-- ColinSwindells - 13 Jul 2005

Lab Orientation Details 2005

Description

This year's lab orientations will be divided into two components:

1 All lab open house during first week orientation

Date: Tuesday, Sept. 6

Time: 2 pm - ~5 pm (note: BBQ in the Dempster lane will start at ~5 pm)

Description: Labs will be open for new grads (and others) to meet & mingle with other computer science students, faculty, and staff in the lab environments. The hope is that new grads. will mingle freely in and out of various labs. This is intended to be much more informal than in previous years (i.e., no talks, ppt, etc.) -- but these might be good inclusions for the individual lab sessions planned for the Fall (see below).

Our dept. occupies space in two buildings located at 2366 Main Mall. Both buildings are called ICICS/CS.

Directions:

CS Dept. Directions

Map:

Map with ICICS/CS building at grid points F3 & F4

Photos:

ICICS/CS Building -- room example: 201

ICICS/CS Extension -- room example: X660

Orientation Timeslots

Room(s)	Lab	Guide	Faculty
X210, CS108	Computational Intelligence and Robotics	Jordan Reynolds	Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conati, Holger Hoos, Jim Little, David Lowe, Alan Mackworth, Karon Maclean, Nando de Freitas, Dinesh Pai, David Poole, Richard Rosenberg, Robert Woodham
X415	Database Research	Xun Sun	Ed Knorr, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Raymond Ng, Rachel Pottinger, George Tsiknis
X409	Distributed Systems and Networking Research	Suling Yang	Mike Feeley, Norm Hutchinson, Buck Krasic, Son Vuong, Alan Wagner
X660, X609, X508	Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI	Colin Swindells	Kellogg Booth, Robert Bridson, Wolfgang Heidrich, Karon MacLean, Joanna McGrenere, Tamara Munzner, Ron Rensink, Alla Sheffer, Michiel van de Panne
CS342	Integrated System Design	Jim Mutch	Mark Greenstreet, Alan Hu
CS246	Scientific Computing Laboratory	Mike Yurick	Uri Ascher, Robert Bridson, Michael Friedlander, Chen Greif, Ian Mitchell, Dominik Schötzau, Jim Varah
CS308	Software Practices Lab	Brian de Alwis	Gregor Kiczales, Gail Murphy, Kris De Volder, Eric Wohlstadter
X560	Theory / (ß-Lab) Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab	Lyndon Hiew	Anne Condon, Will Evans, Joel Friedman, Holger H. Hoos, David Kirkpatrick, Nicholas Pippenger

2 Individual lab sessions

A series of weekly open sessions from Oct. 2005 - Dec. 2005. The goal is to have each lab organize a ~2 hour open session where current students, faculty, and staff of the particular lab can demo & chat about their research with other students, faculty, and staff. Each lab will choose a lead person to organize the orientation for their lab (see calendar).

Calendar for Individual Lab Sessions

Instructions

• Each lab is requested to find a lead person to organize a lab orientation.
• This lab lead is responsible for updating this wiki with details of the lab's orientation plans, and co-ordinating high-level details with either Jordan (talis at cs ubc ca) or Colin (swindell at cs ubc ca). For example, the lab lead should ensure demos are arranged, date & time choices work for a majority of the lab, etc. For larger labs, it might be helpful to have 1 lead person and a few other students responsible for various sub-tasks.
• Details for each orientation should be filled out in the Research Areas section.

Orientation Timeslots

Date	Time	Lab Lead Contact	Committee Lead Contact	Room(s)	Details
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	X210, CS108	Computational Intelligence and Robotics
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Colin	X415	Database Research
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	X410	Distributed Systems and Networking Research
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Colin	X660, X609, X508	Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	CS342	Integrated System Design
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	? (foo@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Jordan	CS246	Scientific Computing Laboratory
Oct/Nov/Dec ?,2005	? pm - ? pm	Eric Wohlstadter (wohlstad@csDELETEthisTEXT.ubc.ca)	Colin	CS308	Software Practices Lab
Oct/Nov/Dec ?, 2005	? pm - ? pm	Viann Chan (vchan at cs dot ubc dot ca)	Colin	X560	Theory / (ß-Lab) Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab

Research Areas

Computational Intelligence and Robotics

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Database Research

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Distributed Systems and Networking Research

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Imager Laboratory for Graphics, Visualization and HCI

1) Dates

For the upcoming Imager Lab dept. demo for the new CS grad. students (and others in the dept.), please e-mail me <swindell@cs.ubc.ca> by Sept. 29 with which dates work best for you. They are all on Tuesdays from 12 - 2 because this has been a common slot scheduled by the dept. to ensure the fewest class conflicts.

Tuesday, Oct. 11; 12 pm - 2 pm

Tuesday, Oct. 18; 12 pm - 2 pm

Tuesday, Oct. 25; 12 pm - 2 pm

2) Format

The proposed format is similar to prev. years:

a) Each faculty member gives a 5 min overview of their research and their grad. students in X736.

b) Start freeform demo sessions in

• Imager Lab
• MUX
• Human Measuring Studio
• Physical Simulation & Measurement Lab
• Other places?

Extra notes:

• Brown bag session? I assume we do not need to worry about providing food & refreshments?
• Have maps and signage in each lab; with a list of demos & people.
• Is there a way to get security to disable the door alarms for the session? Does anyone have little magnets to override the sensors?
• Have a data projector for the short talks?
• Dan has offered to arrange demos and the actual day's events.
• Current planning info. will be updated here

Integrated System Design

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Scientific Computing Laboratory

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Software Practices Lab

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here

Theory / (ß-Lab) Bioinformatics, and Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Lab

Lab lead to add lab orientation details here