CS grad seminars

Winter term 2, 2014

Web development "pre-101" by Daniel Rozenberg
Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2015 from 12:30 at ICCS 304.
Slides and source code [zip].
Panel discussion on RPE.
One faculty and two grads share their RPE experience.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015 from 12:30PM ICCS 304.
Panel discussion on Finding a job
Co-organized with CSGSA.
Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 from 4:30PM ICCS 146.
Welcome to Data Science in R by Jason Hartford
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 from 12:30PM at ICCS 304.
Seminar link.
How to give good presentations by Antoine Ponsard
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 from 12:30PM at ICCS 238.
Slides.
Advanced Python by Daniel Rozenberg
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015 from 12:30PM at ICCS 304.
Slides and example source codes [zip].
Panel discussion on finding and maintaining a good relationship with a supervisor.
Co-organized with CSGSA.
Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 from 12:30PM ICCS X836.

Winter term 1, 2014

MATLAB by Sampoorna Biswas
Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 from 2:00 PM at ICCS 146.
Slides and examples [zip].
Version Control Software by Neil Traft
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 from 12:30 PM at ICCS 146.
Notes.
LaTeX by Nodir Kodirov
Tuesday, Sep. 30, 2014 from 12:30 PM at ICCS 146.
Examples (courtesy of David Williams-King).

Winter term 2, 2013

Version Control Software by Neil Traft
Wednesday February 26, 2014 from 4:00 PM at X836.
Matlab by Julie Nutini and Michael Wathen
Thursday February 13, 2014 from 4:00 PM at X836.
Panel on finding a supervisor by senior students and faculty
Thursday January 16, 2014 from 4:00 PM at ICCS 146.
LaTeX by David Williams-King
Thursday November 14, 2013 from 4:00 PM at X836.
Examples.

Send me an e-mail at knodir@cs if you want to volunteer to give a refresher course on a topic not covered above. Some relevant examples include: Java, version control software (ie. CVS, SVN, or Git), Perl, CUDA, scientific writing, complex analysis, information theory, cryptography, statistics, linear programming, and etc.

Objectives:

Grad seminars is a venue to exchange ideas and share the research with fellow students. Doing so increases research awareness amongs peers and might result into possible collaboration. By giving seminar talk, students can get more confidence in their research, be better prepared to give talk to non-expert audience.
The CS refresher courses are a series of informal sessions with brief reviews of concepts and/or software tools. These concepts/software tools are usually required by (many) courses and/or are fundamental in nature. However, they may not be convered by instructors in class for various reasons. One objective of these refresher courses is a revision for the students who have already seen the content before. However, it may also serve as a starting point for other students too, and it may give them an idea of what should be learned, or at least motivate them to learn.

Information from a previous sessions is available here.