CS 197 Freshman Honors Seminar
Spring 2005 Schedule
Meeting place, date, and time: KRAN G023 Wednesday 11:30am-12:20pm
Office Hours: By appointment or just walk in (Rooms: CS 172 or Math 900)
| 1/12 | Introduction to the class
Team formation Research project descriptions |
Students: Please form teams of 3 each. Select a team, leader. Fill out the team preference form and email to me by 5pm onTuesday January 18, 2005.
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. |
| 1/19 | History of Computing | Lecture+(possibly) video
On reserve in the UG library: Modern marvels: Thinking Machines. VC 5890 |
| 1/26 | History of Computing (continued) | Video continued. |
| 2/2 | Summary presentations-I (a) | Teams 1, 2, and 3 to deliver a 10 minute presentation on the topic they would like to research during this spring. Sample presentation is here. |
| 2/9 | Summary presentations-I (b) | Teams 4 and 5. |
| 2/16 | Progress Presentations-I(a) | Teams 1 and 2. Each team delivers a 15 minute presentation summarizing progress so far. |
| 2/23 | Progress Presentations-I(b) | Teams 3, 4 and 5. (Team 3 could not start their presentation on 2/16 and hence the change in schedule.) |
| 3/2 | Critique of work done so far | Each team writes a short 1-page page report on one presentation they have seen so far. The positive 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. |
| 3/9 | Special Invited Talk! DO NOT MISS! | Professor Matthew Huber, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
Students: Please visit the following sites prior to coming to this talk: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2005-02-26-ancient-climate_x.htm |
| 3/16 | Class does not meet | Have a safe and enjoyable Spring break! |
| 3/23 | Progress Presentations-II(a) | Teams 1, 2, 3 |
| 3/30 | Progress Presentations-II(b) | Teams 4, 5
The instructor will also use this hour to discuss the format of the final report and presentations. Any questions from the class will also be dealt with in this hour. |
| 4/6 | Final presentations-I | Teams 1 and 2. The final presentation will be 25 minutes for each team.
Each team writes a 1-page report on one presentations they have seen so far.The positive and negative comments as well suggestions for improvements made for each project will be shared by the instructor with the entire class via the class web site. |
| 4/13 | Final presentations-II | Teams 3 and 4 |
| 4/20 | Final presentations-III | Teams 5
Discuss feedback for Teams 1, 2, 3, and 4. Mail report to the instructor by 4/27. |
| 4/27 | Course review
There is NO final exam for this course. Grades will be based on attendance and performance in team research. |
INVITED TALK: Professor Nick Giordano, Physics.
Using computational modeling to understand the piano NOT TO BE MISSED! |
Last update: April 6, 2005