Research and Career Planning for Doctoral Students
VU 195.098, VU 184.778 WS 2018
Georg Gottlob
Organization: Wolfgang Dvořák, Adrian Haret
Please only contact either of the oganization staff.
dvorak@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, haret@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
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Attention
Please contact us if you are not receiving e-mails about the course: we might have written your e-mail address wrong.
Also, contact us if you are registered for the course but are not assigned to one of the presentation groups.
Also, if you don't see your name in the presentation schedules below, or if you're in the wrong group,
or if there's anything that doesn't look right to you.
Finally, in case you did not fill in the Personal Form in the first class, please download it here and bring the filled version in the lecture.
Content
This course covers a selection of the following topics:
- Methodological issues of CS Research
- Models of research organization
- The structure of the CS scientific community
- Communicating with peer scientists
- Codes of conduct and ethics
- Web resources for computer scientists
- Models of industrial co-operations
- Patents and patent intellectual property
- The scientific publishing process
- How to plan research
- How to write a scientific paper
- Presentation of results in talks and at conferences
- Quality criteria and evaluation models in Science
- How to choose a conference and a journal
- How you will be evaluated in the future
- Models of funding - organization, structure, and management of scientific projects
- Scientific visits and co-operations
- Where to apply for a postdoctoral position
- Career models for computer scientists
- much more...
Registration
You can find the course in TISS, but you don't need to register. You can show up at the talks and give us your contact details.
Talks, Dates, Resources and Deadlines
Prof. Gottlob will give two lectures, to be held on the following dates.
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Resources |
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| Oct.16, 2018 | 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminarraum Gödel | Introduction | General information How to write an introduction |
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| Dec.17, 2018 | 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminarraum Gödel | lecture 1: | How you will be evaluated |
| Dec.18, 2018 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Seminarraum Gödel | lecture 2: Introductions and Project Proposals | How to write an introduction Project proposals |
After Prof. Gottlob's lectures, the course will conclude with a series of student presentations on a set of pre-assigned topics.
Schedule:
Prof. Gottlob's lectures will be held Dec. 17 - Dec. 20 (2 lectures, each about 2 hours),Student presentations will be in the week of Jan 7 - Jan 11
Detailed schedule.
| Date | Title | Location |
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| Jan 9, 2019, 10:00 - 13:00 | Student Presentations I | Seminarraum Zemanek |
| Jan 10, 2019, 14:00 - 17:00 | Student Presentations II | Seminarraum Zemanek |
Deadlines for student assignments
There are two main deadlines, as follows.
Deadline 1, Dec. 2
- Homework (writing an introduction) uploaded via EasyChair.
- Second presentation (group presentation) has to be sent in a first draft via email.
Deadline 2, Dec. 16
- First presentation about your personal research topic has to be prepared. The slides for the webpage have to be sent and will be published on the website.
- Second presentation has to be finished in a final version, including the existing resources.
- At least 10 reviews of introductions submitted by your colleagues. The submission and reviewing process will be organized as an academic conference, and curated through EasyChair.
Introduction competition
Write an introduction to a scientific paper and use the criteria presented during the lecture. Upload your file until the first deadline using EasyChair. After uploading your introduction, you will be assigned 10 introductions written by your peers, which you will have to review. The best reviews will be revealed during the last session, after the presentations. We will send you reminders and other information, as needed. Please do NOT write your name in the body of the introduction.
EasyChair: Link to the submission system
Presentations
Two presentations are part of the course.
First presentation
The first presentation is about your specific research area. You can take around 15-20 minutes (perhaps including a few minutes for discussion). You should send the slides of your presentation as a PDF File to Wolfgang Dvořák until the second deadline.
Please make sure that your presentations cover the following points:
- best 3 research groups worldwide in the area
- how you plan to contact them and how you may co-operate with them
- best 3 international conferences, journals, and workshops for the area
- a publication venue in your area that is not well-known in the general field of Computer Science
- a plan of how and what you want to publish in the venues described above in the next years
- an international role model: a young successful researcher in your area (not at TU Wien).
The topics and presenters will be announced once they have been fixed.
Second presentation
The second presentation is about general topics concerning research and career planning. The possible topics are below.
- University rankings: how they work
- Rankings of CS journals and conferences
- Roles and career models in academia
- The scientific publishing process
- The refereeing process
- Web resources for computer scientists
- Patents and intellectual property
- How to structure and write a scientific paper
- Models of research funding
- Organization, structure, and management of scientific projects
- Codes of conduct and ethics-as author, reviewer, etc.
- Industrial research centers (in the USA and in Europe)
- Interaction between academia and the industry/companies
You can take up to 20 minutes for each presentation, which includes time for discussion. You should send the slides in a first draft to Wolfgang Dvořák before the first deadline. After this deadline additional resources from the last term are available and should be integrated. The final draft should be sent by the second deadline.
Further Questions
If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to write an email. Please contact exclusively the following emails:
dvorak@dbai.tuwien.ac.at, haret@dbai.tuwien.ac.at