CS Grad Skills Class

CSCI6969: Fall 2023 Computer Science Graduate Skills Seminar

Schedule (subject to change)

Date	Topic
Aug 30	No class until further notice
Sep 6
Sep 13
Sep 20	What is Research? By Lirong Xia. Slides.
Sep 27	Reading Papers. By Alex Gittens.
Oct. 4	Writing Papers. By Lei Yu
Oct. 11	Giving Talks. By Elliot Anshelevich
Oct. 18	Writing Proposals. By George Slota
Oct. 25	Fellowship applications. By Elizabeth Madigan
Nov. 1	Careers after Grad School. By Bolek Szymanski
Nov. 8	Ethics and Reproducibility. By Oshani Seneviratne
Nov. 15
Nov. 22
Nov. 29
Dec. 6

Graduate Student Speakers

Past course websites

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

https://www.commd.rpi.edu
Free service to RPI community for help in writing
Open house for RPI graduate students: Wed. Oct 9 4-5 pm, Folsom Library Lower Level.

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

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

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)