COMP 7210 - Research Methodologies

Fall 2011

Course Schedule

NOTE: This schedule is not finalized. It may be adjusted to reflect the pace of the course. Seminars will be added as their schedule is finalized.

Date Topic Lecture Notes Other Information
Sept 13 Course Introduction and Welcome Course Introduction
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ROASS (updated Sept 13 after class)
Supplemental Regulations
Sept 15 Plagiarism Academic Honesty
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Plagiarism Exercises
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Links:
The Case of Dr. Danut Marcu: Serial Plagiarism and Signing False Statements
MathSci Net search for Danut Marcu (requires library authentication).
Wikipedia article on Danut Marcu
Sept 20 Plagiarism / Departmental Computing Resources Gilbert Detillieux: Departmental Computing Facilities
Inked version of handout
Assignment 1 DUE September 29
Honesty Declaration
Sept 22 Departmental Seminar Seminars Home Page
Sept 27 Plagiarism and LaTeX Lecture 2 Inked version
Lecture 3
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LaTeX example
Links:
Sept 29 Departmental Seminar Designing Interaction with Robots - Daisuke Sakamoto Seminars Home Page
NOTE: students who attended this lecture as part of COMP 7570 - AHRI are not required to attend.
Oct 4 - CLASS BEGINS AT 1:20 FOR TODAY ONLY! LaTeX Lecture 4
LaTeX cheat sheet (pdf)
LaTeX cheat sheet (latex source)
Links:
Oct 6 Bibtex / Writing Lecture 5
Inked version of lecture 4
Inked version of lecture 5
Assignment 2 DUE October 13
Oct 11 Writing Lecture 6
Inked version of lecture 5
Blog of unneccessary quotation marks
Oct 13 Writing Inked version of lecture 6 Assignment 3 DUE October 27
Oct 18 Library Skills CLASS CANCELLED Class in Science Library (Machray Hall)
Oct 20 Departmental Seminar Interference Modeling in Random Carrier-Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) Wireless Networks - Ekram Hossain Seminars Home Page
Oct 25 Writing / Research Tools Lecture 7
Oct 26 Research Integrity Matters! (See poster for more information.) This is not a required class for COMP 7210, but it may be of interest.
Oct 27 Research Tools / Thesis Proposal Lecture 8 automatic paper generator mentioned in class.
Nov 1 Thesis Proposal Lecture 9
Nov 3 Thesis Proposal
Nov 8 No class
Nov 10 No class
Nov 15 Student Meetings
Nov 17 Student Meetings
NOTE TIME: Nov 18, 1:30-2:30 Departmental Seminar - E2-125 Architecting an Interface for the Natural User - Daniel Wigdor Seminars Home Page
Nov 22 Course Status Update Assignment 4 DUE December 6
Nov 24 No Class
Nov 29 Experimental Design Dr. Pourang Irani Notes
Dec 1 Experimental Design Dr. Pourang Irani Notes
NOTE TIME: Dec 2, 10:00-12:00 MSc Defence (E2-461) Counts as one seminar attendance. Steven Solomon - Parallel Algorithm Design and Implementation of Regular/Irregular Problems
Dec 6 Departmental Seminar - E2-165 Scala Language Tour - Craig Tataryn
NOTE TIME: Dec 14, 2:30-4:30 MSc Defence (E2-461) Counts as one seminar attendance. David McCallum - ARC-Pad: A Mobile Device for Cursor Control on Large Displays
NOTE TIME: Jan 6, 9:30-10:30 Departmental Seminar - E2-365 Learning to Relate Images - Roland Memisevic
NOTE TIME: Jan 10, 10-11 Departmental Seminar - Machray 418 Saliency, Attention and Visual Search - Neil Bruce
Jan 10 Your Thesis Lecture 10
Jan 12 Giving a Presentation Al Marshall
NOTE TIME: Jan 13, 9:30-10:130 Departmental Seminar - Machray 315 Analysis of Wormhole Attack in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks - Majid Khabbazian
NOTE TIME: Jan 16, 9:30-10:130 Departmental Seminar - E2-365 Learning Structure Models to See People - Yang Wang
NOTE TIME: Jan 20, 9:30-10:30 Departmental Seminar - E2-304 Exploring Visual Information Structure - Caroline Ziemkiewicz
NOTE TIME: Jan 26, 10:00-11:00 Departmental Seminar - 111 Armes TBA - Junaed Sattar
NOTE TIME: Jan 26, 9:30-10:30 Departmental Seminar - E2-304 Scalability and Consistency in Dataase Replication - Khuzaima Daudjee
Jan 31st (No class Assignment 6:
NOTE TIME: Feb 3, 9:30-10:30 Departmental Seminar - E2-304 Talk is Cheap - Maxwell Young
Feb 14 MSc Defence (E2-304) Counts as one seminar attendance.
Feb 16 (No class) Assignment 7 (Due March 6)
Presenation Specifications (Due March 6)
Mar 8 (presentations ongoing) Thesis Proposal Specifications