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--- doctorate_process [2023/05/09 10:18] – Marcus Völker
+++ doctorate_process [2024/02/27 11:41] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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     * Even if your thesis is in English, you will need a German title.
   * **Step 4**: Time to wait. After the reports of your evaluators have arrived, your thesis circulates in the CS department to allow eventual objections by other professors. This (currently) requires either 3 weeks during lecture time and 5 weeks during lecture-free times. Check for updated regulations [[http://www.fb1.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Mathematik_Informatik_Naturwissenschaften/Die_Fakultaet/Einrichtungen/~gao/Dekanat/lidx/1/|here]]. An additional 2 weeks are required for formal and administrative reasons. {{ ::postsubmissiontimeline.png?200|A diagram showing the timeline after submission}}
+    * Note following the observed process in summer 2023: The official correspondence by the Promotionssekretariat does not seem to "add" the 10 days after the administrative delay anymore. So, your earliest defense date is a little bit earlier than illustrated in the figure (circulation time + administrative delay), i.e., at most 7 weeks after the evaluation reports arrived.
   * **Step 5**: Think about a possible examination committee. The framing conditions are:
     * Your committee has to consist of
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       * A chairperson
     * The chairperson may not be in personal union one person with the examiner or with one of the evaluators
-    * The chairperson has to be head of a chair or institute (Lehrstuhl). Being head of a research group (Lehr und Forschungsgebiet) is not sufficient!
+    * <del>The chairperson has to be head of a chair or institute (Lehrstuhl). Being head of a research group (Lehr und Forschungsgebiet) is not sufficient!</del> The professorium agreed to update this regulation on 2022-10-19: W2 professors are now also allowed to serve as chairperson, just like W3 professors (Lehrstuhlinhaber).
     * The subject of the examiner asking you for about 15 minutes needs to have a sufficient distance to your research focus.
     * Contact the Head of the CS department (<FG-Sprecher@informatik.rwth-aachen.de>) to get a confirmation of your planed committee