Retro school children University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering
 March 2009 - Visit Day Schedule
  CSE Home   About Us    Search    Contact Info 

Visit Days officially go from 8:15am Tuesday to 5:00pm Wednesday, but field trips and especially research group events will very likely last longer. Ask your host and/or your faculty contact for specific details!

You are welcome to attend all or part of any of the research overviews. Feel free to go to half of any research overview if you want to attend two that overlap or want more time for individual meetings.

 
  Allen Center Activities
8:15AM - 9:00AM Check-in
Continental breakfast
Gates Commons (6th Floor)
9:00AM - 9:30 AM Chair's Welcome
Hank Levy
9:30AM - 11:00AM Technical Talks by Faculty
11:00AM - 12:00PM Poster Sessions
Allen Center Atrium 		One-on-One Meetings
12:15PM - 2:00PM Lunch on the Ave
2:00PM - 3:00PM Databases & Data Mining
CSE 605 		Prog. Lang & Software Eng.
CSE 403 		Theory
CSE 503
3:00PM - 3:30PM Break
3:30PM - 4:30PM AI & Robotics
CSE 609 		Architecture, Hardware, & Parallel Computing
CSE 615 		HCI & UbiComp
CSE 605
4:30PM - 5:00PM Break
5:00PM - 6:00PM Comp/Synth. Bio
CSE 203 		Graphics & Vision
CSE 291 		Systems, Networking, & Security
CSE 591
6:15PM - 7:00PM Reception
Faculty Club
7:00PM - 8:30PM Dinner
Faculty Club
8:30PM - 10:30PM Grad student party
HUB (student center)
  Allen Center Activities Reseach Group Activities
Open to all, but you'll have to talk to members of that group :)		 The Seattle Area
8:30AM - 9:15AM Continental Breakfast
Gates Commons
Breakfast at Portage Bay Cafe in the morning. Meet at 8:30 at CSE, and then walk the few blocks over to Roosevelt and get some sweet breakfast. We can be back by 10:30 or so.

Greek breakfast at the Continental Pastry Shop, 4549 University Way NE. 7:30 - 9 (ie done in time for meetings).
 
9:15AM - 12:00PM One-on-One Meetings
Nath: Every campus has a "College Avenue"; this is ours. Visit one of the Ave's many excellent coffee shops. Explore the UW campus and surrounding areas.

Lynn Yang: Visit the Seattle Aquarium (downtown Seattle, on the waterfront). Frommer's says, "The star attractions are the playful river otters and sea otters, as well as the giant octopus. From the underwater viewing dome you get a fish's-eye view of life beneath the waves..."
12:00PM - 1:00PM Buffet Lunch
and Chair's Wrapup
Allen Center Atrium
"Group activities, board games, foosball, trampoline, kayaking, frisbee, etc" at a faculty member's house. 1 pm - 4 pm.

Lunch and dessert. 12 pm - 3 pm.

 
Ben Wood: We'll grab bagged lunches about noon at the Allen Center and, weather permitting, take off to hike a few miles up Rattlesnake Mountain (this may change), at the western edge of the spectacular Cascade Range, less than an hour from Seattle. Be sure to bring a rain jacket, warm layer (e.g. fleece), sturdy shoes, and wear clothes you don't mind hiking in.
2:00PM - 5:00PM One-on-One Meetings
Outdoor sporty activity at Green Lake if good weather. Either board games or join the downtown group if bad weather. 2 pm - 5 pm.

The Garage on Capitol Hill: bowling, billiards, food. 2 pm - ?

Dessert at Hank's house. 2 pm - 3 pm.
Natalie Linnell: We'll be going to Pike Place Market, Seattle's famous semi-open-air permanent market. This craft and produce market is one of the true highlights of Seattle. If there's time, we can also swing by the waterfront which is nearby.
5:00PM ...  
Dinner and dessert, 6 pm - ?

CSE logo Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA  98195-2350
(206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX
[comments to psc-chair]