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Grad Fest

Schedule of Events

The University of Texas at Austin Department of Computer Sciences GradFest Open House for Prospective Graduate Students
March 27 – 28, 2009

GradFest Highlights

• Faculty panel discussions centered around “Six Big Problems in Computing”.
• Individual meetings with faculty to discuss your research interests and answer questions.
• Open House tours of labs, facilities, and research areas.
• Bull session with current graduate students to get the scoop on life in UTCS.

Track I: "Big CS Problems" - Presentations Now Available:

• Are Hard Problems Useful? (PDF)
• Multicore Computing (PDF)
• What is Mind? 1 of 3 (PDF)
• What is Mind? 2 of 3 - Ray Mooney (PDF)
• What is Mind? 3 of 3 - Katrin Erk (PDF)
• What is Life? (PDF)
• Cloud Computing (PDF)

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Schedule for GradFest 2009 Friday, March 27

8:30 AM	Registration ACES 6.102
9:00 AM	Opening Session Dr. J Moore, Chair Dr. Lorenzo Alvisi, Graduate Adviser ACES 6.304
	Track I Big CS Problems ACES 6.304	Track II Lab Tours			Track III Individual Faculty Meeting Faculty Offices
	NOTE - The Hospitality Room, ACES 6.308, will be available with refreshments from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
9:15 - 9:30 AM	Trustworthy Computing Chair: Alvisi Panel: Batory, Chang, Moore, Shmatikov, Waters, Seidel (AMD)
9:30 - 9:45 AM					Individual Faculty Meeting	9:30
9:45 - 10:00 AM
10:00 - 10:15 AM	Are Hard Problems Useful? Chair: Zuckerman Panel: Klivans, Gal	Center for Computational Visulization Bajaj ACES 2.102			Individual Faculty Meeting	10:00
10:15 - 10:30 AM
10:30 - 10:45 AM		Robotics Lab Stone, Quinlan ENS 32NE			Individual Faculty Meeting	10:30
10:45 - 11:00 AM
11:00 - 11:15 AM	Multicore Computing Chair: Keckler Panel: Pingali, Chiou (ECE), Witchel, Van de Geijn, Hofstee (IBM)	Virtual Reality Lab Ballard CS Annex 1.136A			Individual Faculty Meeting	11:00
11:15 - 11:30 AM
11:30 - 11:45 AM					Individual Faculty Meeting	11:30
11:45 - 12:00 PM
12:00 - 1:30 PM	LUNCH Dr. Allen Emerson Dr. Michael Dahlin ACES 6.304
1:30 - 1:45 PM	What is Mind? The AI Perspective Chair: Mooney Panel: Miikkulainen, Grauman, Porter, Erk (LIN)	Structured Concurrent Programming and Internet Service Orchestration Misra ACES 6.116	Graphics and Parallel Systems Lab Fussell ACES 2.114	Lab for Advanced Systems Research Dahlin ACES 6.308	Individual Faculty Meeting	1:30
1:45 - 2:00 PM
2:00 - 2:15 PM					Individual Faculty Meeting	2:00
2:15 - 2:30 PM	What is Life? Chair: Warnow Panel: Bajaj, Elber (CHEM), Press		Robotics Lab Stone, Quinlan ENS 32NE
2:30 - 2:45 PM					Individual Faculty Meeting	2:30
2:45 - 3:00 PM		Phylo Lab Warnow ACES 3.304	Virtual Reality Lab Ballard CS Annex 1.136A
3:00 - 3:15 PM	Cloud Computing Chair: Dahlin Panel: Walfish, Misra, Qiu, Cook			Data Mining Lab Dhillon TAY 137	Individual Faculty Meeting	3:00
3:15 - 3:30 PM
3:30 - 3:45 PM
3:45 - 5:00 PM	BULL SESSION ACES 6.102
5:00 PM	Travel Time
5:30 PM	Social - The University of Texas Club (6th floor), 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, Texas
6:00 PM	Dinner - The University of Texas Club (6th floor), 2108 Robert Dedman Drive, Austin, Texas
7:30 PM	Evening with UTCS Graduate Students

Schedule for GradFest 2009 Saturday, March 28

9:30 AM	Coffee - Graduate Women in Computing, Einstein Bros Bagels, 2404 Guadalupe St., Austin, Texas
11:00 AM	Brunch - Cuatros, 1004 24th Street, Austin, Texas
All Afternoon	Activities with UTCS Graduate Students