CS Graduate Student Orientation Schedule

Tuesday: 8/26/2008
9:00 Breakfast / Getting keys
9:30 Ice Breaker
10:00 Welcome (Roberto Tamassia)
10:30 Technical Staff Talk (John Bazik)
11:00 Faculty Talk (Andries van Dam) (11:15)
11:30 Faculty Talk (Andries van Dam) (cont)
12:00 Lunch with Faculty and Students (12:15)
12:30 Lunch (cont)
1:00 Lunch (cont)
1:30 Faculty Talk (Ben J. Raphael)
2:00 Break
2:30 Faculty Talk (Eli Upfal)
3:00 Faculty Talk (Pascal Van Hentenryck)
3:30 Break
4:00 Faculty Talk (Maurice Herlihy)
4:30 Faculty Talk (Ugur Cetintemel)
5:00 Ice Cream Social and Tea
Wednesday: 8/27/2008
9:00 Breakfast / Getting keys
9:30 Requirements (PhD & Masters separate) Masters: Tom Doeppner
10:00 Requirements (cont) PhD: Michael Black
10:30 Faculty Talk (Sorin Istrail)
11:00 Faculty Talk (David H. Laidlaw)
11:30 Lunch on Thayer
12:00 Lunch (cont)
12:30 Lunch (cont)
1:00 Faculty Talk (Meinolf Sellmann)
1:30 Faculty Talk (Steven Reiss)
2:00 Research Video (Chad Jenkins)
2:30 Tour of CIT
3:00 Photos of new students
3:30 Inside Track I
4:00 Inside Track (cont)
4:30 Ice Cream Social and Tea
Thursday: 8/28/2008
9:00 Breakfast
9:30 Faculty Talk (Philip Klein)
10:00 Faculty Talk (Anna Lysyanskaya)
10:30 Faculty Talk (Claire Mathieu)
11:00 Break
11:30 Inside Track II
12:00 Inside Track (cont)
12:30 Department BBQ
1:00 Department BBQ (cont)
1:30 Department BBQ (cont)
2:00 Department BBQ (cont)
2:30 Tour of Providence