After successful completion of the course, students are able to

- actively follow presentations of scientists about their ongoing research activities, and ask relevant questions,

- elaborate a concise summary on a scientific presentation,

- enumerate current trends in computer science and competently engage in a discussion on them

Guest professors invited by the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School will give a (typically) 45-minute talk about their research area

It seems highly probable that we can offer at least 5 talks in total during this study year 2023/24. All details about the planned talks will be announced as soon as possible here.

In your planning please consider taking this course in both, winter term and summer term. You can combine the talks from both semesters in a study year.

* October 12, 16:00 c.t., HS EI4: Werner Dietl -- Optional Type Systems: Current Approaches and Ongoing Efforts: https://informatics.tuwien.ac.at/news/2489
This talk will be given in presence only, no streaming

* November 17, 11:00, MuseumsQuartier, Architekturzentrum Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna: George Metakides -- Democracy in the Digital Age

Visiting professors invited by the TU Wien Informatics Doctoral School will give a 45-minute talk about their research areas. Students participate in these talks and submit a summary of selected ones.

Please visit TUWEL to:

• Download the slides of the course
• Download the template for the assignment
• Upload your assignment

The plan is to have at least 5 talks in total during this study year 2023/24.

Students will be graded provided that the following requirements are fulfilled:

• Attendance to at least 3 talks (to be proven).
• Submission of assignment.

Preferably, students attend 4 talks, choose 3 of those for their report and give a summary of at least 2 pages for each.
For students who can only attend 3 talks this summary must comprise at least 3 pages for each talk.

Talks will be offered both in winter term 2023/24 and summer term 2024, and any combination of all those may be chosen (but the course will definitely end after the summer term, a further combination with talks from the winter term 24/25 will not be possible).

The reports should be written in English and in latex (a template is provided in TUWEL). The deadline for submission of the assignment is July 31st at 23:55h through TUWEL.

Please register in TISS.