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Fall 2017 Computer Science Graduate Skills Seminar
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.. list-table:: Fall 2017 Schedule: Wednesdays at 10AM at Amos Eaton 215
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 * - Date
   - Time
   - Location
   - Topic
   - Speaker
   - Slides
 * - Sep 6
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Graduate school
   - `Sibel Adali <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sibel>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2016/Graduate_School_Fall2016.pdf>`_
 * - Sep 13
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - What is research
   - `M. Zaki <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~zaki>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2017/WhatIsResearch_Fall2017.pdf>`_
 * - Sep 20
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Fellowship applications
   - `Alice Broussard <http://gradoffice.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=300>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2017/Fellowships_CS_Fall2017.pdf>`_
 * - Sep 20
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Professional Development and Leadership Opportunities
   - `Colleen Smith <http://gradoffice.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=300>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2017/CompScience_gradexperienceslides.pdf>`_
 * - Sep 27
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Writing papers
   - `Fran Berman <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~bermaf>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2017/Writing_FranBerman_Fall2017.pdf>`_
 * - Oct 4
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Giving talks
   - `Elliot Anshelevich <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~eanshel>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2016/GivingTalks_Anshelevichfall2016.pdf>`_
 * - Oct 11
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Reading research papers
   - `Alex Gittens <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gittea>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2017/reading_research_papers_fall_2017_graduate_skills_seminar.pdf>`_
 * - Oct 25
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Writing proposals
   - `Jim Hendler <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler>`_
   - `PDF <_static/fall2017/Proposal_Writing_Hendler_Fall2017.pdf>`_
 * - Nov 8
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Career paths after graduate school
   - `Chuck Stewart <http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~stewart>`_
   - To be posted
 * - Nov 15
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Graduate Student Panel
   - Speakers are below
   - 
 * - Nov 29
   - 10 AM
   - Eaton 215
   - Faculty Panel
   - Speakers: Alex Gittens, George Slota, Jianxi Gao, TBA
   - 

Graduate Student Panel
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Speakers:

- Maksim Tsikhanovich: A search for a good PhD research topic: from
  evaluating topic models to privacy in distributed computation.

- Salles Viana Gomes de Magalhaes: Exact and parallel intersection of
  3D triangular meshes

- Caitlin Ross: Performance Analysis of Extreme-scale Parallel
  Discrete-Event Simulations

- Aritra Chowdhury: Reduction and quantification of error in image
  classification pipelines

- Jun Dong: Robot Learning from Virtual Demonstrations

- Chander Iyer: Randomized Algorithms for Mining Massive Matrices :
  Design & Implementation at Terascale and beyond

Resources
----------

-  Past course websites: `Fall 2016 <fall2016.html>`_

-  CRA-W workshops on Graduate Skills (look for slides under different
   workshops and cohort programs)

   (Presentations on topics like Master's vs. Ph.D, Publishing your
   research, finding advisor, balancing personal and professional
   life, career paths, building self confidence, building professional
   persona, finding a research topic)

   http://cra.org/cra-w/resources/resources-from-past-events/

-  UToronto Graduate Skills seminar

   http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~hertzman/courses/gradSkills/2010/


-  How to do good research and get it published and cited (Eamonn Keogh)

   http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/Keogh_SIGKDD09_tutorial.pdf

-  Critical Questions for Research Proposals (a.k.a. Heilmeier questions)

   http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Heilmeier_Questions.html

-  How to choose a research topic

   http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/GradConf/talks/bruce/ChoosingTopic.pdf