The University of Texas at Austin

Schedule

Thursday, February 23

evening        Arrive at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (Map)
Transportation to host's house provided by grad student volunteers

Friday, February 24

Prior to
8:00 a.m.
Transport to campus (ACES building) provided by grad student volunteers (Map)

8:00-
9:00 a.m.

Registration/Breakfast
ACES Connector Lobby
9:00-
9:15 a.m.
Opening Session
Dr. Bruce Porter, Chair
ACES 2.402
9:15-
9:45 a.m.

Multicore Computing

Panel Chair: Dr. Keshav Pingali
ACES 2.404A (visualization lab)

Artificial Intelligence

Panel Chair: Dr. Risto Miikkulainen
ACES 2.402

9:50-
10:10 a.m.
Faculty Meetings 1
10:20-
10:40 a.m.
Faculty Meetings 2
10:50-
11:10 a.m.
Faculty Meetings 3
11:10-
11:20 a.m.
Break
ACES 2.404B/ACES Rotunda

Lab Open House

Labs run concurrently
11:20 a.m.- 12:20 p.m. 

ACES (Map)
ENS (Map)

Programming
Models and
Languages

Dr. William Cook
Dr. Jayadev Misra

ACES
6.116

Learning Agents

Dr. Peter Stone

ENS
32NE

Virtual
Reality

Dr. Dana Ballard
Dr. Mary Hayhoe

ENS
32NE

Algorithmic
Computational
Biology

Dr. Tandy Warnow

ACES
3.304

Graphics and
Parallel
Systems

Dr. Don Fussell

ACES
2.102

LASR Systems

Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi
Dr. Michael Dahlin
Dr. Lili Qiu
Dr. Michael Walfish
Dr. Emmett Witchel
Dr. Yin Zhang

ACES
6.238

Algorithms and
Computational
Theory

Dr. Anna Gal
Dr. Adam Klivans
Dr. Greg Plaxton
Dr. Vijaya Ramachandran
Dr. David Zuckerman

ACES
3.408

Intelligent
Software
Systems

Dr. Keshav Pingali

ACES
4.104

Computational
Visualization

Deukhyun Cha
Alex Rand
 Qin Zhang

ACES
2.102

Automated
Reasoning

Dr. Matt Kaufmann
Dr. J Moore
Dr. Warren Hunt

ACES 5.444

12:30-
1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Austin's Pizza (Map)
2324 Guadalupe
1:45-
2:15 p.m.
Distributed Systems

Chair: Dr. Michael Walfish
ACES 2.404A (visualization lab)

Algorithms and Computation Theory

Chair: Dr. Anna Gal
ACES 2.402

2:20-
2:40 p.m.
Faculty Meetings 4
2:50-
3:10 p.m.
Faculty Meetings 5
3:20-
3:40 p.m.
Faculty Meetings 6
3:40-
4:00 p.m.
Break
ACES 2.404B/ACES Rotunda
4:00-
4:30 p.m.
Computational Biology

Chair: Dr. William Press
ACES 2.404A (visualization lab)

Secure Systems

Chair: Dr. Emmett Witchel
ACES 2.402

4:45-
5:45 p.m.
Bull Session
ACES 2.404A (Visualization Lab)
6:00-
6:30 p.m.
Social
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
Room 301
1900 University Avenue (Map)
6:30 p.m. Dinner
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center
Room 301
1900 University Avenue (Map)
Attendance is required.
Immediately following dinner Friday night in Austin: Guests, hosts, and other grad students:
Pool and Billiards at Buffalo Billiards (Map)
Movies at the Alamo Drafthouse (Map)
Comedy show at Esther's Follies (Map)
Downtown pubs and coffee shops in the Sixth Street, Red River, and Warehouse districts (Map)

Saturday, February 25

10:00-
10:45 a.m.
Coffee - Graduate Women in Computing
Einstein Bros Bagels
2404 Guadalupe Street (Map)
11:00 a.m.-
12:15 p.m.
Brunch
Cuatros
1004 W. 24th Street (Map)
12:30-
1:30 p.m.
Guided Campus tour
meet at the Texas Union (Map)
2:00-
5 p.m.

Zilker Park
Guests, hosts, and other grad students:
Zilker Botanical Gardens
Disc golf
Hiking
Kayaking
Relaxing
Coffee shop (if you need to get some work done)
Meet at the picnic table between the two parking lots near the disc golf course. (Map)

5:30-
6:45 p.m.

Dinner at Mount Bonnell (Map)

7:00 p.m.-
late
Party at a Graduate Student's Home

Sunday, February 26

morning Depart from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (Map)
Transportation to airport provided by grad student volunteers