C.T. De Wit Graduate School

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PE-RC Messages  

Number 4 - Year 2011

  19 May 2011

Contents

  

  1. PE-RC PhD courses

  2. Skills and competences courses organized by Wageningen Graduate School (WGS)

  3. Other courses

  4. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops. Seminars and other activities

  5. Position Announcements

  6. Others

  

1. PE-RC PhD courses   

    

2. Skills and competences courses organized by Wageningen Graduate School (WGS). 
     For more information please click here 

3. Others courses

  • Addressing Environmental Challenges with Current and Emerging Techniques (12-25 June 2011) Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA - A course for graduate students, professionals, faculty, and K-12 teachers. The course will be limited to a maximum of 25 students. For more information please click here.
  • First edition of the Darwin Summer School on Biogeosciences (4 - 15 July 2011) Utrecht and Texel, The Netherlands. A full program with lectures, practicals and assignments will address the perturbation of the global carbon cycle, in the past, present and future. Motivated MSc students and PhD students who are interested in a state-of-the-art introduction to the field of Biogeosciences are invited to subscribe.     The application deadline is on 1 June!  For more information please click here.

  • Zevende Kaderprogramma (KP7) trainingen 2011 - For more information please click here.

 

4. Symposia, Lectures, Workshops and Seminars

  • Symposium on Porous Media Physics and Mathematics (31 May 2011) Wageningen University -  Atlas building - For more information please click here.

  • 50th ECSA Conference: Today's science for tomorrow's Management. For more information please click here.

  • NWO-Talent Day  (30 June 2011)  For more information please click here.

  • Food Security, Water and Forests –  Are We on the Right Track?  (22 June 2011, 12.30h – 17.15h) Conference Center “de Reehorst”, Ede, the Netherlands. For more information please click here.

  • Remote Sensing Symposium (8 September 2011) Wageningen, The Netherlands. For more information please click here.

  • Third biannual conference on Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution - MMEE 2011  (17 - 19 August, 2011) University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Registration and call for abstracts are now open. For more information please click here.
    The deadline for registration is May 31, 2011.

  • 4th Ecogenomics day ( 16 June 2011)  Amsterdam - The Netherlands - Keynote Laurent Keller - Department of Ecology and Evolution - University of Lausanne. For more information please click here.

  • Challenges and opportunities for agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of Sub-Saharan Africa (24-27 October 2011)  For more information please click here.

  • EcoSummit 2012 Ecological Sustainability - Restoring the Planet’s Ecosystem Services (30 September 2012) Columbus, Ohio, USA. For more information please click here.

5. Position Announcements

  • Two POST DOCS: BIOFUEL VALUE CHAINS - University of Twente  For more information please click here.

  • Five PhD positions at the Netherlands Centre for Biodiversity Naturalis (starting August 2011) For more information please click here.

  • POSTDOC  Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) department of Microbial Ecology. For more information please click here
    deadline for submissions is 8 June 2011.   

  • PhD position - Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)  - For more information please click here.

  • PCDI - Postdoc Career Development Initiative - For more information click here

6. Others

  • BCF Careerevent  - (26 May 2011) - Amsterdam RAI - For more information click here

  • Studium Generale: LA13  Wageningen - For more information please click here
    -      "De Ideale veehouderij in Nederland en daarbuiten" 18 mei, 15.30hrs, Forum zaal 222,Studentendebat met bijdrages van docenten
     - "The Paradox of Language: liberation or self-imprisonment?"  24 May, 20.00hrs, LA13,     

  • For Women in Science UNESCO-L'Oreal - Grants 2012. For more information please click here

  • Wageningen UR Library For the year 2011 the Wageningen UR Library had available an Open Access fund to the amount of € 50.000,-. We regret to inform Wageningen UR authors that, due to an overwhelming number of requests, this fund is already exhausted. We are not able to cover fees for Open Access articles requested after May 1 2011. We hope that we  will have a new fund available per January 2012.

  •  The European Research Council (ERC) starting grant call 2012 - Invitation Information day (8 June, 2011) The Hague, The Netherlands.
    For more information click here.

  • 2012 Young Micromorphology Publication Awards. For more information please click here.
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