Activities
The Graduiertenkolleg's qualification program includes a broad range of activities. Most activities listed below will commence with the official opening of the Graduiertenkolleg in October 2012.
- GK-Seminar - a learning seminar on a weekly basis during the semester, which brings together all involved scientists and doctoral students. On a smaller scale, such a seminar has already been established by the participating researchers.
- Lectures covering advanced topics chosen in accordance with the experience and interests of the participating PhD students.
- Research Seminars, where visiting scientists give talks and GK members present their results. There are currently two series: algebra and differential geometry.
- Basic Notions Seminar, where PhD students and postdocs meet on an informal level.
- Lecture Series given by invited researchers for a period of up to one month.
- Annual and less frequent events include Block Seminars designed to provide a platform for PhD students to present their research progress, Workshops on single research topics like the already established SWAS, Summer Schools in the spirit of the recent schools on Migliorini-de Cataldo's proof of the Decomposition Theorem and on Hacon-McKernan-Xu's work on Birational Automorphisms of Varieties of General Type, and network-building Female Researcher Conferences.
- International Cooperation: PhD students whose research topic fits the field of expertise of a cooperation partner in Zürich may visit the Graduate School in Mathematics for up to 6 months. The cooperation with Strasbourg includes short-term visits and Joint Seminars.
Many opportunities for further qualification, such as German language courses, are offered by the International Graduate Academy.