Erasmus Mundus Action 1 Compendium 2009 - EACEA - Europa

Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses
MaMaSELF
Master of Materials Science exploiting European Large Scale Facilities
Duration: 12 months
Course description:
MaMaSELF is a one year European Master course in Materials Science, offered by four Universities:
Rennes1 (France), Torino (Italy), TU München (Germany) and the LMU München.
The objective of the course is to teach Materials Science, completed by a two weeks summer school,
dedicated to explore materials with neutrons and synchrotron radiation.
First semester:
lectures and laboratory courses at one of the four Universities. Specialisation areas are:
• physics of materials and geochemistry at Munich,
• chemistry and nanoscience at Torino and
• Materials Science combined with Management lectures at Rennes.
Second semester:
Master thesis work at another University or partner institutions of the consortium. Master thesis
subjects concern research activities of the research groups of the consortium, in collaboration with
large scale facilities and industrial partners.
During the two weeks summer school all students will obtain a wide background exploring materials
with neutrons or synchrotron radiation. State of the art of the experimental beamline set-ups of
spectrometers and diffractometers at synchrotron sources, nuclear reactors as well as on spallation
sources will be introduced for different applications.
All lectures will be given in English. Students will receive a double Master degree in Material Science
delivered by two out of the three Universities, giving direct access to further PhD studies.
Several important European Large Scale Facilities (ESRF and ILL (Grenoble, France), LLB Saclay,
France), DESY (Hamburg, Germany) and FRM-II (Munich, Germany)) strongly support this Master
and will be implied in the summer school and the Master thesis.
Admission criteria are a successful 1st year Master course (or equivalent) in Materials Science or
related areas (chemistry, physics, etc.), together with a proficiency level of scientific English.
(TOEFL550/213, IELTS6.5, or eq.). The Master is limited to a maximum of some 40 students per year.
Website:
http://etudes.univ-rennes1.fr/mamaself
Partners:
University of Rennes I, France (Co-ordinating institution)
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
Technical University of Munich, Germany
University of Turin, Italy
Contact:
Dr. Werner Paulus
UNIVERSITE DE RENNES I
MAGISTERE MATERIAUX
CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU, BAT 10B
35042 Rennes, France
werner.paulus@univ-rennes1.fr
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