Week |
Date | fall/spring seq. (1st sem) | spring/fall seq. (2nd sem) | ||
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1 |
Sep. 10,
4:10-6:00 530 Altschul |
530: Introduction, signup (MS) | |||
530: Goals
of
Senior Seminar (MS), career speaker
suggestions (MS), scientific writing (MS) what
makes a good thesis project (MS), Advisor/mentor/student
relationship (SM) |
805: Review of summer progress, statistics/data analyses questions?, career speaker suggestions (MP,JK) | ||||
2 |
Sep. 17, no class |
Individual
meetings with advisors and mentors to discuss thesis
topic |
Individual
meetings with advisors and mentors discussion of
thesis proposal |
||
3 |
Sep. 24, 4:10-6:00 530 Altschul |
530:
Peer
process (MS), Methods of
library research (SM),
ISI
Web
of
Knowledge
(SM), 530 & 805: Elements
of a thesis proposal, Outline
(MS,SM), How
to write an introduction? (RC), Individual meetings with advisors and mentors to discuss thesis topic |
Individual meetings with advisors and mentors | ||
4 |
Oct. 1, 4:10-6:00
530 & 805 Altschul |
530: Experimental Design and research procedures (EC), IRB (MS), 530 & 403: Concept maps (SM,MS); Individual meetings with advisors and mentors | 805:
Data Analysis and Statistics (MP) How to separate results and discussion? (JK) Individual meetings with advisors and mentors discussion of thesis proposal |
||
5 |
Oct 8, no class | Individual
meetings with advisors and mentors to discuss
another thesis proposal |
Individual
meetings with advisors and mentors to discuss
another thesis |
||
6 |
Oct 15,
4:10-6:00 Sulzberger Parlor (3rd floor, Barnard Hall) |
Careers,
Funding
opportunities for senior thesis work (e.g. travel) (EC,
MS) |
|||
Due: Outline of thesis proposal (1 copy) | Due: 1st draft of thesis (1 copy) | ||||
7 |
Oct 22, 4:10-6:00
530 Altschul
|
Ethics/Plagiarism (SM),
530 & 805: Results,
figures & captions (MP, RC), Python/R/Excel salon (RC,MP) Individual meetings with advisors and mentors discussion of thesis proposal outline |
Individual
meetings with advisors and mentors
discussion of thesis draft |
||
8 |
Oct 29,
4:10-6:00 530 & 805 Altschul |
530:
PPT & other tech. issues, MAC/PC (MS), How
to give a scientific talk (JK,RC) Logistics and
remote (MS), Gantt
charts (MS), What
goes into an abstract? (LB)
Individual meetings with advisors and mentors |
805: 30 second slides (MP), How to make a poster (SM) | ||
9 |
Nov
, 5:10-6:00 530, 805 & 403 Altschul |
Mini-conference
1, 10min presentations
plus 2min discussion (see student list for time
and room assignment) Individual
meetings with advisors and mentors
deposit
files on courseworks, remote control |
|||
10 |
Nov 12,
4:10-6:00 530, 805 & 403 Altschul |
Mini-conference
2, 10min presentations plus
2min discussion (see student
list for time and room assignment)
Individual
meetings with seminar faculty and mentors,
discuss poster, final thesis/proposal
|
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11 |
Nov 19,
4:10-6:00 530, 805 & 403 Altschul |
Mini-conference 3, 10min presentations
plus 2min discussion (see student
list for time and room assignment) Individual meetings
with seminar faculty and mentors, discuss poster, final
thesis/proposal |
|||
Due: thesis proposal draft, 2 copies (and Canvas upload), begin of peer review process | |||||
12 |
Nov 26, no
class |
Thanksgiving |
Thanksgiving | ||
13 |
Dec 3, 4:10-6:00 530 Altschul |
Individual
meetings with seminar faculty and mentors,
discuss final thesis/proposal You are welcome to attend the 2nd semester session today about posters Due: copy of review sheet for your peer |
530:
Present 30s summary slides in class/discussion of poster
drafts (MP) Due: poster drafts, 30s slide, copy of review sheet for your peer |
||
by Tu Dec 3,
12 noon |
Due:
deposit one-page summary ppt slide on courseworks
and pdf of your poster |
||||
14 |
Dec 10, 4:10pm-6pm 10th floor, Schermerhorn Ext. |
Poster session (second semester students
will present their work to the class, but everybody
attends) (MP) |
|||
15 |
Mo Dec. 14, 12
noon |
Due:
Final thesis (proposal) (paper and electronic copy on
Canvas) - course evaluations |