CS 7001: Schedule

Fall 2005

This schedule is tentative, and will change as the semester progresses, so please keep watching it.

DateTopicSpeakerLink
August 22Introduction and course overview
    Brian Cooper
August 24Bagels and photos
August 26Faculty panel: What is research?
  • Beki Grinter
  • Wenke Lee
  • Kishore Ramachandran
  • Jim Rehg
August 29How to get a fellowship
    Amanda Gable, OSP
August 31PhD Rants and Raves
    Yannis Smaragdakis
September 2HCI Area
September 5Labor day - no class
September 7HCI Area

Start mini-project 1

September 9New faculty
  • Nick Feamster
September 12"How to read a research paper"
    Spencer Rugaber
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. "No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accident in Software Engineering"
September 14New faculty
  • David Bader
  • Xiangmin Jiao
September 16"What I wish I knew before I came to Grad School"

Mini-project proposal 1 due

  • Jay Summet
  • Daron Vroon
September 19New faculty
  • Alberto Apostolico
September 21New faculty
  • Concettina Guerra
  • Alexander Gray
September 23Architecture area
  • Gabe Loh
September 26Networking area
  • Mostafa Ammar
  • Jim Xu
September 28No class
September 30LS&T Area
  • Janet Kolodner
  • Amy Bruckman
October 3ISR area
  • Ashok Goel
  • Ron Ferguson
  • Ashwin Ram
  • Charles Isbell
October 5ISR area
  • Tucker Balch
  • Jim Rehg
October 7No class
October 10No class
October 12How to write a research paper

Mini-project report 1 due

    Brian Cooper
Presentation
October 14Security area
  • Mustaque Ahamad
  • Sasha Boldyreva
  • Wenke Lee
October 17Fall break, no class

Start mini-project 2

October 19No class
October 21No class
October 24DB area
  • Brian Cooper
October 26DB area

Mini-project proposal 2 due

  • Leo Mark
  • Sham Navathe
  • Ed Omiecinski
October 28CSED area
October 31SPARC group
November 2SPARC group
November 4PhD program overview for CS and HCC PhDs
  • Leo Mark
  • Beth Mynatt
November 7Graphics area
November 9Systems
November 11Theory area
November 14Systems
November 16Systems
November 18Systems
November 21Systems

How to give a technical talk

Mini-project report 2 due

  • Matt Wolf
  • Brian Cooper
Brian's slides
November 23optional - Introduction to Unix seminar
    Duke Hutchings
November 25Thanksgiving - no class
November 28Mini-conference, day 1
November 30 No class
December 2No class
December 5 No class
December 7 Mini-conference, day 2
December 9Mini-conference, day 3

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