ITI0080-2015

MSc seminar, Spring semester 2014/2015

The seminar is for students who have regisetered to courses with codes ITI0080 and ITX8301.

The seminar takes place on Thursdays at 16:00-17:30 in room ICT-A2.

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

Deadlines for those who plan to graduate in 2015:

• End of February: Choose your MSc supervisor, arrange a meeting, discuss the topic.
• March 15: Send by e-mail a 1-2 page thesis problem statement with research questions to juhan.ernits@ttu.ee.
• April 16 (extended from April 2): Send by e-mail the 1st draft of the thesis (min 5 pages).
• May 18: registration of the application to defend the thesis in ÕIS.

Deadlines for students in their second semester (all items should be communicated by e-mail to juhan.ernits@ttu.ee):

• End of February: Choose your MSc topic area.
• March 15: Choose your supervisor and preliminary topic.
• April 2: Written bacground description, 2-3 pages.
• April 16: Written related work report, additional 2-3 pages.

All students will have to give an oral presentation during the meetings in April-May. It will be necessary to be present in at least 80% of the presentation sessions.

Calendar

• Feb 5: Introduction
• Feb 12: Working with computer science literature
• Feb 19: Preparing documents in Latex (optional)
• Feb 26 - March 19: No seminar
• March 26 April 2: Feedback on problem statements
• April 9: Notes on writing and tips on how to give a talk
• April : Feedback on thesis drafts
• April 16: Oral presentations (Priit Järv, TBA, TBA )
• April 23: Time management
• April 30: Oral presentations (Julia, Jens, Siim)
• May 7: Oral presentations (Jonas, Nadežda, TBA)
• May 14: Oral presentations (Priit, Vadim, Daniil)
• May 21: Wrap-up (back-up slot)