CS591C: Research Seminar for First-Year Graduate Students -- Schedule (subject to change -- please check back regularly)

Week 1

[Mon. 08/31/2009] Prof. Dongyan Xu, Organizational meeting

[Wed. 09/02/2009] Prof. Eugene H. Spafford, "What Is Science?"

Week 2

[Mon. 09/07/2009] Labor Day -- no class.

[Wed. 09/09/2009] Prof. Dongyan Xu (based on slides of Prof. Ninghui Li), "Ten Issues to Balance in Graduate Study"

Week 3

[Mon. 09/14/2009] Prof. Douglas Comer, "An Academic Research Career vs. an Industrial Research Career"

[Wed. 09/16/2009] Prof. Charles Killian, "Doing 'Systems' Research and an Overview of Distributed Systems Research"

Week 4

[Mon. 09/21/2009] Prof. Eugene H. Spafford, "Research Ethics"

[Wed. 09/23/2009] Prof. Dongyan Xu (based on slides of Prof. Ninghui Li), "Ten Issues to Balance in Graduate Study" (Cont.)

Week 5

[Mon. 09/28/2009] Lixia Liu, Hicham Elmongui, and David Zage, Panel on "Graduate Research Experience and Lessons"

[Wed. 09/30/2009] Prof. Xavier Tricoche, "Research in Computer Graphics and Visualization"

Week 6

[Mon. 10/05/2009] Prof. Chris Clifton, "Research Finances: Where the Money Comes from, Where It goes"

[Wed. 10/07/2009] Hong Chen, Ashish Kundu, Micheal Mcfail, Panel on "Internships"

Week 7

[Mon. 10/12/2009] October Break -- no class

[Wed. 10/14/2009] Moved to Wednesday, November 4 due to a CS Distinguished Lecture at the same time.

Week 8

[Mon. 10/19/2009] Prof. Luo Si, "Research in Information Retrieval"

Week 9

[Mon. 10/26/2009] Yinian Qi, Chris Mayfield, and Ardalan Kangarlou, Panel on "Attending Conferences".

Week 10

[Mon. 11/02/2009] No class

[Wed. 11/04/2009] Prof. Susanne Hambrusch, "Considering a Research Career? Options, Challenges, and Advice"