The course will give doctoral students an occasion to think about their career in the long run, by telling them what they can expect and what will be expected of them as they progress through the stages of academic life.
They will also learn what it is to write in engaging way for a scientifically-minded audience, and will get to try this out by themselves.

This course covers a selection of the following topics:

• Methodological issues of Computer Science 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
• and much more...

This is a fundamental course of the Vienna PhD School of Informatics.

The first two lectures will be on:

March 12, 11:00 - 13:00 (Room "Menger", Favoritenstr.9-11, staircase 3, 3rd floor)
March 13, 15:00 - 17:00 (Room "Zemanek", Favoritenstr. 9-11, ground floor)

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