CS 7001 Fall 2002

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CS 7001 Fall 2002

• Introductions
• Meeting you
• Announcements
• Overview of course
• Assign
• Personal web page (8/27)
• Add yourself to the PhD student introductions
  with link to your web page (8/27)
• Information about Mini-projects (8/22)
• CoC PhD materials (8/27)
• Individual meetings (week of 8/27)

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Introductions

• Instructor
• Dr. Mary Jean Harrold
• CRB 254
• TAs
• Duke Hutchings
• CRB 245
• Zack Kurmas
• CCB 226E (across from Ken Mc office)

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Meeting You

• Sign up for a meeting with me will schedule on
  Thursday
• Meetings will be held in my office and in a
  yet-to-be-determined office in CCB
• Objective
• I want to know you
• I want you to start asking questions
• I want you to visit me in my office

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Announcements

• Picnic Saturday, August 24 at Atlanta Zoo more
  information to follow
• TAs should meet with instructors
• Class web page http//www.cc.gatech.edu/harrold/c
  s7001-fall2002
• Create personal web page (instructions on class
  web page) with picture (by Tuesday

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Course Overview

• Orientation
• research life
• research people
• Survival skills
• technical (writing, speaking, researching)
• social (getting acclimated)

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Organization of this course

• General lectures on information and skills
• Panels
• Faculty presentations
• Independent project work
• Class presentations

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Syllabus, Schedule, etc.

• Look on Web (http//www.cc.gatech.edu/harrold/cs7
  001-fall2002 for now)
• Meet researchers
• talks
• projects (3)
• Panels with students
• survival topics
• others?
• Skills workshops
• writing, speaking, management

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Projects

• Important part of finding your research project
• 3 projects (Sep., Oct., Nov.)
• 2 can be with same person
• Postd by Sept 1

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Assessment

• Grades dont matter.
• Doing well REALLY matters!

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Advice

• Dont overstretch yourself.
• impress a small number of people

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Building morale

• We need each other to survive.
• Lets have some fun!

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What do you want to know?

• Please, please let me know!

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Upcoming Classes

• Class 2 Discussion of mini-projects (8/22)
• Class web site information about mini-projects
  general information and on-line discussion of
  mini-projects
• Read and study for 8/22 (Thursday)
• Class 3 Requirements and milestones of the
  Ph.D. (8/27)
• Guest speaker will be Venkat, Chair of the
  Graduate Committee
• Read and study for 8/27 (next Tuesday)
• CoC PhD Program Information (web site)