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Graduate student seminars answer some of the big picture
questions about graduate life. The seminars target specific age groups (grad
years, not biological) as well as the general population. If you have any suggestions
for seminar topics or format, please contact Krzysztof Gajos -- this year's grad student seminar coordinator.
Spring Quarter:
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Lunch with the Chair
Friday, May 28, 2004 at noon
Location: Gates Commons
Organizer: Sarah Schwarm (sarahs at cs)
Come and talk to David Notkin about Life, Universe and Everything.
And get fed at the same time.
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Grad Student Elections
Tuesday, May 25, 2004 at 3:30pm
Location: EE 105 (the usual seminar location)
Come and elect the student officers for the next year. Before you
come, you may want to review the list
of officer positions.
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Teaching-Oriented Academic Jobs Seminar
Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 3:30pm
Location: EE 105 (the usual seminar location)
Organizer: [prof.]Steve Wolfman (wolf at cs)
Extra info: Teaching-Oriented
Academic Jobs
Faculty positions in academia focusing on teaching rather than research
are a common but rarely discussed path for UW students. This seminar is
an opportunity for you to learn about what these positions are, how to
apply for them, and how they compare to other positions, especially
standard tenure-track positions at research universities. The seminar
will include presentations and discussions with a panel of faculty in
various stages of teaching-oriented careers and disembodied commentary
from other faculty kind enough to answer a survey about these positions in
advance.
Panelists will have experience with standard tenure-track faculty
positions at teaching-oriented institutions, teaching-track positions at
research institutions, and the application/interview process for a broad
range of positions.
This seminar is open to graduate students from any department (although
the panelists will have experience only with CSE and EE). However, we ask
that faculty NOT attend to avoid making attendees uncomfortable.
If you have questions for the panel already, please send them to Steve
Wolfman (wolf at cs.washington.edu).
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Special event: General Graduate Student Meeting
Thursday, April 29, 2004 at 3:30pm
Location: EE 105 (the usual seminar location)
During the gripe session last week, a number of issues emerged
that should be addressed by the graduate student community rather than the
CSE faculty or administrators (This is in addition to the items that Oren
will discuss with exec and the rest of the faculty.) We'd like to have a
grad student government meeting this Thursday during the normal colloquium
time slot (3:30 in EE105 with possible room change if we find a better
room) for any and all interested grad students to come address these
issues. *All* grad students are encouraged to come; those who currently
hold elected positions or would like to in the future are particularly
encouraged.
The initial agenda (compiled from the notes from the gripe session and
some input received from graduate students) looks as follows:
- a mentoring program for new grads: do we want it? if so how do we run
it? Do we need a new officer position? if we do want it, let's start
planning soon so we can offer it to the incoming grads.
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regardless of the mentoring program, is there anything we can do
about advising problems? how much can we solve on the student side?
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community issues -- TGIF and other things grad students can do.
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outreach -- the engineering open house and other events often happen
without much involvement from us. We should think how much we as a
group care about events like this and if there is anything we are willing
to do about it.
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transfer of knowledge from each year's officers to the next set.
If you have other topics you'd like to see discussed, please email me
before the meeting for the inclusion on the agenda. I hope to see you all
on Thursday!
Sorry for the short notice - we wanted to have the meeting soon, while the
gripe session is still fresh in our minds, and since the faculty will be
in the annual very very long faculty recruiting meeting, there should be
relatively few conflicts with this time slot. (If you want to come and
can't make it, feel free to give me feedback any time you want.) Further
announcements will go to cs-grads, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw
this one.
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How to pass generals
Tuesday, April 27, 2004 at 3:30pm
Location: EE 105 (the usual seminar location)
This a regular seminar on how to pass generals. Recent generals (Seth
Bridges, Gerome Miklau, Sorin Lerner and Aaron Shon) will form a panel
that will answer questions on the rules, types of general exams,
preparation, work load and successful presentation of your results.
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Gripe (Feedback) Session
Monday, April 19, 2004 at noon
Location: Gates Commons
Notes: see the notes from the
session (including some gripes that were sent afterwards).
Outcome: the issues raised during the gripe session were looked
at by the graduate students and by the faculty. Here are the outcomes.
This is probably the most important grad seminar of the year. Our
department is soliciting feedback from graduate students regarding
what it is doing well and where it needs improvement in all aspects
of its operation, from classes, research, and advising to facilities,
support, social aspects, and more. Oren and Lindsay will attend the
session and forward our concerns to the Executive Committee for
consideration. Historically, many of the issues brought up in those
sessions were addressed by the department, usually to students'
satisfaction. For examples, look at what
transpired in 1999-2000.
This year we will have a free lunch
(pizza) to make it easier for everybody to attend.
If there is something you think needs fixing but
do not want to raise the issue in person, or if you cannot attend the
seminar
send anonymous gripe to the grad student
seminar coordinator. The anonymous gripes will be aggregated and
presented during the gripe session and everybody will have a chance to
respond, comment or add to them.
Winter Quarter:
Fall Quarter:
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Joint CSE & EE Seminar on How To Get An Academic Job
Tursday, October 30, 2003 at 3:30pm
Location: EE 105
Confirmed speakers include: Dean of the School of Engineering, David Notkin, Daniel Weld, Dan Grossman (the new) and Venkat Guruswami.
Also, see
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A follow-up Seminar on How To Get A Job In Industry (just for CSE)
Date and time: November 6, 2003 at 4:30pm
Location: CSE 203
Kurt Partridge is arranging the speakers so contact him with any questions and requests.
Future Topics
There are a number of seminars that I plan to schedule throughout the
year. Current ideas are listed below. Feel free to offer your own
ideas or strike down any of the ones listed here.
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How To Pass Generals Advice on how to pass generals offered by the
very senior students.
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What's Hot Presentation by CSE and affiliated faculty on the
current and upcoming hottest topics in computer science. (See slides from last year's edition of this
seminar)
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Grad Student Gripe Session Meet with the faculty responsible
for grad student well-being and tell them what would make your life
better.
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How To Get Along With Your Advisor Get together with fellow
grads and discuss potential problems that may arrise in your
relationship with your advisor.
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