Information for PhD students finishing their thesis

IPA Dissertation Series

If you are an IPA PhD member about to finish your PhD thesis, please note that IPA maintains a list of dissertations, the `IPA Dissertation Series', consisting of all PhD theses written in an IPA research group under the auspices of an IPA researcher. The IPA Dissertation Series helps in promoting the research conducted within IPA and provides individual PhD researchers the opportunity to reach a large audience.

IPA encourages its members finishing their thesis to be included in this list; this can be achieved as follows:

  1. You can (optionally) add the IPA logo in the beginning of your PhD thesis; you must include the slogan that the `work in the thesis has been carried out under the auspices of the research school IPA (Institute for Programming research and Algorithmics)' (mandatory); and you must include the IPA Dissertation Series in the back.
  2. you send a hard copy and a digital copy (pdf only) of your PhD thesis to the IPA office.
  3. you send a copy of your PhD thesis to each of the IPA research leaders, advisory board members, and sponsors and IPA will refund you Euro 11,50 per copy sent .
    Starting 1 January 2012, sending hard copies to research leaders is optional; if hard copies are sent to research leaders, the IPA office will refund you for these copies.
    From 2013 onwards, sending hard copies to research leaders will no longer be refunded.

Miscellaneous

The files needed to include the IPA logo can be found below. To obtain a number in the IPA Dissertation Series, and the LaTeX file containing the list of theses in the series that has to be included in the back, contact the IPA office (ipa `at' tue.nl).

There seem to be some problems sometimes with including the IPA logo in a LaTeX source file. We therefore present two ways of including the logo. If you still have problems, please mail contact the IPA office.