Seminar KF1, KF3, 2024 Fall semester (+KF2, KF4)
[Latest update: Sep 13, 2024]
Instructor: Andras Palyi (associate professor, Dept. of Theoretical Physics)
Course codes: BMETE11MF03 and BMETE11MF05
Time: Friday 12:15-13:45.
Location: KF86 KF85 (updated on Oct 11)
Language: English
Teams group: 2024 Fall - MSc Seminar
Schedule (updated on Oct 12)
1. Sep 6 -
2. Sep 13 - kick-off meeting
3. Sep 20 -
4. Sep 27 -
5. Oct 4 -
6. Oct 11 - session 1 - Dénes, Domokos
7. Oct 18 - break
8. Oct 25 - session 2 - Kupás, Sántha
9. Nov 1 - break
10. Nov 8 - session 3 - Skublics, Telek, Bárándi
11. Nov 15 - session 4 - Dobos, Török, Trombitás, Markó
12. Nov 22 - session 5 - Tunyogi, Velich, Balogh, Telek
13. Nov 29 - break (open day)
14. Dec 6 - session 6 - Kondákor, Keveházi, Viczián
Rules & Guidelines (for KF1, KF3)
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You will present a 15-minute talk on a Nature, Nature Physics or Science paper.
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You can select a paper yourself, or ask your supervisor or me for advice. The paper can be related to your MSc project. The paper should be an original research paper (e.g., not a review paper).
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Send me your selected paper at least 2 weeks before your talk.
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The talk should be as comprehensible to your fellow students as possible.
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Prepare slides in pdf.
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You can give an (online or in-person) practice talk on the Thursday before your talk, or earlier. Contact me on the week before the talk to find a time for your practice talk, via email to palyi.andras at ttk dot bme dot hu. The practice talk should take 15 minutes, and it is followed by a discussion that takes at most 15 minutes.
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In the seminar session, use your own computer for the talk, but also bring along the slides on a pendrive, just in case your computer does not work with the projector.
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Test if the projector works with your computer before the session starts, that is, between 12:05-12:15.
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Be prepared to take questions.
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Each talk is followed by a 10-minute discussion, during which the audience has to write a summary of the talk in 5-10 sentences in a google survey. Please do bring your laptop (or smartphone) even if you're not the speaker, to make sure that you can complete this task. It is okay not to submit the summary at the end of the 10-minute submission (the discussion itself can be too entertaining/distracting), but it is mandatory to submit it on the day of the session.
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I might upload the summaries to the Files folder of the session.
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You should upload the final version of the slides (pdf) before your session starts, to the Files folder of the channel of your session.
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You can miss at most 3 classes.
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The grade will be determined based on the quality of the presentation. Cancelling a talk can result in a lower grade.
Description for 2024 Fall semester ends here.
OUTDATED - Seminar KF1, KF3, 2021 Fall semester
[Latest update: Sep 9, 2021]
Instructor: Andras Palyi (associate professor, Dept. of Theoretical Physics)
Course codes: BMETE11MF03 and BMETE11MF05
Time: Friday 12:15-13:45.
Location: KF83 and F3M01 - seminar room of the Dept. of Theoretical Physics (see schedule below)
Language: English
Teams group: MSc Seminar KF1, KF3, 2021 Fall
Schedule
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Sep 10, kick-off meeting - cancelled
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Sep 17, no session
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Sep 24, no session
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Oct 1, KF83 - Jakab, Jánoki
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Oct 8, KF83 - Forrai, Kiss
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Oct 15, KF83 - Ferenczy, Kolok
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Oct 22, F3M01 - Bodócs, Nagy
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Oct 29, F3M01 - Blaskó, Takács
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Nov 5, F3M01 - Tóth, Hajdú
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Nov 12, F3M01 - Horváth, Guba
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Nov 19, online, async - Boldis
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Nov 26, no session, BME Open Day
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Dec 3, F3M01 - Pataki, Bíró, Krasznai
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Dec 10, F3M01 - Berke, Plitt, van de Sand
Rules & Guidelines
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At this point, we assume that the sessions will be in-person.
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You will present a 20-minute talk on a Nature, Nature Physics or Science paper.
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You can select a paper yourself, or ask your supervisor or me for advice. The paper can be related to your MSc project.
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The talk should be as comprehensible to your fellow students as possible.
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Prepare slides in pdf.
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You should give an (online or in-person) practice talk on the Thursday before your talk, or earlier. Contact me the week before the talk to find a time for your practice talk, either in person, or via email at palyi.andras at ttk dot bme dot hu.
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The practice talk should take 20 minutes, and it is followed by a discussion that takes at most 30 minutes.
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In the seminar session, use your own computer for the talk, but also bring along the slides on a pendrive, just in case your computer does not work with the projector.
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Test if the projector works with your computer before the session starts, that is, between 12:00-12:15.
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Be prepared to take questions.
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Each talk is followed by a 10-minute discussion, during which the audience has to write a summary of the talk in 5-10 sentences in a google survey. Please do bring your laptop (or smartphone) even if you're not the speaker, to make sure that you can complete this task.
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The summaries will be publised in Teams. E.g., the speaker can use it to check how well his/her messages were conveyed, etc.
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You should email me the final version of the slides right after your talk.
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You can miss at most 3 classes.
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The grade will be determined based on the quality of the presentation. Not giving a practice talk, or cancelling a talk, can result in a lower grade.
OUTDATED - Seminar KF1, KF3, 2020 Fall semester
Instructor: Andras Palyi (associate professor, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, email: palyi at mail dot bme dot hu)
Course codes: BMETE11MF03 and BMETE11MF05
Official time: Friday 12:15-13:45, but it'll be run as an asynchronous online course in this semester.
Location: online, in Teams
Language: English
Rules & Guidelines, version 2, 2020 Oct 09.
This course will be held online, in an asynchronous fashion. Asynchronous means that there's no online live session. Speakers will record and upload their talks, and the audience will watch the videos and provide feedback in written form until a set deadline. More on this below.
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Presentation videos. Each student will have to record and upload a 20-minute oral presentation video, using slides, on a topic within modern physics. The "Technical discussion" channel in Teams will be used to discuss how to record a talk.
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Schedule. The schedule for the speakers and talks is as follows:
Oct 2 - Szombathy, Kovács, Szabó
Oct 9 - Balázs, Sulyok
Oct 16 - Forrai, Jánoki
Oct 23 is a national holiday, no session
Oct 30 -Trócsányi, Bodócs
Nov 6 - Mikeházi, Takács
Nov 13 - Jakab, Kiss
Nov 20 - Blaskó, Ferenczy, Jakab
Nov 27 - BME Open Day for high school students, no session
Dec 4 - Nagy, Tóth, Kiss
Dec 11 - Keveházi, Trócsányi, Kolok
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Dates. If the date does not suit you, please email me or make a comment in Teams in the General channel.
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Upload in time. The video and the pdf slides should be uploaded to your Teams channel. Deadline for uploading is 12:15pm of your day in the schedule (see above). This way the students who prefer to follow the course synchronously will be able to do so.
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Topic. You can select a topic yourself, and/or ask me for advice. If you don't know what to speak about, then I especially recommend browsing the American Journal of Physics, which publishes pedagogical text in various subfields of physics: https://aapt.scitation.org/journal/ajp
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Not your MSc. The topic of the talk should not be your MSc thesis research; that is going to be the subject of the seminar in the Spring semester.
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Make it clear. The target audience of your talk is your fellow students: the talk should be as comprehensible to them as possible.
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Online practice talk. You should give a live online practice talk on the Thursday before your talk, or earlier. Contact me, in Teams chat or via email at palyi at mail dot bme dot hu, the week before the talk to find a time for your practice talk. The practice talk should take 20 minutes, and it is followed by a discussion that takes at most 30 minutes.
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Summaries. It is mandatory to watch each other's talk and write a 10-sentence summary (facts, remarks, questions, etc), for at least 70% of the talks, to get a grade. That means that if everyone gives a talk (19 talks), then each student has to write at least 13 summaries out of the 18 talks he/she might have listened to, to get a grade. Summaries will be submitted via a google form; the link of the google form will be posted in each talk's Teams channel. The summaries will be published in Teams. The deadline for watching the talk and submitting the summary is Monday 23:00 after the date of the talk in the schedule above. [Update Oct02:] As a recommendation, you should spend cca. 15 minutes on writing each summary, right after watching the 20-minute video. It is allowed, but not required, to re-watch the video, browse the slides, and in general to spend more time to craft a summary more carefully.
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Speaker's Reaction. For the speaker, it is mandatory to react on the summaries he received within 72 hours after receiving them. Reaction means that in his/her Teams channel, he/she should (1) try to answer the questions posed in the summaries, (2) correct any factual mistakes appearing in the summaries, (3) react on critical remarks appearing in the summaries, etc. If this Speaker's Reaction evolves into an actual discussion in the channel, that's even better. [Update Oct09:] Don't overdo this task: focus on the 5 issues (questions/mistakes/remarks) you find the most important. If the 72-hour deadline is too tight, then request an extension.
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Grade. The grade will be determined based on the quality of the presentation. Not giving a practice talk, or cancelling a talk, can result in a lower grade. I may also take into account the quality of the Summaries or the quality of the Speaker's Reaction.
If you have any questions, please ask in email or in the General channel in Teams.
OUTDATED - Seminar KF1, KF3, 2019 Fall semester
This is the joint course page of two courses, KF1 and KF3.
Instructor: Andras Palyi (associate professor, Dept. of Theoretical Physics, email: palyi at mail dot bme dot hu)
Course codes: BMETE11MF03 and BMETE11MF05
Time: Friday 12:15-13:45
Location: F3M01 (seminar room of the Dept. of Theoretical Physics)
Language: English
First meeting: Sep 13, Friday, 12:15
Schedule
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Sep 13: kick-off
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Sep 20: Földvári (slides, summaries)
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Sep 27: Tamás (slides), Sulyok (slides, summaries)
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Oct 4: Szász-Schagrin (slides, summaries)
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Oct 11: Budai (slides, summaries), Balázs (slides)
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Oct 18: Kovács (slides, summaries), Szilvási (slides, summaries)
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Oct 25: no seminar
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Nov 1: no seminar
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Nov 8: Borsi (slides, summaries), Szombathy (slides, summaries)
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Nov 15: Györgypál (slides), Szabó
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Nov 22: Sári (slides)
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Nov 29: no seminar
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Dec 6: Szilágyi, Vízkeleti
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Dec 13: Gyulai, Horváth, Varga
Rules
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You will present a 20-minute talk on a topic within modern physics.
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You can select a topic yourself, or ask me for advice.
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The topic of the talk should not be your MSc thesis research; that is going to be the subject of the seminar in the Spring semester.
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The talk should be as comprehensible as possible to your fellow students.
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Prepare slides in pdf.
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You should give a practice talk on the Thursday before your talk, or earlier. On Thursdays, I'm available between 10:00-16:00. Contact me the week before the talk to find a time for your practice talk, either in person, or via email at palyi at mail dot bme dot hu.
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The practice talk should take 20 minutes, and it is followed by a discussion that takes at most 30 minutes.
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In the seminar session, use your own computer for the talk, but also bring along the slides on a pendrive, just in case your computer does not work with the projector.
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Test if the projector works with your computer before the session starts.
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Be prepared to take questions.
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Each talk is followed by 15-minute discussion, during which the audience has to write a summary of the talk in 5-10 sentences in a google survey. This is done in pairs. Please do bring your laptop even if you're not the speaker, to make sure that you can complete this task.
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I send the summaries as a single pdf file to the speaker. He/She will decide if it should be published in some way. I'm glad to publish the summaries here, if the speaker wishes so.
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You should email me the final version of the slides right after your talk.
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You can miss at most 3 classes.
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The grade will be determined based on the quality of the presentation. Not giving a practice talk, or cancelling a talk, can result in a lower grade.
Homework (due Sep 19 Thursday, 12:00)
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Read section 6 of this essay from Prof. Jan von Delft on giving talks.
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Submit a summary of the text through this google form. Summarize in 5-10 numbered sentences. Are there any suggestions you'll follow? Are there any suggestions you disagree with? Do you have any questions on this subject? Any remarks?
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Deadline: Sep 19 Thursday, 12:00