Immigration Course 2000

Schedule

All sessions are in Wean Hall 5409, unless otherwise specified.

Week One

Time Mon, Aug 28 Tue, Aug 29 Wed, Aug 30 Thu, Aug 31 Fri, Sep 1 Sat, Sep 2
9:00 am       
        
  9:30 - 9:45
IC Welcome (John Lafferty)
9:30 - 10:30
Overview Talk: Software Engineering and Formal Methods (David Garlan)
9:30 - 10:30
What is Research? (Herb Simon)
9:30 - 10:30
Faculty Talks (Steve Brookes, John Reynolds)
9:30 - 10:30
Overview Talk: Artificial Intelligence (Andrew Moore)
 
  9:45 - 11:15
The Computer Science Department (Randy Bryant) and the Computer Science Ph.D. Program (Jeannette Wing)
 
10:00 am  
   
  10:30 - 11:00
Building Facilities Introduction (Jim Skees)
10:30 - 11:00
Faculty Talk (Herb Simon)
10:30 - 11:00
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Faculty Talk (Mary Shaw)
 
   
11:00 am 11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:00 - 12:00
How to Compute Like a Grad Student (John Carol Langford)
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:00 - ?
Kennywood
  11:15 - 11:30
Break
  11:30 - 11:45
SCS Welcome (Jim Morris)
11:30 - 12:00
Introduction to Computing Facilities (Clauss Strauch)
11:30 - 12:00
Faculty Talk (Takeo Kanade)
11:30 - 12:00
Faculty Talks (Raul Valdes-Perez)
   
12:00 pm 12:00 - 1:30
New Students' Lunch and Allen Newell Video: Desires and Diversions (Catherine Copetas) [Rangos 1 and 2, University Center, 2nd floor]
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
  12:00 - 1:30
Informedia Lab Lunch
  12:15 - 2:00
SPHINX Lab Lunch [Wean Hall 5409]
 
 
1:00 pm  
   
  1:30 - 2:30
Overview Talk: Algorithms and Complexity (Steven Rudich)
1:30 - 2:30
SCS Overview (Jim Morris)
1:30 - 2:30
Overview Talk: Systems (Todd Mowry)
1:30 - 3:00
Faculty Talks (Jaime Carbonell, John Lafferty, Avrim Blum)
 
   
2:00 pm 2:00 - 3:30
Faculty Talks (Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum, Steven Rudich)
 
   
  2:30 - 2:45
Break
2:30 - 3:00
Break
2:30 - 3:00
Break
 
  2:45 - 3:45
Overview Talk: Graphics and HCI (Randy Pausch)
 
3:00 pm 3:00 - 4:00
Overview Talk: Programming Languages (Karl Crary)
3:00 - 4:00
Grad Student Survival (Sean Slattery)
3:00 - 4:00
Break
 
   
  3:30 - 3:45
Break
 
    3:45 - 4:30
Universal Library project (Raj Reddy, Jaime Carbonell)
 
4:00 pm   4:00 - 5:00
Departmental Introductions (Everyone) Perlis Atrium, Newell Simon Hall
  4:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talk (Alex Waibel)
 
     
       
       
5:00 pm      5:00 - ?
Welcome (back) TG [Perlis Atrium, Newell Simon Hall]
 
       
       
       
6:00 pm      
       
       
       
7:00 pm 7:00 - 9:00
Introduction to Living in Pittsburgh (Scott Fahlman)
7:00 - ?
Theory Party (Lenore and Manuel Blum)
7:00 - 9:00
SCS Grad Women Welcome Potluck (Brigitte Pientka)
7:00 - ?
AI Party (Raj Reddy)
  
    
    
    
8:00 pm   
    
    
    

Week Two

Time Mon, Sep 4 Tue, Sep 5 Wed, Sep 6 Thu, Sep 7 Fri, Sep 8 Sat, Sep 9
9:00 am       
        
  LABOR DAY
9:30 - 10:30
Faculty Talks (David Nagle, Satya)
9:30 - 10:30
Faculty Talks (Dave O'Hallaron, Srini Seshan)
  9:30 - 10:30
Faculty Talks (Yiming Yang, Howard Wactlar)
 
    
10:00 am 10:00 - 10:30
Faculty Talk (David Garlan)
 
   
  10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:30 - 10:45
Break
10:30 - 10:45
Break
 
  10:45 - 11:45
Faculty Talks (Mor Harchol-Balter, Peter Steenkiste)
10:45 - 12:15
Faculty Talks (Karl Crary, Robert Harper, Frank Pfenning)
10:45 - 11:45
Faculty Talks (Seth Goldstein, Todd Mowry)
10:45 - 11:45
Faculty Talks (Andrew Moore, Manuela Veloso)
 
11:00 am  
   
   
    11:45 - 12:15
Faculty Talk (Dana Scott)
  
12:00 pm 12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch
 
  12:15 - 1:30
Parallel Data Lab Lunch (Wean 3701)
12:15 - 1:30
Stage 3 Lab Lunch [Newell Simon Hall 2504]
 
   
   
1:00 pm  
   
  1:30 - 2:30
Faculty Talks (Paul Heckbert, Dave McKeown)
  1:30 - 3:00
Faculty Talks (Tai Sing Lee, Mike Lewicki, Dave Touretzky)
1:30 - 3:30
Thesis Oral (Adam Berger) [Wean Hall 4623]
 
    
2:00 pm 2:00 - 3:00
Faculty Talks (Natassa Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos)
 
   
  2:30 - 3:30
Faculty Talks (Guy Blelloch, Danny Sleator)
 
   
3:00 pm 3:00 - 3:30
Break
3:00 - 3:30
Break
 
   
  3:30 - 4:00
Break
3:30 - 4:30
Faculty Talks (Michael Erdmann, Matt Mason)
  3:30 - 4:00
Break
 
    
4:00 pm 4:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talks (Roger Dannenberg)
  4:00 - 4:30
Faculty Talk (Dan Siewiorek)
 
    
    4:30 - 7:00
Scavenger Hunt (Chris Colohan)
   
      
5:00 pm     
      
      
      
6:00 pm     
      
       
       
7:00 pm   7:00 - ?
Programming Languages Party (Guy Blelloch)
  7:00 - ?
Systems Party (Seth Goldstein)
7:00 - ?
IC Beer Brewing Night (Belinda Thom)
 
     
     
     
8:00 pm   8:00 - ?
IC Pub Crawl (Chuck Rosenberg)
 
    
    
    

Week Three

Time Mon, Sep 11 Tue, Sep 12 Wed, Sep 13 Thu, Sep 14 Fri, Sep 15 Sat, Sep 16
9:00 am       
        
  9:30 - 10:00
Faculty Talk (Jessica Hodgins)
     
       
10:00 am 10:00 - 10:30
Faculty Talks (Jeannette Wing)
10:00 - 10:30
Faculty Talk (Tom Mitchell)
    
      
  10:30 - 11:00
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Faculty Talk (Bruce Maggs)
    
      
11:00 am 11:00 - 12:00
Faculty Talks (Randy Bryant, Ed Clarke)
11:00 - 12:00
E&S Library Introduction and Tour (Missy Harvey)
    
      
      
      
12:00 pm 12:00 - 2:00
Reconfigurable Computing Lab Lunch [TBA]
12:00 - 2:00
Lunch
    
      
      
      
1:00 pm     
      
      
      
2:00 pm 2:00 - 3:00
Faculty Talks (Reid Simmons, Sebastian Thrun)
     
       
       
       
3:00 pm 3:00 - 3:30
Break
     
       
  3:30 - 4:00
Faculty Talk (Peter Lee)
     
       
4:00 pm       
        
       4:30 - ?
Pretty Good Race (Jim Tomayko)
 
       
5:00 pm      5:00 - ?
Pretty Good Race TG [Wean Hall 4623]
 
       
       
       
6:00 pm      
       
       
       

Last generated: Thu Sep 7 10:13:47 US/Eastern 2000
John Lafferty <lafferty+@cs.cmu.edu>