CSCI 597 Seminar in Computer Science Research

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

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 2008	Speaker	Title of the talk
8/25	Laurent Itti	Introduction
9/1	Holiday	No class
9/8	Ellis Horowitz	TBA
9/15	Leana Golubchik	TBA
9/22	Michael Arbib	TBA
9/29	Cyrus Shahabi	TBA
10/6	Jerry Hobbs	TBA
10/13	Fei Sha	TBA
10/20	Laurent Itti	TBA
10/27	Jon Gratch	TBA
11/3	David Traum	TBA
11/10	Paul Debevec	TBA
11/17	Raymond Rakhshani	TBA
11/24	Gaurav Sukhatme	TBA
12/1		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.