an idea of having a pizza party with our undergraduate students and introducing to them our undergraduate programs/options and combined ones has been floating around for a while
one “penalty” for promoting such ideas is to organize it (actually the idea was borrowed from engineering, but many people find it a good idea anyway 😉 so here i am, together with ulrike and sudhakar and others (special thanks to eric, who’s actually funding the party and asking this should be an *all-program* party)
a pizza party is tentatively schedule for wednesday, oct 14 (jeannie will find the best slot for us when most students are available), and jane and jeannie will help us attract as many as students possible. a one-page slide will be provided to all instructors this term to also announce the event to classes before or after lectures, once the schedule is finalized
on the other hand, we need help from our colleagues: we need one slide or two from you introducing the 3rd/4th-year courses you have been teaching or will be teaching, and ideally you can present the slides at the party. we also need one or two faculty members from each major area to go thru some of collected slides and answer the questions from students (certainly there are people know better in theory and applications than me 😉 of course, the more faculty members present, the better as students see
so may i ask you kindly to do the following?
+ before thursday, oct 8, please send me your slides by email (ppt/pdf)
+ volunteer to be your area rep and get some programs covered. see our programs at http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2009/FACS/FoEn/DoCoS/CSPr.html
+ when we knock your door and plead to you for the area/program rep, please kindly agree to do so 😉
thanks a lot for your help in advance, and any advice is appreciated