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thanks to all who have helped us put together the event and supported in various ways even from a distance by contributing slides/talks/time/fund to make it happen (beside the names listed on the slides, i have received support from almost all colleagues as well). i believe the message has gone through to our students and will be propagated by them further

the final set of slides (with a little bit update as i missed 1.5 slides from frank at the talk, sorry for that) is available at

http://panlab.cs.uvic.ca/webb/viewtopic.php?t=3308

and thanks to mike zastre, some photos are available at

(you will be surprised by how many boxes of pizza we have consumed 😉

computer science course union (cscu) essentially came up the same idea and is willing to take over the helmet in the following years, and i believe they will do an even better job than us (as we all wish for our students)

thanks again. i am still thrilled by so many things our dept has to offer, but now it’s the time for me to catch up the research work again and reschedule some meetings missed this morning

the slides set is updated with whatever i have received by 4:30pm today, but you still can contribute yours until tomorrow morning (please, early morning, as i need to merge slides and format a bit to show well)

it’s already more than 6 mega bytes, so it’s not a good idea to attach to email. you can find it at the previous location (all slides are attributed to their sources, so if you have questions, email me and the author)

http://panlab.cs.uvic.ca/webb/download.php?id=5648

again, welcome to attend the party and students will appreciate that

(eric, ulrike, sudhkar and jane are bcc’ed on this message to get around the “too many cc’s” moderation 😉

a working set of slides for the pizza party this wednesday is available at

http://panlab.cs.uvic.ca/webb/download.php?id=5648

and i will keep updating it when i receive slides from you (don’t worry about the font/format—it’s probably due to openoffice in linux, and i will make sure they show up well in the final version)

please give suggestions (and your slides 😉 ASAP. nothing is fixed yet! but we like to get your slides by tuesday evening the latest and merge them into one set to save the turnaround time during presentation. thanks

all are welcome to the party. if the area rep comes across your slides and you are present, it’s probably the best that you can go through the slides on your own—to get the message across and to answer further questions

happy thanksgiving and see you this wednesday in ecs660/668

ps: an updated agenda

===oct 14, 12noon===

pizza/pop in ecs668

===oct 14, 12:30pm===

talks in ecs660/668

Sue: intro (2–3 min)

Jens: BSENG, HIS/CS, some SE courses (5–8, has to leave early)

Ulrike: CS major, Bioinfo, Psychology/CS, some theory courses (5–8)

Dale: Honor’s, Co-Op, CS+MATH/STAT/Physics, numerical (5–8)

Frank: Combinatorial/algorithms, some theory courses (5–8)

Micaela: Computer Architecture/Hardware/VLSI etc (5–8)

Mantis: Mechatronics, embedded/realtime, systems courses (5–8)

Sudhakar: Networks, Wireless/Mobile, P2P, QoS, networks courses (5–8)

BruceG: Graphics, Visual Arts/CS, Games option courses (5–8)

Dana: HCI, Vis, CSCW, some SE courses (5–8)

Alex: DB/DM, Graduate programs, scholarships/fellowships (5–8)

George: AI, ML, IR, Music/CS (5–8, will come around 1:20)

Aurora: CSCU (2–3 min)

Anissa: WECS (2–3 min)

Anthony: BCNET BIC (2–3 min)

Sean: ACM ICPC (2–3 min)

anyone else?

this is a kind reminder for the one or two slides of the 3/4-year courses you will be teaching in the coming year (or you have been teaching in the last two years and are likely to be offered again). please email to me

thanks to all the feedback i have been receiving in the last few days, and we now believe that we can do the program info/pizza party even better than engineering, and i believe our students will appreciate that

particularly, i want to thank the colleagues who have agreed to serve as the “area rep” to cover some programs/areas (we have 7 program options and 8 combined programs, and we are still missing the rep for CS/business)

the pizza party will start from 12noon in ecs668 on wednesday, oct 14, and will be expanded to ecs660 with talks from 12:30pm. all department members are encouraged to attend. when the area rep comes to your courses and if you are present, you can just stand up and talk about the slides yourself. we will combine all slides and load into one computer to save the switch time, so that’s why we need your slides this week, as we also need to distribute them to area reps to get familiar with them, just in case you are not present that time. they will also need to have a few overview slides for the programs/areas leading to your course slides. so please send your slides to me on time (even a draft is fine, and you can give me an updated version one day before the pizza party the latest)

also please announce the event to your students and encourage them to attend. jeannie has prepared a nice one-page slide you can use before or after your lectures (if you don’t have it, please let me know). just as we told them “Get to know our programs, your professors, and all the people around you, while enjoying some pizza and pop!” we’d be there for them again, thanks for your support and participation

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