Meeting Minutes

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• Meeting time changed. Its now Wednesday 1445.
• Chris needs to send email to Karthik about IUPUI gathering
• Tech Talk
  • http://math.arizona.edu/~swig
  • 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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???

• 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)

• 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

• 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

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