General information
Aim
After the great success of the last two KIT PhD Symposia in 2009 and 2010, we would like to invite you to the 3rd KIT PhD Symposium, taking place in March 2012.
This symposium will be your unique chance to reach a higher level of presentation skills by presenting your work in front of a larger audience in preparation for national and international conferences. Experts will evaluate posters and talks and offer professional feedback in smaller groups. The symposium and especially the posterparty will provide you the opportunity to foster collaborations between campus north and south and will cover a wide range of research topics. In this case the official language for the symposium will be English. Thereforeso be encouraged to present your project in a more general manner in order to reach an interdisciplinary audience.
Scope
The KIT PhD Symposium will represent all six competence areas reflecting the wide research spectrum of KIT:
- Applied Life Sciences
- Earth and Environment
- Information, Communication and Organization
- Matter and Materials
- Systems and Processes
- Technology, Culture and Society
Audience/target group
Every PhD student KIT is invited to join the KIT PhD Symposium, to give a talk, present a poster or to be just a part of the audience.
Attendance fee
The KIT PhD Symposium is entirely sponsored by the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS). Lunch, coffee, and refreshments are free of charge. There will be no conference fee and no additional costs charged for participation.
Symposium specials
As we are keen to find some special talkmaster we will inform you later.
Feedback
Feedback does not only describe something you have to do better. It also describes things you already do good or even professionally and includes besides body language and performance content, coherence, and clarity of the presentation. We would like to give you an opportunity to develop yourself. So you can use this feedback for further presentations, and it amplifies your self- confidence for your scientific way to finish your PhD thesies successfully.
As we want to offer every speaker the opportunity to get the feedback of the experts personally we will have a special feedback area in which you can talk to your expert in small groups, compare and develop yourself. The feedback will be given by rhetoric and scientific experts and also by selected PhD students.
How to apply
Registration for all KIT PhD students will be open on ....until .....
Please apply early, as the meeting is limited to 120 participants.
http://www.khys.kit.edu/phd-symposium2012
It is up to you if you would like to send an abstract for a talk or a poster. Please use the Abstract template. Abstract guidelines are also found on the website.The registration must be completed with the abstract submission (max. 200 words) on this symposium website. An abstract guideline can be found left in abstract submission.
Prize
There will be an award for the best talk and the best poster.