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582710 PhD student seminar (1 cr/semester, max 6 cr)

A total of 6 credits (i.e., six terms) from PhD Student Seminars are compulsory for a PhD degree. All 6 credits are given at the end of the PhD studies of a student.

The seminar meets about two times per term.

General

Professors in charge: Professor Jussi Kangasharju, Professor Jyrki Kivinen, Professor Jukka Paakki

Time: Fridays 18 September, 13 November 2009, 22 January, 26 March, 2010 at 12-16; the seminar will continue in the autumn of 2010.

Room: B222

Language: English

Registration: Please register here. (If you registered during 2008-2009, you do not have to register again.)

Email list: Please join the moderated cs-doctoral-list to receive emails about this seminar and PhD studies in general.

Who will or should attend?

The seminar is an obligatory part of the postgraduate studies at the Department of Computer Science for students that have been accepted for postgraduate studies after 1 August 2008. New students should attend the seminar from the beginning. Students who have started their postgraduate studies during the last years are highly recommended to attend.

To pass the seminar students should

• attend at least 75% of the meetings during 3 years (i.e., 9 times out of 12 if the seminar meets twice/term)
• give at least two presentations
  • a presentation after about two years of studies on the student's progress so far: the first half of the presentation would be on a general level (remember your audience) about that you have done so far, the other half about what your thesis will look like and also how your plan to finish the thesis looks like
  • a presentation on a chosen subject, e.g., the topic of an accepted conference article
• review papers and get reviews for own papers
• Some suggestions for talks and discussion
• A possibility to replace some of the obligatory requirements with some other task by agreement of the teachers.

Programme 2009-2010

The programme is still mostly open.

• Friday 18 September 2009, at 12-16 in room B222
  • New students: Fabian Fagerholm: one slide presentation
  • Doris Entner: Causal inference from economic time series data
  • Laura Langohr: Finding representative nodes in probabilistic graphs

  • Small break

  • Group work: How should the PhD studies be developed at the department (bottle necks, problems, what should the dept do, what should the students do)
  • Presentation of group work and discussion
    • Team 1: slides
    • Team 2: slides
    • Team 3: slides
    • Team 4: slides

  • Small break

  • Experiences from a recently graduated PhD student, Jukka Suomela, PhD

  • Time schedule and programme for 2009-2010

  • Other news and instructions
    • As a PhD student, you must each year register at the University. Please see instructions at the Faculty's page
    • You must update your research plan once per year. You are also supposed to meet with your mentors (or support team). Instructions will follow soon
    • We will organise a poster session this autumn where you meet your mentors?
    • The Academy of Finland organises a seminar on researcher careers and graduate schools on 5 October at 10:00-12:00 in the Small festival hall in the main building
    • The Faculty informs in Finnish about PhD studies in Kumpula on 22 September at 14:00-17:00 in Physicum E207

• Friday 13 November 2009, at 12-16 in room B222, preliminary programme
  • 12:15 Professor A. S. M. Sajeev, University of New England, Australia: Cultural Issues in Global Software Development
  • 14:15 Anni Rytkönen: "Collaborative networking for the development of ..." -> Tools and methods for collaboration
  • 14:45 New students?
  • 14:50 International activites (see suggestion); inviting guests
  • Other matters: (Vacations, UPJ/development talks)
    • Development talks, please prepare update your research plan
    • For more information see how to update your plan on the PhD studies pages and the email instructions sent by the Chair of the Department on 12 November 2009, please see the instrcutions in English and the instructions in Finnish.
    • Note that there are several dissertations coming up
      • 13 Nov 2009: Juha Makkonen: Semantic Classes in Topic Detection and Tracking
      • 20 Nov 2009: Pasi Rastas: Computational Techniques for Haplotype Inference and for Local Alignment Significance
      • 30 Nov 2009: Petri Kontkanen: Computationally Effcient Methods for MDL-Optimal Density Estimation and Data Clustering
      • 12 Dec 2009: Tommi Mononen: Computing the Stochastic Complexity of Simple Probabilistic Graphical Models
• Friday 22 January 2010, at 12-16 in room B222
  • 12:15-12:45 Travelling, systems, processes and regulations
  • 12:45-13:00 Students in teams: think about questions concerning travelling; break
  • 13:00-14:15 Travelling, practices and case studies at the Department, Jussi Kangasharju, students
  • 14:15-14:30 Break
  • 14:30 Tatiana Polishchuk: Secure multipath transport for legacy Internet applications
  • 15:00 Pietu Pohjalainen: Self-configuring User Interface Components
  • 15:30
  • New students: one slide or presentation, in pdf (Put it on the web beforehand so that it is easy to download.)
• Friday 26 March 2010, at 12-16, 2nd floor aula and room B222
  • Poster exhibition
  • 12:15-12:45: Setting up poster stands and posters. Your poster will be assigned a number. posters no. 1 and 2 should share the same stand, posters no. 3 and 4 likewise, etc.
    • Posters no. 1 and 2 should share the same stand, posters no. 3 and 4 likewise, etc.
    • Find the person with whom you share a poster stand
    • Set up the stand together with him/her
    • Set up your poster
    • Mark your poster with the assigned number
  • 12:45-13:15 Some instructions on how to do the poster exhibition, B222
    • Poster presentation mode
      • Posters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21 will be presented during 13.30-14.30.
      • Posters 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 will be presented during 14.30-15.30.
      • You should present your poster during the time slot given to your supervisor, mentors, fellow students and other interested parts.
    • Poster feedback mode
      • You are in feedback mode, when you are not in presentation mode.
      • You should give written feedback (forms available) during the other time slot to at least three posters
      • You must give feedback to the other poster on the same stand as your own.
      • In addition give feedback to two other posters
      • If your mentors happens to show up during your feedback mode, you are allowed to break off that mode and present your poster to your mentor
  • 13:30-15:30 Poster exhibition
    • 13:30-14:30 Poster presentation: posters 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21
    • 14:30-15:30 Poster presentation: posters 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20
  • 15:30-16:00 Take down posters and poster stands
  • For the poster exhibition do the following:
    1. Update your research plan if need and send it to your two mentors (if you have been appointed some). All students starting arter 1 August 20008 shold have mentors.
    2. Make a poster about your research. (You may use a recent one.) Mostly your research project should carry the cost for this.
    3. Present your poster at the poster exhibition to mentors and other dept staff.

New students

New students should prepare one slide presenting themselves (name, supervisor, group, topic of PhD studies). Please make a pdf version of the slide, bring it along on a USB stick, or put it on the web beforehand.

Previous years

2008-2009 and feedback (mostly in Finnish)

Contact

• Research Coordinator Greger Lindén