Registration for this seminar is required for all Ph.D. students newly admitted into the Computer Science Department. Ph.D. students must earn a Satisfactory ("S") grade for the seminar or they will be required to re-take the seminar in the following Fall. Please note that a Satisfactory grade in this seminar is required before students are allowed to schedule the qualifying exam. If a Ph.D. student receives an Unsatisfactory ("U") in this seminar, they will be required to petition for an extension to sign up for their qualifying exam. Don't get a "U"!
M.S. students who are considering to apply to our Ph.D. program may also register for the seminar. However, if accepted into the Ph.D. program, they will need to re-take the seminar in their first year in the Ph.D. program.
All assignments must be satisfactorily completed to receive an "S" grade.
The goals of the seminar include teaching incoming Ph.D. students about:
1 credit
Mondays, 11:00 - 11:50am, 1320 DCL
Robin Kravets (rhk@illinois.edu)
Nancy Amato (namato@illinois.edu)
Darko Marinov (marinov@illinois.edu)
Svetlana Lazebnik (slazebni@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 more than one unexcused absence will receive an Unsatisfactory ("U") grade and will need to re-take the seminar.
Students are allowed one excused absence. 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. Students with extenuating circumstances should contact kudaliga@illinois.edu and jcom@illinois.edu 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.
There will be 2 required surveys and 3 required quizzes based on the content in the seminar. Students are also required to introduce themselves on the class slack channel.
Sumbission of the the Program of Study form is required for satisfactory completion of this seminar.
As researchers in the Department of Computer Science, you are expected to follow responsible research conduct guidelines. The department offers a specialized seminar for all graduate students in the fall (date TBA). While the information provided in the lecture on Responsible conduct in Research in this seminar touches on many of these topics, you are atill required to attend the Department RCR Ethics Training.
You are not allowed to use extra computing devices during class for any purpose. Please focus on our seminar. 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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