[Grad2020] Zemi on Tuesday 9/12

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Hi, everyone

On Tuesday we will have Zemi.

>From the 2d year students preparing for the midterm presentation
(scheduled for October 17-19, TWTh), Mr. Ma, who was at an internship
during the summer until last week, will present his progress report.
Part of Tuesday's presentation should be a draft of the midterm
presentation (subject to availability of results), and part should be
an outline of the work remaining to be done.  Think carefully about
weak points that professors are likely to ask about.

ALL STUDENTS (including Kenkyusei) ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND ALL
PRESENTATIONS OF YOUR SENPAI unless you have a class at that time.
Please adjust arbaito schedules.  I hope to have detailed schedules
(date, time, place) for the 5 2d year students' presentations.
(Schedules continue to be adjusted at this time but there should be a
preliminary schedule.

The first year students who are preparing for the Research Plan
presentation in February will present their literature surveys.  That
is, the outline of the presentation should be

1.  Self-introduction (name, department, student ID, research title).
    .ppt: Title slide.

2.  Summary of your research theme.
    .ppt: 1-3 slides, up to 1 for each component (theory/model,
    methodology, data).

3.  Theoretical/modeling background: textbooks, survey papers, or
    recent research papers which propose the cause and effect you are
    studying.  These should NOT overlap with next part, 4.
    .ppt: > 2 slides, one per reference.

4.  Recent papers based on same theory or model (see part 3) as yours,
    each using similar or contrasting data and statistical methodology.
    .ppt: > 3 slides, one per reference.

5.  Explain how your planned research fits into the flow of the
    research in your area, and how it extends or improves each paper
    in part 4 (new variables, better data, more accurate statistics,
    etc).

Note: it is expected that you will describe AT LEAST 5 papers from the
existing literature.  This assignment is NOT about the details of your
research or about your model or data.  It is about OTHER researchers'
work.  It is important to should that you show to the AG that you
respect and know your predecessors' work well, and how your work is
original.

All first-year students should prepare.  I know several are on
vacation, so probably everyone present will be able to present this
Tuesday.  If not, some will be selected arbitrarily.

ALL STUDENTS: Remember that your knowledge about your research should
be like Mt. Fuji.  It should be very deep about the specific methods
and content of your thesis paper.  It may decrease rapidly as you move
away from your theme, but should have a broad area of basic knowledge
about your whole field.  Professors (occasionally) ask questions like
"what is a t statistic?" or "how did you compute the degrees of
freedom for this test?"  They are more likely to ask questions like
"aren't there problems using Cronbach's alpha?" if you've used
Cronbach's alpha statistic.  Use these presentations to prepare for
such questions as well as questions about your content.

Please send me your Powerpoint files by Tuesday morning.

I hope to have time to read one chapter from Kahneman.  Please make
time to listen to the recording of Chapter 13 at least.

Steve

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