CS900
Graduate Seminar
Fall 2015
Friday 12:40-2pm or 1:10-2pm, King N113

Instructor: P. Hatcher
Office: Kingsbury N215B
Phone: 862-2678
E-mail: hatcher@unh.edu
Office Hours: by appointment.

This course is the seminar for new graduate students in computer science. The primary goal of the seminar is to introduce the new students to the department and the university, particularly to the research projects that the current students and faculty are engaged in.

Grading for the course is pass/fail and is based simply upon attendance. Students in the course are expected to attend all sessions of the class unless they arrange an excused absence with me in advance.

The class will meet on Fridays in Kingsbury N113. On weeks when there is a robotics seminar, CS900 will meet 1:10-2pm. On other weeks, it will meet 12:40-2pm.

As a courtesy to the speakers, students should keep their laptops and other electronic devices closed during the seminar.

Here is the current, tentative schedule for the seminar sessions:

• Friday Sept 4, 12:40pm: informal session to meet faculty and other graduate students; pizza and drinks will be provided.

• Friday September 11, 1:10pm: David Plachetzki, assistant professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, UNH, "New Insights into the Evolution of the Animal Sensory Modalities Revealed by Phylogenomics".

• Friday September 18, 12:40pm: Nicole MacMillan, career development and internship counselor, CEPS, UNH, and Bryan Dina, senior software engineer, Dyn, "Finding Jobs and Internships".

• Friday September 25, 1:10pm: Jordan Thayer, technical staff, Draper Laboratory, "Discovering Side Channel Attacks via Complexity Analysis".

• Friday October 2, 12:40pm: Sarah Keren, PhD student, Technion, "Goal Recognition Design".

• Friday October 9, 1:10pm: Lina Faller, bioinformatics analyst, Forsyth Institute, "Learning How to Talk Biology... as a Computer Scientist".

• Friday October 16, 12:40pm: Colin Ware, professor, Computer Science and the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, UNH, "Data Visualization: Multidisciplinary Research".

• Friday October 23, 1:10pm: Anthony Westbrook, MS student, Computer Science, UNH, "Rapid Functional Characterization of Metagenomes via PALADIN".

• Friday October 30, 12:40pm: Andras Fekete, PhD student, Computer Science, UNH, "A Survey of RAID and its Derivatives".

• Friday November 6, 1:10pm: Nicholas Kirsch, associate professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNH, "Enabling and Utilizing Resources Efficiently in Wireless Networks".

• Friday November 13, 12:40pm: Radim Bartos, associate professor and chair, Computer Science, UNH, "Precise Time Synchronization of Networked Systems - Methods and Applications".

• Friday November 20, 1:10pm: Michael Kulik, MS student, Computer Science, UNH, "Reactive Extensions: Concurrent Framework of the Future or Industry Hype?".

• Friday November 27: No class. Thanksgiving holiday.

• Friday December 4, 1:10pm: Tony Lapadula, technical staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, "Interdisciplinary Computer Science: A Random Walk Through Industry and Academia".

• Friday December 11, 12:40pm: Ethan Burns, software engineeer, Google, "Third Party Structured Data at Google".

Comments and questions should be directed to hatcher@unh.edu