BETA Lab Seating

We have developed a policy that will hopefully avoid conflicts and problems allocating seats in the BETA lab. Before claiming a seat in the lab, please consult with the current Lab seating czar (currently BaharakRastegari).

Reference Diagram

This is a crude diagram of how seating in the BETA Lab is arranged. (please do not mess with this diagram)

                 (WINDOW SIDE -- WEST)
            
    =====+============    ==========+======+====

                     ------   ------   ------   
                    /      \ /      \ /      \ 
                   |1      3|5      7|9     11|
                   |        |        |        |
                    \      / \      / \      / 
                    /      \ /      \ /      \ 
     |A            |        |        |        |
      \            |2      4|6      8|10    12|
      /            |        |        |        |
     | 
     |
      \B   /\   C                 -    -     -
       ----  ------              |X|  |Y|   |Z|
      /D   \/   E                | |  | |    -
     |                           | |  | |
     |                           ----------------
      \F   /\   G               /         
       ----  ------            | 
      /H   \/   I              |     PHOTOCOPY
     |                         |       ROOM
     |                         |
      \J   /\   K              |     
       ----  ------            |
                               |
 ================================================ 
                       DOOR

Current Assignments

Seat	Machine	Assigned Person (email)
1	schmucker (windows)	Frank Hutter (hutter)
2	mcclintock	Nick Wiebe (njwiebe)
3	antiparos	Chris Thachuk (cthachuk)
4		Micah Best (mjbest)
5	anaphi	Chris Fawcett (fawcettc)
6		Murray Patterson (murrayp)
7		James Styles (jastyles)
8	hydra	Monir Hajiaghayi (monirh)
9	alimia	Zohre Jabbari (zohreh)
10		Alex Izsak (aizsak)
11	amorgos	Baharak Rastegari (baharak)
12	leros
A
B		Chris Nell (cnell)
C	blobel	Jiarui Ding (jiarui)
D	agistri	Dave Tompkins (davet)
E
F	pinky (windows)	Lin Xu (xulin730)
G
H
I
J
K	beta (printer)
X		Guest desk
Y		Guest desk
Z		Guest desk

New Computers

Currently the the new computers (at seats C,2) are outside of the regular policy -- please consult with Irmtraud Meyer (irmtraud) before using one of those machines

Official Policy

1. Seats at the tables (X,Y & Z) cannot be permenently allocated, and are for visitors, drop-ins and office hours.
2. When a new student joins BETA, he/she first chooses between an office and a lab seat
3. If a new student chooses a lab seat, then he/she may select any free seat in the lab (ideally he/she might select a seat near students in a related research area) after consulting with the current lab seating czar.
4. If multiple new students select the same seat, ties are broken randomly.
5. When a student leaves BETA and his/her seat becomes vacant, that seat is made available to students in order of seniority.
6. Seniority is measured in years as a graduate student at UBC (so a M.Sc. in Computer Science at SFU does not count toward seniority, whereas a M.Sc. in Biology at UBC does).
7. Of course a student may choose to stay in his/her current seat, and pass the opportunity on to the next most senior student.
8. In the case of a tie, then the student in the same research area as the departing student gets priority (to help maintain grouping by research area), and then randomly if necessary.
9. It may be possible to move specific computers to new locations, but there is no guarantee.

Current Seniority

Currently the Lab seniority is as follows:

(note that the effective starting date may not be the actual starting date and incorporates leaves of absence, etc.)

Effective Starting Date	Name	email	Location	Sponsor(s)
1999-Jan	Dave Tompkins	davet	D	Hoos
2002-Sep	Baharak Rastegari	baharak	11	Condon, Leyton-Brown
2003-Sep	Frank Hutter	hutter	1	Hoos, Leyton-Brown, Murphy
2005-Sep	Hosna Jabbari	hjabbari		Condon
	Lin Xu	xulin730	F	Hoos, Leyton-Brown
2007-May	Chris Thachuk	cthachuk	3	Condon, Hoos
2007-Sep	Chris Fawcett	fawcettc	5	Hoos
	Thanh Nhan Nguyen	ntn	bullpen	Evans
	Jeff Sember	jpsember	??	Evans
	Nick Wiebe	njwiebe	2	Meyer
	Zohreh Jabbari	zohreh	9	Evans
	Monir Hajiaghayi	monirh	8	Condon
2009-Sep	Jiarui Ding	jiaruid	C	Meyer
	Chris Nell		B	Hoos, Leyton-Brown
	James Styles	jastyles	7
	Alex Izsak	aizsak	10	Friedman
2010-Jan	Murray Patterson	murrayp	6	Gupta
2010-Jan	Micah Best	mjbest	4	Gupta

(my apologies if some of these are incorrect -- please contact BaharakRastegari with any errors)