Graduate Seminar 2014-2015

Part 1: 2014

• Mandatory for all second years
• predetermined rotating groups of four/five, check calendar for schedule.

15/09

• General introduction on the seminars
• Pyramid of graduation and tunnel of doom.
• four-steps recipe to success
• Homework: semantic map that represents interests, clustering of the nodes into bigger domains of research and interests

29/09

• Review of the semantic map
• Group discussion to help decide on one cluster
• Homework: pick the topic of selected cluster and make a hack pact out of it
• Homework: make work and literature survey from selected cluster

13/10

• Presentation of the hack pacts
• Presentation of the work and literature survey
• Group discussion on weakness and strengths of presented elements,

decide where the focus should be

• Homework: integrate hack pacts and survey into a project proposal draft
• Homework: refine the hacks into prototypes

03/11

• Group review of the project proposal
• Homework: define topic for thesis, choose for classic, or practice-based, or merged/interleaved.
• Homework: refine project proposal

17/11

• Group review of thesis ideas
• Group review of project proposal
• Group review of prototypes
• Last advices before project proposal assessment

01/12-02/12

• Project Proposal assessments

Part 2: 2015

• Opt-in
• Every two weeks
• Details to come