Resources for PhD students

Research seminars and meetings

• ISG Research Seminars take place (almost) every Thursday at 16:00 in McCrea 229. Details of future (and past) seminars are available.
• The Pure Mathematics Seminars take place every Tuesday at 16:00 in McCrea 219, preceded by tea at 15:30 in McCrea 237. Details of future (and past) seminars are available.
• The Smart Card Centre organises a series of seminars and invited talks. Details can be found on the Events Calender of the Smart Card Centre web site.
• The Ph.D. Students Only Seminar is held every week on Thursdays at 15:00 in McCrea 229. For details of these seminars, and copies of past talks, please contact Qin Li.
• The Postcrypt cryptography reading group meets every week on Thursdays at 11:00 in McCrea 229. For details of these meetings, and to get yourself on the mailing list, please contact Maura Paterson.
• The Combinatorics Laboratory meets every couple of weeks on Thursdays at 15:00 in McCrea 229. For details of these meetings, and to get yourself on the mailing list, please contact Simon Blackburn.
• The Cryptography Group meets every couple of weeks on Thursdays at 10:00 in McCrea 229. For details of these meetings, and to get yourself on the mailing list, please contact Alex Dent.

Further general information on seminars and other research meetings is available here and here.

General resources

• A lot of useful information is available on the ISG and Mathematics Department PhD student resource pages.
• The Guardian style book, an extremely useful guide on writing clear English, is available here. This is recommended reading for all students, along with the Oxford Guide to Plain English.
• I have put together a list of LaTeX resources, including templates for a Ph.D. thesis, which may be of use.
• Steven Galbraith has compiled an extremely useful PhD student information pack, including a number of valuable links.
• Details of the college's Research Development Programme are available online.
• The PhD regulations of the University of London are also available online.
• The Graduate School maintains a very useful directory of resources for research students.
• The Mathematics Department maintains a Technical Report series, which includes a number of recent PhD theses.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Mathematics Department training session on Plain English.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Mathematics Department training session on the publication process.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Mathematics Department training session on improving your use of LaTeX.
• This set of PowerPoint slides was used as the basis of a Royal Holloway Graduate School training session on the PhD Oral Examination.
• Extremely useful and comprehensive lists of conferences with a security component are available here and here.
• For information about the IACR conferences (Crypto, Eurocrypt and Asiacrypt) see the IACR web site.
• Finally, the PhD comics web page is compulsory reading for all PhD students (and supervisors of PhD students).

Information about PhD funding

• The Royal Holloway Graduate School web pages provide information about funding opportunities.
• The Royal Holloway Geography Department provides a very useful catalogue of funding sources, much of it of quite general relevance.

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