Research Proposal Meeting

The Research Proposal Meeting is held about 1.5 to 2 years following your admission into the Ph.D. programme. It is usually conducted after you pass your comprehensive exam. You will have to document your your proposal in about 10 pages and then make a presentation for exactly 20 minutes. In this document you should highlight the following:

1. Introduce your work
2. Provide a comprehensive literature survey so that you can identify gaps in the research.
3. Highlight and discuss this gap.
4. Frame objectives with an aim to fill the gap you identified.
5. Frame methods and experiments to do what it takes to address the objectives
6. Show preliminary results that shows that your methods show promise of leading to adressing the gaps in the literature.
7. Discuss, what you have done so far and what is remaining.
8. Provide a time-line through a gantt chart describing milestones such as, first seminar, first paper, conference, second paper, etc.

To write your proposal use the template. This folder contains two .tex files. One of them is the source code for the actual RPM document. The other one will generate a standalone gantt chart. What you need to modify in the .tex files is clearly indicated.