PhD Open Day 2017
Location: Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Sala Convegni, Palazzo Fedrigotti - Corso Bettini 31, Rovereto
If you are thinking to apply for a PhD, the Open Day is an excellent opportunity to know more about the course program and the research opportunities within the PhD in Cognitive Sciences (former Psychological sciences and education) at the University of Trento, to meet current students and faculty members and to informally discuss your research interests with them.
The Doctoral Course in Cognitive Science is part of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science and is promoted in collaboration with Foundation Bruno Kessler (FBK).
The PhD Open Day includes:
- Short talks and poster presentations by current PhD students
- Meetings with our current students and PIs of the research groups
- Opportunities to learn more about the lines of research within the PhD program
- Information about funding, entry requirements and career perspectives of the PhD
- A special event on “HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL COURSE”, prospective applicants can get directly in contact with potential supervisors, evaluate the fit between their research interests and the course opportunities, receive tips and advice on how to get through the application and selection process in order to make one’s own application successful.
Registration
For organizational reasons, it is necessary to register for this event at this link before the 1st of June.
Cost: Free
Program of the Event
10h00 |
Welcome and today’s program |
10h15–11h15 |
Oral presentations (II and III year doctoral students)Gisella Decarli The inter-individual differences in number and face processing during infancy |
11h15-11h30 |
Coffee break |
11h30-12h30 |
Oral presentations (II and III year doctoral students)Marco Bressan The impact of faking on the correlation between two ordinal variables |
12h30-13h30 |
Lunch |
13h30-14h30 |
Posters session (I year doctoral students)Andrea Beretta Decision making with Big Data: how to take effective decisions using machine learning predictions. |
14h30-15h30 |
Oral presentations (II and III year doctoral students)Valeria Ciampa Identity and Stress: An application of the Expanded Model of Organizational Identification |
15h30-15h45 |
Coffee break |
15h45-16h00 |
The doctoral course in Cognitive Science in numbers |
16h00-18h00 |
“HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY APPLY TO THE DOCTORAL COURSE”In this event prospective applicants can get directly in contact with potential supervisors, evaluate the fit between their research interests and the course opportunities, receive tips and advice on how to get through the application and selection process in order to make one’s own application successful. For organizational reasons, it is necessary to register for this event at this link before the 1st of June. |
For further information
On the Open Phd Day: phd.dipsco [at] unitn.it
On the PhD Application: http://www.unitn.it/ateneo/57173/concorso-di-ammissione
On the PhD areas outline: http://web.unitn.it/drspf/38824/aree-di-interesse-dei-membri-del-collegio-dei-docenti
On the PhD course: http://web.unitn.it/drspf