Goals and Structure of the seminar

Goals

• Train giving and preparing talks
• Get feedback about own research
• Gain new Ideas for further projects
• Get an impression of what's going on at Ida and beyond
• Improve English skills

Structure of Talks

Research Ideas

This kind of seminar can be seen as a conference session. A chairman leads through the seminar and the audience changes between the talks.

Speaker:

• emails title and abstract (2 sentences) to chairman
• 10 minute talk in English
• introduces a recent research idea or some small part of his work
• alternatively a paper presentation is welcome too

• after the talk there is room for discussion & feedback (about 10 minutes)

Chairman:

• collect the titles and abstracts of each speaker
• invites ML group to the seminar via email
• introduces speaker
• has an eye on the time (10 minutes talk / 10 minutes discussion / 10 minutes talk / ...)

Project Talk

Speaker / Chairman: You have got between 0.5 -1 hour to present together your research project. Your talk should answer the following questions:

• What is the are the main goals of your project?
• Who is involved?
• What are you doing in this project?
• Where is machine learning involved?

This talk is mandatory for all PhD students.

==== Other Talks ====

There are also other talks like tutorials or conference reports. Speakers are free to choose content and form of presentation. They don't have to care for invitation via email.

==== FAQ ====

• Can I go to only one talk in a Research Ideas session?

Yes. You are welcome to go or enter between the talks.

• What is mandatory for whom?

Project Talks are mandatory for all PhD students. If you are a PhD student and you can't make it to a project talk, please let Klaus know via email.

• I found my name on the schedule but I can't make it on that day to TU?

Ask around and interchange with other speakers. Let the other people involved in the seminar know about the changes.