CSE Undergrad News

Undergrad research position in Computer Vision!

We’re looking for a highly motivated undergrad to help with a super exciting computer vision project. The project involves analysis of face photos.

Programming experience is necessary, specifically: app development, web programming, python.

Computer vision knowledge is not assumed, but motivation to learn is a plus.

Contact kemelmi@cs.washington.edu with your CV+transcript

Examples of our research in:

http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~kemelmi/

cheers,

-Ira

May 28, 2013

ACM Weekly Events Digest 5/28 – 5/31

Overview:
5/30: Madrona Start Up Office Hours

Madrona Start Up Office Hours
5/30; 11:00 – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej, from Madrona Venture Group, will be available.

You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind.

Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

May 28, 2013

Critical Systems Incorporated Scholarships

Subject: scholarship
Date: May 14, 2013 2:10:45 PM PDT

We

are offering 2 scholarships per year to 3rd and 4th year undergrad students in engineering and science. Note that the first scholarship’s open period is next month. The 2nd one (winter award) will likely be targeted to work study or design project related efforts. We will be ferreting out those ideas over the next couple of months. I would guess that this will morph in a number of ways over time as we bring in industry partners, etc. We will work on the timing of this going forward as well.

Also to verify, in the spirit of maintaining fair and equitable approach, our only administrative requirement for the schools is that this is posted on a web page that is accessible to any student who would be interested. Beyond that, it’s up to the school re: how to get the word out. Also, in addition to maintaining a level playing field, the ability to show our potential industry partners where it’s posted on the participating schools’ websites will help make it more concrete, and consequently easier to bring them on board and garner more funds for the scholarships going forward (the “build it and they will come” approach).

http://www.criticalsystemsinc.com/scholarships

Thanks for your further consideration, and passing this along to the appropriate people. Please let me know if/when UW decides to officially offer this.

Critical Systems, Inc.

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Mary Heusner

Director, Research

Office of Research & Graduate Studies

College of Engineering

May 23, 2013

Reminder: Teaching Award, Pies

Nominations for the teaching award and Spring BBQ pieing event will close tomorrow, Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 11:59PM.

Please note that these are two separate surveys.

Nominations for the teaching award: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/197019

Nominations for recipients of pie: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/202542

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or you’re having trouble accessing either Catalyst WebQ, please contact Jennifer Apacible at apacible[at]cs[dot]washington[dot]edu.

May 22, 2013

Order T-Shirts and Hoodies Now!

Want a CSE shirt or hoodie? Choose from four designs and an array of colors! They will be available for purchase until 11:59PM on Wednesday, May 29, 2013.

Order here: http://www.abstractionary.com/uw_cse_2013

They will be available for pick up at our annual Spring BBQ.

May 21, 2013

Combined BS/MS Program Application Now Open! Due June 10th.

The moment you all have been waiting for. The application for the Combined BS/MS Program is now open. You can find the link and more details here: https://www.cs.washington.edu/prospective_students/bsms/application_information/

Application deadline: June 10
Faculty feedback period: June 11-15
Read apps: June 18-22
Admissions meeting: TBD

Decisions sent via email around July 2nd.

May 21, 2013

Lunch with the Chair, this Friday 5/24 in CSE 691

Hi everyone,

This Friday 5/24 will be our quarterly Lunch with the Chair, Hank Levy. There will be free pizza!

When: Friday, May 24. 12-1pm
Where: CSE 691 (Gates Commons)

As usual, this is an opportunity to eat pizza, ask questions about the program, eat more pizza, and find out what’s going on in the CSE department.

May 20, 2013

New Actuarial Science Certificate

C e r t i f i c a t e i n A c t u a r i a l S c i e n c e
Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

Learn the advanced statistical, econometric and mathematical fundamentals needed for success as an actuary, rated 1st according to CareerCast.com.

Key Outcomes

In the Actuarial Science Certificate with the top-rated Department of Applied Mathematics, you will gain the necessary quantitative modeling and analysis knowledge needed to accelerate your preparation for the actuarial certification exam series, and enter or advance in the actuarial profession.

Who Should Apply

• People with strong undergraduate records in mathematics, statistics, computer science, finance, physical sciences, engineering or economics
• Entry-level actuaries who wish to prepare for certification exams
• Professionals with strong academic and quantitative backgrounds and an interest in actuarial science

Curriculum

An Actuarial Science Certificate will be awarded to individuals who successfully complete the following five courses over five quarters from the MS-Computational Finance and Risk Management curriculum for a total of either 19 or 21 credits:

• AMATH 461: Probability and Statistics for Computational Finance, Kjell Konis, UW Applied Math, 3 credits, Summer 2013

OR

• AMATH 462*: Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics, Eric Zivot, UW Economics, 5 credits, Summer 2013

AND

• AMATH 541: Investment Science, Eric Zivot, UW Economics, 4 credits,

Autumn 2013
• AMATH 544: Options and Derivatives, Steve Golbeck, UW Applied Math,

4 credits, Winter 2014
• AMATH 500: Actuarial Models and Estimation, Kjell Konis, 4 credits,

Spring 2014
• AMATH 500: Models for Life Contingencies, Libby MacKinnon, UW Applied Math and an Actuarial Analyst at Milliman Inc., 4 credits, Summer 2014

*The standard course is AMATH 461, but students who already have a solid educational background in probability and statistics will find greater benefit in taking AMATH 462 instead.

APPLY HERE
http://www.pce.uw.edu/certificates/actuarial-science.html

Summer Quarter begins Monday, June 24, 2013.

For more information about the Actuarial Science Certificate, please contact:
Eileen Anastasio
Program Manager
P: 206.543.2491
E: eanastasio@pce.uw.edu

For information on applying Certificate credits to the Master of Science in Computational Finance and Risk Management or about individual courses:
Laurie Feldman, Graduate Program Advisor
P: 206.221.7727
E: compfin@uw.edu

May 20, 2013

ACM Weekly Events Digest 5/20 – 5/24

Overview:
5/23: Madrona Start Up Office Hours

Madrona Start Up Office Hours
5/23; 11:00 – 12:30pm; Atrium

Startup Office Hours is your time to come and discuss anything startup-related. Hakon Verespej, from Madrona Venture Group, will be available.

You are welcome to come and learn more about local startups, talk about a startup idea you have, get feedback on a project you’re working on, have your resume reviewed, or anything else you have on your mind.

Hakon can also be reached at hakon@madrona.com for questions regarding the office hour or anything else he can help with.

May 20, 2013

Very important registration notes for fall quarter – please read carefully

Hey folks,

Now that registration is well underway, we need to cover a few last minute changes:

1. Teaching Schedule is still up in the air, it depends on who we hire and who goes on sabbatical next year, so please stay tuned for that.

2. Capstones, still undecided, the catalyst survey to pre-register for 2013-2014 capstones will likely happen in early to mid June.

3. 341 is very likely going to be removed for fall quarter. We are very sorry for the late breaking news on that one, but if there is no one to teach it, well, we can’t offer the course, so 341 will hopefully be winter and spring, but probably not fall. For the 23 that are already registered, you should add a different course.

4. 311 will only be offered fall and spring, so if you have finished CSE 143 and Math 126, you NEED to take 311 this fall or it could set you back. 311 is a prerequisite to several other courses, so please aim for 311 this fall.

5. Finally, if you want to take a course that is full, you need to attempt to register for it anyways. The reason for this is that we can then see how many were unable to register and judge where to increase course sizes, so please try to register even if you see that a course is full. We’ll be tweaking space in courses in the next few weeks for full courses. And as always, if you can’t get in, plan to attend the first week.

Thanks everyone, we’ll be making adjustments over the next few weeks, but usually this all works out in the end, so we appreciate your patience For those of you who like to grab 4-5 CSE courses and then decide later what to take, please keep in mind this really messes with our planning, so the faster you decide what to take and drop the rest, the better for everyone.

If you haven’t seen the MyPlan feature in My UW, you should all take a look. We’ll be requiring everyone in the future to have a rough draft plan, so the sooner you start taking advantage of these tools, the better for all of us. https://depts.washington.edu/myplan/ We’ll start referencing these more and more during our dropin and regular appointments.

That’s it for now, we’ll share more as we learn more.

Crystal Eney
Academic Advisor – Lead
Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington – Seattle

May 17, 2013