MScSeminar-2015-fall

ITX8301 and ITX8302 will take place at the same time.

MSc seminar, Autumn semester 2015/2016

The seminar is for students who have regisetered to courses with codes ITX8301 and ITX8302.

The first meeting is on Friday, September 18, at 12:00-13:30 in room ICT-411. The other meetings of the seminar take place on Wednesdays at 16:00-17:30 in room ICT-411.

The goal of the seminar is to work with the Problem Statement and background and related work of your MSc thesis topic.

Deadlines for students registered to ITX8302:

   October 9: Choose your MSc supervisor, arrange a meeting, discuss the topic.
   October 23: Send by e-mail a 1-2 page thesis problem statement with research questions to juhan.ernits@ttu.ee.
   November 13: Send by e-mail the 1st draft of the thesis (min 5 pages).
   End of November, beginning of December: Oral presentation on the topic of your thesis. 

Deadlines for students registered to ITX8301 (all items should be communicated by e-mail to juhan.ernits@ttu.ee):

   October 9: Choose your potential MSc topic area.
   October 23: Choose your supervisor and preliminary topic.
   November 13: Written background description, 2-3 pages.
   End of November, beginning of December: 2 oral presentations on research performed in the area of interest. 

All students will have to give an oral presentation during the meetings in November-December. Some useful guidelines for how to present your work can be found here. It will be necessary to be present in at least 80% of the presentation sessions. The agenda is available in a document shared to you on OneDrive.

Calendar

   September 18: Introduction
   September 23: Working with computer science literature
   September 30: Preparing documents in Latex (optional)
   October 7 - October 21: No seminar
   October 28: Feedback on problem statements
   November 18: How to give talks
   November - December : Oral presentations by students.