Detailed Project Requirements Honours Guide The Project

Special Workshops and Seminars

In addition to the course work required to fulfil the formal requirements of the course, the Department requires each student to participate in a number of workshops and seminars. These are designed to help students obtain skills of use in completion of your project and to round out your postgraduate experience.

Appendix A contains a summary of the dates, times and locations for these events.

LaTeX Introductory Tutorial

All documents prepared for your project requirements must be prepared using a word processing system that produces portable Postscript output. One option is to use LaTeX on the Departmental Unix systems. The tutorial will cover the procedures required to use LaTeX and give an overview of the most common commands. Arrangements for this tutorial can be made through the Honours supervisor.

Departmental Seminars

Throughout the year, the Department organises an assortment of seminars, usually on research topics. The aim is to have a seminar each week, although this does not always happen. Speakers vary from lecturers or post-graduate students from this department, to visitors from other institutions.

All Honours and MappSc students are required to attend as many departmental seminars as possible given scheduling constraints. You will find that watching other people speak will give you valuable pointers for your own seminars, plus you can often learn about areas of computer science to which you may otherwise not be exposed.

     

     

     

     

 

Seminar Workshop

Presenting your work in front of other people can be a daunting experience. Nevertheless, an important goal of the course is to give you the confidence and experience to describe complex ideas and problem solutions to a general audience. To this end, you are required to present one or two seminars as part of your course.

To help you prepare for these seminars an informal workshop will be held. The idea of this workshop is to present some general do's and don'ts about seminar presentation and allow you to ask any questions you have about preparation, techniques, etc.

Detailed Project Requirements Honours Guide The Project