Vilnius University at National Center of Physical Sciences and Technology
Sauletekio al 3 - D401
Andrius Juodagalvis(Vilnius University), Juozas Vaitkus(Vilnius University), Mārcis Auziņš(University of Latvia), Kalvis Kravalis( RTU Center of High Energy Physics and Accelerator Technologies)
Description
Outcome from the CBG meeting at CERN - Study programme:
There are potentially money available in Latvia for masters and PhD programme in order of 100K each
Objectives of the programme are following (to be completed):
To maximise EE, LV, LT return from CERN membership – for industry and for research institution/universities
To minimise brain drain
Opportunity for new generations
To prepare specialists for industries in Baltic Countries – both physics and accelerator technologies
It was agreed:
to keep it open for international students and not to limit to Members
to avoid fragmentation – to have broad subjects
to include Big data and data science in curricula on top of high energy particle physics and accelerator technology
to do risk / benefit analysis for all participants – to have situation awareness