Preparing Materials for Lab Meetings

From now on, please prepare the following two types of documents before each lab meeting and upload them to your own GitHub page.

1. Research Overview Document (= Your Bachelor’s / Master’s Thesis Draft)

For the document showing the overall flow of your research, you can simply work directly on your bachelor’s or master’s thesis draft. There is no need to prepare a separate document for discussion.

By updating your thesis draft each time, the following will naturally be reflected:

  • The purpose of your research (Introduction)
  • The flow of past discussions and literature (Literature Review)
  • What you have found so far (Analysis / Results chapters)
  • Current challenges and future plans (marked as unwritten sections or TODO)

Starting to write in thesis form early helps you constantly keep in mind the positioning and logical structure of your research. You do not need to rewrite from scratch each time — just keep updating the existing draft. Unwritten parts can be left blank, but please make it clear at a glance which parts have not yet been written.

Refer to the template (thesis-template.md).

2. Meeting-Day Document

This is the document to be used during the meeting itself. Please summarize the following concisely:

  • What you want to discuss in this meeting
  • Your current situation
  • Your own thoughts
  • Points where you are stuck
  • Things you want to confirm during the meeting

Please organize your thoughts in advance — do not think on the spot while explaining during the meeting.

Refer to the template (meeting-template.md).

How the Meeting Will Proceed

At the beginning of each meeting, we will spend a few minutes silently reading the materials (no verbal explanation needed — each person just reads). Then we move into discussion.

Notes on Writing

If you cannot put something into clear sentences, there is a good chance you have not yet organized your own thinking well enough. You do not need to write perfect prose, but at minimum please make sure the following come across:

  • What you understand, and what you do not understand
  • What you want to discuss

How to Submit

  • Upload the documents to your link shown on GitHub page.
  • File names and folder structure are up to you, but please make it easy to find the latest version.