Thank you!

Registrations are now closed. We have reached 85 participants!!

Organization Committee decided to leave registration system open, until accomplishment of 100 registrations! Thank you!

Thank you also to our sponsor, which will support the school and your stay in GAETA:

Information for Participants

Dear European PhD School participant,

it a great pleasure for me to inform you that, thanks to some new sponsors, we can guarantee buffet lunches for free to all our students from Monday 28th to Thursday 31st! All lunches will be served directly in the Castle. Also, two coffee breaks each day will be offered to you. I hope this will make your stay in Gaeta more pleasant!

As regards Social Dinner, also included in your registration fee, it will be held in one of the finest places of the surroundings. Some fish specialties will be offered during the dinner to PhD students, companies delegates, lecturers and PhD School staff. No formal dress is required.

If you have any special requirements for meals, please inform us as soon as possible.

Following, other important information for you:

Poster session: all PhD students are expected to prepare a poster, to be presented during the interactive session of Wednesday, 30th May 2012. Poster wall for each participant is 2 meters (high) x 1 meter (width). At the registration desk, a poster wall number will be given to each of you.

Oral session: last year PhD Students have the opportunity to present their activity within an oral session. If you are attending the last year of your PhD course but, also, if you already finished your PhD activities, please prepare a 5-7 minutes presentation of all your research activities and bring it with you at the School venue. You will be requested to upload your presentation on the conference room PC directly the day of the presentation, i.e. Wednesday, 30th May 2012.

Research activity form: all participants are expected to write a description in English about their research project. Form is available here:

Download here the form

All these documents will be included in the PhD School proceedings. So, please, send your document before May 10th, 2012 to europeanphdschool@gmail.com

Invitation letter for visa: if you need an invitation letter, please send a request to europeanphdschool@gmail.com, together with your hotel reservation.

Accommodation: if you need an help for accommodation in Gaeta, please contact us

Venue: PhD School venue is inside an ancient castle, located at the top of a beautiful promontory in the old part of Gaeta. A few parking areas are available near the castle. However, if you come by car, we suggest to park at the base of the promontory and, then, to walk up to the castle. Local transportation systems also stop at the base of the promontory.

For any further requests and communication, please use the following email address: europeanphdschool@gmail.com

Giuseppe Tomasso

European PhD School general manager

Venue

The 13th Edition of the European PhD School: Power Electronics for Electrical Machine and Energy Control will be held in Gaeta, Italy in a wonderful Angevin castle, that has been recently renovated.

Gaeta is a well known and popular seaside resort in the province of Latina, perched on a spur of Mount Orlando which faces onto the bay of the same name, whose history is lost in the mists of time. There are various hypotheses on the origins of its name: according to Strabone it comes from "gaetas" (a term used by fishermen to explain the location, with clear reference to its morphology, protected from winds and storms), according to Diodorus, however, it derives from "Aietes" (father of Medea), and finally, according to Virgil from "Cajeta" (the name of the nurse of Aeneas, who was buried by the Trojan hero in this area).
The earliest settlements date back to the VIII century B.C., later in 345 B.C. the town fell under the influence of Rome and soon became a popular resort for wealthy patricians and senators, also thanks to the construction of Via Flacca, much shorter than the Via Appia. After the fall of the Roman Empire the territories were subject of continuous raids and attacks by Barbarians and Saracens. For this reason, thanks to its favorable geographical position, the center strengthened its defense and became a "castrum" surrounded by fortified walls and protected by a castle. The Duchy of Gaeta was officially founded in 917, when Giovanni Gaetani I assumed the title of Duke. Gaetani I kept the rule over the city until the XII century, when this noble family was dispossessed by the Normans, who, however, left to the inhabitants of the town numerous privileges. Over the following centuries the town submitted the domain of the Swabian, Angevin and Aragonese and Bourbons, becoming what was then called "the key or gateway to the Kingdom of Naples", where Kings and Popes often sheltered, which encouraged the construction of major civil and religious buildings.

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Organized by

The 13th Edition of the School is organized by:

Companies- Ph.D. Students Meeting

The 13th Edition of the School will see the interaction between Ph.D. students and invited company representatives.

Company representatives will attend the research activity presentations given by Ph.D. students. Then, they will have the opportunity to meet Ph.D. students during the "Companies Exhibition" for future collaboration and for recruitment.