The students learn and practice to present their PhD work together with its technical challenges to a multi-disciplinary audience of non-specialists.

Presentation skills, content, timing and slides; questions and answers; discussion

The seminar is organized across all the departments and sub-disciplines of the Informatics study programme. Thus, a broad range of PhD projects, research topics and results will be presented and discussed.

Assessment by the course instructors

Presentation(s) of PhD research and contributions to discussions

Grading is based on the presentation(s) of the PhD student's research work and her/his involvement/engagement in the discussions of other students' work.The quality of the presentation(s) is assessed along four dimensions:Talk content (depth)Slide designPresentation styleDuration of the talk (adherence to time limits)