PhD updates

[michiexile]

Me and my boss sent out emails today. One to Jürgen Herzog - a REALLY cool commutative algebrist with a lot of connections to the homological algebra camp in Stockholm, and one to Lothar Gerritzen, who leads a research group with cryptography, homological algebra, Gröbner bases and operadic theory under one roof (!!)

Basically, our message is "I want to do a PhD. My job is willing to let me work 50% on PhD and stay 50% there. Could I study with you, please?"

One factor that's important here is that German PhDs tend to be 3 years of study; with up to 50% department service. If I can let the department service go to my Teleca job, I'd be done in 5-6 years - which is quite as expected. And that way they don't need to fully fund me either.

This could mean that I move to the Ruhr area sometime in the future, and that I get a LOT less money to go back to Sweden with. But it'd also mean I'd get a PhD in mathematics - at cool places and with cool people as well!

Comments

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Best of luck!

[michiexile]

Thanks! It's a bit grating hanging inbetween as I do now - having something to do that takes enough attention that I cannot study, but which isn't actually studying - and only being able to wait for a new opportunity to get running on the math track again.

Really awful is to get back to my articles after a few months of work and much-needed relaxation, and try to actually understand what's going on there. I never thought I'd feel quite -that- stupid.