Johan Bijnens: Introduction to PhD studies

Contact information:

see my main homepage http://www.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/

This page can be found at http://www.thep.lu.se/~bijnens/introduction/

Course plan: pdf

Links for lecture/discussion 1

Organization, administration

• My notes
• PhD studies handbook: Swedish, English
• Checklist for advisors and students: pdf,
• Form for Expectations advisor-student
• Studieplan or discipline curriculum:
  • Theoretical Physics: Swedish, English
  • Astronomy: Swedish, English
• PrefektWiki
• Individual study plan (Individual curriculum)
• Instruction for the PhD defence

Physics in Lund

• My notes
• Astronomy and Theoretical Physics
• Research groups in the physics department
• Maxlab
• Medical radiation physics, Lund
• Medical radiation physics, Malmö
• ESS

Lecture 2: What is Science and research Ethics

• What is Science
  • My notes
  • Feynman's cargo cult science commencement address.
  • Fred L. Wilson's What is science? introduction. (Unfortunately I cannot find a working link to this anywmore.) temporary link
  • The Guardian: 20 big questions for science
  • A talk in the Harbinger symposium on Religion and Science.
  • Introduction to the scientific method, F Wolfs (appendix to a physics lab manual, original link has disappeared) temporary link.
• Research ethics
  • There is a whole set of documents at the Swedish Research Council ethics page.
  • Some other useful links are
    • Code of Ethics for Researchers of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (link disappeared)temporary link
    • The Swedish rules and guidelines for research
    • Recommended (but long and a bit boring) are: Good research practice (Swedish Research Council) and On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research (National Academy of Sciences, US) (directly as pdf
    • A lighter note
• Science Careers
  • Science Magazine 2020 career handbook
  • Nature career feature
  • Putting Your Degree to Work: Practical career stategies for scientists by Peter Fiske.
  • The IOP (Institute of Physics) Careers page
  • The APS ((American Physical Society) Careers in Physics page.
  • The AAS (Americal Astronomical Society) Careers in Astronomy page.

Lecture 3: Talks and papers

• Talking
  • The Woman Physicist's Guide to Speaking but useful also for men
  • The Art of Scientific Presentation, S. Silverstein
  • Dazzle 'em with Style: The Art of Oral Scientific Presentation
  • Creating an Effective Scientific Presentation
  • Ten Secrets to Giving a Good Scientific Talk
  • How Not To Give a Scientific Talk
• Writing
  • Big Manuals:
    • NASA writing handbook, or as pdf
    • AIP Style manual is more general than only for AIP journals
  • Shorter notes:
    • Checklist for writing papers
    • The Art of Scientific Writing: How to Get Your Research Published!
    • Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
    • Scientific writing in English
    • Writing Scientific English as a Foreign language
    • How to Write a PhD Thesis
  • Not to's:
    • An example of what not to do
    • A parody: How To Write A Scientific Paper
    • Experience reading a scientific paper
  • Reading papers efficiently: How to read a scientific paper, a guide with some useful comments
  • Help etc available at Lund University:
    • AWELU: Academic writing in English at Lund University
  • General student academic support includes Writing groups for PhD students
• Latex
  • The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX

Lecture 4: Ethics, equal opportunity and harassment

• Our departments pages
• Our department's plan (2018)
• Faculty of Science plan
• University level (those I could find, there must be more recent ones)
  • Sexual and other harassment
  • Main page
  • The university's policy
  • Article in LUM
• Gender equality
  • Woman in physics: a tale of limits
  • EU gender summit: lots of reports
  • Gender in science .org
  • Global gender gap report, or browse it on their website
  • WINGS Woman IN Great Sciences (Lund support organization)

Lecture 5: Computers at the department (Mattias Ohlsson (TF)/Hampus Nilsson (Astro)) and some comments about the library

• The computing documentation under 'intern' on our webpage (TF)
• Introduktion till Linux, Per Foreby, plus a few more links
• The Linux Documentation Project
• Att skriva rapporter med LaTeX, Per Foreby, plus a few more links
• A very simple example of a personal homepage with instructions on how to make it
• Mattias's slides on computers
• Physics library guide

Some useful and/or interesting websites

• Lund University
  • Theoretical Physics PhD pages
  • Theoretical Physics PhD courses home page
  • Astronomy PhD pages
  • Natural science faculty PhD info page, in english
  • PhD studies information page at the physics department, in English
  • Lunds doktorandkår,
  • The Science Doctoral Student Council (Naturvetenskapliga Doktorandrådet NDR) in english, read further down at the page
  • a person to help with problems in general for PhD students but especially in case of conflicts with advisor, institution, etc.
  • Lund University employee information
  • Information for international employees
• Job searching
  • Putting Your Degree to Work: Practical career stategies for scientists by Peter Fiske.
  • The IOP (Institute of Physics) Careers page
  • The APS ((American Physical Society) Careers in Physics page.
  • The AAS (Americal Astronomical Society) Careers in Astronomy page.
• Elsewhere
  • Piled Higher and Deeper A humoristic look at graduate student life (comic)
  • I did a PhD and did NOT go mad

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