Thesis Committee. The primary supervisor is responsible for providing the PhD student with a suitably equipped laboratory workspace and for advising and supporting the independent scientific working of the PhD student. The supervisor has to support the career of the PhD student and to control the quality of the thesis. Students will report in the weekly group seminars about the progress of their project and the supervisors are expected to attend the corresponding seminars The work of the doctoral student should not only be supervised by the primary supervisor. A thesis committee, which includes the primary supervisor and [one / two] additional senior scientist[s], should meet at least once a year to facilitate the progress of the thesis by discussing the experiments, results and time-line. The secondary supervisor shall be member of the RTG. The PhD student is responsible for compiling a written summary outlining his/her work and for writing a report of each meeting.
Thesis Committee. (i) Effective September 1, 2004, the minimum rate shall be $110.00 per student per semester or 3% above the adjunct faculty member's previous rate, whichever is higher.
