Welcome to BINF704 Fall2015
Jeff Solka Ph.D.
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Course Philosophy
• This is the third attempt to design a colloquia
course that can be executed remotely.
• A portion of the course is executed
asynchronously
– Your review of the talks that I have selected
• A portion of the course is executed synchronously
– Your course presentation
– Your review of your colleagues presentations
• I continue to respectfully solicit your patience
and inputs as I continue to refine this approach
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Course Basics
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BINF704 Fall 2014
INSTRUCTOR - Jeff Solka Ph.D., jlsolka@gmail.com, 540-809-9799
OFFICE HOURS – By appointment.
PLACE AND TIME - Tuesday from 5:30-7:00 pm
PURPOSE of the COURSE
This course serves to train students in understanding scientific presentations and publications while
simultaneously giving them a rudimentary capability to craft a colloquium style presentation based
on a journal article.
EXPECTATIONS - Students are expected to attend online student presentations, to make a
presentation online on a journal paper as chosen by them, watch 4 online presentations, and
answer quizzes on 2 of them and provide write-up on 2 of them. Ideally the paper should be related
to the student's ongoing research and the student is free to present on ongoing research.
Alternatively students can present on a paper of the professor's choosing. Students will present in
teams of 2 or more where each team will have 45 minutes to present including time for questions.
These presentations will be coordinated remotely using Adobe Connect. It is expected that
student's will allow 15-20 minutes for questions and that the question and answer portion of the
talk will be thorough.. In addition students are expected to submit 2 in-depth write-ups, 7-10 pages,
on external speaker presentations. One of these will be due by 6:00 pm October 15,2015 and one
will be due by 6:00 pm Dec. 8, 2015. Finally students are expected to evaluate each of the student
presentations on a 100 point scale as follows
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External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To
Andrew Ng
Deep Learning, Self-Taught Learning and
Unsupervised Feature Learning
https://youtu.be/n1ViNeWhC24
Patricia Opresko
DNA Damage Processing at Telomeres
http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?18896
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External Speaker Talks You Will Be Listening To
Rodolphe Sepulchre
Sensitivity Analysis of Neuronal Behaviors
https://jh.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Vie
wer.aspx?id=6e158ef2-42a6-4412-b03faa13f234c85a
Daniel Rueckert
Machine Learning Meets Medical Imaging: From
Signals to Clinically Useful Information
https://youtu.be/7vtpWbrVdDY
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Presentation Grading Rubric
25 pts - Presentation Content
25 pts - Organization of the Talk
25 pts - Student's Understanding of Material
25 pts - Question and Answer Session
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Course Grading
GRADING - Students grades will be calculated in the
following manner.
20% Quiz Grades
40% Course Presentation
40% Presentation Write-ups
Grading will be on the following scale. 93-100 (A),
90-92 (A-), 87-89 (B+), 83-86 (B), 80-82(B-), less
than 80 (C). Student averages will be rounded to
the closest integer to determine final letter grades.
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Course Website and Blackboard Site
• http://binf.gmu.edu/~jsolka/fall15/binf704/bi
nf704_fall2015.html
• Also I plan to use Blackboard to post and
collect the quizzes on the talks
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Questions??
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