CSE Undergrad News

CSE 440 Final Poster Session: HCI / Self-Tracking: Monday at 11:00 in CSE Atrium

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From: James Fogarty <jfogarty@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 9:12 AM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] CSE 440 Final Poster Session: HCI / Self-Tracking: Monday at 11:00 in CSE Atrium
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu

Please join us to see 16 projects exploring different approaches to self-tracking. Teams of students have explored everything from mobile health and wellness apps, to a smart bookmark, to a talking mirror, to an adorable panda that watches you drive:

http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse440/17wi/projects.html

Teams of students have spent the quarter identifying a problem, conducting fieldwork to better understand the opportunity, exploring potential designs, and refining those designs in iterative testing. They are currently finalizing their websites and deliverables, but take a sneak peek above.

We’ll be in the CSE atrium on Monday @ 11:00.

There will be cookies, and we’re co-hosting with the CSE Accessibility Capstone.

Please join us!

James and the CSE 440 staff and students

—
James A. Fogarty, Associate Professor
Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington

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

March 10, 2017

SIAM AN17 – Call for undergrad research submissions

From: “SIAM Mailer” <mailer@siam.org>
Date: March 8, 2017 at 6:33:45 PM PST
To: <chair@ee.washington.edu>
Subject: SIAM AN17 – Call for undergrad research submissions
Reply-To: <mailer@siam.org>

Dear Colleague,
The SIAM Education Committee would like to invite submissions for the Undergraduate Research Presentations Sessions at the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting which is being held July 10-14 in Pittsburgh, PA.

Research should have been completed by the speakers during the speakers’ undergraduate career, and can be in any area of Applied and Computational Mathematics.   Please encourage your students to apply!

Applications (https://goo.gl/4q0Hac) should be submitted by March 31st at
https://goo.gl/4q0Hac giving the following information:

*         Title

*         Name(s) of student(s), with affiliation

*         Name(s) of Advisor(s), with affiliation, and a

*         Brief Abstract

Regards,

SLWeekes

Dr. Suzanne L. Weekes
Chair, SIAM Education Committee
Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
100 Institute Road
Worcester, MA 01609-2280

March 10, 2017

Chaos in the Atrium!

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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 4:20 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Chaos in the Atrium!
To: “cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu” <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>

On Thursday starting at 3:30 we’ll be hosting an event for about 450
people (alumni, friends in the professional community, and UW leadership) celebrating the start of
our 50th Anniversary year. (In March 1967, the UW Board of Regents
created the “Computer Science Group” and authorized the granting of
graduate degrees.)

Apologies for the inconvenience!
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March 8, 2017

Ants in CSE003 Lab

From: Alexander Lefort <aalefort@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:48 PM
Subject: [cs-ugrads] Ants in CSE003 Lab
To: cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu
Cc: Cse-Maintenance <cse-maintenance@cs.washington.edu>

Hello All,

Recently there have been several sightings of ants in the CSE003 lab. These have mostly occurred near the two laptop benches nearest the hall. We have contacted a pest control expert who has since laid down several traps with ant poison in them. Please do not disturb these traps.

We would also like to remind everyone to please dispose of any food waste brought into the labs in the proper receptacles. This will help to minimize future troubles with pests.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact CSE-maintenance@cs.washington.edu.

Thank you,

Alexander Lefort

Facilities & Events Coordinator

Computer Science & Engineering

University of Washington

Box 352350
206.685.9198

March 7, 2017

Animation series info for 2017-18!

Want to learn more about the 2017 – 2018 animation course series? Attend an info session!

www.cs.washington.edu/research/ap

When:

Monday, March 27th @ 3:00PM

Tuesday, March 28th @ 2:00PM

Wednesday, April 5th @ 1:00PM

Tuesday, April 18th @ 1:00PM

Thursday, May 4th @ 4:00PM

Where:

Paul G. Allen Center room 691 (Gates Commons, 6th floor)

What:

Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) and the Animation Research Labs invite you to an information session on the Animation Production undergraduate course sequence at UW Seattle. This sequence runs from Summer 2017 (A term) through Spring 2018. The Summer course, Story Design for Computer Animation, is highly recommended but optional.

The Animation Capstone culminates in a very professional and exciting collaboratively produced digital short film, similar in process to Disney/Pixar and DreamWorks productions. Examples of previous award winning films produced in the dept will be shown and questions regarding applications and admission, etc. will be addressed. We look forward to seeing you there. Light refreshments will be served.

Contact the instructor Barbara Mones (mones@cs.washington.edu) or Erin Caswell (emc29@cs.washington.edu) with any questions.

February 28, 2017

[ACM] Newsletter 2/27/17

Hey everybody,

Just a super early heads up, we are having a spring BBQ on May 19th from 4:00 to 7:30. So put that in your calendars!

As for stuff this week,

· February 28^th, 6 p.m., Google tech talk, EE105

· March 1^st, 11 a.m., Voyager office hours, table in the Atrium

· March 1^st, 1:30 p.m., SPECIAL ANIMATION PRESENTATION AND Q&A, Guggenheim 220

ACM

February 27, 2017

Stat 391 – issue with prerequisite

Hey everyone,

Stat 391, prereq 312, isn’t allowing some students to register right now but the stat dept is aware of the issue and working on getting it fixed. If you have trouble registering, you can contact the stat advisor at:

statugradadv@stat.washington.edu

February 21, 2017

CSE 522 Algorithms and Uncertainty – course announcement

CSE 522: Algorithms and Uncertainty

Instructors: Nikhil Devanur (MSR) and Anna Karlin

Time and Place: Mondays and Fridays from 11:00am — 12:20pm

In this course, we will explore some of the key themes and approaches to handling uncertainty in algorithm

design and analysis, with particular emphasis on basics of learning theory and online learning.

Topics to be covered will be selected from:

* Basics of learning theory: PAC learning, sample complexity, uniform convergence, VC theory, Rademacher complexity

* Online learning: MWU, Follow the perturbed leader, applications

* Online convex optimization: gradient descent, regularization, FTRL, Bregman divergence, online mirror descent

* Multi-armed bandits: stochastic and adversarial cases, linear bandits, Gittins index.

* Competitive analysis of online algorithms: online primal-dual, online stochastic packing

* Secretary problems and prophet inequalities

* Models intermediate between worst-case and average-case analysis.

Course evaluation: 2-4 homeworks and a presentation on a paper related to the course content.

Background expected: Mathematical maturity, probability and undergraduate level algorithms (e.g. 421)

February 21, 2017

How to control what messages you see with this blog

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CSE Advising

February 21, 2017

Research opportunity in the Myria project

If you are interested in research related to building big data management systems, we have a new opportunity in the Myria project (http://myria.cs.washington.edu). The project will involve extending the Myria big data system with new features and running experiments to benchmark the performance of these new features. In order to apply, you must have completed CSE344 and must be interested in committing at least 6 hours / week to the project during Spring quarter. Strong systems building ability is also important for this project. Please send your transcript and CV to Tobin Baker (tdbaker@cs.washington.edu).

February 15, 2017