Les jalons dune thse Prsentation Discussion Nathalie Girard

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Nathalie Girard, Cyril Faucher, Mickaël Coustaty 1

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Agenda • • • Ph. D timeline Formations Laboratory criterion Ph. D Defense Contract doctoral Conference & journal European Label Become Assistant Professor / Full Researcher Research French Evaluation 2

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion General timeline • End of the 1 st year – Report • End of the 2 nd year – Discussion • End of the 3 rd year: – End of the funding The Ph. D Defense between the 36 th and 39 th* month is recommended *39 correspond to the average duration of the French Ph. D 3

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Formations (36 credits required) • Transverse Formations: University of La Rochelle => 12 credits – During the 3 years of Ph. D – See: http: //www. univ-larochelle. fr/Offre-de-formations-transversales. html • 2 to be select in proposed formations • Domain Formations: Doctoral School S 2 i => 12 credits – During the 1 st & 2 nd years – See S 2 i website: http: //s 2 i. ed. univ-poitiers. fr/spip. php? rubrique 128&lang=fr • 2 seminars of 3 days (4 credits/seminar => 8 credits) • 2 courses (2 credits/course => 4 credits) ! not available yet ! • Specific Formations: L 3 i laboratory => 12 credits – During the 3 years of Ph. D – See L 3 I intranet website • 1 international journal • 2 international conferences (rank A for laboratory) 4

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Formations (mandatory) • At the end of the 1 st year (L 3 i) – A seminary to expose your first results • At the end of the 2 nd year (Doctorial Symposium, ULR) – 1 poster – 2 pages – a 5 minutes talk 5

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion 6 Laboratory criterion to defend • 1 international journal • 2 international conferences – > rank A for laboratory (intranet L 3 I website) Ask your supervisor(s) for a list of conferences and journals in your specific research fields

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion 7 Ph. D Defense • Templates available at the Doctoral School – – Using Open. Office Using Word Using Late. X One template available on Lyx (only for the L 3 i) • Electronic deposition (http: //www. univ-larochelle. fr/IMG/pdf/Livret_College_2011 -2012. pdf) • Selection of manuscript reviewers • Deadline for manuscript submission – 8 weeks before the Ph. D defense • Jury – 5 to 8 persons – Minimum 2 reporters (must be professors) See ULR website: http: //www. univ-larochelle. fr/Informations-pratiques. html

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Doctoral Contract & DCACE • Every Ph. D Student have a doctoral contract • Need a teaching experience => a rider to your doctoral contract – being candidate in 1 st or 2 nd year – September – 1 rider => 64 HETD of teaching 8

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Funding Sources • • • University of La Rochelle (materials, Ph. D, Postdoc) CDA, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes ANR (French National Research Agency) CIFRE (with a firm) European Projects According to the type of funding the deliverable expected is not the same 9

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion 10 European Label • Classical thesis with a European label • 4 preconditions – Reports from 2 professors issuing from 2 Europeans states different the Ph. D student’s one – A jury member must belong to university from another European country – A part of the Ph. D defense must be done in another European’s language – The Ph. D student must have spent 3 months in another country from the European union

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion 11 European Label - 2 • University of La Rochelle encourage you ! – Current call 2012 -01 -13 • Documents available: – DREDE – Head of Laboratory • Financial aid (1000 € per month) for 3 consecutive months • Must be done during the three first years

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion How / Why submit to conferences • Validation of your work • Share your work with the community • Submission process – Call For Paper (long/short/poster/demo) – Submission – Acceptance notification - reviews (3 peer reviewer) – Camera ready for publication in proceedings – Participation to the conference 12

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Conference and journal: differences • • • Audience Quality / severity Review process Impact factor Special issue Don’t miss your national community (Journées, GDR) – may be your future chief, postdoctoral opportunities 13

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Becoming an Associate Professor • 1 st phase (documents submission: mid-december) – “Qualification” by Conseil National des Universités (CNU) • Section 27: Computer Science • Section 61: Computer engineering, signal processing and automatic – General criterion: present a good balance of experience between: • research skills – 1 international journal / Different international and national conferences • teaching functions – a minimum service (CNU 61: 100 HETD – CNU 27: 64 HETD*) • collective commitments – participation to the laboratory life – participation to the organization of a conference 14

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Becoming an Associate Professor • 2 nd phase – seminaries in potential opportunities – interviews (ranking) – « enseignant stagiaire » 15

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Becoming a Full Researcher • • CNRS, INRIA Excellent research skills in your domain Expose a research project In France: – CNRS researcher • Need to pass a competitive examination • Then become a “Chargé de Recherche” in a CNRS lab 16

Les jalons d’une thèse Présentation / Discussion Research Evaluation in France • AERES – each 5 years – ranking: A+, A, B, C – L 3 i: A since 2011 • Direct impact on – laboratory visibility – the recurrent funding from the University 17