OverviewΒΆ

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Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Dirk Beyer
Assistant: Thomas Lemberger

The course targets first-year PhD students and last-year Master students, i.e., if you have just started as wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter or if you study in software engineering (projects or Master thesis) and want to learn more about topics in academic work environments. The idea is to cover things that nobody told you yet in the computer-science studies but which you need if you want to go for PhD.

In order to get started with the discussion, we will usually start presenting some material. This will automatically turn into a discussion after a while.

This chapter is based on the notes 2022-04-26_SPSE_Intro.pdf

This course covers the following topics:

  • Science and Research

  • Publications, Licenses, Bibliographic Data

  • Reproducibility Artifacts

  • Rankings and the Impact of Rankings

  • Clustering of Research Areas

  • Peer Reviews and Writing Reviews

  • Authorship Criteria

  • Conflicts of Interest

  • Plagiarism

  • Evaluation of Research Results: Proofs, Experiments, and Competitions

  • Technical Writing (especially with LaTex)

  • Structure of Research Papers

  • Grant Proposals

  • Team Work, Groups, and Leadership

  • Principles

  • Ask me anything

  • What do professors do all day?

  • How to supervise students