The next meetings of the BiGSEM doctoral council will be on May 5, June 6 and July 11. BiGSEM students who are not yet officially accepted as a doctoral student are asked to apply for acceptance two weeks in advance.

Two BiGSEM students will hold their rigorosa next week.

Sonja Brangewitz Feb 27, 10am, U3-140, Dissertation Topic "Coalitional and Strategic Market Games"
Jan-Philip Gamp Feb 28, 11am, U3-140, Dissertation Topic "Games and their Relation to Markets"

The BiGSEM-students have hold their vote on the new dotoral representative. Tobias Hellmann got elected nem con and is from now on acting as a conduit between the doctoral students and the program administration as well as suggesting solutions to problems related to campus life for the BiGSEM-doctoral students. Congratulations!

Davide Radi is visiting BiGSEM in 2012. He is a second year Ph. D. student in Economics, Applied Mathematics and Operational Research at the department of Mathematics, Statistics, Computing and Applications "Lorenzo Mascheroni" (Bergamo University) and is doing his research at BiGSEM as a visiting student invited by Prof. Dr. Herbert Dawid. His research interests are Evolutionary Game Theory, Nonlinear Hydrid dynamical systems and Differential Games while he is also interested in Random dynamical systems and occupancy problems. He previous education is a bachelor's degree in Information Technology Management for Business and a MSc in Economics from Urbino University.

The EBIM Doctoral Workshop taken place at Bielefeld University on the 5-7 of December has been perceived as a wide success in the eyes of all participants. It is entirely organized independently by the EBIM doctoral students. For the 6th time, other doctoral students were invited to talk about their research in various fields of theoretical economics, ranging from game theory to financial markets. Out of more than fifty applicants, fourteen speakers who research at high reputation universities presented their ideas and results. These were introduced in talks of a very high quality and the workshop furthermore benefited from a professional attitude of all participants. During a poster session the EBIM doctoral students themselves were able to give an overview of their research topics. The guest speakers felt very welcome at Bielefeld University and praised the hospitality and the organization of their hosts. The workshop became a fruitful exchange of ideas and concepts that the international guests agreed upon should take place again next year. Since 2006 this workshop series is hosted by the EBIM doctoral students and thus it can claim to have the longest history of its kind in Germany.

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To tailor EBIM better to the needs and requirements of doctoral researchers a questionnaire was distributed among the students which was completed in the following way.

75 % was the rate of return (12/16). Four categories were given: highly satisfied, satisfied, unsatisfied and highly unsatisfied

Students were higly satisfied with: the academic supervision (8/12), the leadership (speaker) (7/12), the office of coordination (8/12), other facilities (7/12) and the application process (9/12),

satisfied with: the study program (7/12), the preparation of a postdoctoral career (6/12), the combination of career and family (5/12),their research stay in Paris (8/12) and dissatisfied with the equipement of their workplace (6/12).

Overall all students are either highly satisfied or satisfied with the structured graduate program EBIM.

The new DFG-Infobrief is online. The DFG-Infobrief provides a brief look at the findings of statistical analyses on research funding policies and on individual DFG funding programmes. This issue's topic is Gemeinsam zum Doktortitel – Promotionen im Rahmen von Graduiertenkollegs und Sonderforschungsbereichen im Vergleich. An English version will be available soon.

On Saturday, January 14, EBIM will host a joint workshop with our partners from the University Paris 1 on Social and Economic Networks. Please find the program here.

The symposium on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Bielefeld Graduate School of Economics and Management is coming close. It will take place on December 6, 2011, at 3pm at the ZiF. Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

The next meetings of the BiGSEM doctoral council will be on October 19, December 7 and February 1. BiGSEM students who are not yet officially accepted as a doctoral student are asked to apply for acceptance.