Schedule

All sessions are held in Wean 5409 unless otherwise indicated.
Breakfast will be available each morning in Wean 5409 starting at 9am.
Lunch will be available each day in NSH 1507 unless otherwise indicated.

Special Events

In addition to those events scheduled for the IC, incoming students are also invited to:


Schedule changes are likely. Check back often. 

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Time Mon, Aug 25 Tue, Aug 26 Wed, Aug 27 Thu, Aug 28 Fri, Aug 29 Sat , Aug 30
9:00 am 9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:00 - 5:00
Laurel Highlands Hiking and Ohiopyle Rafting (Daniel Spoonhower) (c)
 
  9:30 - 9:45
IC Welcome (Jessica Hodgins)
9:30 - 10:00
Faculty Talk (Mor Harchol-Balter) (c)
9:30 - 10:45
Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student or The 4 R's of Graduate School: Reading, aRithmetic, Research, and wRiting (Manuel Blum and Avrim Blum) (c)
9:30 - 10:15
Algorithms and Complexity Overview Slides (Danny Sleator and Lenore Blum) (c)
9:30 - 10:30
Overview of the Robotics Institute (Chuck Thorpe) (c)
  9:45 - 11:00
The Computer Science Department (Randy Bryant) (c)
10:00 am 10:00 - 10:45
Faculty Talk (Ziv Bar-Joseph) (c)
  10:15 - 11:00
Software Engineering (Bill Scherlis) (c)
  10:30 - 10:45
Break
  10:45 - 11:00
break
10:45 - 11:00
Break
10:45 - 12:00
Faculty Talks (Todd Mowry and Seth Goldstein) (c)
11:00 am 11:00 - 11:15
Break
11:00 - 12:00
Overview of Intel Research Pittsburgh (Satya) (c)
11:00 - 12:00
AI Overview Slides (Andrew Moore) (c)
11:00 - 11:15
Break
  11:15 - 12:00
SCS Overview (Jim Morris) (c)
11:15 - 12:00
RADAR Project (Scott Fahlman, Dan Siewiorek, Jaime Carbonell, Anthony Tomasic) (c)
 
 
12:00 pm 12:00 - 1:00
NSH 3305, New Students' Luncheon
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
 
 
 
1:00 pm 1:00 - 2:00
New grad student photo session NSH A505 (Debra Tobin) (c)
 
  1:30 - 2:30
CALD Overview (Tom Mitchell) (c)
1:30 - 2:30
Systems Overview (Todd Mowry) (c)
1:30 - 2:30
Collaboration, Cheating, and Cultural Expectations Slides (Paul Bennett) (c)
1:30 - 2:30
Faculty Talks (Dannie Durand and Russell Schwartz) (c)
 
2:00 pm 2:00 - 3:00
HCI Overview (Dan Siewiorek) (c)
 
  2:30 - 2:45
Break
2:30 - 2:45
Break
2:30 - 2:45
Break
2:30 - 2:45
Break
  2:45 - 3:45
Speech Group Overview (Alex Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld, Alan Black, Rich Stern) (c)
2:45 - 3:30
Introduction to Computing Facilities (Brian Kohler, David Livingston) (c)
2:45 - 4:15
Faculty talks (Jessica Hodgins, Nancy Pollard, Doug James) (c)
2:45 - 4:00
Grad Student Survival (Francisco Pereira) (c)
3:00 pm 3:00 - 4:15
Perlis Atrium, Departmental Introductions (EVERYONE) (c)
 
  3:30 - 4:30
How to compute like a grad student (Chris Colohan) (c)
  3:45 - 4:00
Break
4:00 pm 4:00 - 5:00
Programming Language Overview (Frank Pfenning) (c)
 
    4:15 - 4:30
Break
 
  4:30 - 7:00
NSH 1507 & Patio, CSD IC Picnic (c)
  4:30 - 6:00
Faculty talks (James Kuffner, Yanxi Liu, Roger Dannenberg) (c)
 
    
5:00 pm 5:00 - 6:00
LTI Overview (Jaime Carbonell) (c)
  5:00 - 7:00
Welcome Back TG Perlis Atrium (Decfive) (c)
 
    
    
    
6:00 pm     
      
      
      
7:00 pm   7:00 - 9:00
SCS Grad Women Welcome Potluck for female grad students and faculty (women@scs at Lenore Blum's house) (c)
7:00 - 9:00
Introduction to Living in Pittsburgh (Scott Fahlman) (c) [WeH 5409]
7:00 - 9:00
Programming Languages Party (John Reynolds) (c)
  
     
     
     
8:00 pm    
     
     
     
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Time Mon, Sep 1 Tue, Sep 2 Wed, Sep 3 Thu, Sep 4 Fri, Sep 5 Sat, Sep 6
9:00 am      9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
 
       
  LABOR DAY
    9:30 - 10:15
ETC Overview and Faculty Talk (Randy Pausch) (c)
 
      
10:00 am     
      10:15 - 10:45
Faculty Talk (Scott Fahlman) (c)
 
      
      10:45 - 11:00
Break
 
11:00 am     11:00 - 12:00
Faculty Talks (Steve Brookes and John Reynolds) (c)
11:00 - 5:00
Kennywood (Steven Osman)
     
     
     
12:00 pm     12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
     
     
     
1:00 pm    
     
      1:30 - 2:30
Faculty Talks (Jeannette Wing, Reid Simmons) (c)
     
2:00 pm    
     
      2:30 - 2:45
Break
      2:45 - 4:15
Faculty Talks (Manuela Veloso, Andrew Moore, Takeo Kanade (c)
3:00 pm 3:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talks (David Touretzky, Michael Lewicki, Tai Sing Lee) (c)
3:00 - 4:00
Faculty Talk (Chris Olston and Anastassia Ailamaki) (c)
3:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talks (Karl Crary, Peter Lee, Robert Harper) (c)
 
 
 
4:00 pm 4:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talk (Mary Shaw) (c)
  4:15 - 7:00
Scavenger Hunt (Chris Twigg) (c)
  4:30 - 4:45
Break
4:30 - 4:45
Break
4:30 - 4:45
Break
  4:45 - 6:00
Faculty Talks (Avrim Blum, John Lafferty, Manuel Blum) (c)
4:45 - 6:00
Faculty Talks (Guy Blelloch, Anupam Gupta, Gary Miller) (c)
4:45 - 5:45
Faculty Talks (David Garlan, Jonathan Aldrich) (c)
5:00 pm  
   
   
    
6:00 pm     
      
       
       
7:00 pm    7:00 - 9:00
Systems Party (Seth Goldstein) (c)
7:00 - 9:00
AI Party (Andrew Moore) (c)
  
      
      
      
8:00 pm   8:00 - 11:00
Pub Crawl (Chris Twigg)
  
     
     
     
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Time Mon, Sep 8 Tue, Sep 9 Wed, Sep 10 Thu, Sep 11 Fri, Sep 12 Sat, Sep 13
9:00 am       
        
        
        
10:00 am      10:00 - 10:30
Faculty Talk (R. Ravi) (c)
 
       
       10:30 - 11:00
Faculty Talk (Raj Reddy) (c)
 
       
11:00 am      11:00 - 12:00
Faculty Talks (Matt Mason and Michael Erdmann) (c)
 
       
       
       
12:00 pm      12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
 
       
       
       
1:00 pm      
       
        
        
2:00 pm       
        
        
        
3:00 pm 3:00 - 3:30
E&S Library (Missy Harvey) (c)
3:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talks (Tuomas Sandholm, Tom Mitchell, Yiming Yang) (c)
3:00 - 3:30
Building Facilities Introduction (Jim Skees) (c)
   
     
  3:30 - 4:30
Faculty Talks (Srinivasan Seshan, Hui Zhang) (c)
3:30 - 4:00
Faculty Talks (Mike Reiter) (c)
   
     
4:00 pm 4:00 - 4:15
Break
   
  4:15 - 4:45
Faculty Talks (Howard Wactlar) (c)
   
  4:30 - 4:45
Break
4:30 - 4:45
Break
  4:30 - 5:00
Pretty Good Race (Dirk Kalp) (c)
 
  4:45 - 5:45
Faculty Talks (Ed Clarke, Peter Steenkiste) (c)
4:45 - 6:00
Faculty Talks (Greg Ganger, Randy Bryant, Babak Falsafi) (c)
4:45 - 5:45
Faculty Talks (Dawn Song, Adrian Perrig) (c)
  
5:00 pm    
    5:15 - 7:00
PGR TG Perlis Atrium (Decfive) (c)
 
    
      
6:00 pm      
       
       
       
7:00 pm    7:00 - 9:00
Theory Party (Bruce Maggs) (c)
   
       
       
       
8:00 pm      
       
       
       
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Last generated: Fri Sep 12 22:37:32 2003
by Jessica Hodgins <jkh@cs.cmu.edu>