2001 CSD Immigration Course Schedule as of 10:00pm Sept 1 /afs/cs/user/natassa/www/IC2001/data/schedule.txt =========================================================================== Monday, August 27 WEEK 1 9:30 - 9:45 IC Welcome (Anastassia Ailamaki) 9:45 - 10:45 SCS: Welcome and Overview (Jim Morris) 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 11:45 The Computer Science Department (Randy Bryant) 11:45 - 1:30 New Students' Luncheon (Singleton Room) + talk by Don Marinelli: "Strange Bedfellows: How Drama and Computer Science are Alike" 1:30 - 2:15 The Computer Science Ph.D. Program (Jeannette Wing) 2:15 - 2:30 Break 2:30 - 3:45 CS Departmental Introductions (EVERYONE) [Perlis Atrium, Newell Simon Hall] 3:45 - 4:00 Walk to the Picnic area 4:00 - 7:00 CSD IC Picnic outside Wean Hall - 5th floor entrance (Jia-Yu Pan) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, August 28 WEEK 1 9:45 - 10:45 Overview Talk: HCI and Graphics (Dan Siewiorek) 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Overview Talk: Software Engineering (David Garlan) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Speech Group Presentation (Alex Rudnicky, Roni Rosenfeld) 2:30 - 2:45 Break 2:45 - 3:30 E&S Library (Missy Harvey) [Wean Hall, 4th Floor] 6:00 - ? Theory Party (Mor Harchol-Balter) and Proof --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 29 WEEK 1 9:45 - 10:45 What is Research? (Manuel Blum) 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Overview Talk: AI (Andrew Moore) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Overview Talk: Systems (Seth Goldstein) 2:30 - 2:45 Break 2:45 - 3:15 Introduction to Computing Facilities (Clauss Strauch) 3:15 - 4:15 How to compute like a Grad Student (John Langford) 7:00 - 9:00 SCS Grad Women Welcome Potluck (women@scs) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, August 30 WEEK 1 9:45 - 10:45 Overview Talk: Algorithms and Complexity (Avrim Blum) 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Faculty Talks (Bruce Maggs, David Nagle) 12:00 - 1:30 Informedia Lab Lunch [Wean Hall 4623] 1:30 - 2:30 Graduate Student Survival (Ted Wong) 2:30 - 2:45 Break 2:45 - 3:15 Introduction to Building Facilities (Jim Skees) 3:15 - 4:00 SCS Career Programs (Catherine Copetas) 4:00 - 4:15 The Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence (Michele DiPietro) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 31 WEEK 1 9:45 - 10:45 Faculty talks (Todd Mowry, Seth Goldstein) 10:45 - 11:00 Break 11:00 - 12:00 Overview Talk: Programming Languages (Peter Lee) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 The Aura Project 2:30 - 3:00 Faculty talk (Dan Siewiorek) 3:00 - 3:30 Break 3:30 - 4:00 The Language Technologies Institute (Jaime Carbonell) 5:00 - 7:00 Welcome (back) TG [Perlis Atrium, Newell Simon Hall] 7:00 - ? Systems Party (Bruce Maggs) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, September 1 WEEK 1 11:00 - ? Kennywood (SoYoung Park) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, September 3 WEEK 2 LABOR DAY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 4 WEEK 2 9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast 9:30 - 12:00 The Rare Glitch Project (Ed Clarke, Jeannette Wing, David Garlan, Reid Simmons, Randy Bryant) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Faculty Talks Christos Faloutsos, Anastassia Ailamaki) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:30 Faculty Talks (Yiming Yang, Howard Wactlar, Jaime Carbonell) 4:30 - 7:00 Scavenger Hunt (Luis Alfonso von Ahn) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 5 WEEK 2 9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast 9:30 - 10:30 Faculty talks (Takeo Kanade, Manuela Veloso) 10:30 - 10:45 Break 10:45 - 11:45 Faculty Talks (Roger Dannenberg, Randy Pausch) 11:45 - 12:00 Break 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch at the Stage 3 Lab (NSH 2504) 1:30 - 2:30 Faculty Talks (Jessica Hodgins, Dave McKeown) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Faculty Talks (Srini Seshan, Peter Steenkiste) 8:00 - ? IC Pub Crawl (Chuck Rosenberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 6 WEEK 2 9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast 9:30 - 10:00 Introduction to the Aladdin Center (Lenore Blum) 10:00 - 10:30 Aladdin Center Talks (Mor Harchol-Balter) 10:30 - 10:45 Break 10:45 - 11:45 Aladdin Center Talks (Guy Blelloch, Gary Miller) 11:45 - 12:00 Break 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Aladdin Center Talks (Danny Sleator, Manuel Blum) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Aladdin Center Talks (Avrim Blum, John Lafferty) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 7 WEEK 2 9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast 9:30 - 10:30 Faculty Talks (Andrew Moore, Scott Fahlman) 10:30 - 10:45 Break 10:45 - 11:45 Faculty Talks (John Reynolds, Steve Brookes) 11:45 - 12:00 Break 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch at the Student Seminar [WeH 4615A] 1:30 - 2:30 Faculty Talks (Dana Scott, Frank Pfenning) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:00 Faculty Talks (Matt Mason, Michael Erdmann) 7:00 - ? IC Beer Brewing Night (Paul Placeway) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, September 10 WEEK 3 9:00 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast 9:30 - 10:15 The Universal Library Project (Raj Reddy) 10:15 - 10:30 Break 10:30 - 12:00 Faculty Talks (Robert Harper, Peter Lee, Karl Crary) 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch 1:30 - 2:30 Faculty Talks (Sebastian Thrun, Tuomas Sandholm) 2:30 - 3:00 Break 3:00 - 4:30 Faculty Talks (Tai Sing Lee, Dave Touretzky, Mike Lewicki) 7:00 - ? AI Party (Raj Reddy) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, September 11 WEEK 3 7:00 - ? Programming Languages Party (Robert Harper) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, September 12 WEEK 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, September 13 WEEK 3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, September 14 WEEK 3 4:30 - 5:00 Pretty Good Race (Jim Tomayko) Postponed 5:00 - 7:00 PGR TG Cancelled ===========================================================================