Group seminar

Group Seminar

This is the site containing all information about the joint Bachelor/Master seminar of the Modeling and Simulation group of Saarland university and the DFKI research department Neuro-Mechanistic Modeling. We will invite you to upcoming talks via mail. The current default slot is Tuesday, 11 am.

Law and Order

While you are writing your thesis with us, we assume that you attend to all talks. If you have an urgent reason for not attending, you need to excuse yourself in advance. Repeatedly missing talks without an excuse might lead to the termination of your project.

Proposal Paper

Before you can start to work on your thesis, you will write a short proposal paper.

The proposal paper should cover a short introduction into your topic, including its research background. Your paper should:

  • Contain a description of your problem.
  • Contain all the basic concepts you will need for your thesis.
  • Include a discussion of related work.
  • Sketch what you plan to work on.
  • Especially state, what your thesis will cover and what not.

When your proposal paper is finished, you can schedule your Proposal Talk.

Proposal Talk

Your proposal talk will be held as soon as your proposal paper was accepted, which means you accomplished the first insights/results of your topic. The talk should last about 25 minutes and include

  • the most important basics of your topic,
  • the most important algorithms/theoretical approaches you plan to use,
  • a short glimpse of your work/your first results.

This proposal talk will be graded as your Bachelor/Master seminar.

Thesis Registration

Shortly after your proposal talk, you have to register your thesis.

Final Talk/Colloquiums Talk

Your final talk will be held as soon as you finished writing your thesis. It should last about 30 minutes and include

  • a short summary about the basics/algorithms/theoretical approaches that you used,
  • a detailed description of what you have done,
  • a detailed presentation of your results.

This final talk will be your Bachelor/Master thesis colloquium.

Further Conditions:

Unless otherwise agreed, you must send a first version of your slides to your supervisor one week before your talk at the latest. If you wish to receive detailed feedback, we advise you to do that even earlier.

Contact:

​If you want to schedule your talk or want to be added to the course, please contact us here or talk to your supervisor.