In my last post I talked about PhD defences and how they vary from country to country. Sometimes the PhD defence is described as the last formal exam you’ll ever take, because it’s the highest academic qualification you can have. Well, turns out that’s true in many countries, but not all. In France, Germany andContinue reading “They said the PhD would be the last formal exam I would ever do: they were wrong.”
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PhD defences at home and abroad
Last week I was back at Imperial college High Energy Physics department, where I spent 3.5 years working on my PhD. But this time, I was back as an external examiner for a PhD viva. It was a very validating experience to know that 8 years after my own PhD defence, I am now enoughContinue reading “PhD defences at home and abroad”
Teaching in Corsica
Image: Carlo Venturi. Students and lecturers during a discussion session. Last spring, I was fortunate to be invited to lecture at the “BCD summer school” held in Corsica at the Institut d’Études Scientifiques de Cargèse. The BCD summer school is designed as a shared forum for physics masters students from Bologna, Clermont-Ferrand and Dortmund. ItContinue reading “Teaching in Corsica”
CHACAL: bringing France and South Africa closer together
I’m just about to travel back to Clermont-Ferrand after two weeks in South Africa, where my longtime colleague Deepak Kar and I were running a residential research school at University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. CHACAL was funded by the French CNRS’s France-Africa international cooperation programme, with an open call to organise a “summer school” inContinue reading “CHACAL: bringing France and South Africa closer together”
Louie D. Corpe 