1 ACTIVITY 001: Attendance at research seminars

1.1 BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 20 HOURS
The number of hours is an estimation. In general, it is recommended, for part and full time students, to attend at least at one seminar per semester.

1.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities all the information about the attendance to seminars. A certification of attendance to the seminars will not be required, only a signature from the advisor or the supervisor.

2 ACTIVITY 002: Attendance at specialised courses

2.1 BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 80 HOURS
The student can attend to any specialised course that deepen his understanding on the techniques and methods that he will need to accomplish his doctoral thesis. It is recommended to attend to three courses at least during his period as a Ph.D. student. It will be mandatory to complete at least one of them. Information and communication about specialised courses will be done annually by the Academic Commission. Also, at the request of the advisor, it will suggest to the students the more interesting ones for each of them and will point out those considered mandatory for the student.

2.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities all the information about the attendance to specialised courses. A certification of attendance will be required, as well as the syllabus and the number of teaching hours.

3 ACTIVITY 003: Exposition of communications in national and international workshops

3.1 BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 50 HOURS
The number of hours is an estimation. In general, it is recommended, for part and full time students, to participate in at least two workshops during its time as a Ph.D. student. They should be preferentially international workshops of high scientific prestige in the field of research of the Ph.D. student. In those workshops the student will submit a scientific contribution as a talk or poster.

3.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities all the information of works submitted to workshops. Specifically he must annotate the title and date of the workshop, the title and the type or the communication (talk or poster) The abstract and the certification of attendance will be included as well. The scientific community has its own system of evaluation though referee. Any work accepted by a SOC (Scientific Organizing Committee) is an indisputable merit and will be assessed positively with high marks as a Ph.D. student activity.

4 ACTIVITY 004: Preparation and exposition of two formal seminars.

4.1BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 50 HOURS
The Ph. D. student will have to prepare and present two formal seminars. The first will be done in the first 18 months and it will include his roadmap and his first results. The second one will include his results and conclusions and will be presented before his thesis defence, so it can be used as a preparation of it. Both seminars will take place at the Department of theoretical Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of the U.A.M.

4.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities all the information about the seminars conducted by the Ph.D. student.

5 ACTIVITY 005: Preparation of works to publish in research journals

5.1 BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 200 HOURS
The Ph. D. student take an active part in the writing of the articles that collect the results of his research and they will be published in scientific journals. This activity will be done by all the Ph. D. students and will be a key element to assess the quality of the doctoral thesis.

5.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities all the papers published where the candidate has been involved in some way. The degree of the involvement in the preparation and writing will be commented briefly.

6 ACTIVITY 006: Research stays in foreign centers

6.1 BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 520 HOURS
It is recommended that all the Ph. D. students at least stay three months in a foreign research center. The maingoal of these stays wlll be to do research related to the doctoral thesis. Furthermore, this stay is a necessary condition to obtain the International Doctorate Certification in the doctoral degree. The students will be encouraged to achieve it.

6.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The Ph. D student will be supervised by a researcher of the foreign center during his stay. This researcher will write a report about the work and performance of the student. That report will also comment on the educational activities (seminars, courses) the student participated in during his stay and his training in specific techniques. Before the stay the Academic Commission will be informed about the details of that stay to grant its authorisation. The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities a personal evaluation of the stay and will include the report of the foreign researcher. All the relevant documentation will be sent to the Academic Commission to include it in the Registry of Activities of the Ph.D. student.

7 ACTIVITY 007: Attendance to the weekly meetings of the Astrophysics club of the department of Theoretical Physics organised by the doctorate programme.

7.1 BASIC INFORMATION, DURATION: 40 HOURS
The various groups that work at the U.A.M. organise weekly "astro-ph clubs", where the attendants comment, voluntarily, the papers submitted to the Astrophysics/Cosmology database.

7.2 PROCEDURE FOR THE ADAPTATION
The advisor will annotate in the Document of the Doctoral Student Activities a general report about the participation of the Ph. D. student on those meetings. The degree in which the student has been involved in the preparation of his participations will be commented briefly. Being local meetings there is no mobility.