A measure to improve presentation skills are doctoral student seminars. These seminars are intended for the PhD students only, without the participation of the PIs. This implies that the full organization (timing, discussion leading) are in the responsibility of the iRTG members, excluding the PIs. The events take place twice per year, once in Berlin, and once in Halle.

The PhD students are strongly encouraged to participate in all doctoral seminars and to give two scientific presentations on his/her progress during the PhD course. At the early stage, the students will give basic, methodically focused talks. The second talk is intended to be rather at the end of the PhD work, thus highlighting the main results of the own work.

The doctoral student seminars always include a poster session for those PhD students, who are not giving a talk. Furthermore the best poster is awarded by the PhD students and get a poster prize.

Poster Prize Winners:

Summer Semester 2019 - Markus Gleich (Freie Universität Berlin)

Winter Semester 2019/20 - Kelvin Yao (Max-Born-Institut Berlin)

Summer Semester 2020 (USPM2020) - Maximilian Paleschke (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Winter Semester 2020/21 - Rouven Dreyer (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Summer Semester 2021 - Franziska Töppler (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Jan Böhnke (Freie Universität Berlin) and David Reiss (Freie Universität Berlin)

Winter Semester 2021 (JSSP2021) - Sergey Trishin (Freie Universität Berlin)

Summer Semester 2023 (iRTG Summer School) - Katrin Plass (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Winter Semester 23/24 (DiMS 2024) - Nele Stetzuhn (Freie Universität Berlin)