Structure of the Seminar

This seminar can be seen as a conference session. A chairman leads through the seminar and the audience can change between the contributions. We have two roles:

Speaker:

• chooses a type of contribution (default is 20/10-talk)
• provides title, abstract and type of contribution (if not default) to chairman
• presents in English

Types of Contribution:

• 20/10-talk: 20 minutes talk about current research followed by 10 minutes discussion & feedback

• Think Tank: Pure discussion (< 30 min ) about a future research idea or a problem the speaker stumbled upon that needs to be solved

• Tutorial: An in-depth talk (< 45 min) about the speaker's current research or an introduction to a hot topic being new to the group

Chairman:

• Sends an email to the speakers and asks for the titles and abstracts some days in advance

• invites ML group to the seminar via email (talk@ml.tu-berlin.de)

• introduces speaker
• has an eye on the time

Other Talks

• Bachelor and Master defenses can be part of the seminar, which usually take 20 minutes talk and 10 minutes discussion.
• There will also be invited speakers which are free to choose content, length and form of presentation.

Goals of the seminar

• 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