Diploma Seminar

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Department of Physics

Synopsis:

In the first part of the seminar, students familiarize themselves with the general principles of publishing and presenting scientific work and the formal requirements for diploma projects at the faculty. The second part is designed as a practical training for the defence of the diploma project. The students give oral presentations of the current state of the research results achieved during the work on their projects. Each presentation is followed by a discussion on scientific matters as well as on the possibilities of improving the students performance.

Requirements:

The course is enrolled exclusively in the last semester of study.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Information on the course of the diploma projects and the final state examinations.

2. Formal requirements for scientific publication with focus on the diploma project: document structure,

crossreferences, citations, equations, figures, diagrams, tables.

3. Rules and advice for presenting scientific results and preparing the supplementary materials.

4. Open source software tools for creating scientific documents.

5. Students individual oral presentations.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Outline:

1.Information on the course of the diploma projects and the final state examinations.

2.Formal requirements for scientific publication with focus on the diploma project: document structure, crossreferences, citations, equations, figures, diagrams, tables.

3.Rules and advice for presenting scientific results and preparing the supplementary materials.

4.Open source software tools for creating scientific documents.

5.Students individual oral presentations.

Study Objective:

The assessment is approved provided the student satisfies the formal conditions of presence and demonstrates the current status of his work on the project.

Study materials:

Lecture room equipped with an overhead projector, laptop computer.

Note:

Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Matematická fyzika (compulsory course in the program)