welcome to the stk 9200 course, autumn semester 2021

Welcome to the course -- which is a different type of course than the usual ones. It consists in *reading a selection of journal papers*, where the students, or is it candidates, present them to the class, with discussion and supplementing information, etc. 

The time slot given us for the course is Tuesdays, 11:15 to 14:00, in Undervisningsrom 1119, but we will not use the full 3 hours every week; this depends also on the number of candidates. 

We'll use the first couple of weeks, from the course starts up Tue Aug 24, to set up such a list of papers to be read, and a bit later on these are assigned to the different students. It's not meant to be a "free ride" for the others, as all students are meant to work through all papers. For the exam, student X, who has presented papers A, B, C in the course, might be asked to present papers D, E, so to speak.

By definition we come back to various practicalities later. Have a look at the course page for previous occasions, to get a feel for how things are structured. 

In a sense I'll be more of "an administrator" than a "lecturer", for this course, but of course there might be occasions when I go to the blackboard and give nine minutes summing-ups of relevant themes.

Nils Lid Hjort