Overview

This seminar series includes two consecutive, independent sections, plus two 3-days workshops.

For each section, the first lectures will include a brief introduction by the teacher about the research area, with an overview of the the state-of-the-art and the current trends.

In the remaining lectures of each section, two or three research papers for each lecture will be presented and discussed by the students.

During the last lecture of each section, it will be held a poster session where each student will present a paper through a poster, interacting with the audience about the paper contributions, methods, etc…

In the presentation of the paper, students should cover:

• Aims and objective of the paper
• Some related work
• The main contributions of the paper
• Methods
• Presented experiments
• ...

In the discussion of the paper students should critically focus on:

• Impact of the presented paper, i.e. relevance and applicability
• Novelty (is it a new idea? is the approach novel?)
• Soundness (are the results convincing? is the methodology sound?)
• Main limitations
• ...

Each paper will be presented by a student and discussed by another student.

Some questions will be asked by the teacher and possibly by the students during the presentation and/or the discussion.

Lectures Schedule

• Wednesday h. 10-12 room A7 
• Thursday h. 17:30 - 19 room A7 
• Friday h. 12:30-14 room A6

Paper Selection

Papers are assigned on a first come first serve basis. The papers list will be published in the course Moodle page after the introductory lectures. You can only pick one paper of the ones still remaining.

Evaluation

To pass the exam students should:

• Attend at least two lectures at your choice every week, including workshops (one absence for each section is tolerated)
• For each section:
  (a) Present 1 paper (the presentation slide should be sent in advance, at least two days before the presentation)
  (b) Discuss 1 paper
  (c) Prepare and present a poster about a paper