CSCI6969: Fall 2022 Computer Science Graduate Skills Seminar

Schedule (subject to change)

Date Topic
Aug 31 No class
Sep 7 No class
Sep 14  
Sep 21  
Sep 28  
Oct. 5  
Oct. 12 What is Research? By Lirong Xia. Slides.
Oct. 19 Writing Proposals. By Deborah McGuinness
Oct. 26 Reading Papers. By Alex Gittens
Nov. 2 Careers after Grad School. By Bolek Szymanski
Nov. 9 Writing Papers. By Jianxi Gao
Nov. 16 Giving Talks. By Elliot Anshelevich
Nov. 23 Thanksgiving break, no class
Nov. 30 Fellowship applications. By Elizabeth Madigan
Dec. 7 Ethics and Reproducibility. By Barb Cutler

 

Graduate Student Speakers

Past course websites

RPI's Center for Global Communication+Design (Comm+D)

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

UToronto Graduate Skills seminar

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

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