Article Presentation:

- Choose a paper you are interested in, in the list among the ones that were not already chosen by a classmate.
- Register it on "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/196no3JUm4YywVBCDoaOJ4HCiIDiROdj_hyK0PCpVBh4" and book a free slot for the oral presentation.
- Read the short document referenced below on how to read a scientific paper, and start reading your paper.
- Send us a report of at least one page and at most two, by Sunday 8th November at 23:59.
- The defense will consist of 10 minutes of slide presentation and 10 minutes of discussion/questions.
- The presentation and report are in English. 

Your report and oral presentation should give a global overview of the paper.
The papers are outstanding contributions to the field.
Thus they are generally more technical than the average paper.
Don't be overwhelmed by their technicity, length, etc.
We are well aware that it is a difficult exercise and we will obviously take that into account for the evaluation.
By no means, you are expected to understand all the technical details of your assigned paper.
For a successful report/presentation, you should understand the addressed problem, its importance, the relevant definitions and objects, how the main proofs work on a high-level.
The latter means that you should be able to summarize how the new ideas/tools were used in combination with already known techniques to overcome all the issues.
Being able to summarize the proof of a technical or key lemma is a plus.
Once again, we do not expect you to be able to reproduce all the proofs in all their details (and there is no time for that anyway).
For the longer papers, you can choose to focus on a subset of sections capturing the paper's essence.

Your report and oral presentation should typically answer most (or all, if they all apply) of these questions:
- What is the problem tackled, and why/how is it important?
- What was known beforehand?
- What is or what are the main contributions of the paper?
- What is or what are the new tools or ingredients which allowed these results?
- What is or what are the main open questions left?
- What subsequent works has the paper inspired/permitted?
- As of now, has the complete story on that particular topic been written or are there still some important open questions?

We encourage you to browse Google and Google Scholar to find important papers citing or cited by your assigned paper.
Reading the abstract, and possibly the introduction, of these back and forth references should help you situating your paper.


Some old but good pointers to start with:

Reading:
https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPaper.pdf

Writing:
http://newslab.ece.ohio-state.edu/for%20students/resources/tenrules.pdf
and the references therein, such as Knuth's.

Presenting:
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/speaker.pdf