2006-10-18

Next session is going to be split up in to 4 different sections in order to get a more personal feedback.

Next time I come is Nov 8, SC 2124

Grad student question seminar.

2006-10-04

Writing papers:

• when do you write a paper? when you have something to say
• Dont submit same paper to more than one conf.
• no basic incremental papers (on your own work)
• cite all the time. Attribute all ideas

2006-09-27

Came late to the talk because I was in SnirParallellLanguagesTalk20060927?

talk on how to use the library

• http://search.grainger.uiuc.edu/top/
• much better to go to ieee xplore to sarch ieee
• same for acm
• can get information about new articles from ieee or acm
  • what about siam?
• http://my.safaribooksonline.com/home - free books! It doesn't look like they have anything too exotic, though.

• inspec
• web of science
  • science citation index
  • only seraches the first timer, no boolean searches
• mathsci.net
• dx.doi.org - get doi for a paper, look it up again here. works like isbm
• bill mischo w-mischo@uiuc.edu (can also email the grainger library)
• mary shelmback? schlemba@uiuc.edu

2006-09-20

Tony Hooker - seems like a cool guy, go to talk to him if I have problems. 1222

• marsha woodbury, Ph. D.

Had to turn off the laptop? Grar!

2006-09-13

Graduate college seminar

• fellowship office can help you get money
• grad school monitors gpa
  • grad school probation policy - http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/policies/probation.htm
  • GPA - 2.75
  • have the right to request an incomplete grade
• office of the dean of students - call if you have the problem, any problem: http://www.odos.uiuc.edu
  • phone: (217) 333-0050
• counseling: http://www.couns.uiuc.edu
• http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/survivalguide

2006-09-06

• cs597 - individual project, needs a form
• if working for Petsc people, I need someone within the dept to be my legal advisor.
• Can start doing thesis research as soon as advisor says it's ok.
• waiver forms - need to fill them out.
• grad student handbook has lots of meddling rules

2006-08-30

• This class counts as our ethics orientation.
• graduate student college: http://www.grad.uiuc.edu/
• hours
  • phase 1
    • first 32 hours
    • can pick up masters at end of 32 hours
    • first 2 years
  • phase 2
    • prelim

Questions for the seminar:

• how many hours do you need to have to be a full time student if you have an RA?
  • 8 hours + RA for international students
  • outstanding loan + domestinc student = 12 hours
  • insurance + domestic = 12 hours
  • fellowship + domestic = 12 hours
• does health insurance here require 12 hours?

2006-08-21

list of questions:

• what health care packages are present?
  • 804 wright street, go upstaies and ask for health care card.
  • $250 deductable, then pay 80%
  • mckinley is free
  • lincol, paradiso
• Does Shirley Finki handle appointments for CPSD and rocket center?
• hard or soft quotas on the CSG emails?

Notes:

• we're in the graduate college, not the engineering college.
• TSG wiki: http://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/
• https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/display/tsg/Networking
• erinwolf@uiuc.edu - women in compuer science, lunches sound interesting.
• CSGSO - Friday event, students talk together.
  • http://www-csgso.cs.uiuc.edu/
  • peer advising 1-3 grad student lounge.

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