SIAT Colloquium Aims

The Graduate Research Colloquium aims to be a forum for the building of community, for exposure to diversity of research work & method, and for fostering understanding of disciplinary commonalities and differences. SIAT is a strongly interdisciplinary programme and the Research Colloquium aims to reflect this by exposing students to a broad range of approaches to research in the areas of Interactive Arts, Design and Technologies.

Through this colloquium series, presentations by SIAT faculty, SFU non-SIAT faculty, and outside visitors will be scheduled alongside presentations by students. Where possible, presentations by international visiting researchers will be integrated into the programme. The emphasis is on a community of research which includes students.The Colloquium is seen as important counterpoint to the introduction to research methods course.

Students will be evaluated on their participation in this course. Participation includes attendance at the weekly presentations. Additionally, students will be required to make a 20 minute presentation based on their own research, and/or present a critique and comparison of presentations by others according to the requirements of their program.

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What is the presentation requirement?

Each Master's student must make one public presentation of their work. Each PhD student must make two. These are in addition to the milestone presentations of comps, proposal and defense (the former two are for PhD only).

The following count as public presentations:

A paper-refereed conference of a paper on which the student is listed as an author. (abstract refereeing doesn't count) The conference must be approved by the Graduate Program Chair (GPC). Student and non-academic conferences are specifically excluded.

A presentation at the Research Colloquium. The Colloquium should accept student presentations if they serve the purposes of the Colloquium -- being accepted or invited to present at the Colloquium is a distinct honour. The presentation will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.

A presentation to an established multi-faculty group holding a regular seminar series within SIAT. This must be approved by the GPC. For instance, presentations to the LORNET seminar series were counted while that series was being held. Such presentations must be announced to the SIAT research community through email.

Any other venue approved by the GPC. For instance, last year the GPC gave credit for students who both (1) presented a the FAS student poster fair; and (2) presented their poster before the fair to special critique session of the Research Colloquium.