Category Archives: uvic

One week countdown… http://cn.ece.uvic.ca/iwmcn/index.html

Posted on November 19, 2015 by pan
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Why do we do more and more research with less and less impact? Why do we publish more and more papers with less and less time to read and think? Why do we archive more and more theses if there is less and less training and quality control?

Posted on October 9, 2015 by pan
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Pluses and minuses: Anthony (2008); sabbatical leave (2012, delayed due to dept teaching shortage and student oral exams); Angela (2013); vitreous detachment (2015)

Posted on September 28, 2015 by pan
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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

Posted on September 18, 2015 by pan
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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 ;-)

Posted on September 16, 2015 by pan
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Two mitacs globalink students from india and china this summer, plus six more in previous years

Posted on September 14, 2015 by pan
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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; …

Posted on September 6, 2015 by pan
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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

Posted on September 5, 2015 by pan
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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 ;-)

Posted on September 4, 2015 by pan
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Directed studies for undergrad students. Together with mitacs globalink, nserc usra and uvic jcura undergrads, they went for grad studies at waterloo, ut austin, cuhk, eurocom, duke, uvic, ubc, etc (some multiple students ;-)

Posted on September 3, 2015 by pan
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