Registration for this seminar is required for all Ph.D. students newly admitted into the Computer Science Department. M.S. students who are considering to apply to our Ph.D. program may also register for the seminar. Ph.D. students must earn a Satisfactory ("S") grade for the seminar or will need to re-take the seminar the following year. Receiving a Satisfactory grade is required before students are allowed to schedule the qualifying exam. All assignments must be satisfactorily completed to receive an "S" grade.
The goals of the seminar include teaching incoming PhD students about:
All required readings will be available online. The following textbook has been recommended by CS faculty: Surviving your Dissertation by K. Rudestam and R. Newton, Fourth Edition, Sage Publications, 2015. The book was placed on reserve at the Grainger Engineering Library.
1 credit
Mondays, 11:00 - 11:50am
Robin Kravets (rhk@illinois.edu)
Viveka Kudaligama (kudaliga@illinois.edu)
Class announcements and discussions will be held via slack. You will be invited to the class slack space. Once you join, please make sure your name is set up correctly. Feel free to use nicknames if that is how you want to be addressed.
Attendance is required and recorded electronically. Arriving more than 5 minutes late to the seminar will be counted as an unexcused absence. Students who receive two or more unexcused absences will receive an Unsatisfactory ("U") grade and will need to re-take the seminar. Excused absences include University-related travel (e.g. to attend an academic conference) and personal illness. Job interviews do not qualify as an excused absence so please schedule them around class time. To seek an excused absence, please email rhk@illinois.edu (and copy kudaliga@illinois.edu) before the start of class or as soon as possible.
You must participate in class discussion. We want discussions to be casual and enjoyable so that each of you feel comfortable offering comments and speaking candidly. We will do our best to moderate the discussion and keep it moving forward. We expect you to be attentive during lecture.
You are not allowed to use extra computing devices during class for any purpose. Please focus on our seminar. If there is any doubt, please read: Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers
A first violation of this policy will result in a warning. A second violation of this policy will result in an Unsatisfactory ('U") grade for the seminar.
To obtain disability-related academic adjustments or auxillary aids, students with disabilities must contact the course instructor and the Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) as soon as possible. To contact DRES you may visit 1207 S. Oak St., Champaign, call 333-1970, or send an e-mail message to disability@illinois.edu. They are glad to assist and so are we.
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