SCI 490H Freshman Honors Seminar

Fall 2002 Schedule

Meeting place, day, and time: Mondays REC 307 3:30-4:20pm

Office Hours: CS 172 W 4:30-5pm

                             

8/19 Class missed (Sorry!)
8/26 Course introduction

Team formation (must be completed in the class)

Sample areas (not an exhaustive list): Bioinformatics, Computing in Drug design, Quantum computing, Molecular Computing. All research areas must be interdisciplinary with CS as one discipline.

Students: Please form teams of 3 each. Select a team, leader. Fill out the team preference form and hand over the form to me by the end of the class.
9/2 Labor Day

Class does not meet.
9/9 Summary Presentations-I

Teams 1,2, 3, and 4

 Each team delivers a 7-10 minute presentation on the topic they would like to research during this spring. Sample presentation is here.
9/16 Summary Presentations II

Teams 5,6,7, and 8.

 Summary presentations continued
9/23 Progress Presentations-I

Teams 1, 2, and 3

 Each team delivers a 10-12 minute presentation summarizing the progress made so far.
9/30 Progress Presentations-II

Teams 4, 5, and 6

 Progress presentations continued.
10/7 October break.

Class does not meet.

 Have a safe and enjoyable October break!
10/14 Progress Presentations-III

Teams 7 and 8

 Progress presentations continued.
10/21 Progress presentation: Team 3

Final presentation I: Team 1

Each team makes a 20 minute presentation on their findings
10/28 Invited presentation. Professor Chris Bailey-Kellogg, CS, talks on "What is BioInformatics?" NOT to be missed!
11/4 Final presentation II: Teams 2 and 4 Final presentations continued
11/11 Final presentation III: Teams 5 and 6 Final presentations continued
11/18 Final presentation IV: Teams 7 and 8 Final presentations continued

Each team writes a short 1-2 page report on one presentation they have seen so far.The postive and negative comments as well suggestions for improvements made for each project will be shared by the instructor with the entire class without mentioning names of who critiqued whom.

Deadline for electronic submission (via email): 5pm 11/22/02.
11/25

Critique

Final presentation V:Team 3		 This will be a review of the course based on reports submitted by groups.
Classes end on 11/25.

NO FINAL EXAMINATION FOR THIS COURSE.

Last update:October 16, 2002