The Doctoral Program
- offers courses in all areas of mathematics at graduate and research level,
- organizes workshops and block-courses in which experts present advanced topics and work with the doctoral students,
- organizes workshops and seminars where the doctoral students present in an accessible way the context and the progress of their own research in a talk or by a poster,
- encourages doctoral students to participate actively in international conferences,
- proposes complementary training in scientific English, computer science, scientific writing and presentation technique,
- prepares and stimulates the transition of the doctoral students to the professional life in industry, administration or in academia,
- sets up a network of information relevant to doctoral students for succeeding in their thesis and in their career planning.
Activities of the Doctoral Program include the following events primarily targeted at the graduate student audience:
- Graduate courses: in general, these are special courses at the graduate level given over the period of one semester, or more concentrated courses having around 20 teaching hours. Graduate courses have a flexible format: they can be given by one or several teachers, and they can be offered once a week or they can be organized in intensive modules dispatched over one-week periods.
- Summer/Winter Programs: these are one-week events which bring together graduate students and leading experts in their respective fields. Typically, the invited speakers present several mini-courses, and there is a possibility for informal discussions with graduate students.
- Graduate Colloquium: this is an opportunity for graduate students to present their own work in front of a friendly audience. Such events can be organized in particular topics, as well as at the interdisciplinary level (between different fields of mathematics).
- Graduate Colloquium: these two-day meetings give an opportunity to doctoral students to present their research area to other doctoral students and their results to experts in the respective fields.
- Other Events can be organized at the request of the members of the Doctoral Program, if the committee finds them suitable.
- On a smaller scale, the Doctoral Program addresses the issues of marketing of scientific research and of the professional integration of doctoral students. In particular, the following issues should be touched upon in the format of lectures or workshops:
- How to write articles in mathematics (what is an introduction, how to compose the bibliography etc.)?
- How to make a presentation (in particular, in English)?
- How to use a computer in mathematical research?
- How to write a CV, and how to prepare a job interview?