You may be assigned one or more papers to present in class. See guidelines for how to give a good talk. Aim for your presentation (with questions) to be approximately 1 hour long and prepare for discussion afterwards.
All students are required to give feedback on a student's notes. Give your feedback to the TA physically or digitally before the following Monday.
Several assignments may be given during the semester. You may work in pairs to do these assignments. Working in pairs is especially recommended to form teams of computer scientists and life scientists.
Each student has to scribe roughly two lectures. Scribed notes can be done by teams. You should certainly ask your peers to clarify any point that your notes leave unclear. An example for the notes is here.
Use this Latex package as a starting point for your notes.
[example-for-class.zip]
Do not change the title: your notes should be a chapter, so that there are many
chapters but the title page stays the same.
While you are encouraged to use images in your notes, please cite the source of the images in the captions like this: "Reprinted from [3]" where [3] is given in the References. Scribes of notes from previous classes are encouraged to update reference information for their images.
Your scribed lecture notes are due the Monday after your presentation, no extensions.
Email them to the TA, after which I will give you comments and ask you
to revise them at least twice. Revisions are due in a week, after which the rest of the
class will give comments and feedback.
Commends and feedback are required and considered assignments for this class. They are due
a week after the notes have been uploaded. You may choose to compose email comments and email
them to the TA or annotate the physical paper and turn it in via hardcopy or digital scans.
Please use PDFLaTeX instead of other
forms of LaTeX.. Example comments can be found here:
Your reports should:
You must
Acknowledgments: Some of the discussion of how to give talks and reports was borrowed, with thanks, from Greg Gangor's description of the reviews used in his class at CMU.