CSC 545: Fall 2014 In-class Presentations.

Due date: Friday Nov. 7 at 11:55pm.

Late deadline: Tues. Nov. 11 at 11:55pm.

Your presentation slides should be prepared collaboratively with your other group members. One member of each group should be designated to upload the slides to connex. I plan to print them and annotate them with comments and corrections. Please use a white background on the slides so that I do not waste ink and so that I have somewhere to write my feedback.

The goal of your presentation is to teach the class about your optimization tactic. To make sure they understand it, please ensure you spend adequate time defining the topic and in giving one small example. You are encouraged to include pictures taken from other sources but you must include a reference to where the picture originated (url and if possible, also include the author).

The presentations should take at most 45 minutes leaving 5 minutes for questions at the end. Each student should present part of the talk. It is up to your group to decide how to divide up the presentation.

The contents of your talk should include:

1. A header slide with the title of your talk and the names of all students in the group. Do NOT include your UVic ID numbers in the talk (this information should be kept private).
2. Define your optimization tactic.
3. Show several steps of the algorithm on a small concrete example.
4. Give several applications where this tactic can be applied. For each area, clearly define the input to the problem and explain what is being optimized.
5. When does this tactic work well and when do other tactics do better? Describe some computational experiments to back up your claims.
6. For each student in your group: clearly define one specific research problem that you are interested in (for a project or thesis or make one up) for which your tactic might be applicable.