Course overview
- Course codeFDAT001
- ECTS credits4
- DepartmentCOMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
- Graduate schoolComputer Science and Engineering
- PeriodicityThe course will be repeated annually.
- LanguageEnglish
- Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
- ApplicationContact the course coordinator
Course coordinator
- Ahmed Ali-Eldin Hassan
- Associate Professor, Computer and Network Systems, Computer Science and Engineering
About the course
We'll meet once a week on Fridays. Beforehand, we will all read some articles, book chapters, and scientific papers.. When we meet, we will spend some time talking about why did we read this reading. Then, we will open the floor for discussions with some questions about the reading.
The course will cover the following topics:
The course will cover the following topics:
- The scientific method, and working in groups to push science frontiers.
- The mental and psychological effects of a PhD
- Career prospects of PhD students
- Choosing research problems
- "Failures" and dealing with them
- Creativity as a process
More information
This course is inspired by a course in Berkeley, a reading group at CMU, three books that I read as a PhD student, and a set of lectures by the great Hamming, and Feynman.
Literature
Various articles, books, and videos
Lecturer
Ahmed Ali-Eldin Hassan
ahmed.hassan@chalmers.se