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Local guidelines
- Colloquium. PhD students are expected to present their
work once every two years at the local Computer Science colloquium. These
presentations should be in English, and should be coordinated well in
advance with the student's supervisor, to make sure that the
supervisor can be present. The aim is to provide the PhD student with
an opportunity to exercise his/her presentation skills, in an
environment which is (intended to be) comparable to an international
conference. The presentation should be evaluated in detail---not just
in the elevator back to one's office---by the student and his/her
supervisor.
The initiative for such a presentation comes in principle from the
organisers of the colloquium (see the colloquium webpage for
who they are). But a PhD student who is ready to present his/her
work can of course also contact them directly.
- Supervision. Each PhD student is expected to meet his/her
supervisor once a week for at least half an hour, in order to discuss
the student's research, progress, possible difficulties, publications,
etc.
- Co-authorship. Joint publications between a PhD student
and his/her supervisor are a delicate matter, which should be handled
with care and restraint. There are general guidelines (for example, in
the biomedical world) for such
matters, which are translated to the following rules for the
Computer Science Department at Nijmegen (approved by the
management council, 13 march 2001).
All persons designated as authors should qualify for authorship, and
all those who qualify should be listed. Each author should have
participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility
for appropriate portions of the content. One or more authors should
take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, from
inception to published article. Authorship credit should be based only
on
- substantial contributions to conception and design, or
acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data;
- drafting the article or revising it critically for important
intellectual content;
- final approval of the version to be
published.
Conditions 1, 2, and 3 must all be met. Acquisition of
funding, the collection of data, or general supervision of the
research group, by themselves, do not justify authorship. Authors
should provide a description of what each contributed, and editors
should publish that information. All others who contributed to the
work who are not authors should be named in Acknowledgements, and what
they did should be described.
In case of conflict, the PhD-coordinator or director of the institute
may be asked to intervene by any of the parties involved.
- Foreign visits. In order to maximize their international
orientation and research experience, PhD students are strongly
encouraged to spend a few months abroad, visiting a relevant research
institute. Plans for such a visit should be discusses well in advance
with the supervisor (also involving financial
support). The third year of the PhD is usually good timing.
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