Instructions

Student presentations are in teams of three or four, according to the topic being surveyed. based on library and web research you need to prepare a presentation (duration specified next to topic) to be delivered on the specified date. Either all team members should share the presentation time, or I would select a random speker from the team at the presentation time. In addition, the team need to prepare a web site that has a report based on your survey, a bibliography, and links to resources and of course a pointer to your powerpoint slides

For preparation of your presentation, treat the references listed here only as a starting point. You are expected to do your own search of papers and web sites to get material. Essentially, imagine as if you are preparing a short lecture on a topic as opposed to presenting a specific paper (or papers). So your approach should be to use the papers I have mentioned as a starting point, and then based on your own search identify the short list of papers that you will distlill the material from. The bibliographies in the papers I have mentioned below will give you pointers to other literature that you should check out. Also, use Google! During presentation too focus on the key results and the general approach. Kind of like what I do in my lectures.

Please send me your powerpoint or PDF slides by email no later than evening of the day before your presentation if you want me to upload them to my laptop for projection. Otherwise, you need bring your presentation on a CD or USB flash drive or on your own laptop to the class during presentation.

Also, you should make 35 copies of your slides to hand out to the class. You can do this by bringing a hardcopy (4 slides per page) to my assistant Marilyn Saunders at least 24 hour prior to the class and request her to make the copies for you or have her log you on to the copier near my office (yes, the copier has a password) so that you can make the copies yourself.

For the web site that is needed, please submit it as presentation.{zip,tgz,tar} by 5PM Friday of Week 10. Call the top level file in your website as index.html or index.htm. Your web site should also include a copy of your powerpoint slides with a link to them in your web page. Only one student per topic needs to submit.

You have full freedom to use material from slides that you find elsewhere on the web - but please put the material in a consistent set of your own power point slides and cite the original source(s) for such material.

The time limit indicated against your topic is a HARD limit. You should reserve around 5 minutes for questions and another 2-3 minutes for overhead. Usually the thumbrule for most speakers is 1.5 minutes per slide assuming the slides are neither too dense nor too sparse. So don't have too many slides!!!

Lastly, a word of advice: it is VERY IMPORTANT that your presentation come across as a single presentation and not as 3-4 disjoint presentations by the different team members. To pull this off, the entire team should do a research of the topic jointly and identify the suitable source material (remember, what I have listed below are just starting references - they may not even be the best ones), and then develop a coordinated presentation. Your biggest decision should be what to include and what not to, and not which team member does what. Remember, you will b graded as a team.