FORMAT
LOCATION
Campus SophiaTech Templiers
PREREQUISITES
No
CAPACITY
24 students
ABOUT THIS MINOR
This minor is also open to students from the SPECTRUM Graduate school.
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- Summary
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
The student will learn not only how to conduct research, but more generally how to approach a subject rationally, to take a critical view on the literature available on the subject, to provide his or her own reflections supported by experience, and also to know how to communicate them.
The hindsight that this course provides on what science is (or is not) should be part of the skills of any scientist, not only researchers.
Everything you always wanted to know about research ... but were afraid to ask.Becoming a researcher is a professional qualification. Science requires curiosity, original thinking, rigour, experimentation and critical analysis of results. But for centuries now, science progresses have led to ever stronger organizations at the international scale, scientists’ professional networks, shared practices and rules. In a both competitive and collaborative and frontier-less research environment, conducting visible and relevant scientific research requires a strong methodology and conforming to international standards.
The course will cover the following topics:- Definition of scientific research, scientific methodology and the interactions between science and society. Ethics of scientific research.
- Acquiring a background on a scientific topic, analysing the state-of-the-art, compiling a bibliography, publishing scientific results, facing the evaluation of scientific work by peer scientists and presenting scientific activity to a specialized audience.
- Planning, conducting and analysing scientific experiments.
- Scientific environment, collaborations, research funding and interaction between academic institutions and industry.
Contents:
- Epistemology, "What is science?"
- A job of passion
- Bibliographical research
- Methods for conducting research
- PhD and its career opportunities
- Conducting experiments
- Scientific writing
- Scientific collaborations
- Digital Deontology
- Lecturers
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- Nadia Abchiche (Université Côte d’Azur, i3S)
- Gilles Bernot (Université Côte d’Azur, i3S)
- Fabien Ferrero (Université Côte d’Azur, LEAT)
- Claire Migliaccio (Université Côte d’Azur, LEAT)
- Eric Picholle (Université Côte d’Azur, INPHYNI)
- Anne-Laure Simonelli (Université Côte d’Azur, DS4H)
- Sid Touati (Université Côte d’Azur, i3S)
- Hui-Yin Wu (Inria)
With the STIC Doctoral School - Bibliography
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Bibliography will be given on a dedicated website.
- Evaluation
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- Fall 2024:
- Home written report - Submission deadline: 29/11/2024, 12h00 - 50% of the final grade
- Oral - 05/12/2024, 8h00-12h30 - Campus SophiaTech Templiers, Building B, room B107 - 50% of the final grade
- Spring 2025:
- Home written report - Submission deadline: 11/04/2025, 12h00 - 50% of the final grade
- Oral - 17/04/2025, 8h00-12h30 - Campus SophiaTech Templiers, Building B, room B107 - 50% of the final grade
- Fall 2024:
Schedule
Mind the evaluation time and modalities in the "Evaluation" tab below.
Time slot |
Lecturers |
Course title |
Location | |
27/02/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
9h00-9h15 - F. Ferrrero |
Welcome, Course goals and outline, evaluation modalities |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
9h15-10h45 - E.Picholle |
Epistemology, "What is science?" |
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11h00-12h15 - A.-L. Simonelli |
Research: a job of passion |
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6/03/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
9h00-10h30 - H.-Y.Wu |
Methods for conducting research - Bibliography 1 |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
10h45-12h15 - S.Touati |
Bibliography 2 |
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13/03/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
9h00-9h30 - G.Bernot |
Bibliographic analysis on a given list of articles |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
9h45-12h15 - F.Ferrero |
Scientific writing |
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20/03/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
S.Touati |
Experimentation workshop: Statistical aspects of experimentation |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
27/03/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
C. Migliaccio |
Experimentation workshop: Millimeter Wave radar experiment |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
3/04/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
9h00-10h30 - N.Abchiche |
Digital Deontology |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
10h45-12h15 - G.Bernot |
Article analysis: last questions |
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10/04/2025 |
9h00-12h15 |
9h00-10h30 - F.Ferrero |
Scientific collaborations |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |
10h45-12h15 - A.-L. Simonelli |
PhD and its career opportunities |
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17/04/2025 |
8h00-12h20 |
Jury |
Evaluation |
SophiaTech Templiers, room B107 |