The seminar is scheduled to be on every Tuesday, starting from 22.01.2002. During most of the seminars, two students will present an about 30 minutes long presentation and a written survey of 4-5 pages on some subject, followed by short discussions, so that every seminar will take approximately 100 minutes.
Survey and presentation slides will be made available on the web. The survey must be available to the tutor one week before the presentation. (The only possible exception is the first presenter.)
Every student also gets an opponent, who will given the survey before the presentation. The opponent has, for the presentation, to prepare a 2-2.5 page resumé (that should be made available to the presenter and to the responsible teacher two days before the presentation; the resumé will also be made available on the web), and lead discussions with the presenter. If necessary, the presenter must revise his or her survey, based on these remarks, within one week; the revised version will then be put on the web.
As compared to T-79.511 the previous semester, this seminar will have exactly the same structure. However, we will cover much less material much more throughoutly. We can spend a few lectures for one paper.
To graduate, every student must submit his or her survey timely, give a good presentation, be able to answer to the discussions, and be a constructive and friendly opponent (In particular, propose a fair grade for the presenter). The purpose of review and feedback is to improve the quality of the work. Grading will also based on the participation during discussion providing constructive feedback to others.
Both surveys and reviews are expected to be typeset in LaTeX, using the standard fonts and fontsizes. Please submit both the LaTeX source file and a .pdf or .ps version.
Disclaimer: This course loosely follows the organization of Research Seminar on Security in Distributed Systems by N. Asokan. By the same rules, T-79.511: Special Course on Cryptology was organized in Autumn 2001.
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