MScSeminar 2018 Spring

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Useful links

How to write a great research paper (thesis) by Simon Peyton Jones.

Selecting the Research Method

Deadlines

  • Feb 21: Add description of which method you are going to use in your MSc thesis. Submit it to ained.ttu.ee to the appropriate assignment.
  • March 11 5: Review deadline (3 reviews each)
  • March 28: Background and related work chapter submission.
  • April 16: Review deadline (2 reviews each)
  • April-May: Defence talk practice.

Plan

Jan 31: Intro

Feb 7: Seminar on reviewing.

Feb 14: Interactive session on problem statement and methodology.

Feb 21: Seminar on background and related work.

March 14: Seminar on analysis of reviewing

March 21: Seminar on writing thesis in Latex. An example of TTÜ thesis template in Latex is here.

April 4 - May 16: Student presentations according to the schedule at ained.ttu.ee

Grading

  • 10% of 100%: Problem statement and methodology, another 10% of 100% for giving feedback to problem statements submitted by others.
  • 40% of 100%: Background and related work submission.
  • 10% of 100%: Feedback to background and related work submissions by other students (3 each).
  • 30% of 100%: Your mock defence talk and participation in seminars where other students give talks. Note that you will need to submit your current draft of the thesis by the time you give the talk. The draft is not marked, but it will be used for questions after your talk.

The final grade will be calculated as follows from the sum of the above results:

  • 90% or more: 5
  • 80% or more: 4
  • 70% or more: 3
  • 60% or more: 2
  • 50% or more: 1
  • less than 50%: 0