Dear PhDSS Participants,

The PhD Student Symposium is getting closer so here are important announcements:

PROGRAMME

The official PhDSS programme is now available, and you can find it on our offical website! 

We are excited to share the invited part of the programme:

• Invited lectures:

  • Jason Pellettieri (Keene State College): The Biology of Planarians – Circling the Globe to Study Worms that Are Flat 

  • Krešimir Kumerički (PMF): The Shape of the Proton

  • Vjekoslav Kovač (PMF): Problem Solving at the Level of Mathematical Research

  • Petra Bajo (Croatian Geological Survey): Speleothems: Time Capsules of Earth's Climate History

• Workshops: 

  • Anita Kanđera (Momenta): Find Your Rhythm! Practical Guidelines for Time Management

  • Marko Košiček (RBI): Communicating Science with Non-Scientists

• Panel discussion:

  • Startups – From Hypothesis to Market

    • Mateo Čupić – Entropic

    • Stipe Lukin – KalphaTech

    • Marijana Serdar - Latom

    • Mario Špadina – SeaCras

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SPECIAL OFFER TO PRINT YOUR POSTER 

We’ve partnered again with Knjigoprint to offer a discounted price and convenient pick-up just for PhDSS participants! Here is what you should do:

1. Email your poster in PDF format, scaled to the correct dimensions (vertical orientation, 100 cm x 80 cm), to info@knjigoprint-rm.hr and let them know you are a PhDSS participant. If you need an R1 receipt, please specify that as well. 

2. Pick up and pay: you can pick it up and pay in cash at the Department of Chemistry (Horvatovac 102a) at the Knjigoprint kiosk (Floor -1) on both days of the Symposium! (specify this location in the email as well, otherwise you can pick it up at their main store (Ilica 55)). 

3. The promotional price is 15.50 € (VAT included) if paying by cash. A +10% fee applies if paying by card. (Regular price is 20 €+ VAT)

4. Deadline: please send your posters to Knjigoprint by 12:00 on Friday, April 25, so there is enough time to print all requested posters! 

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AWARDS ALERT!

As usual, every participant will have a chance to win an award!

Active participants have a chance to win

• Best Oral Presentation (3),

• Best Poster Presentation (3),

while all participants have a chance to win 

• The Most Attentive Listener (4).

To win the last prize, simply listen to the invited lectures, check our Instagram (@phdsspmf) afterwards and be the first one to correctly answer a lecture-related question. 

All award winners will be announced at the Closing ceremony!

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QUIZ TIME!

We’ll be wrapping up the Symposium with a quiz and informal gathering after the closing ceremony. So apply here either as a team or an individual (we will partner you up with others) for a chance to win a prize and end the PhDSS in style

We are excited to see you all soon!