List of interdisciplinary elective classes approved by the IEDS Council for implementation in the academic year 2024/2025:
Scientific discipline: materials engineering:
- „Biomaterials inspired by nature” (Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of Silesia in Katowice);
- „Novel imaging methods” (Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of Silesia in Katowice).
- „Single-crystalline materials used in aviation” (Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of Silesia in Katowice).
- „Nuclear spectroscopy techniques in environmental and medical research” (Faculty of Science and Technology, the University of Silesia in Katowice).
Scientific discipline: mathematics:
- „Introduction to probability theory and mathematical statistics” (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences).
- „Introduction to Hamiltonian mechanics” (Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences).
Scientific discipline: Earth and related environmental sciences:
- „Computer analysis of satellite images in the study of the natural environment” (Faculty of Natural Sciences, the University of Silesia in Katowice);
- „Geographical Information Systems – spatial data editing and processing” (Faculty of Natural Sciences, the University of Silesia in Katowice);
- „Environmental and engineering geophysics” (Faculty of Natural Sciences, the University of Silesia in Katowice);
- „Marine science in the public discourse” (Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences);
- „The ocean as the key to a sustainable planet in the light of the UN Ocean Decade” (Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences);
- „Ocean – ecosystem goods and services” – (Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences);
- „Application of magnetic methods in studies of the structure and evolution of the earth’s crust and environmental studies” (Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences);
- „Modelling of Hydrological Processes” (Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences);
- „Climate change in polar regions – research problems and geophysical methods” (Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences).
In the academic year 2024/2025, from the offer of interdisciplinary elective classes, at least one module from each discipline of education offered at IEDS will be implemented, which will be selected by the largest number of doctoral students and all courses selected by at least three doctoral students.
Registration deadline: October 31, 2024.