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PhD

2025-04-24T09:10:49Z

Florian: Include information on the process of handing in a PhD thesis

The official information about the enrollment process, the admission for handing in your work, as well as the current PhD regulations can be found [https://www.uni-due.de/physik/promotion/ here]. Unfortunately, the English version of the site is not as comprehensive as the German one; therefore, we try to provide all relevant information below.

== Enrollment ==
PhD students at the UDE have to be enrolled. To start the procedure you can contact [mailto:sandra.knoblich@uni-due.de Mrs. Knoblich]
and make an appointment for enrolment. She will tell you which documents you need and how to proceed. The documents are usually:
* A CV with your current adress, date of birth, birthplace and nationality.
* Your school and university graduation certificates (originals, no copies; for germans these are Abiturzeugnis, Bachelorzeugnis, Bachelorurkunde, Masterzeugnis, Masterurkunde). This might be different for internationals.
* A decleration according to the Promotionsordnung. [[Media:Template_enrollment_phd.odt|Here]], you can find a template; just change everything in red to the correct information. The things you declare in the enumerations are that
*# you did not try to get a PhD prior to the one you are now applying to
*# the preliminary topic is ...
*# you want a certain kind of PhD (ask us if you are not sure)
*# you did not pay any money or had any shady dealings that got you the opportunity to write your dissertation (very rough summary, it is kind of complicated legal speech; again, if you are unsure, ask us)
* A decleration from your supervisor (Ask Rolf for this one)
After that you will receive a letter of acceptance from the doctoral committee, which you will for your enrolment application (in [https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/studierendensekretariat/einschreibungsantrag_englisch.pdf english] or [https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/studierendensekretariat/einschreibungsantrag.pdf german]). Please note the required documents
on the last page of the application PDF. You will also receive the Betreuungsvereinbahrung, which needs to be signed and returned to the Dekanat.

If everything worked out, you should receive a notification and your student card. To complete the enrolment you will have to pay the semester fee of around 350.00 € (this includes the
actual semester fee and the semester ticket, which allows you to use all regional trains in NRW).
== Handing in your thesis ==

The following information is given under the assumption that you are writing a cumulative dissertation under the [https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/zentralverwaltung/verkuendungsblatt_2024/verkuendungsanzeiger_24_13.pdf Promotionsordnung's version from 2024].
If you enrolled as a PhD student under a previous Promotionsordnung, you can change to the one from 2024 (the first to allow cumulative dissertations). The necessary document (s. documents below) is given to Ms. Knoblich when you hand in your thesis.

You need to make some declarations when you want to hand in your thesis. You can find a document template [[Document templates for handing in a PhD thesis|here]]. Ignore the second letter if you are already enrolled in the 2024 Promotionsordnung.

You'll notice that the third letter is talking about some <cite>Leistungspunkte</cite> (LP). You need to get at least 18 to be able to finish your PhD, and you get them for various things; for example, 2 LP per SWS of teaching, 3 per published paper, and 2 for a contribution to a conference or something similar. You have to list them in that table, and your supervisor needs to sign that letter in addition to you.

Somewhere in your thesis, you have to state which parts you specifically contributed to the published papers. When handing in your thesis, you also need a letter from your supervisor that confirms this statement.

In addition to all that, you will have to hand in your current CV together with your thesis. This CV must include your matriculation number.

=== Q&A ===

'''How many papers do I need?'''

''The Promotionsordnung calls for papers (plural), and at least one of them has to be a first-author paper.''

'''Do the papers have to be included in the thesis?'''

''Yes.''

'''Do I have the permission to re-publish my papers?'''

''This depends on how you published them. Papers under a CC-BY 4.0 licence are not a problem, but you need to check with the publisher if you are unsure. '''Beware that you have to state within your thesis that you have the rights to re-publish the papers!'''''

'''Do I have to include all papers?'''

''No; specifically, only those that you want to be examined for.''

'''Do the papers have to be handed in separately in printed form?'''

''No.''

'''What about not included papers?'''

''Them neither.''

'''Is a separate summary of my thesis necessary?'''

''No. If you have one within your thesis, then it is sufficient.''

'''What should be the content of the 25 pages of introduction and discussion that the Promotionsordnung calls for?'''

''The interpretation of that is left to you and your supervisor.''

== Useful links ==
* In the Graduate Center Plus you can find offers for PhD students as counselling, workshops, career information, information on financial help and an FAQ about starting at the UDE: https://www.uni-due.de/gcplus/en/doc_index.php

Document templates for handing in a PhD thesis

2025-04-24T08:25:46Z

Florian: Create page with a template for documents required when handing in a PhD thesis

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\usepackage{tabularx}
% \usepackage[utf-8]{fontenc}

\setkomavar{fromname}{Max Mustermann}
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\begin{document}

\setkomavar{subject}{Antrag auf Zulassung zur Prüfung}

\begin{letter}{An den\\Vorsitzenden des Promotionsausschusses\\%
der Fakultät für Physik\\(Prof.\ Dr.\ Jürgen König)}
\opening{Sehr geehrter Herr Professor König,}
hiermit beantrage ich die Zulassung zur Promotionsprüfung und reiche
meine kumulative Dissertation in fünffacher Ausfertigung mit dem
Titel
\begin{center}
\textbf{\enquote{Awesome title of my thesis}}
\end{center}
ein.\\

\noindent Nachfolgend gebe ich folgende Erklärung ab:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Ich erkläre, dass ich die eingereichte Dissertation
selbstständig verfasst habe.
\item Ich strebe den Doktorgrad Dr.\ rer.\ nat.\ an.
\item Ich erkläre, dass ich bei der Abfassung der Dissertation
nur die angegebenen Hilfsmittel benutzt und alle wörtlich
oder inhaltlich übernommenen Stellen als solche
gekennzeichnet habe.
\item Ich erkläre, dass ich in keinem vorausgegangenen
Promotionsverfahren endgültig gescheitert bin.
\item Ich erkläre, dass ich die Dissertation nur in diesem
Promotionsverfahren eingereicht habe.
\item Ich bestätige, dass die Aufnahme der Veröffentlichungen in
die Dissertation keine Urheberrechte verletzt.
\end{enumerate}

\closing{Mit freundlichen Grüßen}
\end{letter}

\setkomavar{subject}{Antrag auf Wechsel zu der ab dem 19.02.2024
geltenden Promotionsordnung der Fakultät für Physik an der Universität
Duisburg-Essen}

\begin{letter}{An den\\Vorsitzenden des Promotionsausschusses\\%
der Fakultät für Physik\\(Prof.\ Dr.\ Jürgen König)}
\opening{Sehr geehrter Herr Professor König,}

hiermit beantrage ich, dass in meinem Promotionsverfahren die ab
dem 19.02.2024 geltende Promotionsordnung der Fakultät für Physik
Anwendung findet.

\closing{Mit freundlichen Grüßen}
\end{letter}

\setkomavar{subject}{Nachweis 2g aus §9 der Promotionsordnung über die
in der Qualifizierungsphase erbrachten Leistungen}

\begin{letter}{An den\\Vorsitzenden des Promotionsausschusses\\%
der Fakultät für Physik\\(Prof.\ Dr.\ Jürgen König)}
\opening{Sehr geehrter Herr Professor König,}

anbei finden Sie eine Aufstellung über Leistungen, die ich in der
Qualifizierungsphase erbrachte habe, sowie über die damit
erworbenen Leistungspunkte (LP).

\vspace{1em}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{Xlll}
\toprule
\textbf{Titel}&\textbf{Zeitpunkt}&\textbf{Art}&\textbf{LP}\\
\midrule
Statistische Physik&Wintersemester 24/25&Lehre (2 SWS)&4\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\vspace{1em}

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

\vspace{3em}

\hspace{2\parindent}Max Mustermann\hfill Prof.\ Super Visor
(Betreuer)
% \closing{Mit freundlichen Grüßen}
\end{letter}

\end{document}
</syntaxhighlight>

PhD

2025-04-24T08:04:29Z

Florian: Start working on information about handing in a PhD thesis

User talk:Lothar.brendel

2024-07-10T14:47:36Z

Florian: /* Florian's eCDF */

== Florian's eCDF ==

Good to know that "empirical probability" is a synonym for the relative frequency.

My own idea behind all this seemed way simpler to me at the time; although, I am not sure how to properly show that it does what it should at the moment. Basically, I conveniently forgot that the agglomerate sizes are restricted to natural numbers. From there, I can estimate the probability **density** by estimating the derivative of the CDF, in my case as discretized derivatives using the eCDF. However, this means that the values I calculated are estimates of the PDF, not of the probabilities as I originally wanted.

--[[User:Florian|Florian]] ([[User talk:Florian|talk]]) 14:54, 10 July 2024 (CEST)

By this logic, I am quite confused, because the PDF estimates are normalized to one. I would have expected that I need an integral for the normalization if I assumed continuous random numbers in the beginning.

--[[User:Florian|Florian]] ([[User talk:Florian|talk]]) 15:03, 10 July 2024 (CEST)

: When dropping \(n\in\mathbb N\), to ''which'' values \(n\) do you assign ficticious probabability(-density)-values and why? --[[User:Lothar.brendel|Lothar]] ([[User talk:Lothar.brendel|talk]]) 15:51, 10 July 2024 (CEST)

\(p_{n_i} = \frac{c(n_i) - c(n_{i-1})}{n_i - n_{i-1}}\) is the assignment. There is actually no particular reason I chose this. In the picture of continuous random variables, any discretized derivative should, ignoring the discretization error, work just fine and should converge to the actual PDF for an infinitely large sample. If this is true for discrete random variables as well (i.e. that it converges to the correct probabilities), I do not know.

--[[User:Florian|Florian]] ([[User talk:Florian|talk]]) 16:47, 10 July 2024 (CEST)

User talk:Lothar.brendel

2024-07-10T13:03:43Z

Florian:

Good to know that "empirical probability" is a synonym for the relative frequency.

My own idea behind all this seemed way simpler to me at the time; although, I am not sure how to properly show that it does what it should at the moment. Basically, I conveniently forgot that the agglomerate sizes are restricted to natural numbers. From there, I can estimate the probability **density** by estimating the derivative of the CDF, in my case as discretized derivatives using the eCDF. However, this means that the values I calculated are estimates of the PDF, not of the probabilities as I originally wanted.

--[[User:Florian|Florian]] ([[User talk:Florian|talk]]) 14:54, 10 July 2024 (CEST)

By this logic, I am quite confused, because the PDF estimates are normalized to one. I would have expected that I need an integral for the normalization if I assumed continuous random numbers in the beginning.

--[[User:Florian|Florian]] ([[User talk:Florian|talk]]) 15:03, 10 July 2024 (CEST)

User talk:Lothar.brendel

2024-07-10T12:54:44Z

Florian:

PhD

2023-12-04T10:48:58Z

Florian: /* Enrollment */ Add the enrollment declaration template

File:Template enrollment phd.odt

2023-12-04T10:46:56Z

Florian: Template for the PhD enrollement declaration

== Summary ==
Template for the PhD enrollement declaration

PhD

2023-12-04T08:27:57Z

Florian: /* Enrollment */ Prepare everything for the declaration template

PhD

2023-12-04T08:04:12Z

Florian: Improve wording

PhD

2023-12-04T08:01:46Z

Florian: Provide general information about PhD procedure

All public information about the enrollment process, the admission for handing in your work, as well as the current PhD regulations can be found [https://www.uni-due.de/physik/promotion/ here]. Unfortunately, the English version of the site is not as comprehensive as the German one; therefore, we try to provide all relevant information below.

== Enrollment ==
PhD students at the UDE have to be enrolled. To start the procedure you can contact [mailto:sandra.knoblich@uni-due.de Mrs. Knoblich]
and make an appointment for enrolment. She will tell you which documents you need and how to proceed. The documents are usually:
* A CV with your current adress, date of birth, birthplace and nationality.
* Your school and university graduation certificates (originals, no copies; for germans these are Abiturzeugnis, Bachelorzeugnis, Bachelorurkunde, Masterzeugnis, Masterurkunde). This might be different for internationals.
* A decleration according to the Promotionsordnung TODO: Attach example form
* A decleration from your supervisor (Ask Rolf for this one)
After that you will receive a letter of acceptance from the doctoral committee, which you will for your enrolment application (in [https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/studierendensekretariat/einschreibungsantrag_englisch.pdf english] or [https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/studierendensekretariat/einschreibungsantrag.pdf german]). Please note the required documents
on the last page of the application PDF. You will also receive the Betreuungsvereinbahrung, which needs to be signed and returned to the Dekanat.

If everything worked out, you should receive a notification and your student card. To complete the enrolment you will have to pay the semester fee of around 350.00 € (this includes the
actual semester fee and the semester ticket, which allows you to use all regional trains in NRW).

== Useful links ==
* In the Graduate Center Plus you can find offers for PhD students as counselling, workshops, career information, information on financial help and an FAQ about starting at the UDE: https://www.uni-due.de/gcplus/en/doc_index.php