* "OK" = confirmed 

Guidelines:
Each talk will be a Tutorial on the given sub area, but may also serve to frame some specific interest of the presenter. In addition, some lectures will present other topics of general interest to Ph.D. students.

Before the class professors will (in almost all cases) place on the Web (a) a good expository article on the topic of the talk; (b) a set of 3 questions about the talk and/or paper each of which can be answered in at most a page.

Students will be required to submit the answer to ONE question in the form of hard copy handed in at the following lecture. The lecturer on that topic will submit a simple grade for each page of 0 (not submitted or trivial), 1(passable but based on moderate effort), or 2 (a very good effort). [Please save a copy of your homeworks in your personal accounts, so that you can refer them for future use.]

One professor will act as supervisor for a whole year of the course (Arbib for 2000-2001), and this will count as one course of his/her teaching load.

It will be the job of this professor to ensure that a lecturer is signed up for each class meeting, that materials are posted on the Web, that papers are submitted and graded, and that a final grade (CR/NCR) is assigned.

Advice to students on homework: 
The questions are designed to ensure that you pay attention to each topic, yet do so in a way that will not take more than an hour or so beyond the lecture (unless the topic was of special interest to you). I thus suggest the following strategy: Print out the 3 questions and bring them to the lecture, then take notes during the lecture in relation to the 3 questions. By the end of the lecture, you should each be clear about which question you will answer and have some good notes toward that answer. An hour with the assigned article should then be enough to flesh out the notes into a full page response. Each essay must be submitted at the following class in the seminar series.

Plagiarism Warning:
You are encouraged to use material from the literature in writing your essays, but you MUST follow normal scholarly practice in doing so.
a) If you want to use material as it appears in the original, you place it in quotes or display it in a distinctive font. If you leave something out of the quote, you mark the gap with three dots: ,,, If you change a few words, you enclose [the new words you write] in square brackets. You follow the quote with the source and page number -- e.g., Smith and Wesson, 2000, pp. 37-38 -- and you place the full bibliographic reference in the Reference list at the end of your paper.

b) Alternatively, if you summarize or paraphrase the material, you need not put it in quotes, but you must still acknowledge the source, as in: As Smith and Wesson (2000) have shown, xyz. Departures from these norms will not be tolerated.

Archive:
The following Spring 2001 Schedule is here for archival purposes, and gives access to papers and questions for that semester:

The following Fall 2000 Schedule is here for archival purposes, and gives access to papers and questions for that semester: