Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten 2025w [WIA 2025w]

Contents

This lecture on the Foundations of Research complements seminars of the same module. Many such seminars exist, each given by a chair of the faculty of computer science. The lecture focuses on the theoretical concepts of scientific work: conducting research and communicating and discussing its results, e.g., in the form of a paper or thesis.

This semester (because the module of this lecture is brand new), the lecture will be integrated with the Seminar Communicating Autonomous Vehicles of our chair.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for joining, though basic literacy in conducting practical scientific work is advantageous.

Learning Outcome

In the course of the lecture, students learn: The foundations of scientific working (in terms of analysis, hypothesis generation, and evaluation). The context of scientific work (in terms of outlets and types of publications). How to create a scientific work (literature research, structure, problem statement, and proofs).

General Information / Methods

This course will be held in English (German, if universally preferred) and all the course material is available in English. Course material will be distributed/collected via OPAL.

All slides will be presented in a weekly on-campus meeting.

Questions? Comments? Join the discussion in our Matrix Room #nsm-course-hs:tu-dresden.de (reachable from the TU Dresden Matrix server) or add a post to our OPAL forum!

Grading

There is no exam for the lecture part of this module.

Grades for the module will be based solely on the grade of one of the companion seminars of the module.

Instructors

• Christoph Sommer

Timeline

For timeline information, see the section “In a nutshell” above.

Slides

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