectures will be supported by specific seminars given by other university colleagues and by researchers directly coming from national or European Large Scale Facilities centres.
During these two weeks, the topic of the Master thesis will be chosen by the student out of a list of subjects proposed by the staff of the institutions.
YEAR 2 - First and second semester
During the first semester of the second year each student has to shift to one out of the three other universities. The first semester consists in lectures and practicals (30 ects, cf programme in each university of the consortium). During the second semester of the second year the student has to undergo the Master thesis work which will also yield 30 ECTS. The thesis work will take six months and is generally in strong relation with the use of ”Large Scale Facilities” for applied or academic research problem.
The research topic can be supervised and located at large Scale Facilities, but will then be jointly supervised by an advisor of one of the consortium institutions. The research work is finalised by a written dissertation, wich must be defended in front of a comittee.
Students may undergo their master thesis at another partner institution in Japan (Kyoto University, Uji, Yamanashi University) Switzerland (PSI / ETH Zurich) or India (IIT Madras).
Scientists coming from all over the world
There will also be a teaching contribution from scientists coming from outside Europe, Japan ( University of Kyoto, Institute of Materials Research, University of Yamanashi, and Tohoku University, Sendai) and Russia (Dubna) in order to show the perspectives in non European countries.