CSE Undergrad News

I seriously doubt any of you will be here Monday at 630am, but just in case….

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From: Tracy Erbeck <tracy@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Alarm testing, Monday, 4/11, 6:30am

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Hey All!!!

IT’S SUNNY!!!!!

0.) VOTE

If you have not voted for ACM Chair/Vice Chair please do so NOW! (or by Midnight today, just do it now so you don’t forget)

Positions, Candidates, Bios: http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/officer-elections/

Chair: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130341

Vice Chair: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130343

1.) Smoothies

Smoothie Day will happen 330-5pm in the Atrium Today, come grab an inexpensive 2$smoothie on your way out to the Quad, Balcony, or other outdoor destination.

2.) Putnam Seminar!

It’s been requested we advertise the Putnam Mathematical Problem Solving Seminar!!! They meet every Friday 330-420.  You don’t have to be a math major or have any  math completion problem solving experience to begin prepping for the contest.   The competition is the first Saturday of December, so seniors can’t really do it.  It’s a great opportunity to do some serious problem solving.  Check out their message board here https://catalyst.uw.edu/gopost/board/shaoc/20955/.

Enjoy the sunshine,

Chris–SPAMalot

If you’re still looking for work, you should first, be signed up for the ugradjobs blog, and next, make sure you are planning to attend the spring career fair.  Check out the information below.

Think that the upcoming Spring Career fair is just sales and insurance?

Do these sound like sales and insurance positions to you?

Software Eng., Technical Account Manager, ASIC Design Eng., Verification Eng., DFT Design Eng., Firmware Eng., Multiple, Software Developer, Software Eng., Cloud Developer, Mobile Application Developer, Java Developer, .Net Developer, Intelligence Analyst, Systems Eng., Software Design Eng., Software Design Eng. In Test, Software Eng. – Java, Software Eng. Intern, Electrical Eng., Computer Eng., Computer Scientist, Technical Operations Officer, Technical Co-Op, Various, Design Eng., Polymer Chemist, R&D Coating Eng., Test Eng., Mechanical Eng., Team Leader Production and Intern, Controls Eng., Electrical Designer,, Front End Developer, Undergraduate Intern – Coverity Scan; Graduate Student Intern – Security, Embedded Eng., Eng. 1, Technical Support Eng., IS Support, Quality Assurance Specialist, Plant Maintenance Eng./Technician, IT Developer, Technology Consultant II, Manufacturing Eng., Sales Eng., Firmware Test Eng., Process Eng., Graphic Designer, HTML Programmer, Campaign Specialist, Copywriter, Technical Services Eng., Account/Project Managers, Field Eng., Mechanical Eng., Civil Structural Eng., Electrical Eng., SDET’s, QA Eng., Software Eng., Development Eng., Quality Eng., Research Scientists, Computer & IT, Professional Services Eng., Incident Management Specialist, QA Eng., Software Deployment Eng., Product Architect, Technical Analyst.

How about these employers?

AdXpose, Ambarella, Avalara, Berico Technologies, Big Fish Games, Brightcove, Central Intelligence Agency, Chempoint.com, ClearEdge Power, ConAgra Foods, Concept Systems Inc, Concur Technologies, Corbis, Coverity, Eagle Tree Systems, LLC, EDIFECS , Epic, Ericsson, Expeditors, Franz Family Bakeries, Global Visionaries, HP, Ingersoll-Rand, Micron Technology, NVIDIA, Peace Corps,Redfin, Responsys, Schlumberger, SNC Lavalin Constructors Inc., Spoon, Tableau Software, TE Connectivity, T-Mobile USA, University of Washington, Varolii , Vertafore, Washington River Protection Solutions, Wipro, Inc.

Get your resume in the 2011 Spring Career Fair Resume Book!

In response to the overwhelming demand by both students and industry representatives, The Career Center at the University of Washingtonwill be offering you an additional opportunity to increase your visibility to recruiters by adding your resume to the online 2011 Spring Career Fair Resume Book. Add your resume to this online book by following the specific instructions below.

Come to the fair!

Being held on April 14^th from 3-7pm in the Hec Ed Pavilion, the UW Seattle Spring Career Fair is the largest general career fair at the University of Washington each year.  The Fair brings more than 115 employers to campus to meet with Huskies of all majors, academic class levels and career interest areas.  Employers in attendance will be hiring for a variety of opportunities, from part-time to internships to full-time career opportunities!  For more information on attending employers, as well as tips on how to prepare, please visithttp://careers.washington.edu/students/Spring-Career-Fair

Can’t make it to the Career Fair? Don’t despair!
If you are unable to attend the fair you are still eligible to participate in this resume book! There are also a number of internship and career positions available for students on the HuskyJobs (www.huskyjobs.washington.edu/students) website.

Instructions for adding your resume to the UW Spring Career Fair Resume Book

Participation in this resume book is offered through HuskyJobs.

Participation in the book is open to all UW students and Alumni, regardless of whether you plan to attend the UW Seattle Spring Career Fair!

1.)   Make sure that you have a resume ready to upload.  If you need help in creating a resume, visithttp://careers.washington.edu/Students/Resumes-and-Interviews.

2.) Login to your HuskyJobs account at www.huskyjobs.washington.edu/students/

Your username is your UWNetID email.

• example: jdow@u.washington.edu (you cannot use the @uw.edu format)
• If you do not know your password, use the “forgot password” tab.
• Enter your UWNetID email address and ”submit.”  A password will be emailed to you.

3.) If you need to, complete or update your student profile.

4.) Upload your resume into your HuskyJobs account, under the “my documents” tab.

5.) Submit your resume to the 2011 Spring Career Fair Resume Book.

• Staying on the “my documents” page, look for the Opt-in Resume Book tab, you will see a list of all your available uploaded documents.
• Locate the resume that you want to submit, and then look to the Options column on the far right.
• In the Options column choose Select Resume Books, checkmark to indicate the 2011 Spring Career Fair Resume Book.
• Submit your resume.

6.)     Log out, or spend some time exploring HuskyJobs.  Year round, HuskyJobs is the place to go to find great jobs or internships!

Hello!

Yes, after a very very very long recession, we will finally have a Smoothie Day!!!  It is scheduled for, TOMORROW, Friday, 330-5pm in the CSE Atrium.  Come in and enjoy the yummy 2$ smoothies fully loaded with fruity goodness and meet up with fellow CSE majors! Cross your fingers for sunshine!

Chris

PS: I need 1-2 volunteers to help out, especially for set up which starts at 3pm.  Email me if you are interested, your efforts will be rewarded (with a complimentary smoothie)!

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:20 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Talk by David E. Shaw, April 28

David Shaw has done some amazing things.  Please be sure to attend
this talk on April 28.

https://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=1015

Joint Computer Science & Engineering / Biochemistry Colloquium
Thursday April 28, 3:30 p.m., EEB 105

Anton:  A Special-Purpose Machine That
Achieves a Hundred-Fold Speedup in
Biomolecular Simulations

David E. Shaw

D. E. Shaw Research and
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation has long been recognized as a
potentially transformative tool for understanding the behavior of
proteins and other biological macromolecules, and for developing a new
generation of precisely targeted drugs.  Many biologically important
phenomena, however, occur over timescales that have previously fallen
far outside the reach of MD technology.  We have constructed a
specialized, massively parallel machine, called Anton, that is capable
of performing atomic-level simulations of proteins at a speed roughly
two orders of magnitude beyond that of the previous state of the art.
The machine has now simulated the behavior of a number of proteins for
periods as long as a millisecond — approximately 100 times the length
of the longest such simulation previously published — revealing
aspects of protein dynamics that were previously inaccessible to both
computational and experimental study.  The speed at which Anton
performs these simulations is in large part the result of a tightly
coupled codesign process in which the machine architecture was
developed in concert with novel algorithms, including an
asymptotically optimal parallel algorithm (with highly attractive
constant factors) for the range-limited N-body problem.

The Speaker:  David E. Shaw serves as chief scientist of D. E. Shaw
Research, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group in the
field of computational biochemistry, and is a Senior Research Fellow
at Columbia University.  Earlier, he founded D. E. Shaw & Co., an
investment and technology development firm.  Dr. Shaw serves on the
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and
recently co-chaired the PCAST working group for assessing the Federal
Networking and Information Technology Research and Development
program.  He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences,
and serves on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the
National Academies.

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Fellow CSE students,

It’s that time of year again! It is now time to cast your vote for ACM Chair and Vice Chair.  These are the positions that set the tone for next years ACM Officers! In order to aid you in choosing wisely we have provided candidate bios and detailed information about the officer positions at the following link:

http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/officer-elections/

After reviewing then cast your vote here!

Chair: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130341
VC: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jtmasaki/130343

The polls will close at 11:59pm MIDNIGHT TOMORROW, FRIDAY!!!

Get out and vote!

Chris Raastad

ACM SPAMing Machine

PS: there is a tech talk tonight at 6:00pm.

From: Dan Waters
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:11 PM
Subject: Invitation: US Student Technology Finals, April 11 – Imagine Cup

Sign up on this list if you’ve willing to hear about occasional outreach activities that need an extra volunteer or two.

CSE Ambassadors: https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors

**Our first request is for two students to help with an event this Friday, April 8th, from 1:15 – 2PM for a group of 35 middle school students.

More information:

You may have read about a seminar this quarter working on outreach to local middle and high school students. In addition to that seminar, we’ve created a mailing list for any student to join who would be up for helping us out occasionally. We often need just one or two more students to help with an event, and this would be a list of people who are ready to volunteer to meet with prospective students, or help work with a visiting group.

If you could spare an hour here and there to help, we’d love you to sign up. Here is the link to the CSE Ambassadors list:

https://mailman.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/ambassadors

Hello, CSE undergrads! I hope your first days of Spring quarter have gone well. If you do sense trouble, remember that it’s easiest to resolve issues when we can address them early — don’t wait until the end of the quarter. We also have some tutoring available for CSE courses. Tutoring happens in groups of 1-3 undergrads, led by a CSE grad student tutor. It’s free. 🙂  To request a study group, please email me asap.

Just a brief reminder that there will be a forum tomorrow hosted by our Department Chair, Professor Hank Levy on the condition of the undergraduate labs.  Our hope is that you will all bring thoughts/suggestions on how to improve the lab environment.

You will certainly have an opportunity to express concerns and ask questions, but we also hope you will be bringing ideas on how to improve things as well.

Lab Forum: all CSE current undergraduate majors invited

Room 691 of the Allen Center

1-2pm

Wed April 6th