Time and Venue

The weekly KDD Colloquium and Seminar series is held every Friday at 1630 (4:30pm) U.S. Central time (UTC-0600 during Central Standard Time, generally November through February, UTC-0500 during Central Daylight Time, generally March through October) during the spring and fall semesters. From 2016 through spring 2020, the venue was 3099A Engineering Hall; during the pandemic (March 2020 - present), the series has been held or simulcast on Zoom, in this channel. The schedule of upcoming talks is listed online, as are past talks (with videorecordings where available)

Purpose

For outside speakers, this is a 30-60 minute talk. Please aim for 45-50 minutes to allow time for questions. For group students, this will be a 25-30 minute presentation about your research interests. Practice presentations or encore presentations of conference papers(oral presentations) are most preferred, followed by mock defenses, poster presentations of accepted papers, conference highlights, work in progress, and literature review in descending order. If you are presenting someone else's work, you are leading a discussion and it is imperative that you have personally read and fully understood at least one conference paper that you are presenting to the group.

How to Prepare a Talk

• Find a topic or interest part that you are working on with your supervisor or your research. You can discuss with Dr.Hsu during one on one meeting or discuss with your supervisor.
• Prepare a powerpoint by downloading and using the following Engineering template. You can choose either horizontal or vertical by your topic.
• The outline of the powerpoint can be included introduction, literature review or related research, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion. If you don't have ongoing methodology or results in details, you can always include ongoing thoughts or expected result or methdology you planned to use. Please discuss with your supervisor or Dr.Hsu if you don't have mature methodology or result section.
• The colllloquium talk needs include lots of diagrams or pictures and the text on the slide can be in short phrase. This can helpful for the audience who does not involve or research in your area.
• If you have questions about your project as undergraduate, please contact your supervisor or team lead first and discuss with them how they think of your talk draft. If you are gradaute students, you can contact with Dr.Hsu during one on one meeting to ask him opinion.
• As undergradaute student, you can also present your senior project as a colloquium. For gradaute student, you can present your RPE practice round, published paper, proposal or dissertation pratice.

Submission

Students are expected to provide a title at the start of the semester and send out the abstract using the standard template two weeks in advance. Message Dr. Hsu privately in Slack (or the #students channel in KSU KDD Lab Main) if you need help with a draft or want it checked over before you mail it to kdd-l@listserv.ksu.edu.

Last updated by bhsu on Apr 23, 2024