Organizer: Gunther Cornelissen
Important! This course is obligatory for student in the honours programme “Utrecht Geometry Centre” (UGC). Interested participants should contact Gunther Cornelissen by email (g.cornelissen@uu.nl).
This course is a preparation for doing PhD research in Geometry, and applying for PhD positions in these research directions. One part consists of writing a convincing academic cv. The main part of the course is an interactive process involving a chosen supervisor in the UGC, leading to the writing of a PhD research project.
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Contents
- Lecture: how to write an academic cv
- Writing your own academic cv
- Study templates, possible structure
- collecting/commenting on good and bad aspects of academic cv’s (one session)
- writing your own academic cv, collecting feedback (one)
- Lecture: how to write a research proposal
- Writing your own research proposal:
- Study templates, possible structure
- Discussions with potential research project supervisor
- Collecting in-depth and state-of-the-art information on the research topic, using online tools and databases
- collecting/commenting on good and bad aspects of research projects (one)
- writing your own research proposal, presenting it, collecting feedback (at least three sessions)
Material Some references:
Prerequisites Finished first year of Mathematical Sciences Masters; admitted to UGC.
Format Homework; a few lectures; some group discussions sessions; private discussions with research project supervisor.
ECTS: 7.5.
Schedule: Variable, to be agreed upon, in the Springer Room.
Language: English
Evaluation: Participants are expected to actively study cv’s and research plan, approach supervisors, collect information, and write and present their own cv and research plan. Evaluation is Pass/Fail only and based on participation in lectures and sessions (20%), written cv (20%) and written research project (60%).
Learning goals After completion of the course, the student is able to:
- Assess academic cv’s.
- Write a convincing academic cv.
- Identify good research problems within a well-chosen topic in geometry; collect data on these; understand state-of-the-art of this topic; find a supervisor and interact with her/him.
- Write a good research proposal for PhD research.
- Communicate in written and oral form about the research proposal.
“Toetsmatrijs''
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Discussions and Presentation(s) |
Hand-ins |
| Effective communication of and reflection on own research skills (oral) |
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| Effective communication of and reflection on own research skills (written cv) |
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20 |
| Effective communication of and reflection on own research plans (oral) |
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| Finding, identifying and formulation state-of-the-art research question, using research literature, understanding context |
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30 |
| Effective communication of and reflection on a state-of-the-art research problem (written research proposal) |
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30 |
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