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• This year the topics of readings will be discussed at the first meeting. We will deal with topics related to Machine Learning, with emphasis to the learning-related to Math Information Retrieval@FI, visualization of similarity search, Representation Learning, and others. 
• There is a discussion group with official course information and a communication channel, in addition to the course outline below: watch both frequently!
  

Topics and Course Outline

Week 1

Join us at A502 the Faculty of Informatics MU on September 16th at 10 AM (CET).

1. 10:00 Class introduction, warm-up round-up discussion (expectation, topics/expertise/background, suggested topics, and readings). Bring your research ideas to read, study, present and discuss!
2. 10:15 Principles of research communication and scientific work, Reading a scientific paper.
   CS research and doctoral studies and its evaluation at FI MU: CS conference rankings
   
3. 10:20 Importance of "selling the ideas and work", picking the right topics and questions, researching "big issues", picking the right publication forums (in CS and NLP), h-index as a measure of impact.
4. 10:25 Motivating video: DEK's advice to young students.
5. 10:30 Plan of readings/talks this term, topics to cover.
6. 10:40 Presentation of our presence at SIGIR and CICM
   

Week 2 – Vítek Novotný

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on September 23 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 3 – Jakub Ryšavý

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on September 30 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 4 – Mikuláš Bankovič

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on October 7 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 5 – Michal Štefánik

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on October 14 at 10 AM (CET).

Week 6 – Vlastimil Martinek

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on October 21 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.

Week 7 – státní svátek

Week 8 – Martin Geletka

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on November 4 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.

Week 9 – David Čechák

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on November 11 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.

Week 10 – Marek Petrovič

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on November 18 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.

Week 11 – Dávid Lupták

Join us in room C522 at FI MU on November 25 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.

Week 12 – Tereza Vrabcová

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on December 2 at 10 AM (CET) or on Zoom.

Week 13 – Dominik Rehák

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on December 9 at 10 AM (CET). or on Zoom.

Week 14 – Christmas party

Join us in room A502 at FI MU on December 16 at 10 AM (CET) (no Zoom, sorry).

Tips for readings, discussions, and presentation preparations:

1. Top2Vec towardsdatascience.com/top2vec-new-way-of-topic-modelling 
2. How to speak by Patrick Winston (youtube video)
   

Žákovi, který se hrozil chyb, Mistr řekl: "Ti, kdo nedělají chyby, chybují nejvíc ze všech – nepokoušejí se o nic nového." Anthony de Mello: O cestě

To a student who was in danger, the Master said: "Those who do not make mistakes most of all – they do not try anything new." Anthony de Mello