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REGISTRATION: This course is held in two phases. This page only concerns the second part of the two-part course and requires having registered for the first part in TISS.
INITIAL MEETING: (Vorbesprechung) for WS 2025 is on 21.10.2025 at 13:00-14.00 on this link.
FIRST PART OF COURSE: This first part is organized separately and identically across the institutes, please refer to the TISS course page for all information.
COMMUNICATION: Updates and announcements are published via the announcements forum in the TUWEL course.
Course Outline
Goal
The goal of this seminar is to write and present a state-of-the-art report. A member of the teaching staff will guide and help students in acquiring the scientific material and writing the report. The students are also expected to present their work in a short talk.
Tasks for the students
Teaching staff will evaluate and grade students based on the following output:
- A literature list that a student intends to review. This document will be regarded as an official seminar registration of the student. Although the literature list is not graded, you are obliged to submit it.
- Attendance of the lectures "Science and how it works", by Professor Eduard Gröller, the lecture "How to do a presentation", by Professor Hannes Kaufmann, and the lecture "How to write a scientific publication" by Professor Michael Wimmer. Attending the lectures is obligatory and 5 points will be deducted for each missed lecture. You can ask for a waiver by writing an email to Renata Raidou in case you have already attended one of these talks in a different seminar.
- An outline (10%) of the final report needs to be submitted and feedback will be provided by the respective supervisor.
- A written state-of-the-art report (50%) in the form of a scientific paper. We strongly encourage that the reports are composed in LaTeX. The report must have a minimum of 4 written pages in a given template. The language must be English.
- A review of a peer's report (10%) according to predetermined criteria.
- A 10 minutes presentation (10%) in English followed by a 5 minutes discussion.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 23:59 and all meeting times are without delay (s.t.). There will be no extensions under any circumstances!
- 21.10.2025: Initial meeting at 13:00 online on this link. In this meeting, the topics and the introduction of the course will be presented and preferences be submitted.
- 26.10.2025: Topic selection on TUWEL.
- 07.11.2025: Literature list submission on TUWEL.
- 19.11.2025: Outline of the final report submission on TUWEL.
- 09.01.2026: Final report submission on TUWEL.
- 20 or 22.01.2026 (13:00-18:00): Final presentations. You will be assigned to one of these slots (assignment on 26.10 together with the topics)
- 23.01.2026: Peer review submission on TUWEL.
- On top of the above, you need to attend the following lectures or Q&A:
- 28.10.2025 12:00-14:00 "Science and how it works", by Professor Gröller, in the Seminarraum FAV 05.
- 11.11.2025 12:00-14:00: "How to write a scientific publication" by Professor Wimmer, in the Seminarraum FAV 05.
- 20.11.2025 11:00-13:00 "How to do a presentation", by Professor Kaufmann, in the Seminarraum FAV 05.
- Attending the lectures is obligatory and 5 points will be deducted for missing each of the lectures. However, you can get a waiver if you have already attended these lectures. For this, please write an email to Renata Raidou.
Grading Criteria
The seminar is split into two parts. The first (central) part accounts for 17% of the grade. The second part will account for 83% of the grade. The second part (83% of the grade) consists of:
- The quality of the final report is worth 50% of the grade
- The quality of the presentation is worth 30% of the grade
- The quality of the peer review is worth 10% of the grade
- The quality of the outline of the report is worth 10% of the grade
- Active discussion participation is worth 5 bonus points
- Not attending a lecture is worth -5 points.
Plagiarism
All the literature that is reviewed during the seminar has to be placed in the reference section of the report. You can have further information about referencing and examples of what is plagiarism here. We are all expected to abide by professional scientific ethics and make sure that the work is not plagiarized in any sense. By participating in this course, you agree that your submissions will be checked by TU's access to the TurnItIn software.