ICS Graduate Seminar, ICS 690

Schedule

This schedule is subject to change.

• Thu Aug 25, new student orientation. Required for all new students, not required for anyone else. Does count towards attendance -- contact esb@hawaii.edu if you have questions.
• Thu Sep 1, Mark Nelson, "Vulnerabilities in Secure Boot"
• Thu Sep 8, Chris Zimmerman, Space vs. Place: Comparing Space-based Movements and Place-based Experiences while Exploring the Digital Reverberations of City Spaces and Public Places
• Thu Sep 15, Edoardo Biagioni, "How to create a literature review"
• Thu Sep 22, Pawel Sobocinski, "Programming recurrence relations"
• Thu Sep 29, Bas Westerbaan, "Grover's algorithm for a quantum computer: halving the bits-of-security of hashes and symmetric ciphers."
• Thu Oct 6, Lipyeow Lim speaking of his research (15min) and Serge Negrashov on Building Sensor Networks in the Internet of Things (45min)
• Thu Oct 13, Niki Vazou, LiquidHaskell: Liquid Types for Haskell
• Thu Oct 20, Jan Stelovsky, Constructive Learning using Flip-Flop Methodology: Learning by Making Quizzes Synchronized with Video Recording of Lectures
• Thu Oct 27, Robert Namahoe on Calibrating Simulations of Distributed Computing Systems (30min)
• Thu Nov 3, Alyssa Higuchi on using tree data structures for cache efficient searches (30min)
• Thu Nov 10, Nurit Kirshenbaum, 3D printing
• Thu Nov 17, Depeng Li, Internet of Things' Security and Case Studies
• Thu Dec 1, Anthony Christe on A Big Data Pipeline for Temporospatial Infrasound Analysis (30min) and Steven Magana-Zook on A Scalable Seismic Analytics Pipeline (30min)
• Thu Dec 8, Miguel Nunes, Considerations on Computational Needs of Future Space Systems

Goals

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

ICS graduate students improve their professional development by:

• giving presentations on their own work, to
  • practice doing presentations (verbal communication skills)
  • encourage the performance of meaningful work that can be presented (research or project work)
  • get to know each other (networking)
  • give the student feedback on their work (improvement of skills)
• the instructor giving presentations, to provide information that may be useful for career and 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 (have completed their proposal) 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.