Cardiff University - Computer Science

      Sixteenth British National Conference on Databases

      PhD Summer School

      5th - 6th July, 1998



      Slides from the Summer School are available.

      Following the success of the 1996 BNCOD summer school, a similar event was held in conjunction with BNCOD16. The summer school gives PhD students help and advice with planning and conducting research and surviving in an academic research environment. It is also an opportunity to meet with other PhD students working in the database area.

      The summer school began with lunch on Sunday, 5th July 1998 at 12.30pm, and ended with lunch on Monday, 6th July, just before the start of BNCOD16.

      PROGRAMME

      Sunday, 5th July 1998
      12.30pm Lunch
      2.00pm Welcome Session
      2.15pm Research Methodologies in Database Research
      Dr Brian Lings
      (University of Exeter)
      3.15pm Tea
      3.30pm Formal Methods in Database Research
      Dr. Alex Poulovassilis
      (King's College, London)
      4.30pm A PhD Students' Guide to Publishing
      Dr. Jianhua Shao
      (Cardiff University)
      5.30pm Close

      Monday, 6th July 1998
      9.00am Surviving the PhD Viva: an External Examiner's
      Perspective
      Prof. Jane Grimson
      (Trinity College, Dublin)
      10.30am Coffee
      10.45am Industrial Careers for PhDs
      Dr Ian Howells
      (Documentum, Inc.)
      11.15am Research Careers in North America
      Dr. Ken Barker
      (University of Manitoba)
      11.45am EPSRC & the Peer Review Process
      Dr. Dominic Semple
      (EPSRC)
      12.30pm Lunch


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