Fun with Algorithms in English

Dr. Roland Wittler
Seminar: Wednesday, 10.15-11.45 in U10-146
Office hours: by arrangement
Office: U10-145

Contents

Based on original research papers, the participants will give oral presentations (20-45 min, optimally about 25 min's) and write short summaries (ca. 5 pages), both in English, about (not necessarily serious) algorithmic problems and their solutions. Each weak, we cover another aspect of scientific writing and put it into practice. Deadline for the written summary is one weak after the presentation.

Timeline

11.04. Preliminaries, topic selection
18.04. Intro to LaTeX, reading Latex-template, Bibtex-example (remove “.pdf” from filenames) Slides: HowToRead
25.04. Scientific writing Notes on Scientific writing and citing, Bibliography styles
02.05. — (canceled)
09.05. Introductions, conclusions Notes
16.05. Math extended Latex-template (remove “.pdf” from filename), Notes
23.05. Tables, figures, algorithms modified Latex-template (remove “.pdf” from filename)
30.05. Checklist
06.06. Writing
13.06. Intro to presentations (in LaTeX Beamer) Latex-Beamer template (remove “.pdf” from filename)
20.06. presentations (1)
27.06. presentations (2)
04.07. presentations (3)
11.07. presentations (4)
18.07. presentations (5)

Topics

The topic of the talk/report should be recent and/or funny/interesting algorithmic problems and their solutions.

The students are encouraged to suggest their own topics, for example from the proceedings of the conference series “Fun with Algorithms” (e.g., 2004, 2010, 2012, 2016).

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