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--- doctorate_process [2023/04/26 07:37] – UB and CS bib both accept also transparent (dust-)covers. Confirmed by calling both institutions. Rene Röpke
+++ 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
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   * **Step 7**: Rock your presentation and examination. It's a good idea to get your second evaluator to sign a certificate of non-objection (Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung; pre-print 7) before she/he leaves again. You may try to contact the other people in the committee. Maybe they tell you what to look at more seriously.
   * **Step 8**: Apply the changes required by the evaluators to your thesis.
-    * Make sure your thesis contains the official cover sheet (pre-print 6).
+    * Make sure your thesis contains the official cover sheet (pre-print 6) and also make sure that the official cover sheet is the first printed page inside the thesis. Your publisher might have different ideas here, but the Bib requires the first printed page to be the official cover sheet.
       * (02/2016) The main Bib recently changed the sentence, it should now say: “Diese Dissertation ist auf den Internetseiten der Universitätsbibliothek online verfügbar." Not all templates have updated, so please check again.
     * Ensure that you have a list of relevant publications (e.g., at the end of the thesis) <-- needed for official copies: RWTH Bib, Informatics Bib, Office for Doctoral Studies