Academics

Graduate Program

Graduate Student Department Service Opportunities

Peer advising

Provide welcome and guidance to incoming grad students. Interact by e-mail before new students arrive, then meet them at grad student orientation on August 24.

Volunteers: Fall 11

• Pranay Anchuri
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Dominic DiFranzo
• Jing Fu
• Linyun Fu
• Saurabh Paul
• Amina Shabbeer
• Yousaf Shah
• Fred Sisenda
• Chris Stuetzle

Floor Plans

Update floor plans of department offices to help new students find their way.

Mixers

For each mixer, jobs may include overall coordination, taking signups of food preferences, deciding what to order, shopping, setup, and cleanup.

Start of semester, Fall 11

• Unloading car:
• Setup:
• Cleanup:

November poster session

• Unloading supplies: Eddie Lau, Steven Lindsey
• Setup: Ameya Hate, Geng Li, Kevin Li, Steven Lindsey, Qi Pan, Dan Yuan
• Posters: Pranay Anchuri, Aleksandr Ovcharenko, Nilothpal Talukder
• Cleanup: James Kukucka, Eddie Lau, Qi Pan, Chris Stuetzle, Ping Wang, Jeremy White

February poster session

• Setup:
• Cleanup:

March poster session

• Setup:
• Cleanup:

April poster session

• Setup:
• Cleanup:

End of semester

• Unloading car:
• Setup:
• Cleanup:

Picnic

We need an overall coordinator, as well as people for tasks like shopping, setup, cleanup, grilling, obtaining sports equipment, and carpool coordination.

• Loading supplies Allen Lavoie, Kevin Li, Dan Yuan.
• Shopping: Kayleigh O'Connor, Chris Stuetzle.
• Unloading cars at picnic: Dominic DiFranzo, Allen Lavoie, Tommy Nguyen, Kayleigh O'Connor, Joshua Shinavier, Chris Stuetzle, Andrew Zonenberg.
• Grilling coordinator: Chris Stuetzle.
• Grilling assistance: Dominic DiFranzo, Kayleigh O'Connor.
• Cleanup: Lily Briggs, Mithun Chakraborty, Simon Ellis, John Licato, Bhrett Ogden, Saurabh Paul, John Postl, Nilothpal Talukder.
• Unloading supplies on campus: Lily Briggs, Bhrett Ogden, John Postl.

Other events

Students may also take the initiative to organize events and activities of interest to them, such as intramural sports teams, cultural celebrations, or excursions to paintball, skiing, or amusement parks.

• Bowling coordinator: John Licato, Joshua Nasman
• Board games coordinator: Chris Stuetzle

Talking to prospective graduate students

You might give visitors a campus tour, pick them up at the bus station or airport, meet with them to tell them about your research, go out to lunch or dinner with them, etc.

Accepted Students Day

Computing Lab Planning Committee

1 student representative will be chosen by the committee from all volunteers. Serve on committee to plan how to meet department's computing and networking needs.

• Justin LaPre

Graduate Curriculum Committee

2 representatives will be elected by the CS graduate students from all volunteers. Serve on committee to discuss issues related to the graduate curriculum, such as new course proposals, MS breadth course classification, and qualifying exam format.

• Mithun Chakraborty
• Andrew Zonenberg

Graduate Admissions Committee

2 representatives will be chosen by the committee chair from all volunteers. Assist with review of graduate applications.

• Pranay Anchuri
• Mithun Chakraborty
• Nimit Dhulekar
• Jing Fu
• Linyun Fu
• Sahin Cem Geyik
• Wei Huang
• Geng Li
• Cagri Ozcaglar
• Saurabh Paul
• Yousaf Shah
• Zhenning Shangguan
• Ping Wang

Building Planning Committee

• Nimit Dhulekar
• Simon Ellis
• Cagri Ozcaglar
• Andrew Zonenberg

School of Science Graduate Council

• John Licato
• Amina Shabbeer

Theory seminar coordinator

• Ameya Hate

Colloquium web site

Colloquium Refreshments and attendance sheet

Take refreshments and attendance sheet to colloquium, and bring them back afterwards.

• Lauren Bange
• Abhirami Baskaran
• Steven Busch
• Nimit Dhulekar
• Elsa Gonsiorowski
• Ameya Hate
• Wei Huang
• Dan Yuan

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