Proseminar FS10

Times and location

The proseminar presentations will be on mondays in HIT K51 (Hoenggerberg).
They will start at 8:45. See table above for the dates of the talks.

Organisation of the proseminars

The students are assigned a topic to learn about and eventually explain to the others in the class. This is done both by an oral presentation and a written report.

Criteria for obtaining a Testat, i.e. passing the module:

• Give a presentation which is pedagogical and demonstrates solid understanding of the material.

• During the presentation, give a short derivation of some key formula on the blackboard.

• Be present at least 80% of the time.

• Hand in a written report of your talk in English.

Students are supposed to give a "professional" talk in English:
to use up-to date presentation programs, i.e Keynote or Power Point.
The presentations should not last longer than 90 min.

Each student will be associated to a research assistant at the institute
who will be available to support him.

The students should contact their respective assistant at least six weeks before their talk to discuss logistics.
They should keep their assistant updated of their work at least once a week.

One week before their talk they are expected to have a draft of their report as well as a finished set of slides which they have to present to their tutor (the report can be handed in later and is not necessary for the talk).

The literature related to a given proseminar subject will be given to the students by their assistants.

The written report is in English. Note that no report = no Testat.

• Deadline 1, Friday 14 May: Send report to assistant for feedback

• Deadline 2, Friday 28 May: Send final version to dahlsten@phys.ethz.ch
  

The reports will be compiled to a book with all other contributions, and must therefore be prepared using a specific LaTeX macro.

LATEX MACRO (Download the file 'template.tgz' and use those files only)
(to be linked)
INSTRUCTIONS (Follow these carefully)