UCSC CMP 200 Fall '00

CMP 200 Fall 2000
Research and Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering

Thursday 2-4pm
179 Social Sciences II

(Last Update: 12/05/00)

Assignment 3 Due by 2pm Thursday November 16
Assignment 2 Due by 2pm Thursday November 2
Oren Patashnik's BiBTeXing
Assignment 1 Solution

All new SOE graduate students are expected to enroll in CE/CS200. CE(including EE) students should enroll in CMPE200 and CS students should enroll in CMPS200.

This page is still under construction. If you would like to know more about the course check out last year's CMP200 webpage.

Introduction

This course is a joint venture for the new graduate students of the Computer Science and the Computer Engineering Departments. The intent of the course is to prepare students for teahcing and research in the Baskin Center. This web page is also contains links to other resources of interest to graduate students. The course is being co-taught by Martine Schlag and Phokion Kolaitis. The TA for this course is Jennifer Bevan.

Grading Policy. Do not take CMPE200 or CMPS200 for a Letter Grade.

Tentative Schedule of Topics and Speakers.

Useful links

Jennifer's Teaching Assistant FAQ page
The CMP 200 newsgroup
The online CATS Support Center
Community of Science webpage.
Questions or inquiries should be referred to Donna M Riggs
Online CATS guide to Managing class-course lockers for instructors and TAs
The Baskin Center Policy about Cheating (postscript).
UCSC Policy on Academic Dishonesty.
UCSC Policy on Research Integrity.
The Center for Teaching Excellence which offers midquarter TA feedback and videotaping for improving your teaching abilities.
A guideline for creating class web pages in CS/CE
Environmental Health and Saftey web Site. Check out the Occupational Safety page for information about ergonomics
Information about programs for comparing submitted programs can be found on the CSE machines in the directory /projects/public/terra/sim.
Advice for dealing with difficult situations/students: Disruptive Students Distressed Students
(These are meant for faculty. You should consult the instructor of your course if you encounter these types of problems as a TA.)
Keiko for when you need a real-life fairy tale

Information of interest to graduate students doing research:

The UCSC Library System.
Richard Hughey's home page contains information about using LaTeX (only accessable from CSE machines).
NAS page on professional ethics
Henry Rutland, hrutland@cats.ucsc.edu, can provide information on applying for and obtaining fellowships.
Ian Parberry's guides. He has a guide to public speaking, and a guide to reviewing. Another useful guide to preparing a talk is P.R. Halmos's How To Talk Mathematics in the Notices of the AMS, vol 21 #3, April, 1974.

Important people (there are many more, these are just a few)

Your Advisor		???@cse	Professor ??? (Check with Carol if you don't know who this is.)
Carol Mullane	x9-2576	mullane@cse	SOE Graduate Programs Manager
Suresh Lodha	x9-3773	lodha@cse.ucsc.edu	CS Graduate Director
Martine Schlag	x9-3243	martine@cse.ucsc.edu	CE Graduate Director
Lorrain M Van Briggle		lvanbri@cats.ucsc.edu	help with classes CATS and Athena
Carolyn Wicker	x9-5745	cwicker@cse.ucsc.edu	faculty/instructional support, conference room scheduling
Heidi Sitton	x9-2890	heidi@cse.ucsc.edu	user accounts, x-terminals, printers, software support

The CMP200 Web:
Copyright 2000; Department of Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Portions of the CMP200 Web may be reprinted or adapted for academic nonprofit purposes, providing the source is accurately quoted and duly credited.

Comments to: martine@cse.ucsc.edu