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Courses 2023

Good Scientific Practice for doctoral researchers

Workshop in Kooperation mit PIER Education Platform.

  • Dates & Times: November 14, 2023, 9am-3pm
  • Ort: online
  • Kursleitung: Dr. Alexander Schiller
  • Info & Registrierung: via indico
  • Inhalt: Dealing with data (including checking, recording, ownership and storage), the publishing process and authorship, responsible supervision, academic cooperation, conflicts of interest and dealing with conflicts. Inappropriate academic behaviour includes inventing or faking data, violating intellectual property (theft of ideas or plagiarism) and sabotating the research of others. More subtle topics, such as skepticism, critical thinking, reproducibility, handling creativity, the danger of axiomatic assumptions and confirmation bias represent the "heart of good scientific practice".

Python Basics 

Workshop in  Kooperation mit PIER Education Platform.

  • Dates & times: November 2 & 3, 2023, 9am-5pm
  • Location: online
  • Lecturer: Bernd Klein (bodenseo)
  • Info & registration: via indico
  • Content: This Python intensive courses will give you all the necessary basic Python skills, which you can apply advanced courses in order to get started with data analysis and machine learning in Python.

Participation requirements: programming experience in some programming language like C, C++, Java or other. Without sufficient programming knowledge, participation is not recommended.

Agenda: Jupyter-Notebook Introduction / Data Types and Variables/ The special nature of variables in Python/ Sequential Data Types: Lists and Strings/ Dictionaries and Sets/ copying vs. referencing data, Shallow and Deep Copy/ Conditional Statements/ Loops: While and for-loops with the Python „else“/ Functions/ Modules and Modular Programming/ Read and Write Files/ Using Regular Expressions and their usage in Python

Career Orientation for PhD Students

Workshop in cooperation with PIER Education Platform.

  • Dates & times: 8 sessions between September 26 - December 8, 2023, mostly Tuesdays 3.30-6.00pm
  • Location: Campus Bahrenfeld, bld. 61, room 116
  • Lecturer: Liz Moulin
    Info & registration: via indico
  • Content: This seminar consists of 8 sessions, including mentoring in pairs and individual career coaching

Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

Workshop in cooperation with PIER Education Platform.

  • Dates & times: September 25-27, 2023, 9.00am-5.00pm
  • Location: online
  • Lecturer: Bernd Klein/Bodenseo
  • Info & registration: via indico
  • Content: Prerequisite for the participation in this workshop is intermediate programming knowledge in Python and/or the previous successful participation in a Python basics course. Participation in the course „Python Advanced“ is not crucial but helpful. Without sufficient Python knowledge, participation is not recommended.

How to apply successfully

Talk in cooperation with PIER Education Platform.

  • Dates & times: September 22, 2023, 9.00am-12.30pm
  • Location: online
  • Lecturer: Claudia von Schultzendorff
  • Info & registration: via indico
  • Content: Short overview of the following topics:
    • Which job suits me: my strengths
    • Where do I find jobs
    • Differences in applying for jobs within or outside academia
    • How to present myself digitally
    • What does an application look like: current requirements
    • Cover letter: structure and content
    • CV/resume: different layouts
    • 3rd page (in Germany): what does it mean?
    • Documents: what is important
    • Job interview (online or face-to-face): structure and typical questions
       

Becoming a Scientific Writer: Putting Why? before How?

  • Dates & Times: June 28 & June 29, 2023, 9.30am - 5.30p
  • Location:
    • 28.06.: science campus Bahrenfeld, Institute for Laser Physics (bldg. 69), room 203
    • 29.06.: science campus Bahrenfeld, bldg. 62, seminar room 3rd floor
  • Lecturer: Dr. Gavin Lucas (ThePaperMill)
  • Content:  The goal of this workshop is to help publishing scientists develop a more impartial, analytical view of scientific writing, to better understand their readers as the focus for their scientific communication, and to make them more efficient writers and editors. Their writing will no longer be driven by a standard formula for How? to write a paper, but will be inspired by the question Why?
    Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the structure of scientific papers, with a renewed focus on the purpose of each section and the connections between them. They will gain a global framework for conceptualising the entire publishing process, how to create an expectation in the reader and then deliver on that expectation, and how to make the qualitative jump from a passive scientific account to an active scientific argument. Finally, we will explore some common problems of language construction that make scientists’ writing unclear, and why we are prone to these problems; we will practice some intuitive editing tools to address them.
    • Five stages of Publishing
    • Who is my reader?
    • Creating an Expectation: Destination and Roadmap
    • Building structure and connectivity: Guide Laye
    • From scientific report to a scientific argument: Sentence Outline • Writing for Readability – words, sentences, and paragraphs

 Scientific Presentations

  • Dates & Times: May 30  & May 31, 2023, 9.30am - 4.30pm
  • Location:
    • 30.05.: science campus Bahrenfeld, Center for Optical Quantum Technologies (ZOQ), bldg. 90, seminar room ground floor
    • 31.05.: science campus Bahrenfeld, building 1b, SR 3, 2nd floor
  • Lecturer: Dr. Alexander Britz
  • Content:  This workshop is perfect to learn new skills in storytelling and pitching techniques. Those skills can be immediately put into practice in the CUI summer school.

In the Scientific Presentations Workshop, you will learn all the skills needed to give excellent scientific presentations, for seminars, conferences, or a thesis defense. We will discuss general rules for effective scientific communication with a special focus on oral presentation skills. You will learn how to build appealing stories from your scientific results using structured storytelling and pitching techniques. In partner activities you will train talking freely and without technical help such as figures and slides about arbitrary scientific topics. In breakout sessions you will further practice presenting your results in short presentations in which you are allowed to use the technical help of your choice and your peers will help you to optimize your presentation.

Course on "Optics for PhDs"

  • Dates and times: Wednesday, April 12 & Wednesday, April 19 & Friday, May 12, 2023, 10:00-12:00 am
  • Location:
  • Program:
    • 12.4. Lenses and Lens systems, When to use singlets/doublets/aspheres etc., aberrations
    • 19.4. Tips and tricks regarding devices, from AOM via Fibers to Isolators, Cameras, Absorption and High resolution imaging of atoms
    • 12.05.  Mode cleaning resonators, camera types and noise considerations for absorption and fluorescence imaging of atoms
  • Slides: lecture 1, lecture 2, lecture 3a, lecture 3b (password protected pdf).
    Literature: Additional material (password protected zip-file).
  • Lecturer: Prof. Henning Moritz (Institute for Laser Physics, Universität Hamburg)

Project and time management in academia

  • Dates and Times:  February 13 & 14, 2023, 9am - 5pm
  • Location: online
  • Content: Programme overview
    Lecturer: Dr. Alexander Egeling (Golin Wissenschaftsmanagement)

Balancing Needs and Expectations (advanced)

  • Dates and Times:  February 3 and February 24, 2023, from 10am-2pm
  • Location: online
  • Trainer: Prof. Dr. Sabine Doff (Ludewig.Team, Bremen)
  • Content:
    • Individual session
    • Personal and academic needs: either-or, neither-nor or both?
    • Putting needs into perspective: effective tricks to find the balance between needs and expectations
    • concrete case studies (Reframing, Anchor effect, Questioning techniques)

Working in Germany

Workshop in cooperation with the UHH Welcome Service.

  • Dates and Times:  January 17, 2023, 10am
  • Location: HARBOR (bldg. 610), main seminar room
  • Content: Topics include:
    • General working conditions of Universität Hamburg
    • Where do I find relevant information about my employment? (KUS-Portal)
    • Where do I find help when I have problems? (consultation options)
    • Long Question& Answer session
  • Lecturers: Friederike Gräf, Dominik Meckel (Welcome Service Universität Hamburg)