ST:
Masters/Doctoral
Seminar - CS
6/76995 Spring 2005
MWF 3:15 - 4:20 AM
MSB 228
Instructor Office Hours
Email Telephon
Dr. Feodor Dragan
Room 254 MSB
MW 2:00 - 3:00 PM, 4:30 - 5:30 PM
and by appointment dragan
at cs dot kent dot 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-SeminarS05.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 March 9. 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 May
6th.
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.