Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics, Doctoral School in Natural Sciences

DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

CALLS FOR LETTERS OF INTENT FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES

The doctoral education at the University of Helsinki is provided by doctoral programmes within four doctoral schools that cross faculty borders. Doctoral candidates are enrolled in one doctoral programme, and earn their degree from one faculty participating in the programme.

Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistcis (Domast) offers PhD thesis topics and high-quality supervision in several areas of mathematics. These areas include analysis, inverse problems, mathematical biology, mathematical physics, mathematical logic and statistics.

The Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics (Domast) invites

LETTERS OF INTENT FOR DOCTORAL STUDIES

in order to bring together excellent doctoral student candidates from outside the network of Domast and doctoral student supervisors within Domast. Through this contact the best students will have significant advantage for future calls for funded doctoral student positions, as well as for other funding opportunities appearing within Domast network.

Note: the contact possibly made or the mutual interest possibly gained with the Letters of intent does not guarantee the right to pursue doctoral degree in Domast or to work at the University of Helsinki.

Note: This call is intended for those who do not yet have supervisor. If you already have a supervisor from Domast, you can apply for a study right and/or funded position. Please check instruction on how to apply from Domast web pages.

Submitters of a Letter of intent are expected to:

- have completed their master degree studies, or plausibly completing them before the potential application period for doctoral studies

- review carefully the instructions for filling this form (below) , and the information available in Call for letters on intent Domast 2022 (pdf).

Instructions for preparing the online form:

1. Please complete the form in English.

2. You can save a partially completed form and continue later by providing your email address in the PARTIAL SUBMISSION section at the end of the form. You will receive a link to your email address to continue with the form at a time of your convenience. IMPORTANT: the link is valid only one time. If you wish to continue with the form a second time you must provide your email address again and use a newly generated link. The link is the only way to re-access your form. If you lose the link you will need to re-enter each field in the form.

3. It is recommended that you prepare the long sections outside of this online form and paste the responses into the appropriate fields. CV and publication list can be submitted either as filled fields in this form or as attachments.

4. Be sure to not exceed the maximum number of characters allowed and avoid any special characters on this form.

5. In the case that multiple forms are received from one person, the latest submission is considered the final submission. All other submissions will be discarded without being reviewed.

6. The student submitting a Letter of intent should ask a recommendation from at least one reference, preferably their current or previous supervisor/professor. If the reference indicated in this form does not send a recommendation in time, the Letter of intent will be ignored. The applicant may also have recommendations from two other references. Only recommendations from references named in this form will be accepted. The recommendations should be sent to kumpula-dp@helsinki.fi by the reference person latest within two weeks of submitting the application.

7. The data entered in this form will be saved in Domast until 31.8.2023, in order to be able to contact the student in case of suitable funding. The data are not distributed outside Domast.

After submitting the application

Once you have submitted your application and the doctoral programme has received your recommendation letter(s), you will get a notification if your application will move forward to our supervisors within two months.

Contact information

If you have any questions about doctoral training in the Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and Statistics or this application, please contact the doctoral programme at kumpula-dp@helsinki.fi.

General information on doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki

At the University of Helsinki the right to pursue doctoral studies and having funding for the studies are two separate things.

The admission to pursue doctoral studies is given by the faculties of the University of Helsinki. The doctoral programmes recommend the admission of the best applicants to the faculties and are responsible for the doctoral education. The doctoral studies are designed to take four years. The admission to pursue doctoral studies does not imply funding.

Funding for a doctoral candidate may come from various sources, from the university, various projects and foundations. The main duties of a university funded doctoral candidate are to work on his or her own doctoral thesis and to complete postgraduate studies (minimum of 40 ECTS).

The duties also include teaching and other tasks.

PERSONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION

First name

Middle name(s)

Family name (include previous names in parentheses)

Date of birth (dd/mm/yyyy):

Citizenship

Gender

Address

Postal code

City and country

Email address

Phone number

Are you currently registered as a Master's student or a doctoral candidate in a faculty at the University of Helsinki?

EDUCATION

Notice, that you must complete your master's degree (or equivalent) before you can be accepted to start your doctoral studies at the University of Helsinki. However, a contact with a prospective supervisor can be made already before that.

Please indicate your current academic degree

Bachelor's degree

University and department

Starting date of the bachelor's degree

Date of completion of the bachelor's degree

Major subject of the bachelor's degree

Title of the bachelor's thesis

Bachelor's thesis supervisor (name and affiliation)

Final grades of the bachelor's degree

Grading scale of the bachelor's degree

GPA

In what language were the majority of the degree requirements completed?

Master's degree

University and department

Major subject of the master's degree

Minor subject(s) of the master's degree

Starting date of the bachelor's degree

Date of completion of the bachelor's degree

Date of completion of the master's degree

Date of completion of the master's thesis (or equivalent)

Title of the master's thesis/diploma/pro gradu

Master's thesis supervisor (name and affiliation)

Final grades of the master's degree

Grading scale of the master's degree

GPA

In what language were the majority of the degree requirements completed?

Anticipated master's degree

University and department

Major subject of the master's degree

Minor subject(s) of the master's degree

Anticipated date of completion of the degree

Anticipated date of completion of the master's thesis (or equivalent)

Note: your Master's degree/thesis supervisor, indicated as a reference below in this form, should confirm the current status of your Master's studies.

Tentative title of the master's thesis/diploma/pro gradu

Master's thesis supervisor (name and affiliation)

In what language were the majority of the degree requirements completed?

Licentiate's degree

University and department

Major subject of the licentiate's degree

Date of completion of the licentiate's degree

Date of completion of the Licentiate's thesis

Title of the licentiate's thesis

Licentiate's thesis supervisor (name and affiliation)

Final grades of the licentiate's degree

Grading scale of the licentiate's degree

GPA

In what language were the majority of the degree requirements completed?

PhD PROJECT

List the main research fields you are interested in (max. 200 characters)

Preliminary plan for research (max. 800 characters)

If you wish, you can describe here any other factors which could support starting post-graduate studies in Domast (max. 500 characters)

FUNDING

Have you already secured a funding for your PhD project?

PROJECT FUNDING

Where does the funding come from?

More detailed information about the funding (how much is it and for how long, where can it be used, is there any need for additional funding)

RECOMMENDATION

It is recommended that the (first) reference you indicate is the supervisor of your Master thesis/studies, or other supervisor/professor who has experience of your working skills.

The reference indicated below is requested to send a recommendation to kumpula-dp@helsinki.fi within two weeks of submitting the application. If this recommendation is not received, your application will be cancelled. An e-mail containing this request will be automatically sent to the e-mail address indicated below, as well as to the e-mail address you indicate for yourself in "personal and contact details".

If you wish that also other person acts as an additional reference for you, please indicate his/her contact information after checking the box below. The application will be valid also without the recommendation of the additional reference(s).

The indicated reference(s) may be contacted to have more information on your skills.

RECOMMENDATION, SUPERVISOR

As you have not yet completed your Master's degree, the (first) reference below must be the supervisor of your Master thesis/studies.

The indicated reference(s) may be contacted to have more information on your skills.

Reference first name

Reference last name

Reference affiliation

Reference degree and title

Reference email address

Reference telephone number

Add another reference, if applicable.

1st ADDITIONAL REFERENCE

In order to have an effect on the review of the student's letter of intent, additional reference should send the recommendation to kumpula-dp@helsinki.fi within two weeks of submitting the application.

NOTE! Additional supervisors are not automatically informed, but the submitter of the Letter of Intent is responsible for forwarding this information to them.

Additional reference first name

Additional reference last name

Additional reference affiliation

Additional reference degree and title

Additional reference email address

Additional reference telephone number

Add another reference, if applicable.

2nd ADDITIONAL REFERENCE

NOTE! Additional supervisors are not automatically informed, but the submitter of the Letter of Intent is responsible for forwarding this information to them.

2nd additional reference first name

2nd additional reference last name

2nd additional reference affiliation

2nd additional reference degree and title

2nd additional reference email address

2nd additional reference telephone number

ONLINE SIGNATURE

Please carefully review your information above before completing the online signature and clicking the Submit button.

By typing my full name and the date below and submitting this form, I affirm that I have read and understood the instructions and that all of the information I provided in this form as well as the PDF files attached is complete, accurate, and my own work. I understand that withholding information requested, giving false information, or presenting someone else’s work as my own will cancel the consideration of this letter of intent.

Name

Date

ENCLOSURES

All the attached documents need to be provided in one pdf that you will be asked to upload after you have submitted the application.

Compulsory information/attachments:

A scanned copy of the latest degree certificate (Bachelor's or Master's)
A scanned copy of study transcript provided by the applicant's university that lists studies completed and grades achieved by the time of submitting the application
Curriculum Vitae and Publiction list (latter if applicable)

SUBMISSION

If your form is complete and you are ready to submit the data, please fill in the online signature and click "Submit" below.

NOTE: after clicking "Submit" and browsing your attachment as asked, the attachment is submitted immediately after you have clicked "Upload file". Thus, make sure the attachment is the correct one before clicking "Upload file".

If your form is not complete, you can save the partially completed form and continue later by providing your email address in the PARTIAL SUBMISSION section below. You will receive a link to the email address provided. IMPORTANT: the link is valid only one time. If you wish to continue with the form a second time, you must provide your email address again and use a newly generated link. The link is the only way to re-access your form. If you lose the link you will need to re-enter each field in the form.

Partial submission

I wish to save the form and continue using the link that will be sent into email I give

Email address

DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

PERSONAL AND CONTACT INFORMATION

EDUCATION

PhD PROJECT

FUNDING

PROJECT FUNDING

RECOMMENDATION

RECOMMENDATION, SUPERVISOR

1st ADDITIONAL REFERENCE

2nd ADDITIONAL REFERENCE

ONLINE SIGNATURE

ENCLOSURES

SUBMISSION

Partial submission

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