News

New cohort of PhD Candidates complete
The new cohort of PhD Candidate is complete now. We will welcome the 12 new PhD Candidates in October 2018 in our Research Training Group and even sooner at our Summer Retreat. Congratulations to all successful applicants! You can find more information on the new cohort 2018 here.
Welcome to our Mercator Jeffrey Rouder
The qualification program for the fall winter semester is online! We will finally welcome our Mercator Fellow Jeffrey Rouder and have invited excellent external instructors: Trisha van Zandt (Ohio State University) and Henrik Singmann (University of Zurich), who will give workshops at our Research ...
European Basic Data Protection Regulation entered into force
The new European Basic Data Protection Regulation entered into force on May 25, 2018. For more information concerning data protection at the University of Mannheim please click here: www.uni-mannheim.de/datenschutzerklaerung/
Application closed and second semester started
The second semester at the Research Training Group SMiP just started. During this semester, the principal researchers teach advanced core courses concerning different model families, different skill trainings are offered, and Daniel Heck as well as external guests offer interesting workshops. The ...
Open Application and Winter Retreat
Application is open for the Ph.D. Cohort 2018 (starting October 2018). We are looking forward to your applications!!! The Winter Retreat 2017 / 2018 took place on February 17th / 18th. All members of the Research Training Group SMiP attended the meeting. As external guest we welcomed Daniel ...
Last teaching activities and external guests
At January, the 12th, the last teaching activity for the fall / winter semester 2017 took place. Now we are looking forward to our winter retreat in February. Here, we will welcome Dan Bernstein (Kwantlen Polytechnic University) as external guest and Eunike Wetzel (University of Mannheim, Assistant ...
New Program availlable/ Support for parents among the Ph.D. Candidates
The new program for the Spring/Summer Semester 2018 is now available online. The SMiP Equal Opportunities Commission meets for the first time. The SMiP Research Training Group supports parents among the Ph.D. Candidates by furnishing a parent-child-office and providing a laptop for working from ...
SMiP Kickoff Meeting
At the SMiP Kickoff Meeting (Mannheim, 20.10.2017) the newly established Research Training Group meets for the first time. The Ph.D. Candidates introduce themselves and their research plans, but also the SMiP researchers talk about their favorite piece of research, their favorite research tool, and ...