CoSy graduate seminar winter term 2011/2012

Procedure

Send out your paper to discuss (cosy-wi@...) on time: 1 week before your slot.

Select two PostDocs to serve as dedicated reviewers (and let them know they've been selected!).

Timetable current semester

date	14:00-15:30	15:40-17:10	presenter	topic	reviewers	absentees
Apr-18	X				NN,NN
Apr-18		X	Arne		Holger, Carl
May-9	X		Christian G		Diedrich
May-9		X	Immo		Mehul, Carl
May-23	X		Jasper		Lutz,Diedrich
May-23		X	Jae		NN,NN
Jun-6	X		Jacob		NN,NN
Jun-6		X	Ana-Maria		NN,NN
Jun-20	X		Chunyuan Cai		NN,NN
Jun-20		X	Rami		NN,NN
Jul-4	X		Sandra		NN,NN
Jul-4		X	Rasmus		NN,NN
Jul-18	X		Jan-Frederik		NN,NN
Jul-18		X			NN,NN

PostDoc Reviewer High-Score

(please avoid overloading someone with review assignments)

name	# of reviews
Holger	7
Carl	5
Diedrich	5
Frank	4
Lutz	3
Mehul	3
Thomas	2
Falko	1

Timetable previous semester

date	14:00-15:30	15:40-17:10	presenter	topic	reviewers	absentees
Nov-9(*)		16:00-17:30	Immo	Plan Recognition by Logical Inference on Uncertain and Incomplete Observations	Frank, Diedrich
Nov-23	X		Christian G	Tactile Maps Requirements	Lutz, Holger
Nov-23		X	Giorgio	Thesis introduction	Lutz, Holger
Dez-7	X		Jan-Frederik	Mental Imagery SotA	Holger, Thomas
Dez-7		X	Paolo	Thesis introduction	Mehul, Diedrich
Jan-25	X		Jasper	Communication Support in Spatially Distributed Environments	Frank,Carl
Jan-25		X	Rasmus	On Visual and Spatial Information Processing	Falko,Carl
Feb-1	X		Chunyuan Cai	Geographic Information Sharing based on Augmented Reality	Frank, Carl
Feb-1		X	Jacob	Hybridisation of Inference and Learning	Frank,Holger
Feb-8	X		Rami	Framework for Predicting Qualitative Concepts	Diedrich, Thomas
Feb-8		X	Ana-Maria	Interpretation and Inference with Spatial Image Schemas	Holger, Mehul

What is the graduate seminar?

The graduate seminar is a place for you doctoral students of our group to discuss their own research. You are expected to submit a piece of your current research which contains penetrating questions or some loose ends on which others' opinion and thoughts may be valuable. You can expect to receive constructive feedback to help you move on. Additionally, you select two PostDocs of our group which have the duty of preparing an in-depth (oral) review.

Submissions are typically short scientific texts that address a specific part of your thesis work, for example statements on your research questions (which will eventually become the 1st chapter of your thesis), sections of an article you want to make bullet- or even reviewer-proof, a discussion of work related to your research, or you may even give a test presentation for an upcoming talk at a conference. Prepare for a 90 minute time slot and feel free to discuss opportunities with your advisor!

Submissions are supposed to be distributed one week in advance by mail to cosy-wi@...

Organization

Attendance is mandatory for all doctoral students on all dates. Also, having a contribution is mandatory. Please acknowledge that the dates of the seminar are communicated in advance and it is your duty to reserve the time slots, thus there are no excuses. Although attendance is not mandatory for PostDocs they are strongly encouraged to do so and invitations to serve as a reviewer are the kind of offers that cannot be refused.

On each date there are two slots a 90 minutes, so including time for a short break reserve the time slot 14:00 - 17:15. Roughly, each slots comprises about 10 minutes introduction by the presenting student, 10 minutes per reviewing PostDoc, and discussion.

Please remember, CoSy rocks!

For those not believing in the fairness of the slot distribution process, here's the computer program you may want to blame (use sbcl --script seminar-assignment.lisp to invoke).