CMSC 838K
How To Do Research
Fall 2008

 

Announcements will be posted here.


 

Class Time  

Monday 4:00-4:50pm

Room

CSI 2120

Course Info

This is a 1-credit, required class for Computer Science Ph.D. students.  Students from other programs are welcome.

Text

None

Personnel

 

Professor

Name

Steven Salzberg

Email

salzberg (at) umd.edu

Office

BSB 3125

Office hours

By appointment

BSB is the Biomolecular Sciences Building - across the street from A.V. Williams.  Directions here.

General Information
This is a 1 credit course with Pass/Fail grading only.  The primary requirement is attendance.  Students cannot miss any class without a valid, documented reason.


 

Date

Class topic

Slides / notes / links

Sept 8 Introduction to course


Sept 15 CS Dept colloquium, CSIC 1115: Prof. Jeff Foster


Sept 22 Prof. Jim Reggia on "How to write a research paper"
Slides
Sept 29 Profs. Amol Deshpande, Jeff Foster, Neil Spring, and Samir Khuller on "How to look for an academic position and how to prepare for it" 

 

Oct 6 Part 2 of "How to look for an academic position"

 

Oct 13 CS Dept colloquium, CSIC 1115: Prof. Bobby Bhattacharjee


Oct 20 CS Dept colloquium, CSIC 1115: Prof. David Jacobs


Oct 27 Prof. Jeff Hollingsworth on "How to find an advisor"


Nov 3 Prof. Mihai Pop on "How to read a paper"

Slides

Nov 4 Election day - go and vote for a new President! 

Nov 10 Prof. Rance Cleaveland on "How to give a talk"
 
Nov 17 Prof. Francois Guimbretiere, topic TBA

Nov 24 Prof. Vibha Sazawal on the scientific method

 

Dec 1 CS Dept colloquium, CSIC 1115: Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo Research
Dec 8 Prof. Aravind Srinavasan on "Computation as a lens on the sciences"