Course detail

Diploma Seminar II (M-MAI)

FSI-SDS-A Acad. year: 2023/2024 Summer semester

In the course of the seminars, students report on their results obtained in working out the diploma theses.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will gain experience in presenting mathematical results. It may then be used by students when presenting their diploma theses (during the State Exam) or, eventually, results at scientific conferences, etc.

Prerequisites

Students are expected to have certain knowledge acquired during previous study and when working out the diploma project.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The seminar is taught in the form of presentation of individual diploma theses. 

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students will are awarded a course-unit credit on condition of having attended the seminars actively and reported their diploma theses.

Language of instruction

English

Aims

The goal of the seminar is to teach students about how to present mathematical results to a broader (mathematical) audience. This will prepare them for their performance during the defence of the diploma theses.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The presence will be checked. Absence will be allowed in justified case – to compensate it, students will be required to get acquainted with the diploma theses whose presentation they missed.

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-MAI-A: Mathematical Engineering, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 3 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus

In every week, several diploma theses will be presented at the seminar in such a way that each student will present his/her thesis just once during the semester. The theses will be discussed by the audience immediately after they are referred.