A PhD student in Theoretical Chemistry should typically take 90 hp
(credits; 1.5 hp corresponds to one week of study, 30 hp one semester,
so 90 hp corresponds to 1.5 year of the total 4 years of a PhD) of
courses.
30 hp you get if you attend the department seminars, group meetings,
journal clubs, and other compulsory department and group activities.
The remaining 60 hp, you are supposed to select yourself together with the supervisor.
Several courses are compulsory (27.5 hp), whereas the remaining can be selected freely (32.5 hp).
Chemical centre or Science faculty
Some courses are compulsory for all students at the Chemical centre or the Science faculty:
- Introductory course for postgraduate students at the Department of chemistry (0.5 hp); Sept 2016
- Introduction course for PhD students at the Faculty of Science (0.5 hp); Oct 2016
- Research ethics for chemists (2 hp); Nov 2016
- Environmental issues and hazards in the chemical research laboratory (2 hp); Apr 2017
- Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Introduction (3 hp) Compulsory only if you do some teaching. Given either as a web-based or classrom-based course.
Department of Theoretical Chemistry
Two additional courses are compulsory for all students at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry. They may be modified, depending on you background.
- Quantum Mechanics (7.5 hp) or Molecular Quantum mechanics (KEMM28 7.5 hp)
- Statistical Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulation (KEMM38, 7.5 hp), March 2017, Martin Trulsson.
- Advanced Statistical Thermodynamics and Molecular Simulation (4-7.5 hp), May 2017, Martin Trulsson
Department of Theoretical Chemistry
Courses regularly given at the department
- Quantum Chemistry at work (7.5 hp), Jan-Feb 2016, Valera Veryasov, every second year.
Courses no longer (?) given
Other courses often taken by our PhD students
- Computational methods in Drug Design (3 hp); Sep 2014; Ulf Ryde
- Intermolecular interactions (7.5 hp); Gunnar - replaced by colloidal domain.
- Electrostatics (Book of Böttcher; 7.5 hp); Gunnar
- Chemist's modelling tools (i.e. advanced mathematics, KEMM27, 15 hp), every year Nov-Jan
- Crystallography and structural bioinformatics (KEMM15, 15 hp or part of it), every year in Nov-Jan
- Bioinorganic chemistry (KEMM32, 7.5 hp, or part of it), every year in Sept-Oct.
- Surface and Colloid Chemistry (KEMM07, Intermolecular interactions part), every year in Sept-Oct
- Medicinal Chemistry (KEMM20, 7.5 hp), every year in Sept-Oct.
- Scattering Methods (KEMM37, 7.5 hp), every year in Jan-March
- Popularising chemistry (NAKE003; 4 hp) Sept 2016, Sofi Elmroth
- How to structure and publish a scientific paper (1.5 hp)
- Programming (Advanced C++ programming, 5.5 hp)
- Introduction to Programming and Computing for Scientists (MNXB01, 7.5 hp)
- Object oriented programming in C++ (4.5 hp)
- PYTHON Bioinformatics programming (1.5 hp) week 42
- Numerical Methods in Matlab (KET075F)
- Introduction to programming in science and technology
- Advanced programming in science and technology
- Computational tools and recipes (Compute; Valera)
- Statistics
- Applied Statistics I at Medical Faculty (1.5 hp)
- Applied Statistics II at Medical Faculty (3 hp)
- Computational Organic Chemistry (7.5 hp); Anders Sundin
- European summer school in quantum mechanics
- Groningen summer school (spectroscopic methods)
- Applied Structural Pharmaceutical Bioinformatis (5 hp; Jan 2017)
- Applied Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics (5 hp; Apr 2017)