PhD Student Seminar

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A total of 6 credits (i.e., six semesters) 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. See the seminar web page for more details.
Vuosi Lukukausi Päivämäärä Periodi Kieli Vastuuhenkilö
2011 syksy 30.09-11.11. 1-2 Englanti Jussi Kangasharju

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Aika Huone Luennoija Päivämäärä
Pe 12-16 CK107 Jussi Kangasharju 30.09.2011-30.09.2011
Pe 12-16 CK107 Jussi Kangasharju 04.11.2011-04.11.2011

Information for international students

The language of the seminar is English. The seminar is intended for PhD students of the Department of Computer Science.

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

Yleistä

The PhD seminar is on ongoing seminar meeting two times per term (four times per year). It is is an obligatory part of the PhD studies for students that started their studies after 1 August 2008.

Each term corresponds to 1 credit point. A total of 6 credits (i.e., six terms) from the seminar is compulsory for a PhD degree. All 6 credits are given at the end of the PhD studies.

Programme for 2011-2012

  • 30 Sep 2011 at 12-16 in CK107
    • (New students presentations)
    • 2nd year presentations
      • Sourav Bhattacharya: Enriching Location Information: An Energy-efficient Approach
      • Doris Entner: Causal discovery from observational data
      • Petri Savolainen:
    • PhD seminar in general
    • International scientific activities
    • Discussion on the programme for the rest of the year 2011-2012
  • 4 Nov 2011 at 12-16 in CK107 (Note! The date of this meeting has changed)

    • New student presentations
      • Kumaripaba Athukorala
    • 2nd year presentations
      • Teppo E. Ahonen: Three years, two months and three days of PhD Studies on Music Information Retrieval
      • Antti Hyttinen: Learning Causal Models: Theory and Practice
      • Fang Zhou: Network Abstraction
    • Other presentations
      • Niko Välimäki: Efficient Path Kernels for Reaction Function Prediction
    • Types of theses and classification of publication forums
  • 27 Jan 2012 at 12-16

    • Career planning and employment opportunities after graduation (?)
    • New student presentations
    • 2nd year presentations
    • Other presentation
  • March-April: Poster exhibition and meeting with mentors

    • We are planning to have a poster exhibition on Spring term. It may be held together with the Kumpula Open Doors day if that kind of an event is organised in 2012 . More information on this later.

Other possible themes for 2011-2012

  • Entrepreneurship, innovation, productization
  • Privacy, IPR
  • Funding possibilites, Academy & Tekes applications
  • Evolution of a research group

The seminar continues in the autumn of 2012.

Contact person: Research Coordinator Pirjo Moen

 

Kurssin suorittaminen

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
  • 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
  • review papers and get reviews for own papers

A possibility to replace some of the obligatory requirements with some other task by agreement of the teachers.