Instructor: Dr. Son-Young Yi

Office: Bell Hall 218

Email:syi@utep.edu

Phone:747-6864

Time and Place: W 11:30 am ~12:20 pm CoBA 330

Office hours: TR 13:30 ~ 14:30 or by appointment

Textbook: None required

Course description: This class is to introduce students to explore how research is done in their fields of study. Students will give a short presentation on a current research paper of their choice based on a study of a refereed journal article. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long and 3 minute-long Q/A time will follow. A session chair and a questioner for each presentation will be assigned as well. The presentation must be prepared in either PowerPoint or PDF format. You are supposed to submit the journal article(either a hard copy or an electronic version) that you chose to study to me, the session chair, and the questioner no later than a week before you are to present. In addition to the article, the file containing the slides should be submitted by e-mail at least 24 hours in advance of your presentation.

Session chair's duties :The session chair's primary duties are to introduce the speakers and ensure the session proceeds according to schedule, and to facilitate a dialogue between the presenters and the audience. The session chair should introduce the presenter and the topic for the day, notify the presenter when 5 minutes are left, ask for questions following the presentation, and thank the presenter.

Questioner's duties: The questioner must read the article and prepare questions to ask the presenter during Q/A time.

Assignments: A couple of assignments will be given throughout the semester. All assignments will be due at the beginning of class on the due date.

Assignment 1 (Due Sept. 9) :

• Watch the online video How to give a good research talk and give a bullet point summary of the suggestions given.
• Search for a couple of websites that address the questions of how to design good PowerPoint presentations(slides)
and give a bullet point summary.

Attendance policy: Attendance will be taken at the beginning of every class. If you miss 2 or more classes, you will get 0 for your attendance. If you miss a class due to emergency, you have to provide a written document(e.g. doctor's note).

Grading policy: Presentation(40%), Slides(20%), Session Chair duty(10%), Questioner duty(10%), Assignments(10%), attendance(10%)

Presentation Schedule: (Note changes!!)

Date	Presenter	Session chair	Questioner	Topic(slide)
9/2/09	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
9/9/09	Luis Basurto	Melaku Bogale	Kiran Katta	An overview of eigensolvers for HPCx
9/16/09	Francisco Aquirre	Marco Olquin	Richard Adansi	A simple algorthm for reliability evaluation of a stochastic-flow network with node failure
9/23/09	Maria Barraza	Richard Medina	Melaku Bogale	Efficiently computing many roots of a function
9/30/09	Kiran Katta	Francisco Aquirre	Marco Olquin	A spectral finite volume transport scheme on the cubed-sphere
10/7/09	Victor Carrillo	Maria Barraza	Richard Medina	Flexible smoothing with B-splines and Penalties
10/14/09	Richard Adansi	Victor Carrillo	Francisco Aquirre	Exoskeleton-For the future of super soldiers
10/21/09	Melaku Bogale	Luis Basurto	Maria Barraza	Introduction to compressive sampling
10/28/09	Marco Olquin	Richard Adansi	Luis Basurto	Self-consistent-field calculations of core excited states
11/4/09	Richard Medina	Kiran Katta	Victor Carrillo	Using a Radiative Transfer Model in Conjunction with UV-MFRSR Irradiance Data for Studying Aerosols in El Paso-Juarez Airshed
11/11/09	Luis Basurto	N/A	N/A	Summary of MPI commands
11/18/09	Dr. Yi	N/A	N/A
11/25/09	Dr. Velazquez	N/A	N/A