(tldr: reserve in your schedule Thursday 9:50-12:10 for the seminar)

Dear all,

The graduate students' reading seminar is for PhD students at KAM & IUUK, who work in cs and/or discrete mathematics. The seminar meets on Thursday 9:50-12:10. This semester in S8. This semester it is run by me and Pavel Valtr.

We will start this Thursday Oct 2 with an organizational meeting (selection of papers & dates, but also an open discussion about possible improvements 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/~dsemweb/ At this time you will find there the plan for the first two weeks, 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 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 at https://kam.mff.cuni.cz/mailman3/postorius/lists/dokt-seminar-l.kam.mff.cuni... This email is sent also to all PhD students for the sake of the new students and those that missed the seminar before -- sorry if you get this multiple times.

If you've read the whole email, my respect and appreciation!

See you at the seminar!

Robert

-- Robert Šámal IÚUK MFF UK -- CSI of Charles University