WTMC Spring 2007 DISSERTATION DAY ANNOUNCEMENT

26 March 2006, Regardz La Vie Utrecht

On 26 March, WTMC will organize another D-day for those WTMC members who are in the final phase of their PhD (in other words, who have completed all of the workshops and summer schools and are in their last two years). In October, the second D-day of 2007 will be organized. There will be a maximum of 14 participants at each event; if necessary, we will split into two groups.

On the attached registration form, please indicate if you would like to attend the Dissertation Day in March. Priority will be given to those who were NOT present in October last year. However, if you did attend in October and would like to come again (with a different text), let us know and if there is space, you will again be very welcome. 

For those of you who have never attended a Dissertation Day: what happens is that each participant sends in a chapter or article from his/her PhD manuscript. It must be work-in-progress (i.e. not already published). These must be sent to Marjatta Kemppainen (u.m.kemppainen@utwente.nl)  by 19 February 2007. She will then copy and collate all of the chapters/articles and send them to participants a month before the meeting. During the meeting, each participant briefly introduces her/his work. Two discussants then provide comments – one fellow participant and one more senior scholar (who may sometimes be the director or one of the co-ordinators). The author has an opportunity to respond to these comments before the discussion is opened to everyone. Each paper is discussed for a total of 50-60 minutes, and participants are expected to read all of the other papers in their group.