Nano-Tera: Scientific Outreach

The educational activities of Nano-Tera are strong both in formal (unversity courses) and informal (education and dissemination activities).

Formal research activities

There are over 110 doctoral students enrolled in the Nano-Tera research program, and over 50 post-doctoral research scientists. These participants are distributed throughout 12 different Swiss institutions.

Education and dissemination activities

ED projects are conferences or summer institutes open to undergraduates and postgraduates, they are often open to members of the public.

The Nano-Tera ED Projects :

EducationalKit - kit for wearable computing

TEDActivities - Training, Education and Dissemination Activities - First year

COMES - COmplexity Management in Embedded Systems

D43D - Manufacturing, Design, and Thermal Issues in 3-D Integrated Systems

NanoBio 2010

iCAN contest

Plasmonics - In-depth education in plasmonics and the optics of specific metallic nanostructures

WIMEMS-School - Practical and applied aspects of MEMS/NEMS technologies

B-AWaRE - Body Area Wireless sensoR nEtwork Summer School

SEE-NANO - Swiss Education and Entrepreneurship in Nanoelectronics

ISMICT - International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology

EASY - Educational Workshops on Energy Efficient Autonomous Systems

SPIMD - Workshop on Security and Privacy in Implantable Medical Devices

QCrypt - First Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography

E-Print - 1st Swiss E-Print workshop

MicroCool - Summer School on Microscale Cooling of 3-D integrated systems

MMB2011 - Microtechnologies in Medicine and Biology

Conferences and Public Seminars

Many Nano-Tera activites and Nano-Tera connected events are taking place throughout Switzerland. These are detailed in the Events page