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: ps pdf LaTeX

Links for lecture/discussion 1 part 1

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

Links for lecture/discussion 1 part 2

• Astronomy and Theoretical Physics
Research groups in the physics and theoretical physics departments
• Maxlab
• Medical radiation physics
• ESS

Lecture 2: The library: given by Marianne

Lecture 3: What is Science

• 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.
• Chris Quigg's Nature's greatest puzzles lecure. While directed at particle physicists I think it is worth having a look at for all.
• A talk in the Harbinger symposium on Religion and Science.
• Introduction to the scientific method, F Wolfs.

Lecture 4: 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 good parody: How To Write A Scientific Paper
  • Reading papers efficiently: a guide with some useful comments
  • Help etc available at Lund University:
    • AWELU: Academic writing in English at Lund University

Lecture 5: computers at the department (Mattias Ohlsson/Astro)

• The computing documentation under 'intern' on our webpage
• 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

Some useful and/or interesting websites

• Lund University
  • 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,
  • Naturvetenskapliga Doktorandrådet 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 new employee information
  • Lund University Foreign Friends
• Elsewhere
  • Piled Higher and Deeper A humoristic look at graduate student life (comic)
  • I did a PhD and did NOT go mad
  • Online PhD Research Resources: A link collection to various useful resources