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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Pluses and minuses: Anthony (2008); sabbatical leave (2012, delayed due to dept teaching shortage and student oral exams); Angela (2013); vitreous detachment (2015)
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Inputs: weekly group and individual meetings; ~30k email sent; ~80k internal messages exchanged (contributed about 1/3 ;-) or ~150mb gzipped; ~20k paper reading, discussion and revision files; ~100 wiki pages (~1k edits contributed); ~700mb cvs repository, gzipped—enough for a big data study on research methods
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So far five phd dissertations (two co-supervised) and seven masters (one co-supervised) theses defended, and one postdoc (co-supervised) and four visiting profs finished. Together they published 60+ papers, some at venues first time having uvic student authors, traveled 40+ times to 10+ countries on five continents, and received 40+ internal and external awards/grants ;-)
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Two mitacs globalink students from india and china this summer, plus six more in previous years
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When we become parents, we start to know that we should have been better kids; when we become teachers, we start to know that we should have been better students—thanks to all teachers and parents!
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Also for undergrad students: bcnet broadband innovation challenge first place and honorable mentions; acm icpc third place in pacific northwest region (with heavy weights such as ubc, sfu, washington, oregon, berkeley, stanford, etc ;-); ieee extreme online programming competition, ranked third in canada; …
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Internationalization is a priority, according to the current provost and president (also the provost ten years ago—still looks younger than me—it’s genetics, he says ;-) recommended them to blog on uvic oac
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Some useful classroom tools: a0 (introduce yourself to your classmates); course reps (anonymize, aggregate and amplify); ta as part of the teaching team (who did not turn in a1 ;-)
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