Dear all,

Concerning research groups for our challenge-track (formerly: talent-track) students:
As has been the case also in previous years, I kindly ask you to - groupwise, if possible - inform me in writing about your planned activities in connection with now our 5th batch of challenge-track students (i.e. for their 2nd and 3rd year). The research groups may consist of an entire topical group or one or more subgroups, and – depending on the number of groups – are likely to receive about 2 challenge-track students for two semesters in the period E18-F20 (‘E’ and ‘F’ is danish for ‘autumn’ and ’spring’). As has been done in previous years, we assign students to the groups according to student preferences, but with a view towards efficient use of staff for the challenge-track. It is therefore possible that a group offering activities will not get assigned students.

Please include in your (preferably brief) response the name of the group you suggest, its main topic, 5-10 keywords about the scientific content, and a bit about which competencies you expect the talent students may obtain from your programme (both the 'soft' such as presentation skills, and the 'hard' such as programming in LabVIEW), and a suggestion for the final evaluation, to be done at the end of the semester (which product, oral presentation, report or something else?).

If you are already offering 2^nd and 3^rd year challenge-track activities for an older batch of challenge-students, please let me know if your group is willing to offer again.

The deadline is Friday 29th of June, end of next week. As a closing remark, we are presently doing a survey amongst the students (all students, not only those that have chosen ChTr activities) as a means for evaluating the impact etc. of the challenge-track.

Ulrik

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Ulrik I. Uggerhøj
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Aarhus University
Ny Munkegade 120
DK-8000 Aarhus
Denmark
Mobile: +45 2338 2373
e-mail: ulrik@phys.au.dk