ICS Graduate Seminar, ICS 690

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Goals

This 1-credit seminar is designed to "promote the professional development of ICS graduate students" [Casanova]

This is accomplished by:

• students giving presentations on their own work, to
  • practice doing presentations
  • encourage the performance of meaningful work that can be presented
  • get to know each other
  • give the student feedback.
• the instructure giving presentations on topics related to graduate studies.
  Reading material may include:
  • Cresswell's Research Methods (Spring 2006)
  • Dee's Building a Successful Career in Scientific Research (Fall 2006)
  • Levin's Relating Statistics and Experimental Design : An Introduction (Spring 2007)
  • Haugh's Scientific Method in Practice (Fall 2007 and Spring 2008)
• visiting speakers and UH faculty giving presentations throughout the semester
• a get-together at 5:45pm on the first Thursday of every month to stimulate social interaction. All ICS (and CIS) graduate students and faculty are invited.

Grading

To pass this course, students must give a presentation of their own work, and attend at least 10 of the sessions, with the following exceptions:

• Ph.D. students who are ABD only need to attend 5 of the sessions.
• M.S. students need to give the presentation once during their time as an M.S. student, and not necessarily in the semester in which they register for ICS 690.

If you have any questions, please contact the instructor.

Schedule

This schedule is subject to change.

• Thu Jan 15, new student orientation (required for all new students, not required for anyone else, and does not count towards attendance)
• Thu Jan 22, Edoardo Biagioni, Writing a Thesis or Dissertation (presentation courtesy of Henri Casanova)
• Thu Jan 29, Kevin Fu (University of Michigan), Medical Device Security: The First 165 Years
• Thu Feb 5, Adam Jansens, Preserving the Authenticity and Accessibility of Digital Records
• Thu Feb 12, Philip Johnson
• Thu Feb 19, Special joint seminar with CIS, Hamilton room 3F (in the basement of Hamilton Library), Viil Lid and Alex Bergo will present their LiveSift venture
• Thu Feb 26, Kendyll Doi (1/2 hour), Jan Dufek (1/2 hour)
• Thu Mar 5, Nicholas Wisniewski (UCLA), Dynamic Leukocyte Gene Network Analysis of the Systemic Inflammatory Response
• Thu Mar 12, Ben Karsin (1/2 hour)
• Thu Mar 19, Mike Gowanlock, Indexing of Spatiotemporal Trajectories for Efficient Distance Threshold Similarity Searches on the GPU, (1/2 hour)
• Thu Apr 2, Brian Hall (1/2 hour) on Bashy: command-line adventures
• Thu Apr 9, Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, on OpenMETA: Model-integrated Design Tool Suite for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Thu Apr 16, Alberto Gonzalez (1/2 hour), William Wright (1/2 hour)
• Thu Apr 23, Todd Baumeister (1/2 hour, remote)
• Thu Apr 30, Alex Cam Liu (1/2 hour), Dylan Kobayashi (1/2 hour)