Innovative applications of computer science

Master's seminars

The main topic of the seminar will be the applications of computer science in other fields.

We invite students who have strong non-IT interests, especially those studying at second faculties or professionally dealing with such topics.

The lectures at the seminar will cover a wide variety of fields of application and even more diverse specific topics, i.e. they will provide an opportunity to broaden your mental horizons. Master's theses usually contain a very significant amount of work related to obtaining requirements specification and are associated with numerous contacts with non-computer scientists in order to learn about a foreign and often fascinating field of knowledge.

The main topic of the seminar will be the application of computer science in other fields of science. At present, computational methods occupy an important position in many fields. We can mention mathematics, computational biology, chemistry and physics, where their use is obvious. In other areas, the use of algorithms and, more broadly, computational methods is not yet standard and is only just making its way into the awareness of researchers (usually those of the younger generation). There are many interesting topics in this field and a lot of work to be done.

The sum of the experiences of the seminar leaders already includes cooperation with historians, archaeologists, geographers, hydrologists, historians of literature and philologists, chemists, astronomers, ethnologists, biologists and doctors.

Under our supervision, master's theses on text and image processing, visualization, simulation, creation of computing platforms and user interfaces were created.

We invite to our seminar students who have strong non-IT interests, especially those who study in second faculties or are professionally involved in such topics. The lectures at the seminar will cover a wide variety of fields of application and even more diverse specific topics, i.e. they will provide an opportunity to broaden your mental horizons. Master's theses usually involve a very significant amount of work related to obtaining requirements specification and are associated with numerous contacts with non-computer scientists in order to learn about a foreign and often fascinating field of knowledge.

Modern scientific literature of the subject, including scientific journals and conference proceedings. More specific information is presented at the first meeting.

The students prepare and deliver seminar talks (K_U11) prepared on the basis of the newest English publications concerning widely understood applications of computer methods in other areas of research (K_U14, K_K08), among other also from conferences and journal of ACM and IEEE (K_K07). Many talks present interdisciplinary research, with prominent roles played by scholars from fields other than computer science (K_K02).

The student who presents a talk is expected not only to report on the paper, but also to express his/her own opinion on it (K_K06)l those who listen are expected to participate in the discussion following the presentation (K_K02).

We also have a second kind of presentations, those related to the preparation of the Master's Thesis (K_U13). The first such talk is typically given soon after determining the Thesis' topic, and the student is expected to present a plan how he/she intends to gain the knowledge necessary to prepare the Thesis (K_K01, K_U15,K_K03).

First-year students pass the seminar on the basis of two presentations and registration of the subject of the MS thesis.

Second-year students pass the seminar on the basis of two presentations and submitting their MS thesis.