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CS 7001: Introduction to Graduate Studies
Fall 2004
Schedule

(Subject to change)

Week
Date
Topic
Materials
Other
1
Aug 17
Introduction.

 

Aug 19

Rants and Raves. Guest: Prof. Yannis Smaragdakis

Briefing on web pages

 
2
Aug 24
Discussion of mini-projects
May also have student panel.
Aug 26
Talks by New Faculty. Guests: Milos Prvulovic, Michael Niemier, Gabriel Loh
 
3
Aug 31

Randy Carpenter from CNS

PhD Basics 101

Idris Hsi
Sep 2

Applying for Fellowships. Guest: Amanda Gable

Web page deadline
Meet the Faculty
4
Sep 7 Guests: Profs. Pete Manolios, Alex Orso, Sasha Boldyreva
Project 1 selected
Sep 9 Guests: Profs. Brian Cooper and Subhash Khot.    
5
Sep 14 Spencer Rugaber, "How to read a research paper"

Paper: No Silver Bullet -- Essence and Accident in Software Engineering

Question List

Additional References from talk
Sep 16 Faculty panel: "What is Research?" Guests: Profs. Dana Randall, Jim Xu, and Kishore Ramachandran    
6
Sep 21 AI Lab: Guests: Profs. Aswin Ram, Ashok Goel, and Ron Ferguson    
Sep 23 Ron Ferguson, "Writing a Research Paper." Discussion of Mini-Project reports Lecture notes  
7
Sep 28 Learning Science and AI faculty. Guests: Janet Kolodner, Amy Bruckman, and Michael Mateas  
Sep 30 Networking. Guests: Ellen Zegura, Jim Xu, and Constantinos Dovrolis   Project 1 due.
8
Oct 5 TBD   Project 2 selected.
Oct 7 Computational Perception and Robotics. Guests: Profs. Jim Rehg, Frank Dellaert, and Tucker Balch    
9
Oct 12 HCI. Guests: Profs. Jeff Pierce and Bruce Walker    
Oct 14 Systems Faculty    
10
Oct 19 Fall recess -- no class  
Oct 21 HCI: Guests: Profs. Blair MacIntyre, Keith Edwards, Beki Grinter   Immediately following at 6: Fellowship Workshop with Amanda Gable.
11
Oct 26 Graphics and Visualization. Guests: Profs. Jarek Rossignac, Andrzej Szymczak, Greg Turk, and Chris Shaw  
Oct 28 Reviewing the PhD program, Databases
Guest: Prof. Leo Mark
(Chair of the Graduate Committee),
  Project 2 due.
12
Nov 2 Guests: Prof. Richard Fujimoto   Project 3 selected
Nov 4 Guests: Profs. Mustaq Ahamad, Kishore Ramachandran, Matt Wolf    
13
Nov 9 Guests: Profs. Eric Vigoda, Milena Mihail, Ling Liu    
Nov 11 TBD    
7001 Mini-Conference Presentations
14
Nov 16 Student presentations to team - Rooms and groups to be announced.
Nov 18
 
15
Nov 23 Topic TBA.
Project 3 due.
Nov 25 Thanksgiving break - No class.
 
16
Nov 30 Best of Presentations
 
Dec2 Best of Presentations
 
17
Dec 6-10 Finals Week - No classes