Regular attendance:
You must attend all proseminar meetings. If you are sick (or can not attend for another valid reason), please send an email to Kristina Schaefer.

Talk:
In order to pass th eproseminar, you have to give a talk of 20 min, plus 15 min for discussion. Please do not deviate from this time schedule. Your presentation must be delivered in English. Your slides and your write-up, too, have to be in English.

Mandatory consultation:
There is a mandatory consultation with your supervisor about your talk. Schedule it at latest one week before the talk is given. The consultation can be done online or in person. It is your responsibility to approach us timely and make your appointment for a video call.

Write-up:
You have to create a write-up of your talk. It has to be handed in after the lecture period ends. The deadline is 05.03.25. The write-up should summarise your talk and has to consist of 5 pages. Submit your write-up in pdf format via mail to Kristina Schaefer. You can use the write-up template
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Plagiarism:
Adhere to the standards of scientific referencing and avoid plagiarism: Quotations and copied material (such as images) must be clearly marked as such, and a bibliography is required. Otherwise the seminar counts as failed.

Participation in discussions:
The discussions after the presentations are a vital part of this seminar. This means that the audience (i.e. all paricipants) poses questions and tries to find positive and negative aspects of the proposed idea.

Being on time:
All participants have to be in the seminar meeting on time. Participants that turn out to be regularly late must expect a negative influence on their grade.

1. Xin-She Yang
   Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms
   Luniver Press, 2010