Me, a Computer Science Grad Student?
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A day designed for college juniors and seniors. 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Current grad students, professors and computer
scientists from industry and government will answer your questions
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2007 Schedule of Events |
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| 10:00 a.m. — 10:30 a.m. | Welcome and Registration: Coffee, tea, and juice |
| 10:30 a.m. — 11:15 a.m. | Why Consider Grad School?: learning, interesting jobs, often students are paid to attend grad school Speaker: Professor David Jensen To view this presentation in .pdf format please click here |
| 11:15 a.m. — 12:30 p.m. | Career Options Panel: with faculty and guests from industry and government labs: a taste of the kind of jobs you might choose Panel: Professor Rick Adrion, Professor Mark Corner, Professor Beverly Woolf and Dr. Sukyoung Ryu, Sun Microsystems To view the powerpoint presentation please click here |
| 12:30 p.m. — 1:30 p.m. | Catered Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. — 2:30 p.m. | Life as a Grad Student: a panel of current grad students will tell you what it’s really like and — as in all sessions — answer your questions Panel: Aruna Balasubramanian, Audrey Lee, Sarah Osentoski, Siddharth Srivastava, Trevor Strohman |
| 2:30 p.m. — 3:15 p.m. | How to prepare for
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| 3:15 p.m. — 4:00 p.m. | Coffee, Tea, and Research Posters: walk around and chat with grad students as they explain their research |
| 4:00 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. | What Do Grad Students Actually Do?: what grad school is about according to a professor (and former grad student!). this will also be the wrap up and time for you to ask any remaining questions Speaker: Professor Neil Immerman To view this presentation in .pdf format please click here |
To view pictures from this year's CS Saturday Event, click here. |
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Further information: Department
of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 413-545-2744
or csinfo@cs.umass.edu |
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