-- ColinSwindells - 13 Jul 2005

Lab Orientation Details 2005

Description

This year's lab orientations will be divided into two components:

1 All lab open house during first week orientation

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 6

Time: 2 pm - ~5 pm (note: BBQ in the Dempster lane will start at ~5 pm)

Description: Labs will be open for new grads (and others) to meet & mingle with other computer science students, faculty, and staff in the lab environments. The hope is that new grads. will mingle freely in and out of various labs. This is intended to be much more informal than in previous years (i.e., no talks, ppt, etc.) -- but these might be good inclusions for the individual lab sessions planned for the Fall (see below).

Our dept. occupies space in two buildings located at 2366 Main Mall. Both buildings are called ICICS/CS.

Directions:

CS Dept. Directions

Map:

Map with ICICS/CS building at grid points F3 & F4

Photos:

ICICS/CS Building -- room example: 201

ICICS/CS Extension -- room example: X660

Orientation Timeslots

Room(s)	Lab	Guide	Faculty
X210, CS108	Computational Intelligence and Robotics	Jordan Reynolds	Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conati, Holger Hoos, Jim Little, David Lowe, Alan Mackworth, Karon Maclean, Nando de Freitas, Dinesh Pai, David Poole, Richard Rosenberg, Robert Woodham
X415	Database Research	Xun Sun	Ed Knorr, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Raymond Ng, Rachel Pottinger, George Tsiknis
X409	Distributed Systems and Networking Research	Suling Yang	Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson, Buck Krasic, Son Vuong, Alan Wagner
X660, X609, X508	Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI	Colin Swindells	Kellogg Booth, Robert Bridson, Wolfgang Heidrich, Karon MacLean, Joanna McGrenere, Tamara Munzner, Ron Rensink, Alla Sheffer, Michiel van de Panne
CS342	Integrated System Design	Jim Mutch	Mark Greenstreet, Alan Hu
CS246	Scientific Computing Laboratory	Mike Yurick	Uri Ascher, Robert Bridson, Michael Friedlander, Chen Greif, Ian Mitchell, Dominik Schötzau, Jim Varah
CS308	Software Practices Lab	Brian de Alwis	Gregor Kiczales, Gail Murphy, Kris De Volder, Eric Wohlstadter
X560	Theory / (ß-Lab) Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab	Lyndon Hiew	Anne Condon, Will Evans, Joel Friedman, Holger H. Hoos, David Kirkpatrick, Nicholas Pippenger

2 Individual lab sessions

A series of weekly open sessions from Oct. 2005 - Dec. 2005. The goal is to have each lab organize a ~2 hour open session where current students, faculty, and staff of the particular lab can demo & chat about their research with other students, faculty, and staff. Each lab will choose a lead person to organize the orientation for their lab (see calendar).

Calendar for Individual Lab Sessions

Instructions

• Each lab is requested to find a lead person to organize a lab orientation.
• This lab lead is responsible for updating this wiki with details of the lab's orientation plans, and co-ordinating high-level details with either Jordan (talis at cs ubc ca) or Colin (swindell at cs ubc ca). For example, the lab lead should ensure demos are arranged, date & time choices work for a majority of the lab, etc. For larger labs, it might be helpful to have 1 lead person and a few other students responsible for various sub-tasks.
• Details for each orientation should be filled out in the Research Areas section.

Orientation Timeslots

Date	Time	Lab Lead Contact	Committee Lead Contact	Room(s)	Details
Nov 7, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	X210, CS108	Computational Intelligence and Robotics
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Colin	X415	Database Research
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	X410	Distributed Systems and Networking Research
Oct 18, 2005	12 pm - 2 pm	Daniel Archambault (archam@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Colin	Talks: X736 Demos: X660, X627, X625, X609, X508, X527	Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	CS342	Integrated System Design
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	CS246	Scientific Computing Laboratory
Oct/Nov/Dec ?,2005	? pm - ? pm	Eric Wohlstadter (wohlstad@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Colin	CS308	Software Practices Lab
Oct 14, 2005	10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Viann Chan (vchan at cs dot ubc dot ca)	Colin	X530	Theory / (ß-Lab) Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab

Research Areas

Computational Intelligence and Robotics

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Database Research

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Distributed Systems and Networking Research

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI

Date & Time

Tuesday, Oct. 18; 12 pm - 2 pm

Format

The proposed format is similar to prev. years:

Time	Description
12:00 - 1:00 pm	Faculty summary talks (5 min each) in X736 (Boardroom)
1:00 - 1:55 pm	Demo sessions

a) Faculty Talks: Each faculty member gives a 5 min overview of their research and their grad. students in X736.

Time	Faculty
12:05	Ron Rensink
12:10	Joanna McGrenere (Karyn Moffat Speaking)
12:15	Alla Sheffer
12:20	Wolfgang Heidrich
12:25	Michiel van de Panne
12:30	Kelly Booth & Brian Fisher
12:35	Tamara Munzner
12:40	Karon MacLean
12:45	Robert Bridson

b) Demo Sessions: Freeform demo sessions from 1:00 - 1:55 pm in...

• Imager Lab (X660)
• MUX (X508)
• Human Measuring Studio (X527)
• Physical Simulation & Measurement Lab (X609)
• Small Experiment Room (X627)
• Large Experiment Room (X625)
• Other places?

A list of demos and map will be posted in X736. In each room, many demos will be run concurrently so visitors can spend as little or as much time as they wish at each demo.

More Information

Detailed Imager Lab Info

Extra notes:

• Is there a way to get security to disable the door alarms for the session? Does anyone have little magnets to override the sensors?

Integrated System Design

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Scientific Computing Laboratory

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Software Practices Lab

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Theory / (ß-Lab) Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab

Details

• Date: Friday, October 14, 2005
• Time: 10:30am - 12:30pm
• Room: X530

Format

• Bioinformatics - 5 minute overview, 1/2 hour talk on student research in the lab
• Theory - 5 minute overview, 1/2 hour talk on Steph's theory research project
• Empirical - 5 minute overview and 1/2 hour talk on Frank's empirical research
• Remaining time for questions