Education

The Van Swinderen Institute forms, together with the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, the KVI-Center for Advanced Radiation Technology (KVI-CART), and the Johan Bernoulli Institute (JBI), the backbone of the Quantum Universe Masters educational programme which has started in the academic year 2013-2014. The aim of this programme is to provide students with the essential tools to perform research at the interface of physics, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, by teaching appropriate courses in theoretical and experimental techniques and by training students in research projects at the Bachelor, Masters and PhD level. To support the programme and arouse the interests of young researchers a successful yearly series of Quantum Universe (QU) workshops has been launched.