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Visit Day 2003

Visit Day 2003. Steve Vavasis Professor & Chair of PhD Admissions. Schedule for the day. Schedule for the day. Presenters for this session. Charlie Van Loan, Chair of CS Department. Bob Constable, Dean of Computing and Information Science. Éva Tardos, Director of Graduate Studies.

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Visit Day 2003

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  1. Visit Day 2003 Steve Vavasis Professor & Chair of PhD Admissions

  2. Schedule for the day

  3. Schedule for the day

  4. Presenters for this session Charlie Van Loan, Chair of CS Department Bob Constable, Dean of Computing and Information Science Éva Tardos, Director of Graduate Studies

  5. Computer Science at CornellThe Environment for PhD StudentsCharlie Van LoanProfessor & Chair

  6. The Lay of the Land As a PhD student, your well-being will depend on What life is like in the department and What life is like at Cornell.

  7. Eva Dexter Jon John David S Daisy Dave Graeme Bob Tim Greg Andrew Keshav Radu Fred Ken Gun Jeanna Joe Bart Lillian Claire Rich Thorsten Golan Ron Bill Johannes Al Jai Ramin KB Steve M Dan Don Tom Steve V Charlie The Faculty

  8. Eva Dexter Jon John David S Zygmunt Sheila Evan Sally Jose Rajit Martin Mark Phoebe Hod Shimon Anil Eric Robbert Bob Tim Greg Andrew Keshav Radu Fred Ken Gun Jeanna Joe Bart Lillian Claire Rich Thorsten Golan Ron Bill Johannes Al Jai Ramin KB Steve M Dan Don Tom Steve V Charlie The Graduate Field

  9. The Computing and Information Science (CIS) Initiative Other Academic Programs Information Science Major*/Minor (Arts) Major*/Minor (Engin) Major*/Minor (Ag ) Graduate Field* Computational Sci & Engin Graduate Minor Field* Computational Biology A Track for Bio Majors Digital Arts and Graphics Computer Science Programs Major/Minor (Engin.) Major (Arts & Science) Master of Engineering Graduate Field

  10. Some Cornell Connections School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joint Curriculum, Space School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Cooperation on Information Science Initiatives Department of Communications Cooperation on Information Science Initiatives Medical College in NYC Ramin’s joint appointment with the Dept of Radiology The Johnson Graduate School of Management Dan’s joint appointment, e-business, courses

  11. Nearby Graduate Fields Electrical and Computer Engineering Mechanical Engineering Operations Research Economics Science and Technology Studies Cognitive Studies (Psych, Linguistics, NeuroBio) Information Science* Applied Mathematics Mathematics

  12. Nearby Research Entities The Information Assurance Institute The Intelligent Information Systems Institute The Program in Computer Graphics The National Science Digital Library The Computer Systems Laboratory The Cornell Theory Center

  13. Information Assurance Institute

  14. Intelligent Information Systems Institute To perform and stimulate research in compute and data intensive methods for intelligent decision making systems

  15. The National Science Digital Library A center of innovation in digital libraries. A community center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science education. Funded by the National Science Foundation.

  16. Computer Systems Laboratory* Computer architecture, Parallel computer architecture Operating systems and compilers Computer protocols and networks Programming languages and environments Distributed systems VLSI design and fabrication System specification and verification *Speight, Myers, Burtscher, Sirer, Martinez, Morrisett, Manohar, Gehrke, McKee

  17. Hosts the world's largest Windows-based high performance computing cluster. Some concentrations of effort.. Computational Finance Computational Genomics Computational Materials Research

  18. So, Take Into Consideration… The Campus Environment (nearby research, related programs, etc) and (of course) The Local Environment (potential advisors, requirements, the culture, etc)

  19. Computer Science at CornellThe PhD ProgramÉva TardosProfessor

  20. Choosing an Advisor and a Research Area Most students spend a semester or two “looking around” • taking a course with a faculty member in their area of interest • asking about research projects • doing small projects • attend seminars

  21. The CS faculty: Other field members: Faculty members in other department whose research overlaps with CS significantly, can advise CS students Current field members from ECE, OR, Psychology, MAE, Math, S&TS Some senior researchers Possible Advisors Golan Ron Bill Johannes Al Jai Eva Dexter Jon John Joe Bart Lillian Claire Rich Thorsten Ramin KB Steve M Dan Bob Tim Greg Andrew Keshav Radu Tom Steve V Charlie Fred Ken Gun Jeanna

  22. Computer Science Colloquium Distinguished speakers interviews Brown Bag Lunch Faculty about their research Professional development talks Many area seminars: Systems Lunch Graphics Seminar Natural Language Processing Artificial Intelligence Theory Seminar Information Science PRL seminar Database Seminar Seminars

  23. CS Field Requirements: Q exam • demonstrates “breadth” of background at the undergraduate level. • covers five areas: Theory, Languages, Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing • Exam is diagnostic: may be replaced by courses • Encourage you to try many (or all) after one semester

  24. CS Field Requirements • Graduate course work • You need to take six 600-level courses • 3 courses come from a list: one each in theory, languages, systems. • Courses don’t have to be in Computer Science • Most students find this very easy and take many more courses! • Project requirement: • May use class project or a project done on a summer job, or as undergrad.

  25. Minor • You will need to have a minor • A minor field is any graduate field • Rules vary for the minor by fields • Usually, 3 courses but sometimes more or less, and sometimes “other” requirements • Typical choices: • Electrical Engineering, • (Applied) Mathematics, • Cognitive studies • and many others…

  26. Exams • “A” Exam: • take it once your research is underway • present your work and ideas for a thesis topic • Usually taken after 2-3 years • “B” exam = thesis defense • You take it when your work is finished and a draft of your thesis is completed

  27. Support • Guaranteed financial support if you are in good standing • you’ll know long in advance if you are not • TA positions • help in a course for max 15 hours week • You will have office hours and help grade., some teaching • RA positions • faculty advisor pays for research • Fellowships • Summer • You can teach or TA for the department, have an RA • Many students work in industry to gain experience

  28. Stephan Zdancewic (PL) Univ. of Pennsylvania Stephanie Weirich (PL) Univ. of Pennsylvania Amit Kumar (theory) Bell Labs Li Li (systems) Bell Labs Yin Zhang (systems) AT&T Rie Ando (NLP) IBM Nick Howe (vision) Smith College David Walker (PL) Princeton Jia Wang (systems) AT&T Xiaoming Liu (DB) Oracle Adam Florence (NA) Bank of America Hickey Jason (logic) Caltech Vera Kettnaker (vision) RPI Dan Brown (comp.bio) Waterloo Chris Hawblitzel (systems) Dartmouth Where did our Graduates go?Examples since 2000

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