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.)

Spring 2008	Speaker	Title of the talk
1/14	Laurent Itti	Introduction and advice on grants
1/21	Holiday	No class
1/28	Ulrich Neumann	TBA
2/4	Paul Rosenbloom	TBA
2/11	Maja Mataric	TBA
2/18	Holiday	No class
2/25	Nenad Medvidovic	TBA
3/3	Andrew Gordon	TBA
3/10	Ewa Deelman	TBA
3/17	Spring Break
3/24	Milind Tambe	TBA
3/31	Sven Koenig	TBA
4/7	Dennis McLeod	TBA
4/14	Aiichiro Nakano	TBA
4/21	David Kempe	TBA
4/28	Stefan Schaal	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.