CSCI 7900 Course Materials for Fall 2002:
General information and administrivia in postscript and pdf
Class Materials:
- 27 August: logistics
- 3 September: Outline of CU CS PhD process (incl funding, round 1).
Homework:
- Fill out plan of study.
- Ask advisor/senior grad student about good/bad journals in your area
- 10 September: Journals, conferences, and the research community.
Here are the results of last week's homework questions about good and bad journals,
conferences, etc.
Homework:
- Read these IJCAI
review materials
- Read pp11-15 and 58-63 in The Lives of a
Cell ("The MBL" and "Societies as Organisms")
- 17 September: UGGS overview (Elizabeth White); how to review
papers; how to organize papers, round 1; how to write introductions
and paragraphs. Here are the alternative colloquium
titles for Doug Sicker's talk and the whiteboard notes about what research is.
Homework:
- Read through the presentation hints that I
handed out and keep them in mind during the next few colloquia.
- Choose a paper (of yours) that you want to revise over the semester,
reverse-engineer its outline, and email it to me by 24 September.
- 24 September: Prelims. Meet at 3:30pm with BACTAC.
Homework:
- Question/answer/title for 9/26 Trostle talk.
- Read Thomas Kuhn essay. Copies in your box, or outside my office
door.
- 1 October: how to understand and give research talks, round
1; how to organize papers, round 2; how to write introductions. Here
are the alternative
colloquium titles for Trostle's talk and a few representative outlines.
Homework:
- Alternative title for 10/3 Kolda talk.
- Read chapter 1 of Strunk & White and rewrite the introduction of
your paper accordingly; turn in hard copies of the 'before' and
'after' versions.
- Read through the second set of presentation
hints that I handed out and keep them in mind during the next few
colloquia.
- 8 October: CVs and resumes; funding, round 2. Here are the
alternative colloquium
titles for Kolda's talk, some funding-related links, and
softcopies of my CV, in long and short forms. Please
don't kill trees by printing these out; I'll leave them here
indefinitely.
Homework:
- Put together a CV and turn in a hard copy.
- Read "The Planning
of Science" in The Lives of a Cell.
- 15 October: teaching (Jennifer Abernethy); philosophy, round 1:
research/community; how to understand and give research talks, round
2.
Homework:
- Read this paper by Amer
Diwan before his talk on 10/24, and email me your question, his
answer, and your alternative title by monday 10/28. Here's an
optional follow-on paper
if you get interested.
- Edit/proofread/correct the other student's introduction that you
got in class on 10/15. Please be constructive: offer suggestions that
will improve the readability of the work. Bring the hard copy to class
on 10/22.
- dig through the BP viz center
website
- start thinking of a talk to give on 11/12.
- 22 October: tour of BP visualization center. Meet there
at 4pm!. Click here
for directions and a map.
Homework:
- Read chapter 2 of Strunk & White and rewrite the introduction of
your paper accordingly; turn in hard copies of the 'after' version
only.
- Read "Computers" in The Lives of a Cell.
- Continue to think of a talk to give on 11/12.
- 29 October: tour of forecast systems lab at NOAA. Meet
there at 3:30pm!. Click here for
directions and information. Here are the alternative colloquium
titles for Diwan's talk.
Homework:
- Alternative title for Orso's 10/31 talk
- Pick a topic for a 5 min talk to the group on 11/12, put together
a preliminary set of slides, and turn them in.
- Read the "Newton and the 20th Century..." essay that I left
in your boxes.
- 5 November: how to understand and give research talks,
round 3; how to choose advisors and problems. Here are the alternative colloquium
titles for Orso's talk and the picking problems/advisors
slides for today.
Homework:
- Alternative title (or acronym) for Geib's 11/7 talk .
- Put together final version of your slides and practice your talk.
- Read pp 100-102 and 42-46 in The Lives of a Cell ("Natural
Science" and "Ceti")
- 12 November: presentations 3:30-5:30pm
Homework:
- Alternative title for Haines's 11/14 talk.
- Read the Popper essay I handed out last week.
- Read pp 20-30 in The Lives of a Cell ("Music of THIS
Sphere" and "An Earnest Proposal").
- 19 November: philosophy, round 2.
Homework:
- Read chapter 3 of Strunk & White and rewrite the introduction of
your paper accordingly; turn in a hard copy of the 'after' version.
- 26 November: Mike Eisenberg visit; how to write abstracts.
Homework:
- Rewrite the abstract of your paper; turn in hard copies of the
'before' and 'after' versions.
- Read chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Strunk & White and keep them in
mind as you start your term papers.
- 3 December: bioinformatics overview with Larry Hunter and
Rick Osborne. Here's the course evaluation form, in latex and plain text.
Homework:
- (optional) outline one of your term papers and bring it
by my office for feedback.
- 10 December: no meeting. Come by if you want help choosing
topics for term projects, organizing papers, etc. Check my homepage
for extra office hours, or just stop by.
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