General

The course will be given early October to December 2026 in person with active participation of students. The course is recommended to give 5hp.

Time and location: we meet on (most) Thursdays  at 14.00-16 at the Department of Mathematics, house 1 in Albano, starting October 1. And one Wednesday: November 18. 6 of the 9 meetings are in the Cramér room, but three are in the Kovalevsky room: Nov 12, Nov 18 and Dec 10.

Contents: The course will cover the following areas: Writing scientific papers, Writing popular texts, Giving scientific talks, writing applications and the submission procedure. A new topic this year is the use of AI and research ethics.

Literature: During the course, handouts will be distributed and also references given.

Examination: Examination will consists of active participation at the meetings and doing each home assignment (see below) with passing mark, including giving feedback to other participant's contributions. I expect 100% attendance from course participants - inform me if you for some reason have to miss any meeting. The last two meetings are absolutely compulsory.

Home assignments: All written home assignments should be uploaded in the course page at the respective "day" in pdf-format (it should also be sent by e-mail to other selected course participants when applicable). Deadline: The deadline is 23.59 the Wednesday just prior to the following meeting.

Additional to the home assignment and completely voluntary (although much appreciated!), I would be grateful to receive feedback on my written handouts which will be distributed during the course. All kinds of feedback is appreciated, be it typos or suggestions for restructuring or missing bits.

If you are currently working on a paper without time pressure this may be used in the course. The home assignment of Day 3 is writing a paper - of course this need be started on at an earlier stage. One course evaluation comment from the last time the course was given was the short time for preparing this. This year there are hence a few weeks until the next meeting.

Please note that course material will be updated during the course (current material is from 2024). The files will be updated no later than the day of the corresponding lecture. Updated files will have "2026" in their title.