Dear all,
The graduate students' seminar is for PhD students at KAM & IUUK, and is open also to anybody else interested, in particular to undergraduate students and to other PhD students from our faculty and from Prague universities who have interests in the areas of research at KAM & IUUK. The seminar meets on Thursday 9:50-12:10 in S6. This semester it is run by Martin Balko and Pavel Valtr.
The first meeting is an organizational meeting (selection of papers & dates, but also an open discussion about possible improvements to the seminar format, etc.). The first meeting is shorter than the meetings later in the semester, therefore it starts at 10:40 (in room S6).
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 and on the seminar web page https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/~dsemweb/
If you are unsure about which 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).
Further information about the seminar will be sent to the email list dokt-seminar-l@kam.mff.cuni.cz, to which you can subscribe to at https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/mailman3/postorius/lists/dokt-seminar-l.kam.mff.cuni...
See you at the seminar tomorrow!
Martin and Pavel