(tldr: reserve in your schedule Thursday 10-12 for the seminar :) )
Dear all,
In this email I'll (somewhat) briefly (re)introduce to you "doktorandský
seminář", a reading seminar for graduate students (formally NDMI041). As we
have many students who cannot speak Czech, the seminar will run in English.
Further information about the seminar will be sent to the email list
dokt-seminar-l(a)kam.mff.cuni.cz, to which you can subscribe
at
https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/mailman3/postorius/lists/dokt-seminar-l.kam.mff.cun…
This email is sent to all PhD students for the sake of the new students and
those that missed the seminar before.
The seminar is meant for PhD students at KAM & IUUK, who work in cs and/or
discrete mathematics. The seminar meets on Thursday 9:50-12:10 (three time
slots, with a break of variable duration in between). This semester in S8.
This semester it is run by me and Pavel Valtr.
We will start Oct 6 with an organizational meeting (selection of papers &
dates, but also an open discussion about possible changes to the seminar
format, etc.). The first meeting will start at 10:40 (in room S8).
Typically, each meeting we learn about one paper from one of the
participants. The papers are carefully preselected, so that hopefully we
can learn from them something useful -- be it a new technique, important
recent definition and development, or possibly more of these together.
The person presenting the paper shall read it in advance. For each of the
papers there will be a "mentor" who will be glad to help you decide what to
present and how. More about this in the first meeting.
The seminar has a web page at https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/dokt_seminar/
At this time you will find here a history of past years and some papers to
select from -- many more will be added at the first meeting.
If you are unsure about what paper to choose, you may also discuss it with
your advisor. He or she may also suggest a paper especially for you -- this
is certainly possible and welcome, pending confirmation by the seminar
organizers -- to check if the paper is suitable (that is, interesting also
for people who would not be directly working on the topic of the paper).
If you've read the whole email, my respect and appreciation!
See you at the seminar!
Robert
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Robert Šámal
IÚUK MFF UK -- CSI of Charles University