(CS696 - Graduate Student Orientation

CS696 - Graduate Student Orientation, Fall 2000

The purpose of this seminar is to rapidly acclimate incoming CS graduate students with respect to all issues related to productivity, research, and professional responsibilities. Everyone who is interested in the topics below may attend these lectures, including all faculty, students, and staff.

Professor in charge: Gabriel Robins

CS Graduate Student Group

Orientation first week schedule (Fall 2000)

University academic calendar

Useful information for new students

Graduate advisor blank Matching forms for faculty and students

Pretests

The pretests are designed to determine whether an incoming graduate students is adequately prepared to take each core course, or whether additional pre-preparation is required. Professor John Pfaltz is in charge of administering and grading the pretests. Pretest grading may start beginning at noon on Monday August 28 and should be finished and handed over to the first-year course advisors by noon the following day, Tuesday August 31. The overall recommendation based on each pretest will be one of the following:

"may take the corresponding graduate core course"
"must take a remedial course first", or
"may skip core course altogether" (this situation is rare).

First-Year Course Advisors

First-year course advising will take place on Tuesday, August 29, at 2:00-5:00pm in Olsson 228E, 236D, and the CS Library. The graduate first-year course advisors are:

Tea Time

There will be a Tea Time every Friday at 4:00 in the conference room (229E). Any Department member can volunteer to be a Tea Time host over the coming year.

Reading Assignments

The following are required readings for CS696:

Excellent advice about graduate school life (please read this by September 10)

For each speaker listed below, please read (prior to the talk date) the Web site linked from the talk topic.

Schedule (Tentative)

All CS696 meetings described below are from 3:30-5:00pm, Mondays and Wednesdays in Olsson 009, unless indicated otherwise below.

Names with an asterik (*) by them are confirmed dates; all others are still flexible and may still be moved around.

Date	Speaker	Topic (please read before each talk)
Aug 30	Gabe Robins *	Graduate school / research / finding an advisor
Sept 4	Mike Nahas *	debugging tools - dbx / gdb / purify
Sept 6	Gabe Ferrer * Chris Milner *	Latex Library / VIRGO / Science Citations Index / LEO
Sept 11	Ness B. Shroff * Purdue University	Next Generation High-Speed Networks CS Colloquium Series
Sept 13	Dave Luebke *	Computer graphics
Sept 18	Kevin Almeroth* UCSB	Understanding Multicast Traffic in the Internet CS Colloquium Series
Sept 20	Paul Reynolds * Tarek Abdelzaher *	Parallel and distributed systems/simulation Middleware, OS, networking solutions, and Web QoS
Sept 25	Dave Brogan * Alf Weaver *	Computer animation/graphics, multi-agent control Networks and electronic commerce
Sept 27	Kevin Skadron * John Knight *	Computer architecture and simulation methodology Software engineering and infrastructure survivability
Oct 2	Dave Evans *	Security and Languages
Oct 4	Sang Son *	Real-time database systems
Oct 9	Gabe Robins * Jim French *	Algorithms, VLSI CAD, computational biology Information retrieval
Oct 11	Marty Humphrey * Jack Stankovic *	Wide-area security and Application execution real-time systems
Oct 16	Kevin Sullivan * Bill Pearson *	Software engineering Computational biology
Oct 18	Worthy Martin * John Pfaltz *	Computer Vision Formal Concepts and Knowledge Discovery
Oct 23	Reading Holiday	No meeting
Oct 25	Jörg Liebeherr * Jim Cohoon *	Networks and Internet Engineering VLSI CAD
Oct 30	Andrew Grimshaw *	Grid Systems
Nov 1
Nov 6	Karl Wolff* Darmstadt	CS Colloquium Series
Nov 8
Nov 13	Kevin Almeroth* UCSB	Understanding Multicast Traffic in the Internet Distinguished Lecture Series
Nov 15
Nov 20
Nov 22	Thanksgiving	Holiday
Nov 27	Anita Jones	How to Give a Good Technical Presentation
Nov 29
Dec 4
Dec 6

Calendar for Fall 2000


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