MoL Graduation Trajectory
Title: MoL Graduation Trajectory
Programme: Master of Logic (MoL)
Coordinator: Maria Aloni
Course description
The goal of the MoL graduation trajectory is to provide 2nd year MoL students information and extra support in their final year. It includes a number of information meetings (on MoL graduation procedure, PhD applications, life after ILLC), some trainings (how to write a cv/research proposal, how to write a MoL thesis), and a number of sessions where ILLC researchers present possible thesis topics to the graduating students. The trajectory further includes two kinds of student presentations:
- MoL thesis presentations (mandatory for graduating students, where students present their ongoing thesis project to the ILLC community)
- January presentations (more informal where students present their thesis topic to each other)
NOTE: The trajectory is designed for 2nd year MoL students who intend to graduate in the second semester. But also for students starting their thesis writing semester in September, who intend to graduate in the first semester. Students from other cohorts or Logic Year students are also welcome to attend the sessions (in particular the research units presentations). Also 2nd year students who intend to take an extra semester can follow the trajectory this year [advisable for those components that will come too late for them next year such as the research seminars, the January presentations, how to write a MoL thesis] but will have to do their MoL thesis presentation in the next fall.
Schedule 2025/26 (subject to change)
The lectures are schedules on Wednesday, 5-7pm in room SP C1.112
1st Period
- Wed, 3 Sep: no class
- Wed, 10 Sep: no class
- Wed, 17 Sep: Introduction (Maria Aloni) & info on PhD applications
- Wed, 24 Sep: no class
- Wed, 1 Oct: no class
- Wed, 8 Oct: Presentations of possible thesis topics (ILLC researchers)
- Wed, 15 Oct: Presentations of possible thesis topics (ILLC researchers)
- Wed, 22 Oct: no class (exam week)
2nd Period
- Wed, 29 Oct: Plenary MoL thesis presentations (students graduating in Semester 1)
- Wed, 5 Nov: Plenary MoL thesis presentations (students graduating in Semester 1)
- Wed, 12 Nov: How to write a research proposal (Arianna Betti) [NB: we start at 17.30]
- Wed, 19 Nov: no class
- Wed, 26 Nov: no class
- Wed, 3 Dec: MoL course presentations for second semester (TBC)
- Wed, 9 Dec: MoL January project presentations (TBC)
- Wed, 17 Dec: no class (exam week)
3rd Period
- Wed, 7 Jan: no class
- Wed, 14 Jan: no class
- Wed, 21 Jan: student topic presentations
- Wed, 28 Jan: student topic presentations
4th Period
- Wed, 4 Feb: student topic presentations
- Wed, 11 Feb: student topic presentations
- Wed, 18 Feb: no class
- Wed, 25 Feb: Scientific Integrity - Martin Stokhof (TBC)
- Wed, 4 March: How to write a MoL thesis (TBC)
- Wed, 11 March: no class
- Wed, 18 March: no class
- Wed, 25 March: no class
5th Period
- Wed, 1 April: Plenary MoL thesis presentations: Logic and Mathematics
- Wed, 8 April: Plenary MoL thesis presentations: Logic and Computation
- Wed, 15 April: Plenary MoL thesis presentations: Logic and Philosophy
- Wed, 22 April: Plenary MoL thesis presentations: Logic and Language
- Mon, 18 May: MoL June project presentations (TBC)
- Wed, 20 May: MoL course presentations for first semester 26/27 (TBC)