Project Presentations

Project presentations will be held on May 2nd and May 4th.

Each group will have six minutes to present your project, with two minutes reserved for questions following. Note that this isn't as much time as it may sound like. Remember that such short presentations are quite hard to prepare as you have to distill your project. You will be able to show several slides, which should give an idea of:

• What question or problem are you investigating?
• Why it is interesting or important?
• How will you answer the question?
• What preliminary results do you have, and what are your conclusions?

You can use transparencies, PowerPoint, PDF, or other computerized slides, or the blackboard. We strongly suggest that you do not use the board as it takes more time to write things up. If you want to use slides from a computer, you need to email them to me (tj@cs.cornell.edu) by 9am on the day of your talk so that I can check they work and set things up so that the presentations run smoothly. If you want to use some other computerized format, let me know and I may be able to accomodate you. You do not need to provide paper copies of the slides to us, or for the class.

You will be graded based on:

• How clearly you present the problem.
• Whether you convince us that its interesting and worth solving.
• How well prepared you are.

If you would like feedback on your slides, or other comments on what you plan to present, send us email or come to office hours.

Order of Presentations

Tuesday, May 2

Thursday, May 4