Comp 7220 Research Methodologies Class Schedule
R11 A01 (September 2010 to April 2011)


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Second term: January to April 2011
Date/PlaceTopicGuest SpeakerSlides/Links
Thursday 21 April 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Student presentations 1:00 -- Inderjeet Singh
1:25 -- S. M. Al Mamun
1:50 -- Fan Jiang
Tuesday 19 April 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Student presentations 1:00 -- Aminu Musa
1:25 -- Saeed Mehrabi
1:50 -- Juan Cameron
Thursday 14 April 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Student presentations 1:00 -- Debajyoti Mondal
1:25 -- Ranjan Kumar Saha
1:50 -- Joel Dyck
Tuesday 12 April 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Student presentations 1:00 -- Maryam Ayat
1:25 -- Eid Albalawi
1:50 -- Matthew Lount
Thursday 7 April 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Student presentations 1:00 -- Himani Rana
1:25 -- Hina Aman
1:50 -- Ryan Zier-Vogel
Tuesday 5 April 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Student presentations 1:00 -- Chris Iverach-Brereton
1:25 -- Barrett Ens
1:50 -- Roberta Melvin
Thursday 31 March 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Title: The Global Air Transportation Network and the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Julien Arino Seminars
Tuesday March 29 Presentation forms Helen Cameron
Tuesday March 29
noon
Draft slides or draft talk due COMP 7220 Presentations
Good presentation advice (notes from class)
Thursday March 24 No class (Our classroom is being used for a departmental council.)
Tuesday March 22 No class (I am attending a funeral.)
Tuesday March 22
noon
Assignment 9 is due Assignment 9
Thursday 17 March 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
3-Uniform Friendship Hypergraphs
John van Rees Seminars
Tuesday 15 March 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Good Presentations Alan Marshall
Thursday 10 March 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Presentations in COMP 7220 Helen Cameron COMP 7220 Presentations
Good presentation advice (notes from class)
Helpful information on giving presentations
Tuesday March 8
noon
Assignment 8 is due Assignment 8
Thursday 3 March 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Title TBA
Alan Mackworth Seminars
Tuesday March 1 No class
Tuesday March 1
noon
Assignment 7 is due Assignment 7
Thursday 24 February 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Dep'tal Research Seminar
NOT required
(Midterm break)

Designing the next generation of mobile haptic interfaces
Jason Alexander Seminars
Thursday 10 February 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Thesis Helen Cameron Notes on the thesis
Thursday 3 February 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Linear-Space Data Structures for Range Mode Query in Arrays
Stephane Durocher Seminars
Tuesday 1 February 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Assignment 7 Helen Cameron Assignment 7
Tuesday February 1
noon
Step 2 of Assignment 6 is due Assignment 6
Thursday 27 January 2011 No class
Tuesday January 25 NO CLASS Our classroom is taken over for a departmental council.
Tuesday January 25
noon
Assignments 4 and 5 corrections are due and Step 1 of Assignment 6 is due Assignment 4
Assignment 5
Assignment 6
Thursday 20 January 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Sophisticated Behaviour in Simple Systems: Humans
Randall Jamieson Seminars
Tuesday 18 January 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-304 EITC
Grad student timeline Helen Cameron Note: This course has been moved to E2-304 from now on.
Graduate student timeline
Assignment 6
Tuesday January 18
noon
Assignment 3 corrections are due Assignment 3
Thursday 13 January 2011
1:00-2:20 p.m.
E2-105 EITC
Reviewing course organization
Common writing problems
Helen Cameron, course instructor R.O.A.S.S. document (course contract)


First term: September to December 2010
Date/PlaceTopicGuest SpeakerSlides/Links
Monday, December 13, 2010
11 a.m.
Assignment 5 due Assignment 5
Thesis proposal template
Wednesday 8 December 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Next term Helen Cameron
Monday 6 December 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Experimental design Pourang Irani Dr. Irani's notes
Friday 3 December 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Experimental design Pourang Irani Please read the following before class:
Michael J. McGuffin, Ravin Balakrishnan: Acquisition of expanding targets. CHI 2002: 57-64
and
Tovi Grossman, Ravin Balakrishnan: The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor's activation area. CHI 2005: 281-290
Dr. Irani's notes
Wednesday 1 December 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Experimental design Neil Arnason Dr. Arnason's notes
Monday 29 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Experimental design Neil Arnason Please read this paper before class
Dr. Arnason's notes
Monday, November 29, 2010
11 a.m.
Assignment 4 due Assignment 4
Thursday 25 November 2010
1:00 am-2:30 pm
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Convexity in graphs
Ortrud Oellerman Seminars
Monday 22 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Thesis Proposal Helen Cameron thesis proposal notes
Wednesday 17 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Thesis Proposal Helen Cameron thesis proposal notes
Monday 15 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Introductions Helen Cameron Good (and bad) introductions
Friday 12 November 2010
11:00 am
Assignment 2 corrections are due Assignment 2
Wednesday 10 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Introductions Helen Cameron Good (and bad) introductions
Monday, November 8, 2010
2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
St. John's Schultz Lecture Theatre
COPYRIGHT: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
(Not required, but STRONGLY recommended)
The Faculty of Graduate Studies and the UM Libraries Poster
Monday 8 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Editing bibTeX Helen Cameron (Bring the transition exercise from last class.)
Monday, November 8, 2010
11 a.m.
Assignment 3 due Assignment 3
Capitalizing titles correctly
Thursday 4 November 2010
1:00 am-2:30 pm
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Usability in the Free/Open Source Software Community
Michael Terry Seminars
Wednesday 3 November 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Editing Helen Cameron Editing notes
Thursday 28 October 2010
1:00 am-2:30 pm
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
RNA Secondary Structure Prediction including Pseudoknots
Hosna Jabbari Seminars
Wednesday 27 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Editing: Terminology Helen Cameron Editing notes
Michael Leddy's "How to unstuff a sentence"
Monday 25 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Editing: Proofreading Helen Cameron Editing notes
A list of proofreader's marks
Brief note on how proofreader's marks are used
Friday 22 October 2010
11 a.m.
Assignment 1, Exercise 1, and Exercise 2 corrections are due Assignment 1
First small exercise
Second small exercise
Wednesday 20 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Well Helen Cameron Writing slides
PHD Comics: Passive voice
Tuesday 19 October 2010
1:00 am-2:30 pm
E2-450 EITC
Library resources Ryan Schultz
CS Reference Librarian
Sciences and Technology Library
CS toolkit at the Sciences and Technology Library
Friday 15 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Well Helen Cameron Writing slides
Thursday 14 October 2010
1:00 am-2:30 pm
E2-304 EITC
Required Dep'tal Research Seminar
Contour Trees in Visualisation
Hamish Carr Seminars
Wednesday 13 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Well Helen Cameron Writing slides
Monday 11 October 2010 University closed (Thanksgiving holiday)
Friday 8 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Well Helen Cameron Writing slides
Friday 8 October 2010
11:00 a.m.
Assignment 2 and Exercise 2 are due at 11:00 a.m. Assignment 2
Honesty declaration
Second small exercise
Wednesday 6 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Writing Well Helen Cameron Writing slides
Monday 4 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
bibTeX Helen Cameron LaTeX and bibTeX notes as a web page
Capitalizing titles correctly
Friday 1 October 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
LaTeX and bibTeX Helen Cameron Second small exercise
LaTeX notes as a web page
Wednesday 29 September 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
LaTeX and bibTeX Helen Cameron LaTeX notes as a web page
Monday 27 September 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
LaTeX and Plagiarism Helen Cameron LaTeX notes as a web page
Friday 24 September 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Plagiarism
More Intro to LaTeX
Helen Cameron Assignment 2
Plagiarism slides
LaTeX notes as a web page
Friday 24 September 2010
noon
Assignment 1 is due Assignment 1
Rubric for Assignment 1
Honesty declaration
Wednesday 22 September 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Plagiarism Helen Cameron Plagiarism slides
Monday 20 September 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Computing resources Gilbert Detillieux, System Admin. Facilities Guide
Friday 17 September 2010
11:30 am-12:30 pm
315 Buller
Intro to LaTeX Helen Cameron LaTeX notes as a web page
First small exercise
Tuesday 14 September 2010
1:00 pm-2:30 pm
E2-165 EITC
Plagiarism Helen Cameron Plagiarism slides
Monday 13 September 2010
11:00 am-12:30 pm
500A Machray Hall
Grad rules and regulations
Plagiarism
Lynne Hermiston
Helen Cameron
Plagiarism slides
Deptal Supplemental Regulations
Faculty of Graduate Studies
CanTEST
Paper: read abstract, intro, and conclusion only
Friday 10 September 2010
12:30 p.m.
E2-165 EITC
Welcome
Course organization
John Bate, Head
Helen Cameron, course instructor
Assignment 1
Rubric for Assignment 1
R.O.A.S.S. document (course contract)


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