CMP 200
TA Training and Research

Tuesdays 10-11:45am
372 Applied Sciences

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What's New ...

• Frequently Asked Questions about CSE facilities is online. To report printer problems you may e-mail printers@cse.ucsc.edu or to make a technical request related to CSE facilities use the WEB-REQUEST page.
• 2nd Homework assignment using BibTeX
• Latex example, its bibtex file and associated EPS file. The postscript output will let you see what it should look like printed.

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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 their TA responsibilities and introduce them to research in the Baskin Center. This web page is also contains links to other resources of interest to graduate students. The course is being taught by Dr. David Helmbod and Dr. Joel Ferguson. The TA for this course is Albion Baucom.

Tenative schedule for the remainder of the quarter:

date	activity
Nov 10	Ann Hubble, Sci Library tour
Nov 17	Richard Hughey, Bibtex and figures Jorge Garcia, computing resources
Nov 24	Rita Walker, Title IV Phokion Kolaitis, academic ethics
Dec 1	Public speaking/How to talk mathmatics
Dec 8	Life cycle of a graduage student, graduate panel

Useful links

• The CMP 200 newsgroup
• The online CATS Support Center
• The online Athena information
• Online guide to administering courses under Athena
• The Baskin Center Policy about Cheating (postscript).
• 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.

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/CS Department
• 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, this is just a few)

Carol Mullane	x2576	mullane@cse	graduate student coordinator, TA assignment
Lorrain M Van Briggle		lvanbri@cats.ucsc.edu	help with classes CATS and Athena
Kristine Kilkenny	x4822	kristine@cse.ucsc.edu	faculty/instructional support, confernce room scheduling
Melissa Foraker	x2970	melissaf@cse.ucsc.edu	course scheduling, kesy, instructional support
Heidi Sitton	x2890	heidi@cse.ucsc.edu	usera accounts, x-terminals, printers, software support

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For comments or suggestions regarding this page contact Albion Baucom.