CSE Undergrad News

We’ve been receiving a lot of questions about CSE 454.  That course is a capstone. Capstones have space pre-assigned every spring.  There is a survey sent out in May and students’ learn which capstone they will get by June.

We have sent out add codes to all students who were on the 454 list from last spring and we are waiting for them to fill the course. At this point, 454 is closed and we do not expect space to open. However, if it does, we will release space starting next week.  If you are interested in overloading the course, please show up the first week as always, just like any other CSE majors’ course.

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Over the past couple of months, we’ve hosted a series of events for developers in the Twitter ecosystem. All of those events have been here at Twitter HQ, and consequently those outside of San Francisco have a tough time attending. We’ve received feedback that you’d like to see some of the technical workshops that we’ve been hosting happen in other cities – so we’re making that happen.

There’s a lot going on in the ecosystem and we’d like to take this chance to share the highlights with you – including the latest developments with the platform, areas of demand within the ecosystem that we’re seeing, and technical dives into integration opportunities for developers. We’ll also be holding a Q&A session with members of the platform team, plus time to hang out with each other.

Details:

November 9th from 6pm to ~9pm

We’ll be hosting this at Hotel 1000 which is located at:
1000 First Avenue, Seattle, WA

Please sign up below to attend:

Eligibility:

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Must be enrolled (or accepted for enrollment) in a full-time program of study at the University of Washington
• Undergraduates must be studying a language other than French, German or Spanish at the intermediate or advanced level and are ineligible for beginning level language study   

Please let your undergraduate and graduate students know about these Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships, due January 17, 2012.  Requirements for language (3) and area studies (3) are minimal for professional students.  You must be a US citizen, national or permanent resident to apply.  Attachment and URL show eligible languages and areas of study. http://www.jsis.washington.edu/advise/flas/

There will be information sessions the following times.

**Upcoming 2011 FLAS Information Sessions**

Nov 2, 3:30-4:40, Thomson 317
Nov 9, 2:30-3:30, Thomson 317
Nov 17, 3:30-4:30, Thomson 317

Nov 15, 12:30-1:30 (oriented towards undergraduates): Mary Gates, 171.

Nov 8, 3:30-4:30, Denny 217
Dec 6, 3:30-4:30, Denny 217

http://www.jsis.washington.edu/advise/flas/

This is organized by Robyn Davis, Fellowship Coordinator for the Jackson School of International Studies.
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From: Robyn Davis [mailto:rldavis@uw.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:05 PM
Cc: Mary J. Heusner
Subject: Re: FLAS fellowships

Dear Mary,

I’ve attached the FLAS flyer for your information and for distribution to your students.  One update that pertains to professional school students is that the Dept of Ed has changed the requirements from 5 credits language and
5 credits area studies to 3 credits language and 3 credits area studies.
They are trying to make it easier for professional school students to fulfill their requirements.  It is also possible for students to count courses in their field towards the area studies requirement if they focus their work in the course on their world region.

We had 2 engineering students with FLAS fellowships this summer.

Please let me know if you would like to meet or have me come speak to your students.

Best regards,
Robyn Davis
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Robyn Davis
Fellowships Coordinator
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
Thomson Hall, Room 126, Box 353650
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
Tel: 206-616-8679
Email: rldavis@uw.edu

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From: Martin Tompa <tompa@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:10 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UCLA Ph.D. program Bioinformatics
To: cs-ugrads – Mailing List <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

> —–Original Message—–
> From: eeskin@gmail.com [mailto:eeskin@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Eleazar Eskin
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 11:33 AM
> To: William Stafford Noble; Martin Tompa
> Subject: UCLA Bioinformatics
>
> Dear Bill, Martin,
>
> As you may know, UCLA has recently established a new Ph.D. program in
> Bioinformatics.   Our website is http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/.
> I was wondering if you know of any undergraduates students
> who are interested in applying to PhD programs in
> Bioinformatics.  If so, we hope to encourage them to consider
> UCLA.  Just send (or have them
> send) an email to bioinfophd@lists.ucla.edu, and we will
> identify the relevant faculty based on their research
> interests to follow up with them.  Alternatively, feel free
> to pass on my email so they can get more information from me directly.
>
> Since I know that you are involved with your undergraduate
> bioinformatics program, I would greatly appreciate if you
> were able to send the information below to your programs
> email list.  We feel that the kind of student that graduates
> from your program has the ideal training to be successful in
> our Ph.D. program.  Since we are trying to cover all
> undergrad programs, I would appreciate if you send me a quick
> note if you are able to send the email to your undergraduate program.
>
>
> UCLA has a lot of established bioinformatics faculty (over
> 20) but a relatively new Bioinformatics Ph.D. program, there
> are good opportunities for students who apply here.
>
> Thanks,
> Eleazar
>
>
> ——–
>
> UCLA has a new Bioinformatics Ph.D. Program which is an
> Interdepartmental Program involving such disciplines as
> Computer Science, Computational Biology, Statistics,
> Mathematics, Chemistry, and Molecular, Cell & Developmental
> Biology.  The Ph.D. program includes an integrated one-year
> core curriculum, over 50 elective courses, and over 20 core
> bioinformatics faculty spanning life & physical sciences, the
> Medical School and Engineering School.  This is a new program
>  and the first class arrived in Fall ’10.  We invite you to apply.
>
> Please see refer to the website http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/
> for more compressive information on the program.
>
> The application deadline is December 1st. Please contact
> Nancy Purtill at nancyp@lifesci.ucla.edu for additional information
>
> The Bioinformatics IDP provides an academic home for
> bioinformatics at UCLA that brings together the many
> different disciplines that this field requires. Examples of
> current bioinformatics research conducted by the  core
> faculty include:
>
>  * The analysis of gene and protein sequences to reveal
> protein evolution and alternative splicing
>
>  * The development of computational approaches to study and
> predict protein structure to further our understanding of function
>
>  * The analysis of mass spectrometry data to, for example,
> understand the connection between phosphorylation and cancer
>
>  * The development of computational methods to utilize
> expression data to reverse engineer gene networks in order to
> more completely model cellular biology
>
>  * The study of population genetics and its connection to
> human disease
>
> Students will spend their first year taking courses in an
> integrated curriculum and rotate through three research labs
> after which they will join the group of a bioinformatics
> faculty at UCLA.
>
> Apply this year to be part of the start of a new exciting
> bioinformatics program.  More information at
> http://www.bioinformatics.ucla.edu/
>

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] UW users group for Amazon Web Services, TOMORROW, Monday 11/7, 3pm, EE 303
To: Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

Some of you might be interested in this.  It’s intended for people
using AWS for research computing.

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From: Bill Howe <billhowe@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:42 PM
Subject: [Escience-team] Reminder: UW users group for Amazon Web
Services, Monday 11/7, 3pm, EE 303
To: awsusers@u.washington.edu, Escience_bbl <escience_bbl@u.washington.edu

Twitter Tech Talk; Monday 11/7 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm; EEB 125
Twitter Search comes in many shapes and sizes, all of which require scalable, fault-tolerant distributed search systems to support them. In this talk, Jake Mannix, engineering Tech Lead on the User Search team, will describe the architecture they designed to future-proof the Operations work which surrounds any rapidly growing distributed system.
Research Reference: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/publications/Leibert_etal_SoCC2011.pdf

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NEW TRAINING PROGRAM IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE — INFO-SESSION

Tuesday Nov. 8
Guggenheim Hall Room 305
4-5 PM

Come learn about a new opportunity for undergraduate traineeships and stipends in a fast-growing field that bridges biology and the computational sciences. Applications due soon — join us and learn more!

FOR MORE INFO: compneuro.washington.edu

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Smoothie day is actually free since it is being sponsored by Facebook, no need for cash!