Monthly Archives: January 2011

Re: Intra-Faculty Research Centre in Advanced Security, Privacy and Information System – Call for Nominations

Posted on January 28, 2011 by pan

have you informed us about the composition of the searchcommittee? i am interested in serving on the committee, not the director.thanks a lot

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Re: fall 2010 programming contests

Posted on January 21, 2011 by pan

i am glad to report that by now we have raised enough money to pay backthe dept (since the dept has now processed the volunteer coach’s claimform, who will be receiving his money next week) due to the budget cut … Continue reading →

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Dollar Cost Averaging, myth or fact?

Posted on January 17, 2011 by cai

Almost all banks prompt the “Dollar Cost Averaging” strategy to their mutual fund customers, e.g., http://helpmeinvest.scotiabank.com/knowhow/win-dollar-cost-averaging The idea is that a customer should invest in a mutual fund on a regular basis, instead of in one shot. The reason is … Continue reading →

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Re: CHINA – CANADA Scholars’ Exchange program

Posted on January 16, 2011 by pan

see the message below also csc has updated this year’s schedule http://www.csc.edu.cn/Chuguo/67e7e96b4bde4668af18647db6edb1c1.shtml sorry it’s in chinese only, but the rough schedule is conditional offer from foreign schools by feb 20 students to apply at csc by march 25 notification by … Continue reading →

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Re: Graduate applicants supported by Chinese Scholar Council

Posted on January 16, 2011 by pan

i had some experience with the csc-uvic program and wrote something tothis list a while ago. i can find out and resend it again

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Re: Donations

Posted on January 13, 2011 by pan

please drop by the main office (or the dept meeting nexttuesday) if you want to contribute and help our students. hopefully by thedept meeting we have raised enough money to payback the balance also thanks to those who are willing … Continue reading →

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Re: fall 2010 programming contests

Posted on January 12, 2011 by pan

for backgrounders—sorry we have wasted too much time in it already i will put in $100 as the donation (unfortunately they don’t need a namefor another faculty newsletter 😉 so we are basically raising the fund tocover tom and sue’s … Continue reading →

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Re: Faculty Meeting – Change of Date for January 2011

Posted on January 12, 2011 by pan

an action item before the faculty meeting tomorrow i will be collecting donations from faculty members, to pay back to thevolunteer coach (a grad student) who brought two teams of uvic undergradstudents attended acm international collegiate programming contest (icpc)regional contest … Continue reading →

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