The students are able to read and understand  scientific papers.The students are able to carefully explain and discuss core findings as well as details in a didactically meaningful way.

In the first unit (3 October 2024), there will be a preliminary meeting in which the dates for the discussions and presentations will be arranged by agreement between the students and the instructors. They will not necessarily correspond to the course dates mentioned above. Attendance in this meeting is mandatory. Phase 1: Under the supervision of the respective professor each student reads scientific papers and works them out carefully.Phase 2: In small groups of peers each student prepares a presentation about the read papers, the target audience for which are the other students in the seminar.In this phase each student faces two roles: as presenter of their own topic and as peer for another presenter.Phase 3: Each student presents their papers in class. The respective peer discusses the presentation.

There will be topics mainly in Statistics (supervised by G. Kastner) and topics in Stochastic Processes (supervised by M. Szölgyenyi).

Knowledge in statistics and stochastic processes.

Scientific papers.

Evaluation of final presentation and peer discussion.

The own topic, the peer's topic, and the active participation in the seminar.

The marks are based on the development of the project, the final presentation, and the discussion as well as active participation in plenary sessions. For each student's mark, the presentation of the own topic counts 60%, the discussion of the peer's topic counts 30%, and active participation counts 10%.Attendance is mandatory.Sign-out without grading is possible until October 31, 2024.