Minor Introduction to Scientific Research

Coordinated by: Gilles Bernot (Fall semester) and Fabien Ferrero (Spring semester)
 

FORMAT

Classroom

LOCATION

Campus SophiaTech

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

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

  • 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, I3S)
  • 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

Evaluation
  • Home written report (article analysis) - Submission deadline: 2/05/2024 (50% of the final grade)
  • Oral (experimentation on workshop report) - 18/04/2024, 8h00-12h15 - Campus SophiaTech Templiers, Building B, room B103 (50% of the final grade)

SCHEDULE Spring 2024

This minor will not open this semester
 
Mind the evaluation time and modalities in the "Evaluation" tab below.

Time slot

Lecturers

Course title

Location

29/02/2024

9h00-12h15

9h00-9h15 - Gilles Bernot

Welcome, Course goals and outline, evaluation modalities

SophiaTech Templiers, room B107

9h15-10h45 - Eric Picholle

Epistemology, "What is science?"

11h00-12h15 - Anne-Laure Simonelli

Research: a job of passion

7/03/2024

9h00-12h15

9h00-10h30 - Hui-Yin Wu

Methods for conducting research - Bibliography 1

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103

10h45-12h15 - Sid Touati

Bibliography 2

14/03/2024

9h00-12h15

9h00-9h30 - Gilles Bernot

Bibliographic analysis on a given list of articles

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103

9h45-12h15 - Fabien Ferrero

Scientific writing

21/03/2024

9h00-12h15

Sid Touati

Experimentation workshop: Statistical aspects of experimentation

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103

28/03/2024

9h00-12h15

Claire Migliaccio

Experimentation workshop: Millimeter Wave radar experiment 

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103

4/04/2024

9h00-12h15

9h00-10h30 - Nadia Abchiche

Digital Deontology

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103

10h45-12h15 - Gilles Bernot

Article analysis: last questions

11/04/2024

9h00-12h15

9h00-10h30 - Fabien Ferrero

Scientific collaborations

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103

10h45-12h15 - Anne-Laure Simonelli

PhD and its career opportunities

18/04/2024

8h00-12h20

Jury

Evaluation

SophiaTech Templiers, room B103