As part of the requirement for CPSC 699 you must attend 6 seminars in each of the two terms (Fall and Winter), 12 seminars in total in Fall and Winter. For each seminar you must submit a summary for marking to YOUR TA Tongjie Zhang directly. The goal of the seminars is to encourage participation in academic life on campus as well as to get exposed to state-of-the art research. As such certain seminars are eligible for the 699 requirement and others are not. Examples of what is acceptable include

• graduate seminars (a full session of one or two talks counts as one grad seminar, and you must summarize each talk),

• talks in a distinguished lecture series, and

• lectures by visiting speakers.

Key features of eligible seminars are that it must be a live event where it is possible to interact with the speaker by asking a question, and it must be open to an audience at least as broad as the computer science department. As graduates you will receive notices of graduate seminars and other department seminars. However, you are free (and encouraged) to attend seminars in other departments and faculties.

Recorded seminars are not eligible. Seminars given in a class that is part of a course requirement are not eligible. Thesis defences are not eligible. If in doubt about whether or not a seminar is eligible, please ask the instructor.

Your seminar summary must include:

• the date and location of the seminar,

• the title of seminar,

• the name of the speaker,

• the hosting group/organization (eg. CPSC department), and

• a paragraph that summarizes the topic and key points in the talk.

Although the summary is primarily used to check that you have attended the seminars, they must be complete, written in proper English and submitted in electronic format. Summaries that are inadequate will be returned for rewriting before you can receive credit.

Note some conditions: a maximum of TWO seminars per week can be attended. Summaries must be submitted within TWO weeks after the seminar date and no later than one week prior to the last day of both Fall and Winter terms (for each term 6 seminar summaries must be submitted). 

Seminar Submission rules: please submit your seminar summary in Word, Latex  or PDF format to your TA e-mail and mark the submission email clearly with the HEADER: 699SEMINAR# Name Replace the italicized parts with the correct information, i.e.  699SEMINAR1 Dent