Why This Group?

The mastering of literature is important to a proper research. Skills like paper reading, reviewing, presentation and understanding talks/discussions are also critical to a successful researcher. However, it is difficult for a person to acquire these skills alone. Therefore, we help each other in this reading group to improve all the above-mentioned skills by reading, reviewing, presenting and discussing papers together.

What Do We Do in This Group?

We will have two types of meetings:

• Regular meetings: held once every week that would have 3-4 presentations each. All the presenters are required to provide a slide set (for a 20-min talk), a review of the paper he is going to present. The topic of the paper is not limited. Participants are required to write a review for each paper that is going to be presented.
• Conference-oriented meetings: when a participant is going to a conference, we can read the papers in that conference which are of interest. If we have questions, the participant can also help us contact the author (and/or ask the questions) on behalf of us. This kind of meeting are usually held 1-2 weeks before a conference and will have 2 meetings per week. Since conference-oriented meetings are quite intensive, slides and reviews are not mandatory (but preferred). However, a presentation (of about 15 minutes) is required for each paper to introduce what is proposed.

Here is a checklist of what should we do for each meeting:

Prepare for A Meeting

Select a paper

Prepare a slide set

Write reviews

Here is a review Template:

'''Overall merit''': [Accept (top 10%) | Weak accept (top 30% but not top 10%) | Weak reject (top 50% but not top 30%) | Reject (bottom 50%)  ]\\
'''Confidence''': [Expert | Knowledgeable | Some Familiarity | None]\\
'''Quality of writing''': [Excellent | Well written | Not well written | Poorly Written]\\
'''Summary of the paper''': (Provide a 1-2 sentence summary of the work in your own words, including the contribution and technical depth)\\

'''Strengths''': (Be brief)\\

'''Weaknesses''': (Be brief)\\

'''Detailed comments''':\\

During The Meeting

Give the talk

Discuss based on reviews

Electronic devices are NOT recommended during the meeting

Before You Start: Register Your Own Page

Register a student page in the wiki

• Type in the browser address bar: http://mobilityfirst.orbit-lab.org/wiki/Internal/StudentPages/<YourName> (Replace <YourName> with your first name]
• Create the page and make sure it is under Internal/StudentPages/
• Write something about yourself. You will put all your reviews and slides in this page later (see Internal/StudentPages/Jiachen for example)
• In case you don't know how to use Wiki formats, you can check the WikiFormatting and WikiMacros

Create a link to your page in Internal/StudentPages

• Edit Internal/StudentPages

Recent Events

2016.09.06

• Event page
  
• Description: ICN'16 reading session 1
  
• Participants: Haoyuan Xu, Jiachen Chen, Sugang Li, Wuyang Zhang, Ying Liu, Zhenhua Jia
  
• Summary: This is the summary of the meeting

Past Events