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Doktorat na TCfA

Warning: This info may be incomplete and partly out of date!

administrative steps

• getting documents to Dziekanat + http://irk.umk.pl : deadline often two possible deadlines, sometimes one in early July, and usually one around late August/early September
  • http://www.fizyka.umk.pl/wfaiis/?q=node/28 (pl)
  • http://wwwold.fizyka.umk.pl/wfaiis/?q=node/68 http://fizyka.umk.pl/wfaiis_en/?q=node/28 (en) - info here is partly out of date
• interview (rozmowy): date a few days after each deadline

formal documents

Mostly in Polish:

• https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studia_trzeciego_stopnia - brief description in Polish
• http://prawo.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WDU20170001696 - Rozporządzenie Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego z dnia 9 sierpnia 2017 r. w sprawie studiów doktoranckich i stypendiów doktoranckich

conditions

• stipends:
  • ,,UMK Szkoły Doktoranckiej (SzD)" - administrative structure being built April-October 2018 - themes for candidates + foreign extra supervisor need to be ready in April
  • stipend only lasts for one year; new competition for stipends each year of doctorate, depending on chance and a supposedly meritocratic points system
  • grants can be applied for in the national grant system (NCN), partly written in English, partly written in Polish
  • most likely out-of-date: as of 2005: normal stipends are only for Polish citizens (EU rules should, in principle, allow other EU citizens, but this may not yet be implemented in national law nor in UMK rules)
• in addition to research, the doctorant must do coursework + teaching:
  • http://wwwold.fizyka.umk.pl/wfaiis/?q=node/68 - main Faculty page for PhD studies
    • requirements in English as of 2017 (archive)
    • main seminar - 11:00 Monday at Toruń Centre for Astronomy, most Mondays during term time
  • study several courses and take exams
  • unpaid teaching/tutoring - 30 hours in first year, 60 hours in each successive year
• the "przewod doktorski" (declaration of intent to submit a thesis) must be "opened" by the second year at latest

practical life

• http://www.foreignersinpoland.com/cost-of-living-in-poland/
  • 25-40 sq.m. flat for Toruń 2018-03-30 - lots of advertisements for 800 to 1500 PLN/month - search engine keywords: wynajęcie mieszkania Toruń (literally: renting flat Toruń)
  • Heating, Water, Garbage = czynsz - 300 to 400 PLN/month for 25-40 sq.m. as of 2018-03 is reasonable; +electricity 100 PLN/month or so +internet 50 PLN/month or so
• https://www.umk.pl/en/erasmus/life/guide/ (even if you are not officially an Erasmus student, these guidelines look useful)

visits by scientists from Central/Eastern Europe

• Mianowski Fund: 1-12 months research visit, if you already have a position and a degree (master's maybe enough?) in your home country
  • mianowski waw pl/programme.htm

Ewentualny Tematy

Non-perturbative N-body/GR simulations

N-body simulations (e.g. AstroPh:0411043, ArXiv:1105.1082, AstroPh:0111367) used for the modelling of 0.1 to 5 Gpc scale structure formation assume a rigid Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) background against which perturbations grow according to Newtonian gravity, while the FLRW background itself evolves assuming that structure formation do not form. An UMK-Lyon project is underway to develop relativistic methods of correcting N-body simulations for this contradiction, by using scalar averaging (AstroPh:9912347, ArXiv:0707.2153, ArXiv:0803.1401, ArXiv:1203.6263, ArXiv:1303.6193). The main result of the full project (ArXiv:1706.06179) is that more accurate simulations help show that "dark energy" is a misinterpretation of the virialisation epoch, during which much of the most massive galaxies and galaxy clusters formed. The student's contribution would be in checking caveats of this calculational method and/or proposing extensions.

http://cosmo.torun.pl/Cosmo/DoktoratTematy

Measuring metric inhomogeneity with BAO

The Universe is not homogeneous, but the Concordance Model starts with a spatially-homogeneous solution to the Einstein field equations and afterwards applies perturbations. The scalar averaging approach (AstroPh:9912347, ArXiv:0707.2153, ArXiv:0803.1401, ArXiv:1203.6263, ArXiv:1303.6193) proposes a relativistically more realistic approach to cosmological modelling. The initial measurement of a shift of about 6% in the baryonic acoustic oscillation (BAO) peak location (ArXiv:1410.1687) in overdense regions provides the first tentative evidence of metric inhomogeneity. The calculations using the presently available software are cpu-intensive. A student would help develop algorithmic speedups, tests of the different software modules, and possibly GPGPU modules under OpenCL.

http://cosmo.torun.pl/Cosmo/DoktoratTematy

• dummy.txt: comment will be added later
• UMK_Rok2017_poz136_Uchwala60_PhD.txt: urzędowy dokument - Rok 2017 poz. 136 - Uchwał 60 - w sprawie wytycznych tworzenia planów i programów studiów doktoranckich