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CS 7001: Introduction to Graduate Studies
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Week |
Date |
Topic |
Materials |
Other |
1 |
Aug 17 |
Introduction. |
How
to be a good grad student, M. desJarkins So
Long, and Thanks for the PhD!, R.T. Azuma. |
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| Aug 19 |
Rants and Raves. Guest: Prof. Yannis Smaragdakis Briefing on web pages |
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2 |
Aug 24 |
Discussion of mini-projects
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Mini-project
instructions, Mini-projects page, Slides
from talk |
May also have student panel. |
| Aug 26 |
Talks by New Faculty. Guests: Milos Prvulovic, Michael Niemier,
Gabriel Loh
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3 |
Aug 31 |
Randy Carpenter from CNS PhD Basics 101 Idris Hsi
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| Sep 2 |
Applying for Fellowships. Guest: Amanda Gable |
Web page deadline | ||
Meet
the Faculty |
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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 |
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 |
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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 | ||