Dissertationpalooza!

All students have been assigned a PhD dissertation from a WSDL alum. The goals of this assignment are to:

• familiarize you with WSDL prior work
• provide an example of successful PhD dissertations

Whereas the original authors had approximately an hour to present their research, you will have 20-25 minutes (with questions and discussion, the enitre presentation should fit with a 30 minute slot). Since you have less than half of the original time, you will need to focus on the research questions, technical highlights, and the contributions of the dissertation; there will not be time to present the work in its entirety.

Feel free to use figures and tables from the dissertation (be sure to mark their number from the original work), but the slides and text must be your own work – not a simplified version of the original slides. You’re presenting your perspective on their work – not just a karaoke version of the original presentation.

The disserations will be presented in chronological order, with the first four presented on November 29 and last four presented on December 6.

Some resources to get you started:

• http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mln/teaching/
• https://ws-dl.cs.odu.edu/Main/People