Paper Review and Presentation:

Students will be assigned one research paper in enumerative combinatorics to read, for which they will write a 2 - 4 page review together in groups of 3-4 students. The papers to be read and the working groups will be assigned by the teachers and can be seen in Canvas. The review should be written in a latex article format with standard margins and 11 point font. After having completed their paper reviews, each member of the group will be assigned to a new group of students in which each student will have read a different paper. On the ``student presentations day'' (December 6), the students in each group will take turns giving a 15 minute presentation (including time for discussion) on the paper they reviewed to the other members of the group, who will be expected to ask questions and engage with the presenter. Working groups and papers will be assigned on the date specified in the course schedule.

The paper review is due by the start of the session on December 6, 2024 (the day of the presentations). It is to be submitted via Canvas.

Tips on writing

Assume the intended reader has your background in mathematics but has not read the article. Important things that they want to know are:

What is the motivation for the article to exist? In what context does the article fit?
What are the main results? Why are they important? (Or, why are they not important?) Can you give an example?
How do the proofs go? Main ideas and techniques? Sketch important proofs but leave out tedious details that you find less significant.
Your (motivated) opinion on the article? Well-presented or not? Important or not? Interesting or not? What is good? What is bad?