PhD Student Seminar

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Selvitettävä
PhD studies
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.
Year Semester Date Period Language In charge
2012 spring 27.01-23.03. 3-4 English Jussi Kangasharju

Lectures

Time Room Lecturer Date
Fri 12-16 CK107 Jussi Kangasharju 27.01.2012-27.01.2012
Fri 13-16 CK107 Jussi Kangasharju 23.03.2012-23.03.2012

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.

 

General

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., sixterms) 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
    • 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
    • New student presentations
      • Mika Göös
      • Dominik Kempa
      • Antti Laaksonen
      • Teemu Pulkkinen
      • Kai Zhao
      • Yuan Zou
    • 2nd year presentations
      • Taneli Vähäkangas
    • Other presentations
      • Antti Hyttinen: Causal Discovery for Linear Cyclic Models
    • Other topics:
      • New grading system of PhD theses (Hannu Toivonen)
      • Research funding possibilites (Academy of Finland, Tekes, other instutions)
  • 23 March 2012 at 13-16
    • New student presentations
      •  Oskar Gross
    • 2nd year presentations
      •  No 2nd year presentations this time.
    • Other presentations
      • Harri Forsgren: Options for Establishing Trusted HIP Security Associations
      • Mika Timonen:
    • Other topics:
      • The future of the PhD seminar

Other possible themes

  • Career planning and employment opporturnities after graduation
  • Entrepreneurship, innovation, productization
  • Evolution of a research group
  • Privacy, IPR

The seminar continues in the autumn of 2012.

Contact person: Research Coordinator Pirjo Moen

Completing the course

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.