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August 28, 2009
- Semester planning officer attendees: Brandon, Yu-Hong, Sriharsha, and Michael
- New first year members in attendance: Ryan Rossi, Joe Pfeiffer, Nilothpal, and Mohamed Kazi
- Online discussion board
- Officer not present to describe, tabled for a later meeting
- Dr. Shin's visit for Sept. 9
- All planning is done, just spread the word
- Corporate Partners meeting Sept. 14
- Brandon will put together slides to describe the GSB's role in the department and our activities
- Ryan, Joe, Sriharsha also plan to attend
- Socials
- Late September, volleyball night…either within the department or with ECE/Math
- Sriharsha is planning this
- Town Hall meeting for mid October, depending on Dr. Mathur's schedule
- Early November, movie night in 3102…thinking of movies for ideas
- Finals week pizza as usual
- Mentoring idea
- Proposal was to have a rotating panel of senior grad students, but the response was underwhelming
- Alternative is for an informal CS lunch where people meet in LWSN lobby and walk to Union/Boiler Market
- Does not necessarily have to be a GSB event
- Idea of moving CS department to College of Engineering
- This will be a major topic for the Town Hall
- Michael/Brandon will summarize the ideas as presented
- Goal is to have GSB well informed for the discussion
GSB 2008-2009
February 11, 2009
- Send email to mentors and mentee after making pairs
- Tech Talk :
- Resume review
- Ashish can give talk on android
- Social Hours : Donuts like last time, go for small ones not the big ones (50$ limit)
- Movie and Pizza : book a room for movie, Feb 24, 2009. Yi Xu to take care of it.
- Ashish's idea : A forum where people could ask random question regarding Computer Science. It can vary from questions like how I can use Computer Science in biology or civil engineering. like TGIF in Google.
- March 4 for game night. We will spend 10$ per person. Rest will be paid by people. Ask people if they want to go to Men's game or Women game. Women game is cheaper, so we will pay 100% for women game.
November 5, 2008
- Mentoring Program :
- Vijender to draft the proposal
- Social Hour
- Mary Lou Donuts
- Siders
- 50$ limit
- Camielle and Karthik to take care of it.
- Study Group:
- Camielle to talk to the girl who needs help
- Google Pizza
- Chris to talk to Chao
- Next GSB Event on next Wednesday
- Who will help Renate for CS Employee Appreciation Social? decide through emails
October 22, 2008
- Town Hall Meeting
- Chris to order pizza
- Reminder email for town hall – chris
- Make list of activity and budget
- For google activity, talk to people who did intern at google
- Ideas : Chrome, Android etc
September 17, 2008
- Meeting time changed. Its now Wednesday 1445.
- Chris needs to send email to Karthik about IUPUI gathering
- Tech Talk
- Camille to talk to people about it
- Qual Bashing – What about it?
- Travel Grant Meeting to be scheduled
- Meet Google people on 18th.
- Budget preparation : Tim, Karthik, Bill, Camille to take care of it
- Town Hall meeting – What about it?
- Social Hour – Talk to Renate
- High Tech Job Fair – Let others take care of it
- Rohit to ping Nicole for photo
- lazy rohit to make private pages for every GSB officer
- List of students looking for funding
- including their skills
- organize an event for this purpose
April 17, 2008
- BBQ - move to next week Saturday due to “Lawson Party”
- have during lunch
- food - Hazem and Karthik
- grills - Nate and Chris
- reserving Squirrel Park - Hicham
- Pizza - Weds. of finals week
- Uber CS(&E) meeting - Chris
- Next year GSB - 3 so far responded
- Travel Grants (2 pending)
- need security/database person
- meeting Monday at 4:30
April 3, 2008
- Corporate Partners meeting
- Can be there entire time - Yinian, Yi, Athul
- Have to leave half way through - Nate, Tion, Karthik
- Spring BBQ
- Hicham reserve Squirrel Park for Friday 18th 5-8:00 (tenetive on weather)
- End of year party for graduates
- Have Renate take charge on music and entertainment
- She should e-mail Barry, Jacques for music…. or just use someones iPod
- Tech talks for undergrads - too late in semester for grad students to do this
- GSB next year - need to recruit new members
March 6, 2008
- Faculty Search - need a GSB person at each talk/meeting
- Athul should be this person, or at the very least, find someone to take his place
- Grad tech talks - Athul's went well, very positive response from the undergrads who attended
- Corporate Partners - need to find reps (Chris out of town)
- Top Coder event for high schoolers - need volunteers to help out (2nd Saturday of Spring Break)
- Next GSB event - after Spring Break
- non-pizza event… maybe Thai
February 7, 2008
- CS Banquet
- awards - ask graduate student body to come up with something besides Top TA/Prof
- Tech Talks - … undergrads need to take incentive …
- Basketball Game
- 20 tickets purchased
- meet at CS building at 6:30
- Tion will send out e-mail
- UPE quiz bowl - possible food event
- Plan on “mid-term” week pizza (right before Spring Break)
January 24, 2008
- Grad committee
- need new rep - Yi
- update webpage, e-mail committee about change
- 5 year BS/MS program update
- travel grant - proposed change to have students advisor included
- ACM chair letter to CS-orgs
- see what other departments graduate boards do
- tech talks for undergrads - USB/ACM should be driving force
- possible undergrad/grad mentor
- Grad panel for undergrads
- Karthik, Tion, Luke
- Purdue basketball game
- 17 people RSVPed - going to buy 19 or 20 tickets
January 10, 2008
- Plan to have GSB meeting every other Thursday @ 5 PM
- Ping Mathur about when faculty search will be starting
- Future Events
- Purdue basketball game
- early Feb. (possibly Mich St. on 12th)
- need to determine ticket cost and measure general interest
- Video game social - Wiis, DDR, Rock Band and pizzas
- Plan on some kind of social T or W @ 6 PM every 3 weeks
- BBQ at Squirrel Park when weather is nicer
- GSB initiative to possibly spruce up the display cases in the halls of Lawson
- Received port complaint - will forward to Renate (or anyone who has control over the Port)
GSB 2007-2008
November 5, 2007
- November 6 breakfast attendees: Hicham, Yinian, Karthik, and Chris
- Employee Appreciation Social
- Need GSB rep.
- Need to order more food this year (ran out last year)
- Activities
- Pizza next week using Google money - Tuesday Nov. 13th @ 6 PM
- Thanksgiving break - Weds Nov 21
- skating, bowling, football, etc. followed by food
- lack of attendance could be a factor
- Thursday Nov 29th - another pizza or non-pizza event?
- Finals weeks pizza - Weds Dec 12
October 15, 2007
- Budget - have not received a new statement
- PGSG food drive
- start early (Nov. 1) since this announced so late
- defer this topic to next meeting
- Social
- BBQ at Squirrel Park - would have to do on the 19th… so probably too late in the year to do this
- Indoor activity for next month
- Silent Thunder a possibility - GSB subsidize
- Food event for midterm weeks
- Weds Oct 24, 6:00
- non-pizza
- Luke - Google swag???
September 24, 2007
- Townhall meeting with department head (Oct. 1st)
- How has new Ph.D. curriculum helped with students with research? Any stats?
- Qual standardization
- Qual 1 - Issue with students taking qual classes when certain professors teach them
- Qual 2 - Standardize among fields? Better communication between student and committee with what is expected from them
- Any contingency plans if there is another funding shortage?
- BS/MS program
- Will this devalue the Master's we receive?
- Will students in this program be taking away funding from normal Masters/PhD students (via TA or RA)
- Display case in basement
- Worth updating? Not many people ever walk past it.
- Should we post a calendar of events?
- Event for after or during mid-terms
- Pizza or BBQ (BBQ at Purdue Village park?)
- Budget
- Low on funds, need to contact department head
- Google pizza money expected within next few weeks ($250)
August 27, 2007
- Welcome new officers
- 1st year rep: Karthik
- Need 2nd CoS rep: Hicham
- MS rep: Tion
- Travel grant rep: Hoda
- Mentoring Event
- Pizza event like last year?
- Hold it on Wed 9/5
- GSB officers get together - some Friday
- Good chance to take group photo
- T-shirts? - no, too expensive
- Corporate Partners - how involved does the GSB want to get with advertising job fairs and posting resumes (will students even respond to us?)
- delegate to MS rep
- 9/10 - University President giving talk - part of Corporate Partners meeting
- GSB hosting Social Hour - need food ideas
May 29, 2007
- Mid-June social possibilities - go-kart, batting cage/putt-putt, bowling, LAN party - Chirs
- Mid-July social - BBQ
- Contact new department head to inform about GSB - Chris
- Contact Abinav about the e-mail he sent - Chris
- Set a travel grant deadline - Chris
- Maybe do away with a deadline and let anyone submit proposals at anytime
- Webpage - hear back from webmaster@cs - Nate
