Resources for PhD students
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. In this
connection, see also the home page of the excellent Plain English
Campaign.
- 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).
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