Graduate
Course:
Research
Planning, 3 credit units (3p)
August-October. 2004
This course is organised
and supported by ARTES.
NEW: Course Evaluation Form [Please
complete by Jan 21 and mail to Paul
Pettersson]
Course
given by: Hans Hansson,
Mälardalen University (mail
Hans)
Participants
Important mails and news sent to group:
- 040929: Webpage with assignments
handed in by participants now available
- 040928: Timing for WS2: Start: Tuesday Oct 5 12.30
(we'll go for lunch 11.45); End: Wed. Oct 6 at 12.00.
- 040921 Exact Location for WS2: Ericsson Mölndal,
Flöjelbergsgatan
2A, ask for Annita Persson Dahlqvist in reception
- 040806: Exact location for WS1: Sciencepark
Conference Centre at Chalmers, room Appollon
- 040806 (Welcome)
Purpose:
To familiarise yourself with your own research
area, and get an understanding of the research areas of other
participating
students. This includes identification of
o
Central
literature
o
Key
conferences
o
Leading
researchers and research groups
o
Current
research issues and hot topics
o
Main
results in the field
o
Seminal
papers
To
formulate a research plan for your own licentiate or PhD project,
including
o
Hypothesis
o
Concrete
research questions
o
Activities
o
Time
plan
o
Milestones
Target
group
The course
is primarily intended for first year graduate students, but students
that are
about to be enrolled or second year students may participate (may also
be of interest for students entering a new area or a new phase in their
research)..
Content
The course
is organised into three workshops, including presentations of
assignments. You
are expected to actively participate in these workshops.
Workshop
1
Date,
Time, and Location: August 22nd, 2004; 12am-8pm (starting with lunch and including dinner;
actual start 1pm); in
Göteborg, Sciencepark
Conference Centre at Chalmers, room Appollon
Preparations (assignment 1): Each student should
o
no
later than 3 days before the WS mail a 1 page presentation of the own
research
area/project to me. Approx.
half the page should be devoted to the topic and
the rest should present the research method used. [Students that do not
yet
have concrete projects of their own, may instead consider some other
relevant
research in his/her research group.]
o
prepare
a 10 min presentation of the above
Preliminary
schedule:
Time available: 420min
60min introduction (HansH)
100min student presentations and discussions
45min presentation of research (invited speaker)
2*30 min invited presentations ("my story", by former PhD-students
60min presentation and discussion of assignment
60min dinner
40min breaks
--------
425min
Workshop
2
Date,
Time, and Location: Oct 5-6, start at 12.30 (we'll go for
lunch 11.45); end: Wed. Oct 6 at 12.00; Ericsson Mölndal, Flöjelbergsgatan
2A, ask for Annita Persson Dahlqvist in the reception.
Preparations (assignment 2): Each student should
o
no
later than 7 days before the WS mail a report to me. This report should include
- an updated version of
assignment 1 (approx 2 pages)
- an overview of the field
of research, presenting related research activities, including
- Current research issues
and hot topics
- Central literature,
including seminal papers
- Key conferences and
leading research groups
- Relation and relevance for own research
- References
[The report should be in the
order of 10 pages]
- No later than 4 days before the WS the reports will
be distributed to the students. Each student will be assigned 2 fellow
student reports to read in depth and provide feedback on at the WS.
- Prepare a 15 min presentation of the report.
Preliminary
schedule:
Time available: 480min
30min introduction (HansH)
200min student presentations and discussions
45min presentation of research (invited speaker)
150min presentation and discussion of assignment
60min breaks
--------
485min
Workshop
3
Date,
Time, and Location: Tuesday Nov 9 1pm - Wednesday Nov 10 at 12am, at
Mälardalen Univ. in Västerås. Meeting room: Turing;
call Hans at 070-4912288 if you need help to get in,
Preparations (assignment 3): Each student should
o
no
later than 10 days before the WS mail the final report to me. This report should include
- an updated version of
assignment 2 (approx 10 pages)
- a plan of the own
research activities, including
- Hypothesis
- Concrete research
questions
- Concrete expected
results
- Activities, including
planned publications and co-operations, and conference trips etc.
- Time plan
- Milestones
[The report should be in the
order of 20 pages]
- No later than 7 days before the WS the reports will
be
distributed to the students. Each student will be assigned 2 fellow
student reports to read in depth and provide feedback on at the WS.
- Prepare a 15 min presentation of the report.
Preliminary
schedule:
Time available: 480min
30min introduction (HansH)
240min student presentations and discussions
60min invited speaker
30min course evaluation
60min bonus lecture
60min breaks
--------
480min
Participants:
Martin
Andersson mandersson@CONTROL.LTH.SE,
Annita Persson Dahlqvist annita.persson.dahlqvist@ericsson.com
AnnMarie Ericsson ammi.ericsson@IDA.HIS.SE
,
Olga Grinchtein Olga.Grinchtein@it.uu.se
John Håkansson john.hakansson@IT.UU.SE,
Annika Karlsson annika.karlsson@IT.UU.SE
,
Anders Möller Anders.Moller@MDH.SE
,
Xing Fan Xing.Fan@Ide.hh.se,
Hoai Hoang PhuongHoai.Hoang@ide.hh.se,
Gunnar Mathiasson gunnar.mathiason@ida.his.se,
Jianlin Shi jianlin@md.kth.se
Hans Hansson
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