The doctoral seminar is intended for discussing scientific topics relevant to students. The approach in the seminar and the way information are disseminated is three-fold. A) Students will present progress in their work to other PhD students, supervisors and members of the faculty. It is expected that every student will present annually. 1st-year students are expected to present a vision, ideas, literature overview of the thesis, and the expected outcome. 2nd-year PhD students shall present early results, their discussion, and provide critical feedback on the early experimental results. 3rd-year students should present comprehensive, mostly experimentally supported, and evidenced results, providing in-depth discussion with ideas to steer their research towards a successful end. Students will use the seminar as the opportunity to practise thesis defence in front of a wide research audience, and also to make final adjustments to their work. B) Foreign experts will be invited to deliver scientific talks on either research topics relevant to the study programme and to the individual dissertation theses. Experts in providing and communicating soft skills will also lecture in the seminar providing information, for example, on writing scientific papers, knowledge transfer, patenting law, entrepreneurship (from lab to fab) and other relevant topics. C) Doctoral students will participate in the annual StudKon conference (http://projects.fzp.ujep.cz/studkon/). The conference is intended mainly for PhD students of relevant natural and technical science PhD programmes at UJEP. The conference scope includes the preparation and characterization of (nano)materials and their applications, nanotechnology, chemical and physical modifications of materials, the chemistry of materials, environmental analytical chemistry, environmental chemistry and pollution of the environment, phytoremediation and biotechnology, modelling in chemistry, physics and materials, and other related topics. The participation of PhD students will be mandatory. Literature: There is no relevant literature for this course.
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