CSCI 597 Seminar in Computer Science Research

Mondays, 12:00-12:50pm, OHE-122

Fall 2005: Professor Laurent Itti, itti@pollux.usc.edu

                TA: Christian Siagian, siagian@usc.edu

CSCI 597 provides a series of expository lectures to introduce Ph.D. students to the breadth of research topics in CS (and, to some extent, beyond). The idea is to cycle through the subareas of USC research in CS each semester.

First-year Ph.D. Students are required to enroll for 1 unit of CSCI 597 for the first 2 semesters of the Ph.D. Program. (Applicable only to students enrolling in Summer of 2000 or later.)

Fall 2007	Speaker	Title of the talk
8/27	Laurent Itti	Introduction and advice on Ph.D.
9/3	Holiday	-
9/10	Laurent Itti	Publishing a paper
9/17	Laurent Itti	High-impact papers
9/24	Ramesh Govindan	TBA
10/1	Gaurav Sukhatme	TBA
10/8	Barry Boehm	TBA
10/15	Wei-Min Shen	TBA
10/22	Michael Arbib	TBA
10/29	Paul Debevec	TBA
11/5	Cyrus Shahabi	Geospatial Decision Making and Spatial Skyline Queries
11/12	Nicolas Schweighofer	TBA
11/19	Mike Zyda	TBA
11/26	Priya Vashishta	TBA
12/3	Jonathan Gratch	TBA

Guidelines:

• Each talk will be a Tutorial on the given sub area, but may also serve to frame some specific interest of the presenter. In addition, some lectures will present other topics of general interest to Ph.D. students.

• During each lecture, speakers will point the students to a link to a representative reference (or set of references) that will assist students in gaining more understanding of the topic discussed in class.

• NOTE: On-time attendance to the lectures is required. To pass the class this semester, students must obtain at least 75% attendance.

• One professor will act as supervisor for a whole year of the course.

• It will be the job of this professor to ensure that a lecturer is signed up for each class meeting, that materials are posted on the Web, that papers are submitted and graded, and that a final grade (CR/NCR) is assigned.

• Plagiarism Warning: Any student caught cheating during any of the quizzes will fail the class and be referred to the University's student conduct office.