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Volunteer Summer Project

Three students from the department of public health are designing a website and app recommendation for homeless youth in the Seattle area. The website and app will be called HealthHelp for the Homeless and will feature GPS mapping of relevant health resources as well as the bus routes to these locations.
We are looking to build a team of computer science, informatics, and geography students to work on this independent project. You should be prepared to coordinate with these other students, but most work will be individual. There is room for lots of creative flexibility! This is a completely voluntary project so you will not get paid.
Project work will take place from mid-June to August.
Interested students should contact Vilia Wang at: veeveew@gmail.com
May 31, 2016

CSE 390P added to fall time schedule

CSE 390P (Problem Solving with Programming) is a course designed to explore applications of programming to problem solving. Each week students will be given a problem (or problems) that should be solved using a combination of critical thinking, problem solving, and skills learned in other CSE courses.  There will occasionally be lectures on topics relevant to solving these problems.  CSE 390P is about applying your programming skills to solving novel, interesting problems.  As a side benefit, we expect the sorts of problems we give to be relevant to interviews and programming competitions. The exact content of the course may vary from quarter to quarter.

For more info and to register, visit: http://tinyurl.com/cse390p-16au
May 23, 2016

BS/MS (5th year master’s) application now open!

Good Morning! The BS/MS application is now open, linked below.

FYI: You may not find a person you want to use as a reference in the drop down menu. If that is the case, it may be that:

  1. They are a graduate student. In that case, we generally encourage them to work with their faculty adviser to submit on their behalf. Please let me know if this is problematic.
  2. They may be a guest lecturer. In that case, if we still have contact with them we will try to include them.  Contact me with questions.
  3. They may be affiliate faculty and may not be in our system ye. Let me know and I’ll have it updated.

The application is linked from the BS/MS application page: https://www.cs.washington.edu/prospective_students/bsms/application_information/

Here are the timelines for this application cycle.

May 20 – June 6th: Application Open
June 6th: Application Deadline

June 6th – June 12th: Collect Faculty Recommendations
Decisions emailed by June 24th

Questions? Email me: jpesicka@cs.uw.edu

May 23, 2016

Weekly Digest 5/16 – 5/20

Hi everyone!

This week has some big events going on.  First of all, ACM-W is holding a Summer Meetup on Wednesday, May 18th, in the Atrium from 4:30 to 6pm.  This event is meant for summer interns, researchers, and FTEs, and is a great chance for you to meet people you might be working with.  If you’re interested, please fill out this survey to help connect you with people in your area, and RSVP to the FB event.

At 4:30pm on Friday, May 20th, ACM will be holding the annual Spring BBQ.  This event is bound to be super hot fiyah and will feature music, beer (21+), and food.  We will also be playing inflatable  soccer, and a few of our favorite faculty will be taking a pie to the face.  Definitely come and check it out, it’s going to be awesome.  If you’re the most wonderful kind of human (and you want some free CSE swag), you can also volunteer to help out with this event by filling out this fantastically short survey.  Setup is from ~3:30-5:00 and cleanup will be ~7:30-8:00.

Also, KRNL Labs will be holding office hours Thurs, May 19, 14:30 – 15:30 at a table in the Atrium.

Finally, we have some big news regarding ACM elections.  I’m excited to announce that the following individuals have been elected as next years officers:

Event coordinators:  Sheen Dudwadkar, Aishwarya Mandyam, and Raquel Van Hofwegen

External Relations:  Jack Armstrong

Internal Relations:  Carl Ross

Secretary:  Karishma Mandyam

Vice chair:  Mahir Kothary

Chair:  Johan Michalove

Thanks to everyone who ran this year, it was a tough competition.  I’m looking forward to seeing what next year’s officers have planned for the department.

 

Love,

John

May 17, 2016

MathAcrossCampus Talk on Probabilistically Checkable Proofs

Dear students,

This talk next Friday afternoon should be extremely cool. Irit Dinur will be talking about one of the greatest results in complexity theory in the last 25 years:  the PCP theorem. One way of stating this theorem is that any mathematical proof can be rewritten into a proof that can be verified with high accuracy by a randomized algorithm that only looks at the proof in a constant number of places. It is the cornerstone in our understanding of the hardness of efficiently approximating the solutions to NP-complete problems.
Highly recommended!
Anna
MathAcrossCampus Talk
 

Friday, May 20, 2016, 3:30 PM

reception to follow at 4:30
Irit Dinur

The Weizmann Institute of Science

Probabilistically Checkable Proofs: deducing a complicated global picture from very simple partial views

Sometimes you just don’t have enough time to read an entire proof, a brief scan is all you can afford. Probabilistically checkable proofs (PCPs), discovered 25 years ago, guarantee that even a brief scan will find an error if there is one. A PCP proof is created by taking a regular proof and splitting it cleverly into fragments. The key is a theorem asserting that locally consistent fragments must be coming from a globally correct proof. We will describe this surprising local-to-global phenomenon and show a variety of implications from computational optimization all the way to secure cloud computing.

Speaker Bio: 

Irit Dinur is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research is in computational complexity. She earned her doctorate in 2002 from Tel-Aviv University. In 2006 she discovered a new proof of the PCP theorem that was significantly simpler than previous proofs of the same result. She is the recepient of the 2007 Michael Bruno Memorial Award in Computer Science by Yad Hanadiv. She was a plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians. In 2012, she won the Anna and Lajos Erdős Prize in Mathematics.

http://www.math.washington.edu/mac/

May 12, 2016

Weekly Digest 5/9– 5/13

Hi everyone,

The following office hours are happening this week:

  • Tuesday, May 10 – Google office hours, 11:30am – 1pm, Atrium
  • Thursday, May 12 – Amazon office hours, 1-2:30pm, table in the Atrium
  • Thursday, May 12 – KRNL Labs office hours, 2:30-3:30pm, table in the Atrium

As usual, check out the ugrad calendar for more info.

We will also be holding ACM elections this week, so keep an eye out for an email in the next few days with a link to the voting page.

Love,

John

May 9, 2016

2016 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference

Please see the following research conference opportunity. Although the conference name includes “MIT,” it is available to all undergraduate students. Yoshi recommends it!

2016 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference
November 4-6, 2016 | MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
http://ieee.scripts.mit.edu/conference

Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: September 3rd, 2016

Envisioning a technical conference targeted towards undergraduate students all over the globe, last year, the MIT IEEE Student Branch inaugurated the IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. This year we are organizing it again, with the goal that the conference will be a venue where undergraduate students can meet to present, discuss, and develop solutions to advance technology for humanity. Participants can attend a rich program with renowned speakers, technical sessions, a student design competition, exhibits, networking, and social activities, presenting a great opportunity for students to interact with leading industry experts.

The conference theme is “Meet Innovative Technology”, and the six focus technical tracks are:

  1. Machine Learning and Cloud Computing
  2. Biological and Biomedical Engineering and Technology
  3. Robotics and Automation Technology
  4. Communication and Security
  5. Wearable Technology
  6. Innovative Technologies X-Track

Authors may submit content in the form of a Technical Paper, Poster, or Lightning Talk.
To submit: https://ieee-r1-studentconference.myreviewroom.com

All submissions must be written in English. Paper submissions must be no longer than 4 pages with minimum font of 10 point, single-spaced, and submissions may include figures, illustrations, and graphs. Abstract submissions for poster and lightning talk are limited to 500 words.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed. Submission will be online, with deadline September 3rd, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent via email by September 24, 2016.

A conference proceeding of all the accepted papers that have been presented at the conference may be published, and included in the IEEE Xplore. Electronic and online media containing all accepted submissions will be distributed to all registered attendees.

Student Accommodation:
IEEE MIT Student Branch can arrange MIT student volunteers to host visiting student attendees at the MIT resident hall. This is only available for non-MIT Students and it is free.

Please join the mailing list (MIT-Conference@ieee.org) for more information and updates on the submission, technical program, registration, and accommodation.

For inquiries, please email: ieee-ucc-chairs@mit.edu Alice Zhan (Chair), Helen Zhou (Vice Chair)

Best Regards,
Soon Wan : )

May 6, 2016

Reminder: PhD Information Session Tomorrow, 4:30-5:30pm

Interested in pursuing a PhD in CSE? Join us on Wednesday, May 4th from 4:30 – 5:30pm in the Gates Commons for an information session featuring CSE faculty and grad student panelists.

Panelists will cover topics such as:
-Why do a PhD anyway?
-What kind of research experience do you need?
-How do you ask for letters of recommendations and how do you make sure those letters are strong?
-How many schools should you apply to? How do you choose what schools?
-And any other questions you may have!

Questions? Contact Maggie Ryan, maggiem@cs.washington.edu

May 3, 2016

Reminder: apply this weekend to be the CSE Peer Advisor!

Reminder: The CSE Peer Advisor job application is open until Monday at 10am!

Full position description here

To apply: Complete the online application and send a resume to ravena@cs.uw.edu

. . .

Hello, CSE majors! We’re mentally preparing for CSE’s first-ever Peer Advisor Jack to leave us in June, and we need to hire his replacement. If you’re interested in helping students and working with the CSE Advising team, consider applying: Full position description here.

In brief: The CSE Peer Advisor works 8-15 hours per week during the quarter. They counsel individual students, present information, and help with occasional events; meet with high school students (and families), current UW pre-major students, and CSE majors; and discuss academic planning, what computer science/engineering is, CSE admissions, how to prep for industry, and how to connect with opportunities.  Our Peer Advisor brings the incredibly valuable expertise of actually studying computer science or engineering — something none of our professional advisors has done. 🙂

Hiring details:

Application open now, closing Monday May 2, at 10am

Start date: Autumn quarter 2016
Training should take place in Spring and Summer 2016; exact dates are flexible  

To apply: Complete the online application here and send a resume to ravena@cs.uw.edu

Questions: Contact Raven about hiring logistics or advising in general, or contact current Peer Advisor Jack about his experience in this position.

April 29, 2016

PhD Information Session, Wed. May 4th 4:30-5:30pm

Interested in pursuing a PhD in CSE? Join us on Wednesday, May 4th from 4:30 – 5:30pm in the Gates Commons for an information session featuring CSE faculty and grad student panelists.

Panelists will cover topics such as:
-Why do a PhD anyway?
-What kind of research experience do you need?
-How do you ask for letters of recommendations and how do you make sure those letters are strong?
-How many schools should you apply to? How do you choose what schools?
-And any other questions you may have!

Questions? Contact Maggie Ryan, maggiem@cs.washington.edu

April 27, 2016

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