Toulouse Scholar Exchange Program
The Toulouse Scholar Exchange Program is a partnership between Rice University and NanoX (Nanoscale Science & Engineering), a consortium of 6 CNRS laboratories, INSA Toulouse, and the University of Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.
For the past decade, graduate students from Rice University's Applied Physics Program (APP) and NanoX (NEXT previously) have been crossing the Atlantic to visit and collaborate in research centers located in Toulouse, France, and Houston, Texas USA.
This exchange program is open to all Rice APP students and NanoX students.
Under the supervision of Dr. Junichiro Kono, French students are selected by NanoX in Toulouse to spend six months at Rice in Houston. Rice APP students are chosen by Rice to spend six months at NanoX. Funding is provided by the host in each case.
Goal
The goal of this program is to establish the educational relationship between Rice University and NanoX more formally.
Rice APP graduate students receive benefits such as course credit, and opportunities for cultural engagement and collaboration with researchers and students in the host countries while using new research instrumentation and techniques not available at Rice.
Research in a laboratory in Toulouse will count as one elective course (designated as APPL 750) towards completion of the Rice student's Applied Physics PhD during the student's fall semester abroad. Additional transfer course credit is available if the student chooses and completes one of the graduate courses in Toulouse listed below and will count towards the 5 elective course credit requirements of the degree (listed on the student's transcript as TRAN 500). Additional elective courses available in Toulouse beyond those listed below may be suggested by the student and advisor in a similar manner currently for adding new Rice electives, by petitioning the Applied Physics Committee for Curriculum and Admissions for approval. No Toulouse courses can replace the core courses in the APP curriculum.
Note: EU Rice graduate students who participate are not eligible for APP support and will not receive APPL 750 credit.
To participate, students and their advisors should contact the program contact and submit a two-page proposal describing the intended research plan to sciapp@rice.edu.
Additional Toulouse Information
NanoX Director - Prof. Xavier Marie
https://nanox-toulouse.fr/
Toulouse Exchange Courses
- Energy storage and conversion (55h<≈5h/w - 12w)
- General Electrochemistry (Basic in electrochemistry, Corrosion, Analytical methods, 60h≈5h/w - 12w)
- Solid-state chemistry (Inorganic solid-state chemistry, Basics in chemistry of polymers, 70h≈6h/w - 12w)
Dual Combination of Courses (each counts as one half course):
- Physical Chemistry of Materials: bonds, defects, reactivity (30h≈3h/w - 12w)
- Application of Surface Treatments to Energy Storage (35h≈3h/w - 12w)
- Catalysis (30h≈3h/w - 12w)
- Chemical alternatives for energy (30h≈3h/w - 12w)
- Laset Technics, Quantum Optoelectronics (30h)
- Nanobiotechnology (lectures+clean room : 40 h)
- Microsystem (workshop) (lectures+clean room : 40 h)