CS Seminar Fall 2004 Class Essentials

Polly Huang

http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/~phuang

The Regulations

Important Course

• This is a required course

• You must pass the course to not jeopardize your status as a grad student in NTU EE

Passing the Course

• It is easy– Sign up for the course every week– You are allowed to miss the sign-up sheets for

up to 3 times– 3.0 is the absence quota– You fail the course if absence value exceeds the

3.0 quota after the last seminar

Here’s a fairness issue…

Some come in very late for the class or come in only at the end of the class

or 請假 many times

Therefore, the New Policy

• We lock the back door• Check list will be with the assistant in the back by

the door• Each of you will come in and the assistant will

check a box on the check list indicated by you– It’s your free will if you’d check for someone else

• Those who come in during these time slots will be deducted of the absence quota respectively– 1:40-1:50, 1:50-2:00, 2:00-2:10, after 2:10– 0.25, 0.5. 0.75, 1

請假• You are supposed to not to unless it’s emergency

(the 3.0 quota is to accommodate the emergency)• If it’s prior to the seminar with acceptable reason,

it’s counted as 0.5 in the absence quota• If it’s after the seminar due to unavoidable

emergency, it’s counted as 0. 5 in the absence quota

• Others are not accepted and will be calculated based on the check time

Make Up

• If you happen to have too many emergency and stuff, you need to make up for the time you did not attend for the seminars

• A list of recent papers relevant to the talks in the CS seminar this semester

• Pick one to write an acceptable 2-page, 11 pt, double space technical review about

• It will make up for 1 quota• The reviews must be in by Jan 3, 2005 2:10 pm.

The Acceptable Paper Review

• Should contain– the paper title, a summary, an evaluation

• The evaluation could be positive or negative with elaborated comments on the – 1) clarity, – 2) correctness, – 3) originality, and – 4) significance of the paper

The Talks

Two Types

• Guest speakers– Are being scheduled as we speak– Sept 20 and Oct 11 already– More to come

• Student speakers– Other slots will be for students– You all take draws on being speakers and

moderators

Student Weeks

• M1 and D1 are candidate moderators– Draws from 1 to 70

– Sorted from the smallest to the highest

– Smallest moderates first

• M2 and above, D2 and above are candidate presenters– Draws from 1 to 150

– Sorted from the smallest to the highest

– Smallest presents first

Results

• Will be on the CS seminar web page to be announced next week

• Those who did not take the draw today must make up and take the draw– Wed 12:30 pm, Boli building 604, 戴上為

• Those who did not take the make up draw will be up before those who did

• You are free to find a substitute speaker/moderator if you could, but let us know ahead of time

Student Presentations

• The topics should be relevant to your research

• A no show presentation implies that the student fails the course without any way of making it up

The above policies and regulations will be strictly enforced from next week!

Tell your other grad student friends!

This set of slides will be available from:

http://nslab.ee.ntu.edu.tw/courses/cs-seminar-fall-04/