1. Review: Posters, Good Research Mícheál Ó Foghlú Executive Director Research TSSG, WIT mofoghlu@tssg.orgmofoghlu@tssg.org April 2009

2. Copyright © Mícheál Ó Foghlú 2009 Revised Schedule Mon 12th Jan Thomas Magedanz - Guest Lecture on IMS [DONE] Wed 14th JanPresentations [DONE] Wed 21st JanPresentations [DONE] Wed 28th Jan IPv6 Summit (Dublin Castle) [DONE] Wed 4th FebEMPTY Wed 11th Feb Session 01 [DONE] Wed 25th FebEMPTY Wed 4th MarSession 02 [DONE] Wed 11th MarSession 03 [DONE] Wed 18th MarEMPTY - to be scheduled? Wed 25th MarEMPTY - to be scheduled? Wed 1st AprSession 04 [DONE] Wed 22nd AprSession 05 [Today] Sessions 01-05 to be delivered by Mícheál Ó Foghlú

3. Copyright © Mícheál Ó Foghlú 2009 Schedule Detail 01 What is research? –Philosophy, Epistemology, Methodology and Method 02 How to write academically? –Some simple language rules –Some simple structure rules 03 What’s the big deal with plagiarism? –Bibliographies, references and citations, … –Doing it in Word –Doing it with other tools like LaTeX/BibTeX 04 Results - how to do experiments –Support tools: simulation, data analysis, … 05 Discussion

4. Copyright © Mícheál Ó Foghlú 2009 Structure Discussion of Posters (basics) Discussion of Good Research (basics)

5. Copyright © Mícheál Ó Foghlú 2009 Posters Clearly articulate your research idea in a large A0 or A1 poster (landscape or portrait) Best to structure as a simple talk with less text than a paper Best to use a proven template and use some graphs or images to break up text and make visually interesting

6. Copyright © Mícheál Ó Foghlú 2009 Poster Template Sites One useful site for PowerPoint and Word templates: http://www.studentposters.co.uk/templates.html Advice on using LaTeX to produce posters: http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/

7. How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia Professor David A. Patterson February 2002 www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/nontech.html External slideset