Week 1:

• course syllabus -- introductory description of the course
• assignment 1 writeup -- provide a summary of your thesis research, in writing and oral presentation
• lecture notes week 1 -- introduction to the class

Week 2:

• assignment 1 presentation schedule -- schedule for presentations during weeks 5 and 6
• assignment 1 examples -- instructor-prepared and past-student examples of assignment 1
• lecture notes week 2 -- the computer science literature and how to reference it

Week 3:

• assignment 2 writeup -- thesis evaluations
• lecture notes week 3 -- details and logistics for assignment 1; finish topics from week 2; initial discussion of assignment 2

Week 4:

• short oral presentations, per this schedule

Week 5:

• lecture notes week 5 -- further discussion of assignment 2

Weeks 6 and 7:

• assignment 3 -- related work chapter of your thesis
• assignment 4 -- validation framework for your thesis
• assignment 5 -- research talk, in a 25-minute oral presentations
• lecture notes weeks 6 - 10 -- assignments 3,4,5; discussing related work in a thesis; validation of the thesis