MASTER
RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE
Research Master in Computer Science
- VANNES Location -
ssi.m2ri AT listes.univ-ubs.fr
Master Objectives
The Computer Science Research Master is administered by a consortium of the main computer science universities and graduate schools of Brittany, regrouped to offer an exceptional framework for training researchers in a research environment: Université de Rennes 1, Université de Bretagne-sud, Université de Bretagne occidentale, ENS Cachan Brittany branch, École nationale d’ingénieurs de Brest (ENIB), Institut national des sciences appliquées school of Rennes (INSA), Supélec and Télécom Bretagne.
This Master in Computer Sciences is accessible for students holding a 4th year diploma in computer science (delivered by universities or engineering colleges). Admission is validated after the jury of the Master has positively reviewed the files of the candidates.Choice of a thematic track
The Master aims at providing each student with an advanced knowledge in one research domain, focussed but wide enough to enable PhD theses on sufficiently various subjects. Partners of the consortium offer a wide range of thematic tracks, corresponding to the research competences of the different institutions, which are both current and fundamental research and leading-edge technology problems. The tracks may thus evoluate. Each student chose one track among ten, available at one of the four sites of the master (RENNES, LANNION, BREST or VANNES). For a complete description of the master, please visit the RENNES site.
These 10 tracks have been validated by the global Media and Networks Competitiveness Cluster.
The general knowledge part represents 2 teaching modules (20h;
4
ECTS), selected by the student among the 3 proposed ones. The courses
are attended locally or remotely via videoconference. They are
evaluated each year and may be renewed every two years.
The
teaching modules of the common-core syllabus are: Data
Analysis
and Stochastic Modelings (ADM),
Introduction to Distributed Computing (ASR),
and Continuous and Combinatorial Optimization (OPT).
In addition to the 2 modules, the students attend some 3 hours
course-conferences, proposed by the personnel of the teams of
reception among others. (cf. module META below).
The methodological training comprises a bibliographical study,
the
training of techniques of oral expression resulting in the
participation in the colloquium of the specialism, a cycle of
conferences and seminars, and a working experience in a research team
(internship).
A bibliographical study (BIBL;
6 ECTS), essential in any research task, is carried on the subject of
the student's internship. This bibliographical study is evaluated by
a reading committee which transmits to the student remarks aiming at
the improvement of the document. This exercise is organized like a
scientific article submission.
The colloquium of the
specialism MRI (COLQ;
2 ECTS) gives any student the opportunity to present a scientific
paper in a limited amount of time. This work is organized in three
phases: training of the techniques of oral communication, oral
practising and the colloquium itself. The contents of the
presentation are founded on the bibliographical study. This
colloquium is opened to all the components of the Matisse doctoral
institute.
A cycle of conferences (META)
is mandatorily followed by the students. In this cycle, various
speakers give presentations on the techniques of oral or written
scientific communication (module RAS
), on the trades of research, the organization of research, research
property, or the some domains of research.
The internship (24
ECTS) is 5 months long, usually between the beginning of February and
the end of June (exception for internship abroad are possible for
example). A wide range of internships is available every year in the
research laboratories of the partner institutions, but the internship
can also be done in high-tech industries, or within a partnership
research team-industry. The internish results in a written report,
reviewed by external personalities, and an oral presentation.
The organization of initiation to research is one of the aspects of our master's specialism that we have particularly developed:
integration of the students, from the very beginning of the year (October) in a research team so that they have as soon as possible a working environment close to that used by the researchers
very strong supervision from the encadror. Indeed, the encadrors are put very early in contact with the students through the exercises of the bibliography (BIBL) and colloquium (COLQ) modules where their role is dominating. COLQ, at the end of the first semester, gives an opportunity to the students to familiarize with scientific presentations
scientific conferences regularly organized for the students of the specialism
presence of a extra-scientific part in the syllabus (META)
Each year, many PhD research grants are proposed to post-graduate students to pursue a PhD diploma into the research teams supported by the partner intitutions:
RENNES and LANNION
IRISA (Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires UMR 6074, http://www.irisa.fr),
BREST
LISyC (laboratoire d’informatique des systèmes complexes EA3883 (http://www.lisyc.univ-brest.fr/),
VANNES
VALORIA, computer sciences lab. at Université de Bretagne-Sud (http://www.univ-ubs.fr/valoria).