Research Methods in Evolutionary Computing

Spring Semester 2026 Workshop Presentation Requirements

• Date & time:
  • Optional early presentation submission deadline (cursory feedback before 9:30am on Tuesday April 28): Monday April 27: 10:00pm
  • Final presentation submission deadline: Tuesday April 28: 1:00pm
  • Workshop: Tuesday April 28: 2:00 - 4:00pm
• Presentation must employ a slide deck, either PowerPoint or PDF.
• Front slide must include your name, presentation title, and the string "COMP 7660 Spring 2026 Workshop Presentation"
• The focus of this slide presentation should be for you to talk to, it doesn't need to have sufficient verbiage to be fully self-explanatory.
• To submit your presentation, upload it to the shared WorkshopPresentations folder on Box.
• Presentation time: 18 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A + 2 minutes presenter switch time

Recommended tools

• MS PowerPoint
• LaTeX's ltx-talk class (replacement for the Beamer class to create PDF/UA compliant presentations; note that the current stable version of Overleaf doesn't suppport it yet, so you'll either need to use a local LaTeX distro or join the Overleaf Labs program to access experimental TeX Live images)
• MS Visio
• Adobe InDesign