Graduate Seminar - CS585

Department of Computer Science

New Mexico Tech

INFORMATION

This course is oriented to teach students and prepare them to present themselves in general meetings. This also helps graduate students to improve their technical writing skills.  
 

Course requirement

This course requires every participant to give two presentations in the topic of their interest. Each presentation has to be 45 - 50 minutes long. Every presentation will be followed by 5 minutes of questioning. The topic of presentation can be the same for both the presentation or can be two different topics, of the participants' choice. Analytic material should be involved in presentations.  
 

Two reports of other participants' presentation should also be submitted by the end of this course. This report should be a summary of the content of presentation and short technical critic of the same. The participants are allowed to choose any two presentations of other participants, which interest them. The report should be no shorter than 300 words (diagrams and tables are considered as 30 words), should be spaced double line, font size 12 and font type is times new roman. 
 

As part of the finals, participants have to submit a final report of their own presentations. The report should be no shorter than 500 words. References should be quoted.  
 

Participation includes attendance and discussion. A 3 strike rule is followed. A strike is considered either coming later that 10 minutes after the class starts or missing a class without genuine reason. Penalties would vary from assignments to fail grade.  
 

Grading

• Two presentations carries 50% together

• Two reports of other participants presentation carries 20%

• Final report carries 20%

• Participation carries 10%

Sample topics

Information Security

Biomedical Informatics

Soft Computing

Topics involving problem solving (design of algorithms, proofs, applications of these algorithms). 
 

Note about plagiarism

Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. Within academia, plagiarism by students, professors, or researchers is considered academic dishonesty or academic fraud and offenders are subject to academic censure. Please follow the links below to know more about NMT's policy on academic honesty.

http://externalweb.nmt.edu/aaffairs/pdfs/acadhonesty.pdf

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~grad/studentinfo/Gradhb.html#ethics

ANNOUNCEMENT

Instructor

Dr. Andrew Sung

sung@cs.nmt.edu

Class email address:

seminar@cs.nmt.edu

Instruction Sheet

Rating Sheet

SLIDES

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

Divya Suryakumar's

09/03/08

Raveesh Chilakapati's

09/10/08 and 10/05/08

Bill Claycomb's

09/03/08

Dr.Frank's

Paper1 and Paper2

Sherry Thomas's

Hakan Akkan

Surya Teja Vemulapalli

Madhu Sudhan Batta

Rodrigo Lopes's

Komal Sudan

Ashish Mishra

11/19/08

Komal Sudan

Ashish Mishra

Dongyi Chen

11/26/08

12/03/08

12/10/08

12/17/08