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Doctorate Regulations of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science the requirements to be met, thereby fixing an appropriate period for fulfilment of the requirements. On application by the doctoral candidate, for good reasons the period may be extended. In case requirements are not met within the time limit, the doctoral thesis is considered to have been refused, whereupon the respective person is informed accordingly in writing, including an advice on legal remedies. After fulfilment of the requirements, the council will again decide on the acceptance of the doctoral thesis and, if so, on its assessment. Should the doctoral thesis be refused, the doctoral procedure is terminated. The dean of the responsible faculty will inform the respective person accordingly in writing, including grounds and an advice on legal remedies. Sec. 9 Oral Doctoral Examination (1) If the doctoral thesis has been accepted, the competent dean will shortly fix a date, normally during the lecture period, and a place in the rooms of the responsible faculty where the oral examination will be held, if this kind of examination has been selected. Place and date of the oral doctoral examination will be communicated in writing to the doctoral candidate and the council members as per Sec. 7 Para. 5 with indication of the title of the doctoral thesis and will furthermore be announced to the university public at the universities as per Sec. 4 Para. 1. There must be at least five working days between announcement and examination. The examination is presided by the chairperson of the examination board. (2) The professors as per Sec. 4 Para. 2 have the right of access to the oral examinations. Further listeners may be admitted with the consent of the doctoral candidate and the examination chairperson. (3) Each doctoral candidate has to be examined individually. The examination begins with a short presentation of 15 - 20 minutes duration, in which the doctoral candidate outlines the essential parts and results of the doctoral thesis. The short presentation is normally accessible to the university public; by agreement with the doctoral candidate, the examination chairperson may restrict admission to participants as per Sec. 9 Para. 2. The subsequent non-public examination talk extends to the major subject (Sec. 9 Para. 4), and the minor subject (Sec. 9 Para. 5). In all, it has a duration of 60 minutes minimum, 100 minutes maximum, thereof at least 30 minutes in the major subject. The examination in the major subject is to extend to different fields, among them the subject area mainly touched by the doctoral thesis. In the oral doctoral examination, subsequent to the examinations in the major and minor subjects, each professor present may ask questions as to the doctoral thesis and the examination subjects. (4) The subjects eligible as majors have to belong to the subject categories specified in the annexe to the Doctoral Regulations. They are determined by the relevant competent faculty. (5) The subjects from the subject categories specified in the annexe may be freely combined as major and minor subjects. The relevant faculty may decide to also admit other subjects as examinations subjects. It is not allowed to combine subjects extensively overlapping with each others. Sec. 10 Thesis Defence (1) If the doctoral thesis has been accepted, the competent dean will shortly fix a date, normally during the lecture period, and a place in the rooms of the responsible faculty where the thesis defence will be held, if this kind of examination has been selected. Place and date of the thesis defence will be communicated in writing to the doctoral candidate and the council members as per Sec. 7 Para. 5 with indication of the title of the doctoral thesis and will furthermore be announced to the university public at the universities as per Sec. 4 Para. 1. There must be at least five working days between announcement and examination. The examination is presided by the chairperson of the examination board. (2) The thesis defence is accessible to the university public. (3) Each doctoral candidate has to be examined individually. The thesis defence begins with a presentation of 45 minutes duration maximum, in which the doctoral candidate outlines the essential contents and results of the doctoral thesis and integrates them into the scientific environment. After the presentation, at first the council members as per Sec. 7 Para. 5 have the right to ask questions relating to the topic and the scientific environment. Subsequently, attendees are given the opportunity to ask questions as to the presentation. Duration of the thesis defence shall be at least 75 minutes, but not extend 120 minutes.
Doctorate Regulations of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Sec. 11 Assessment of Oral Examination or Thesis Defence and Overall Assessment of Graduation Performances (1) Directly after the oral doctoral examination or the thesis defence, the examination board will ascertain in a non-public session if and with which result the doctoral candidate has passed the oral doctoral examination or the thesis defence, which grade will be allocated to the doctoral thesis, and the overall assessment awarded to the graduation performances. In case according to Sec. 8 Para. 8 a grade for the doctoral thesis is already available, such grade has to be adopted. Prior to that, the examination board may turn for advice to the professors having attended the oral doctoral examination or the thesis defence. Each assessment awarded by one of the examiners involved is of equal weight. For decision making, in case of an oral examination the impression received from the short presentation will also have to be taken into account. For the thesis defence assessment, the presentation quality and the topical reference of questions asked have to be taken into consideration as well. Each assessment has to be expressed in grades as per Sec. 8 Para. 2, or the respective examination has to be assessed failed. In fixing the grade of the doctoral thesis, each assessment awarded by one of the supervisors involved is of equal weight. When determining the overall assessment awarded to the graduation performances, the assessment of the doctoral thesis is of a weight of 2/3. Depending on the overall impression gained from the respective examination performances, the examination board may, as additional assessment decision, round up or down the result of each calculation of average between two full grades to the nearest full grades as per Sec. 8 Para. 2. The overall assessment of excellent may only be allocated when the doctoral thesis and the oral examination or thesis defence, respectively, have each been assessed as excellent. (2) If a doctoral candidate fails to appear at the examination or discontinues the examination, the examination is deemed failed, unless adequate grounds are provided. In case adequate grounds have been delivered, the dean will fix a new examination date, taking into consideration Sec. 9 Para. 1 or Sec. 10 Para. 1, respectively. (3) Short minutes have to be taken of the oral examination or the thesis defence, as the case may be. Besides indications as to place, date, time of beginning and termination of the examination, the minutes will contain the names of the doctoral candidate, the examiners, and, in case of the oral doctoral examination, names of further attendees the title of the doctoral thesis the ascertainment that the examination has been passed the grade of the oral doctoral examination or the thesis defence, the grade of the doctoral thesis, the overall grade of the graduation performances. The minutes have to be signed by the chairperson of the examination board. (4) The chairperson of the examination board will inform the doctoral candidate without delay of the results specified in Sec. 11 Para. 3 and will make out to her or him a preliminary certification of the graduation result. (5) In case the oral doctoral examination or thesis defence is deemed failed, the doctoral candidate may repeat the oral doctoral examination or thesis defence once after three months at the earliest and after twelve months at the latest. (6) The doctoral procedure is terminated when the doctoral candidate has not applied for a repetition within one year after having failed the oral doctoral examination or thesis defence or when the doctoral procedure has definitively been failed. The dean of the responsible faculty will inform the doctoral candidate in writing of the termination of the procedure, including grounds and an advice on legal remedies. (7) The examination board may impose conditions on the doctoral candidate as to the final version of the doctoral thesis to be published. The determination of such conditions has to be specified in the minutes of the examination. Fulfilment of the conditions will be checked and certified by the board chairperson according to Sec. 7 Para. 5. Sec. 12 Duplication of Doctoral Thesis (1) Within six months of passing the oral doctoral examination or thesis defence, the doctoral candidate has to publish the approved final version of the doctoral thesis. The regulations for publication and delivery of the doctoral thesis as well as the number of copies to be delivered will be determined by the responsible faculty in compliance with the general guidelines decided upon by the Senate of Leibniz Universität Hannover.
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