This page compiles important information for advisors and students of theses at our chair. Please make sure to read this information carefully as it should help to answer most if not all of your questions. 

If there should remain any other questions about the final presentations which can not be solved through this page, you can contact Lena Gregor  for more information.

Important: The thesis needs to be handed-in before the date of the presentation!

Finding a Date for the Presentation:

• Final presentations should only take place after the student has handed in their thesis, so keep that in mind when scheduling a presentation.
• The current schedule and information on where and when the presentations take place can be found on our website: https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/en/sse/teaching/thesis-presentations/
• We only have regular slots for presentations during the lecture period. You can look up the relevant dates online on the TUM website here: https://www.tum.de/en/studies/application/application-info-portal/dates-periods-and-deadlines.
• During the lecture-free period we don’t schedule thesis presentations in the regular time frames. We do have one or two extra events each semester break. Those then hold about 4-6 slots and are published on our website (see link above).
• If students have any strict deadlines (e.g. because they need to graduate soon or will spend their next semester abroad), schedule the presentations well in advance (about 3-4 months). Especially the slots in the beginning or in the end of each lecture period and also the special events are always taken very quickly and early.

Scheduling a Presentation:

• Please choose and request one of the open slots that fit your schedule via e-mail to the contact person (Lena Gregor).
• Ideally, the advisor should write this e-mail. If this is not possible, the student can also request their presentation slot and put their advisor in CC.
• Please provide the following information when you write an e-mail to schedule a talk:
  • Date: <one or two preferred dates that were selected according to the criteria above>
  • Student: <name>
  • MA talk/ BA talk/ GR talk: <title of the thesis or guided research>
  • Advisor(s): <Names of all advisors>
• Ideally, provide the information in this exact structure because we can then just copy and paste most of the information when scheduling the talks.
• When you have requested a time slot, it is only scheduled when we have announced the presentation on the website. So please always double check whether we have really scheduled the presentation!

The Presentation:

• … will be in front of the whole chair; advisors (also external) must attend
• … is organized into 20 minutes of presentation by the student and 10 minutes of questions and discussions from the audience
• Language: English
• Slide template: you can use the TUM template which you can find in the TUMportal
• Make sure to check for changes regarding the schedule or location of the presentation before, to make sure that you will notice possible changes
• You also need to attend the other presentations that are scheduled on your date