National Training Schools in Theoretical Chemistry, 2012 and 2014

2012年、2014年全国理论化学培训学校

• 批准号: EP/J015091/1
• 负责人: David Logan
• 金额: $ 8.87万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ015091%2F1
• 关键词: National; Training; Schools; Theoretical; Chemistry

Graduate-level training is an essential component of doctoral research, providing the basic core from which novel research springs. This is particularly important in the theoretically-centred physical sciences, where the intellectual level and technical expertise required to pursue effective doctoral research increases significantly in comparison to typical undergraduate study.In theoretical and computational chemistry, however, only a modest number of UK universities possess the critical mass of academic staff needed to provide key training across a broad spectrum of the subject. The present proposal thus seeks to provide a UK-wide training capability in theoretical chemistry, via the creation of National Training Schools to be held in summer 2012 and 2014. These will bring together a cohort of doctoral students from across the country and, in the two-week timespan of an individual Training School, will expose students to sustained, coherent training in fundamental graduate-level material, across a broad spectrum of contemporary theoretical/computational chemistry.The Schools will consist of structured lecture courses, delivered by a team of eight experts from five UK universities; together with accompanying problem classes/tutorials designed not only to back up the lectures, but in particular to sharpen students' problem-solving skills -- a key element of doctoral research. The training provided will thus provide significant underpinning of, and thereby benefit to, individual student's doctoral research programmes. And exposure of a national cohort of students to such training will in turn benefit the quality of doctoral research across the UK.

研究生水平的培训是博士研究的一个重要组成部分，提供了新的研究春天的基本核心。这一点在以理论为中心的物理科学中尤为重要，因为与典型的本科学习相比，进行有效的博士研究所需的智力水平和技术专长显著提高。然而，在理论和计算化学领域，只有少数英国大学拥有足够的学术人员，可以提供广泛的学科培训。因此，本提案旨在通过在2012年和2014年夏季建立国家培训学校，提供全联合王国的理论化学培训能力。这些课程将汇集来自全国各地的一批博士生，并在单个培训学校为期两周的时间内，让学生接受基础研究生水平材料的持续、连贯的培训，涵盖广泛的当代理论/计算化学领域。学校将由来自五所英国大学的八名专家组成的团队提供结构化讲座课程;同时还提供了相应的问题课程/辅导，不仅是为了支持讲座，而且特别是为了提高学生解决问题的能力-这是博士研究的一个关键因素。因此，所提供的培训将为个别学生的博士研究方案提供重要的基础，从而使其受益。让全国的学生接受这样的培训，反过来又会有利于提高英国博士研究的质量。