Presentations
Each student will do one paper/topic presentation during the course, due to the amount of enrolled students being sufficient for that. Everyone must choose one paper/topic to present from the provided list. The list will be filled in a first-come first-served basis. Please find the list (log into courses to see the link). and mark both your preferred date and topic using your pseudonym (please don't use your real name). You can find your pseudonym in this link. If it turns out that there are schedule conflicts we will resolve them during the first session.
Suggestions of papers and topics are very welcome and may be proposed in the form or to the lecturer.
Auditing students and participants are also welcome to pick a topic and present it if they so desire. We have at least two weeks reserved for it towards the end of the course.
Presentation format
What is expected from you during your presentation:
- That you go through the paper or topic chosen and prepare a comprehensive presentation of between 30 minutes to 1 hour about it.
When presenting a paper, feel free to add information not provided in the paper in order to better explain it if need be. Related content that you think is important for others to know, and maybe eventually more updated than what is presented in the paper, is also good to include. More specifically, the paper presentation should touch on the following points:
- What is the motivation of the paper?
- What is the novelty of the paper? What does it aim to improve?
- Explain the methodology.
- What are the results?
- How can we re-simulate the experiment setup?
- What questions did you have about the paper, and what was confusing?
- Your opinion on the paper/ How to improve the work.
- If you want to go beyond, feel free to implement the paper and show it during your presentation (especially if the code is provided with the article) or any other experiments you feel inspired to try after reading it.
When presenting about a general topic, focus on building a presentation that currently encompasses the state-of-the-art of that topic. Try to bring examples and implementations of things you mention. It is also fine and a good idea to mention and briefly explain papers supporting your assertions in the presentation.
A few more general pointers for the presentation:
- Remember your audience! Try to explain things so it would be understandable to other students who didn't read the paper or don't know about the topic. It is better to make it simpler rather than too complicated.
- Make the presentation engaging! Show us pictures, implementations, etc, and try to build your presentation around these.
After the presentation, we will have around 30 to 45 minutes of discussions/questions about it or any other related point.
Evaluation methodology
For enrolled students, in order to pass the course it is required that you:
- As explained before, pick a topic, build your seminar and present in the aforementioned format;
- Come up with three different questions (could be more, but not too many more) related to the topic and make a google form with them. You can select what kind of answers, format, etc, you wish at your discretion, but these questions do not need to be overly complicated. Instead, you should aim to make questions whose answers will lead other people to better understand the topic/article.
- Send the form to the lecturer, who will post them in the webpage, in the Schedule tab. Other enrolled students will access the form and answer them. You will them grade their answer in a simple manner (1 point if satisfactory answer, 0.5 if halfway there or so, etc), and submit the results to the lecturer. The deadline for this is until a week after the course's last meeting, Jun 11.
Students that score at least 50% in the total amount of points answering the form questions, attend at least 75% of the sessions and present their seminar will pass the course.