Midway evaluations at the Department of Mathematics

All PhD candidates must complete a midway evaluation at the midpoint of their PhD education, i.e. after 1,5 years for candidates without teaching duty and after 2 years for candidates with teaching duty. The Researcher Training Committee (FU) is responsible for the evaluations. The PhD coordinator will identify the candidates involved in the beginning of the semester, and these candidates and their main supervisors, on behalf of the supervisory committee, will be asked to submit midway-reports.

The midway evaluations are usually carried out in November and April. Candidates are contacted about dates before the evaluations are scheduled.

The evaluation consists of two parts:

1. Presentation. Each candidate has to give a 15 minute oral presentation (preferable a beamer presentation) outlining the status of their PhD work. The candidate should aim to make the presentation understandable to PhD students working in neighbouring fields of research. It is suggested to begin with a short discussion motivating the project and end with a summary of the work done and the challenges that remain. 

2. Conversation with The Researcher Training Committee (FU). After the presentations there will be a short conversation, about 10 minutes, with FU members and the PhD coordinator about the status of progress of the research project, the training component and the teaching duty.