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The Seminar of Network Security consists of four parts. Most of the time will be spent writing a seminar paper. In a two day intensive seminar, participants will give a presentation of their paper. Every participant shall also be an opponent of an(/couple of) other students' paper. During the autumn all students have to participate a short course of Scientific Writing in English. Full details of the seminar will be given in the first meeting and in course requirements instructions.
This page gives the overview of this seminar.
Postgraduate students can also participate in the seminar as tutors. If you are a postgraduate student and would like to tutor this seminar, contact the course staff.
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The specific dates and deadlines for the events below are in the course schedule.
Detailed course requirements and grading principles are listed in a separate page.
The first meeting will be in the beginning of the semester. During that meeting the course arrangements will be explained and the topics presented.
The second meeting will be in the end of the semester just before the two day conference. During that meeting details about presenting and opponing a paper will be discussed.
You should meet your tutor three times in order to get feedback after each deadline.
During the first days after you have been accepted to the course, you should meet with your tutor to agree on a topic that you will write about. At this meeting, you should also set the dates for the feedback meetings. If you and your tutor do not meet, you must ensure that you can agree on a topic and set the dates for the feedback meetings through some other means.
After each of the two submissions before the Final Paper, (that is, after the submission of the Outline and after the Full Paper) you'll meet with your tutor to get feedback on the paper. The feedback meeting should be as soon as possible after the submission deadline.
The feedback could also be e.g. sent by e-mail, if you and you tutor agree so. However, personal meetings are recommended.
There will be a short course on writing and presenting scientific papers in English in the beginning of the course (see course schedule for dates and times). More information about the English course can be found here.
Attending the English course is mandatory.
All papers will be published in the TM laboratory's C-series (on the web pages) and in a booklet that will also be used as proceedings in the conference.
In the sign up application for this course, each student suggest a few research topics that are related to the focus of the seminar and that interest the student. See the Sign up instructions for more information on choosing the research topic.
Once you have registered and been accepted for the course, you will be informed who your tutor is and what your topic is. You should meet with your tutor to narrow down your research topic and write about. At that meeting, you should also set the dates for your feedback meetings. Note, that although you can (and should) give your own suggestions for the exact topic, your topic MUST be approved by your tutor before you can start working on it.
The tutor's role is to help you define a specific topic and to guide you in the writing process. However, it is the STUDENT that researches and writes the paper.
You can contact your tutor at any time during the research and writing process to discuss problems you run into. Additionally, you and your tutor shall meet in person about one week after each submission (see the section on meetings with the tutor).
You shall write a seminar paper in English, containing about 5-7 pages, on a chosen topic using a given LaTex template. There are separate instructions for writing the seminar paper.
There will be a short course on writing and presenting scientific papers in English in the beginning of the course (check the schedule).
During the course, you make three submissions using the Optima learning environment. A short descriptions is given below, see more details in the requirements instructions.
At the conference, all participants will present their work by giving a full presentation or a poster presentation. Attending the conference is mandatory. Conference dates are given in the schedule.
If there are more than (about) 20 participants on the course, some papers will be presented as posters. Poster sessions are a common practice in scientific conferences. The course staff will decide which papers will be presented with full presentations and which with posters.
The best papers will be presented as full presentations. The presentations is aproximately 20 minutes in length and is given in English. You should reserve time for questions at the end of your presentation.
The presentations are divided into sessions, each containing about 3 presentations. The session is led by the session chair, who introduces the speakers and their topics, makes sure that the speakers do not exceed their time limit, and leads the discussion after each presentation. Note, that the given time may not be exceeded; the session chair will interrupt the presenter if his/her time runs out.
After each presentation, the opponent of that presentation shall ask some questions or make a couple of remarks. To be able to prepare him/herself, the opponent will read the paper before the conference (from Optima). Opponents will be named after the full paper deadline.
More detailed instructions on how to give the presentation will be given at a meeting with all participants before the conference.
In spring 2005, poster was a 10 minutes long presentation. We do not know yet if the poster session is needed in autumn 2006.
Generally, same arrangements apply to posters and full presentations. Notice, however, that 10 minutes (including time for questions) is a very short time. Don't try to squeeze a full presentation into that time but present the main findings of your paper.
The idea with the poster presentation is to get the listeners interested in the paper, so that they actually read the paper or come and discuss the topic in the evening.
More detailed instructions on how to give the poster presentation will be given at a meeting with all participants before the conference.
Each participant will act as an opponent to a paper of another student on the course.
You will read the papers you are to oppone after the full paper submission using Optima. The list of opponents will be published about the same time with the submission of the full paper, so that each student knows which papers to read. According to the schedule, you have to comment the papers to their authors using Optima: what should be improved in the paper, is there something wrong or impossible to understand etc. (More detailed instructions about opponing).
You'll also receive the final papers of the same authors. At the seminar, you're expected to have one or two questions or comments on the content of the papers. The questions or comments are presented in the discussion following the presentation. You should prepare more than two questions, since some of the questions might get answered in the presentation. After the seminar, you will give written feedback about the presentation and paper to the author you are opponing. (More detailed instructions about opponing).
The opponing at the seminar (how well the opponing is prepared and performed) and the evaluation sheet affects the grade.You should always remember when you are criticizing someone's work or when your own work is criticized that the critique is about the work you have done that time, not about yourself or your future work. Critics is for learning, not for blaming.
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