Class Information

Lectures

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Class Information
Instructor Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Email: crisn@cs.purdue.edu. Class Schedule MW 2:30 - 3:20, LWSN B134 Course Description This class is intended for first year graduate students. Its goal is to help graduate students identify research areas they are interested in and faculty members they would like to work with, as well as accelerate students' involvement in research Grade A student may register for this course as a one credit pass/fail course. Attendance will be taken at each lecture. In order to pass, students can miss at most 3 lectures. If you have to miss more than 3 due to extreme situations, you should obtain approval from the course instructor before missing the lecture. Academic Integrity Academic Honesty and Ethical behavior are required in this course, as it is in all courses at Purdue University ( here is the guide for academic integrity). The class will be conducted according to the policy written by Professor Gene Spafford. Please take the time to read it carefully. This will be followed unless I provide written documentation of exceptions. You are encouraged to talk with the professor about any questions you have about what is permitted on any particular assignment.
Lectures
This is a tentative schedule of the course. Week Monday Wednesday Aug. 21, Aug. 23 Introduction and Class Overview - Cristina Nita-Rotaru How NOT to Get a Job in Research - Jan Vitek Aug. 28, Aug. 30 Distributed Programming - Patrick Eugster What is Science - Eugene Spafford Useful references: Godel, Esher Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues edited by Curd and Cover. Sept. 4, Sept. 6 LABOR DAY, NO CLASS. Research in Information Retrieval - Luo Si Sept. 11, Sept. 13 Follow the Money: Research Finance Primer - Chris Clifton Research Ethics - Eugene Spafford Sept. 18, Sept. 20 How to Prepare Research Presentations - Cristina Nita-Rotaru How to contribute to research proposals - Bharat Bhargava Sept. 25, Sept. 27 Research on Access Control in Software Systems - Ninghui Li Research on Network Protocols, Measurement, and Security - Sonia Fahmy Oct. 2, Oct. 4 Research on Virtualization Technologies for Secure Distributed Computing - Dongyan Xu Real Time Programming with Java - Jan Vitek Oct. 9, Oct. 11 OCTOBER BREAK, NO CLASS Overview of Cyber Security Center - Ahmed Elmagarmid Oct. 16, Oct. 18 Research (and) Papers - Patrick Eugster How to make the most of participating at a conference - discussion with senior graduate students Marina Blanton, Sarvjeet Singh and David Zage. Oct. 23, Oct. 25 Computer Graphics: Urban Modeling - Daniel Aliaga Camera Model Design: a New Paradigm for Graphics, Visualization, and Vision - Voicu Popescu Oct. 30, Nov. 1 Writing Papers with Latex - Sonia Fahmy Bioinformatics research: protein function, structure and interaction - Daisuke Kihara Nov. 6, Nov. 8 Research in Statistical Relational Learning - Jennifer Neville Research in Sensor-cyber Networks - David Yau. Nov. 13, Nov. 15 Dynamic Program Analyses for Software Reliablity and Security - Xiangyu Zhang Network Algorithms and Analysis Research - Gopal Pandurangan Nov. 20, Nov. 22 Lecture 25 - Student-Advisor Interactions: A Student Perspective - Rimma Nehme THANKSGIVING, NO CLASS Nov. 27, Nov. 29 Student-Advisor Interactions: An Advisor Perspective - Ninghui Li Robust Computational Geometry - Elisha Sacks Dec. 4, Dec. 6 How to review research papers - Suresh Jagannathan Class summary and open discussion
Additional Resources
"So Long, and Thanks for the Ph.D.!" by Ronald Azuma. (a.k.a. "Everything I wanted to know about C.S. graduate school at the beginning but didn't learn until later.") Useful Things to Know About Ph. D. Thesis Research, by H. T. Kung How to Succeed in Graduate School , by Marie desJardins. Godel, Esher Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues edited by Curd and Cover.