Informal Graduate Seminar
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Overview
This is the starting wiki spot for the informal graduate seminar for Fall 2007.
Blog
The blog is here.
Mailing list
The mailing list information is here.
Calendar
The calendar is here (XML and ICAL also available)
Ideas for talks
Practice of Research
- Using LaTeX and BibTeX for writing conference and journal papers
- Using Word's bibliographic features for conference and journal papers
- Keeping a lab book (?)
HOWTOs for research-oriented technologies
- Writing parallel programs using MPI
- Writing shell scripts to run jobs on a cluster
- Setting up Globus locally
- Using BASH (or TCSH) and the standard Unix utilities
HOWTOs for fun/home projects
- Installing Linux on a laptop
- Small Circuit Tutorial - Using Computer LPT Port
- Buying a computer in parts and putting it together
- Putting together a MythTV box
- Hacking on a handheld computer
Personal research talks
- Rehearsal for any conference talk
List of presentations
2007-09-24 -- Tim Reilly on MPI
The first seminar was held in N25. Tim Reilly spoke about MPI. We had 2 full sheet pizzas from Nirchi's and 4 bottles of soda (totaling $60). There were perhaps 15 people in attendance.
2007-10-01 -- Brent Rood on Resource Availability Characterization
The second seminar was held in N25. Brent Rood spoke about his research into the characterization of the availability of grid resources. We again had 2 full sheet pizzas and 3 bottles of soda (totaling $54 including tip). There were perhaps 15 people in attendance.
2007-10-10 -- Cenk on Scheduling Jobs on the Cluster with shell scripts
The third seminar was held in N25 at Noon on Wednesday, October 10. Cenk spoke about how to schedule and manage jobs on the clusters here.
2007-10-17 -- Michael Head on revision control systems
The fourth seminar was held in N25 at Noon on Wednesday, October 17. The speaker was User:MichaelHead and was about revision control systems and why you might want to use a modern, distributed implementation.
Resources
- CVS: www.nongnu.org/cvs
- Subversion: subversion.tigris.org
- Bazaar: bazaar-vcs.org
- Git: git.or.cz
- Mercurial: www.selenic.com/mercurial
- Monotone: monotone.ca
- SVK: svk.bestpractical.com
- mr: kitenet.net/~joey/code/mr/
2007-10-31 -- Michael Hines on Switching Power with the Computer
The fifth seminar was held in G11 at Noon on Wednesday, October 31. The speaker was Michael Hines and was about a project he came up with and implemented to switch power on and off through the parallel port to restart an unruly DSL modem when the network times out.
2007-11-28 -- Two dissertations
Vinay and Cenk both defended their dissertations on Wednesday, November 28, so we went to their defenses in G11.
2007-12-05 -- Jason Moore and Lee Seversky from AFRL on Java visualization
Two BU alumni, Jason Moore and Lee Seversky work at Rome Labs (part of AFRL). They came, talked and demoed some recent visualization work they've been involved with.
Related groups
ACM Student Chapter
The Binghamton ACM Club has meetings and tech talks, as well as coding competitions
Computer Science Department Colloquium Series
The Computer Science Department has a colloquium series which Professor Madden is arranging this year. Events are usually announces on the CS Department Announcements page.
Computers, Robotics, and Engineering
CoRE is a floor in campus housing (for undergraduates) where the residents prepare projects and are generally interested in computers. Some of them may be interested in participating as either attendees or possibly as presenters.
