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TRAINING AND OUTREACH
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The ILL PhD students during the annual clip session on 7 June.
STUDENT TRAINING
The ILL Graduate School has grown in strength over recent years, through the development of the ILL PhD programme. The Graduate School provides training and financing for the equivalent of 40 full-time, three-year PhD projects from various European countries, as well as welcoming a number of PhD students with external funding. We received a total of 60 applications in response to our last call for PhD proposals; of these, 11 full-time-equivalent projects have been selected, for which PhD students will subsequently be recruited in 2019.
Since the students work in different disciplines, their annual clip session on 7 June gave them the opportunity to exchange ideas and get to know each other better. A series of weekly seminars is also organised throughout the year. The speakers are the PhD students themselves, and the topics alternate annually between presentations on their own research and those on neutron scattering topics.
For the fifth year, the ILL and the ESRF organised an International Summer School for undergraduate students, which ran during September 2018. This programme invites undergraduate students from all member countries to spend a month at the Institute. During their stay, a series of lectures and seminars
is organised to introduce them to the fundamentals of X-rays and neutrons and their applications in today’s science. Each participant works on an individual scientific project, supervised by the scientists and PhD students of the ILL. This year the ILL hosted ten such projects, that is, for half of the 20 participants on the programme. The participants themselves were selected from more than a hundred applications from universities in Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Norway, Israel, Russia, Spain, Poland and Switzerland.
The ILL also welcomed a total 76 trainees in 2018 (10 from the ILL–ESRF Summer School, 2 from the STFC), of 18 different nationalities (including 9 German, 34 French, 11 British and 10 from other ILL member countries).
HERCULES SCHOOL
This one-month course, held every year since 1991, provides training for students and young scientists in the field of neutron and synchrotron radiation for condensed matter studies. It includes lectures, hands-on practicals and tutorials in small groups (~35 %), visits of partner facilities and a poster session.
The 2018 HERCULES took place from 25 February to
30 March. It welcomed 82 participants of 29 different nationalities working in 21 different countries, most of them from Europe but some from Taiwan, India, New Zealand, Russia and the USA. The students were selected from more than 170 applicants. A special ‘Practicals and Tutorials’ session was included in this year’s programme, hosted in partner institutions: one full day at the ILL and two at the ESRF, two days at the CNRS, CEA and/or IBS, and one week outside Grenoble at SOLEIL and LLB (Paris-Saclay, France), Elettra and FERMI (Trieste, Italy), European XFEL and DESY (Hamburg, Germany) or PSI (Villigen, Switzerland).
More information is available at http://hercules-school.eu/.
Participants of the HERCULES 2018 session.
ANNUAL REPORT 2018