Academics

Graduate Program

Graduate Student Department Service Opportunities

Peer advising

You will be matched with incoming graduate students and give them advice and guidance as needed. You'll need to meet with your advisees at graduate orientation on August 21. At events such as the start of the semester mixer. you should take the initiative to circulate among new students and introduce yourself to them. Peer advisors are needed at the start of both Fall 07 and Spring 08.

Volunteers: Fall 07

• Jacob Becker
• Megha Gupta
• Edward Levie
• Suzanne Matthews
• Michal Sofka
• Yu Sheng
• Onur Tekdas
• Zhongyi Xie

Floor Plans

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

• Fikret Sivrikaya

Mixers

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

Culture mixer, July 19, 2007

• Shopping: Steven Lindsey
• Setup: Medha Atre, Megha Gupta, Nikhil Karnad, Jamey Lewis, Steven Lindsey
• Cleanup: Jon Chen, Allison Chin, Akintayo Holder, Nikhil Karnad, Jamey Lewis, Edward Levie

Start of semester, Fall 07

• Shopping: Steven Lindsey
• Setup: Steve Berard, Nikhil Karnad, Jamey Lewis, Steven Lindsey, Lingzhi Luo
• Volleyball coordinator: James Michaelis
• Cleanup: Bob Ingalls, Ed Levie, Cameron Smith, Charlene Tsai, Jierui Xie

September 7, 2007

• Shopping: Steven Lindsey
• Setup: Cagatay Bilgin, Allison Chin, Edward Levie, Steven Lindsey
• Posters: Cagatay Bilgin, Bugra Caskurlu, Matt Edman, Konstantin Mertsalov, Fikret Sivrikaya
• Cleanup: Allison Chin, Edward Levie, Jamey Lewis, Suzanne Matthews, Eric Meisner, Fikret Sivrikaya, Wei Yang

November 9, 2007

• Shopping: Ed Levie
• Baking cookies: Allison Chin
• Setup: Shannon Carrothers, Allison Chin, Ed Levie, Pam Paslow
• Cleanup: Allison Chin, Ed Levie, Steven Lindsey
• Posters: Eyuphan Bulut, Jierui Xie, Sahin Cem Gayik, Apirak Hoonlor, Qiming Lu, Chris Morrell, Cagri Ozcaglar, Debbie Heisler, Medha Atre, Jiao Tao, Li Ding, James Michaelis, Greg Williams.

January 25, 2008

• Shopping: Ed Levie
• Setup/Cleanup: Allison Chin, Akintayo Holder, Nikhil Karnad, Ed Levie, Jamey Lewis, Cagri Ozcaglar, Chris Willmore

February 22, 2008

• Shopping: Ed Levie, Akintayo Holder.
• Setup: Vineet Chaoji, Allison Chin, Ameya Hate, Ed Levie, Steven Lindsey, Abhinab Ray.
• Posters: Vineet Chaoji, Mohammad Al Hasan, Asif Javed, Jamey Lewis, Suzanne Matthews, Lee Newberg, Saeed Salem.
• Cleanup: Jon Chen, Steven Lindsey.

March 21, 2008

• Shopping: Ed Levie
• Setup: Vineet Chaoji, Akintayo Holder, Nikhil Karnad (who stood out in the cold), Ed Levie, Jamey Lewis, Steven Lindsey
• Posters: Yin Liu
• Cleanup: Medha Atre, Bugra Caskurlu, Vineet Chaoji, Akintayo Holder, Ed Levie, Jamey Lewis, Steven Lindsey, Suzanne Matthews, Eric Meisner

April 18, 2008

• Shopping: Chris Coonrad
• Food pickup: Joey Armstrong, Steven Lindsey
• Setup Joey Armstrong, Edward Levie, Steven Lindsey, Sharon Simmons
• Posters: Jacob Becker, Steve Berard, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Metin Inanc, Nikhil Karnad, Brad King, Eric Meisner, Binh Nguyen, Cody Phillips, Yu Sheng, Eric Smith, Onur Tekdas, Dan Tracy, Zhongyi Xie
• Cleanup Jon Chen, Allison Chin, Akintayo Holder, Nikhil Karnad, Edward Levie

End of semester, April 25, 2008

• Shopping: beverages: Chris Coonrad
• Picking up food: Allison Chin, Akintayo Holder, Asif Javed, Edward Levie
• Setting up tables, chairs, and enclosure: Steven Lindsey, Zhongyi Xie
• Setup: Tom Babbitt, Kevin Barlett, Chris Coonrad, Ameya Hate, Apirak Hoonlor, Chris Morrell
• Cleanup: Medha Atre, Kevin Barlett, Nilanjan Chakraborty, Ameya Hate, Akintayo Holder, Nikhil Karnad Edward Levie, Eric Meisner, Chris Morrell

Picnic

This year's picnic will be Sunday, September 9. We need an overall coordinator, as well as people for tasks like shopping, setup, cleanup, grilling, obtaining sports equipment, and carpool coordination.

• Shopping: Medha Atre, Allison Chin, Katie Lane, Edward Levie, Chris Willmore
• Grilling: Steve Berard, Ed Levie
• Grilling support: Medha Atre, Allison Chin, Nikhil Karnad
• Cleanup: Medha Atre, Allison Chin, Akintayo Holder, Alvaro Graves, Nikhil Karnad, Katie Lane, Edward Levie, Cameron Smith
• Photos: Li Ding

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. Contact Terry Hayden or Bob Ingalls for assistance.

• Auto Show: Akintayo Holder
• Bowling: Steven Lindsey, Joshua Nasman
• Harry Potter movie outing: Suzanne Matthews
• Independence Day party: Ed Levie
• September start of year/birthday party: Ed Levie
• Quals are over party: Chris Willmore
• Shows at Revolution Hall: Chris Willmore
• Softball team coordinator: Steve Berard
• Super Bowl party: Ed Levie

Talking to prospective graduate students

You may talk to prospective students in person or online. During the year, there will be several online chats and several events for prospective students. Prospective students also may visit on their own at any time. 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 dinner with them, etc. The student representatives to the Graduate Recruiting Committee meet with prospective graduate students, but there are only two student representatives on the committee, and it would be good to have additional volunteers.

Individual Visits

• August 7, 2007: Michal Sofka
• January 10, 2008: Jacob Becker, Akintayo Holder, Asif Javed
• January 22, 2008: Steve Berard
• April 14, 2008: Medha Atre, Akintayo Holder, Chris Willmore

Accepted Graduate Students Celebration

• Shopping: Chris Coonrad, Steven Lindsey
• Student panel: Medha Atre, Steve Berard, Cagatay Bilgin, Akintayo Holder, Asif Javed, Eric Meisner.
• Lunch setup: Ed Levie, Steven Lindsey, Eric Meisner Pam Paslow, Sharon Simmons, Zhongyi Xie
• Lunch cleanup: Steve Berard, Ed Levie, Steven Lindsey
• Institute student panel: Asif Javed
• Institute poster session: Bugra Caskurlu, Ali Civril, Vineet Chaoji, Saeed Salem

Undergraduate recruiting

• Medalist Day: Cagatay Bilgin, Konstantin Mertsalov
• Accepted Students Day: Nikhil Karnad, Eric Meisner, Onur Tekdas

Middle school field trip

• Nikhil Karnad
• Eric Meisner
• Onur Tekdas

Computing 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.

• Ben Levinn

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, qualifying exam format, and TA selection policy.

• Edward Levie
• Suzanne Matthews

Graduate Admissions Committee

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

• Vineet Chaoji
• Matt Edman
• Ryan LaFortune
• Yu Sheng
• Onur Tekdas
• Zhongyi Xie

Graduate Recruiting Committee

2 representatives will be chosen by the committee chair from all volunteers. Serve on committee which develops outreach strategies and meets with prospective graduate students.

• Mohammad Al Hasan
• Edward Levie
• Cagri Ozcaglar

School of Science Graduate Council

• Asif Javed

Colloquium web site

• Nikhil Karnad
• Eric Meisner

External review

• Jacob Becker
• Akintayo Holder
• Asif Javed
• Ed Levie
• Michal Sofka

Colloquium Refreshments

At least two students per semester to purchase (you'll be reimbursed), set up, and clean up colloquium refreshments.

• Medha Atre
• Kevin Barlett
• Jacob "Juda" Becker
• Bugra Caskurlu
• Nilanjan Chakraborty
• Matt Edman
• Megha Gupta
• Ameya Hate
• Debbie Heisler
• Apirak Hoonlor
• Asif Javed
• Nikhil Karnad
• Avital Kelman
• Edward Levie
• Jamey Lewis
• Lingzhi Luo
• Eric Meisner
• James Michaelis
• Chris Morrell
• Cody Phillips
• Yu Sheng
• Cameron Smith
• Eric Smith
• Christopher Stuetzle
• Jiao Tao
• Onur Tekdas
• Greg Williams
• Chris Willmore
• Ting Xie

Faculty Search

Meet with prospective faculty members.

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