ST: Masters/Doctoral
Seminar - CS
6/76995 Fall 2004
MWF 3:15 - 4:20 AM
MSB 228
Instructor Office Hours
Email Telephone
Dr. Feodor Dragan
Room 254 MSB
MW 12:15 - 2:00 PM
and by appointment
dragan@cs.kent.edu (330)672-9058
Course Description: This is a seminar for master's
degree and doctoral students to present and discuss computer science-related
research and academics. Master's degree students are required to take at
least 2 credit hours for completion of degree and make at least one presentation
of project work or research. Doctoral students are required to take at
least 3 credit hours for completion of degree and make at least two presentations
of project work or research. The course may be taken multiple times but
only two credits count towards the master's degree for master's degree
students and only three credits count toward the doctoral degree for doctoral
students.
Prerequisites Graduate Standing in Computer Science.
Course Requirements:
Student must
attend ALL scheduled lectures Students MUST
attend all scheduled lectures and participate in class discussion.
The schedule is posted on this web page (http://www.cs.kent.edu/~dragan/MD-CS-Seminar.html)
and will be regularly updated. It is the student's responsibility
to keep track of the lecture schedule. Lectures will include topics
such as: writing CS research papers, publishing venues, library skills,
teaching skills, along with regular research presentations and invited
speakers.
A presentation
of current research or related work Students must
make at least one presentation during the term. A proposal of the
presentation must be submitted to the instructor at least one week before
the date of the talk. Also, all students must submit a proposal on
or before October 15. The presentation should be on your current research.
This includes work you are conducting for your thesis, investigations with
your advisor, recent publications you have been involved with, or a summary
of related work with respect to your research area/topic. Talks are to
be 30-45 minutes including questions.
A written 4-6
page summary of current work/research/related work Students must
submit a short paper (4-6 pages in IEEE proceedings format) by December
8th. This paper should summarize the current research you are conducting
towards your thesis, address related work of your topic, or be related
to recent work you are conducting with your advisor. You MUST use
proper formats for citations and references. Instructions for the IEEE
2 column format are found here in pdf
and
a template in Word.
Forms: Students
wanting to count their presentation towards their degree requirements must
fill out and submit the appropriate form. Download and fill out form
for
Masters or Doctoral presentation. Forms are in PDF and MSWord - type in
information and print out. Submit to Dr. Dragan.