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PhD at Utrecht University

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The Akadimeia Holiness of Akademos Plato’s academy Attica: ca. 2650 km2

Prov. Utrecht: 1385 km2

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Reconstruction Athens ca 500-300 BC

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Akademeia

Plato’s school in the Akademeia (mosaic from Pompeï)

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Utrecht University 1634: Athenaeum Illustre (illustere school),

no ius promovendi 26 March 1636: opening Universiteit Utrecht, dies natalis Ca. 1780-1960 development of modern university,

core of academic education: scientific teaching based on scientific research

12 Nobel prizes related to UU, most recently Gerard ‘t Hooft and Martin Veltman, 1999

Ranked nr. 1 in the Netherlands on list by Shanghai Jiao Tong University for Higher Education, UU ranks 13th within Europe and 52nd worldwide

Ca. 30,000 students Ca. 8,000 employees

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Faculty of Science

Departments: Physics Chemistry Biology Pharmacy Mathematics Information and Computing Sciences

Graduate School Life Sciences Graduate School Natural Sciences

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Information and Computing Sciences

Bachelor Computer Science Computer Science Game Technology

Bachelor Information Science

Master Artificial Intelligence Master Computing Science Master Game and Media Technology Master Information Science (for now: Business Informatics)

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Information and Computing Sciences

Four divisions: Artificial Intelligence

Data mining Decision Sypport Systems Intelligent (Agent) Systems

Interaction Technology Media Technolgoy Interaction Technology

Software Systems Software Technology Product Software

Virtual World Geometric Modeling Animation

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Supervisors

Choose two supervisors from the participating chairs in Graduate Program Game Research:

Prof. Sjaak Brinkkemper, Software Production Prof. Linda van der Gaag, Decision Support Systems Prof. Johan Jeuring, Software Technology for Learning and

Teaching Prof. Marc van Kreveld, Computational Geometry Prof. John-Jules Meyer, Intelligent Systems Prof. Joost Raessens, Game Studies Prof. Peter Werkhoven, Multimodal Interaction Prof. Remco Veltkamp, Media Technology

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Pursuing PhD

Prerequisite: master title Usually 4 years Usually small teaching task Usually 4 research results in the thesis Mandatory enrollment in Graduate School

(Natural Sciences or Humanities) Mandatory individual Training and Supervision programme

Job positions, paid by: Basic funding Project from Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) European framework project Other external fundingFellowships: Personal grants, bursary (e.g. CSC, DIKTI)

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Graduation

After sufficient number of research results (typically 4), compose PhD thesis

After approval by supervisor, manuscript is sent to assessment committee

After approval by assessment committee, defense ceremony: 45 min. questioning by promotion committee

After approval:

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Academy Building

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Domplein

Academybuiling

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Procedure

Decide upon a topic that intrigues you, and matches one of the UU research themes

Approach the professor with a CV and letter stating your ambition, suggested topic

If supervisors agree, write your own proposal Envisioned timeline:

13 March 2015: call for proposal broadcasted 15 May 2015: deadline for submission 1 June 2015: preselection In June: interviews 1 July 2015: selection 1 September 2015: start of project/job

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Money

4 PhD positions Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)

provides 4 X 200.000 €

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Links

http://www.studyinholland.nl/practical-matters/daily-expenses

http://research.cs.uu.nl/index.php/phd-program http://research.cs.uu.nl/index.php/phdtheses http://www.uu.nl/university/research/EN/phdprogrammes/

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Acknowledgement

Some pictures borrowed from Josine Blok