The third project year, SEE Doctoral Year in Mathematical Sciences 2011 is an important part of 2011 Year of Mathematics in South-Eastern Europe, proclaimed by MASSEE. Six joint, intensive four-week doctoral ground level courses in Number Theory, Dynamical Systems, Probability and Statistics, Optimization, Data Structures and High Performance Computing, Algebraic Combinatorics, Computability and Complexity were designed on recommendations of the Academic Board based on the analysis of the state of the art in mathematical research in South-East Europe. Universities of Sarajevo, Podgorica, Tuzla, Belgrade, Sofia and Skopje will host these doctoral courses. These courses are thought to provide a firm starting core knowledge background for PhD students aiming at doctoral research in a discipline/subdiscipline falling within global areas of pure and applied mathematics and theoretical computer science.
They will establish transparency of expectations and set quality and assesment standards to be followed.
Any particular course is a combination of classes and seminar work. Agreed structure of each of six quality standard setting courses to be held during the SEE Doctoral Year in Mathematical Sciences 2011 (3rd project year) was: three modules of 20 units, in total 60 units per course, that would be recognized as meeting the requirement of 4 semester hours or 30 ECTS (3x10), in case of institutions that apply ECTS also in the 3rd Bologna cycle.
In principle, every PhD student at WB partner institutions who starts his/her studies in 2011, will be expected to take one of these courses.
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Number Theory
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Dynamical Systems
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Probability and Statistics
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Optimization
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Data Structures and High Performance Computing
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Algebraic Combinatorics, Computability and Complexity
