Introduction to Computer Science Grad School Landon Cox August 29, 2016

Course format Website Meeting time and place Passing the course http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/fall16/compsci701s Meeting time and place Mondays, 125p-240p, Physics 259 We may or may not use the full hour and 15 minutes Passing the course Participate and complete ungraded assignments Attend departmental talks Announcements via compsci701@cs.duke.edu

Visualizing your educational journey

All of human knowledge http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

What you know after elementary school http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

What you know after high school http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

In college you start to specialize http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

A Master’s deepens your knowledge http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Reading papers takes you to the edge http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

At the edge, you focus http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

At the edge, you focus http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Until one day, the edge gives. Ph.D. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Your view of the world during your defense http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Don’t forget the big picture Ph.D. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

Research, research, research You are here because you excelled in courses Courses are a means to an end Your ultimate goal is to expand human knowledge i.e., to learn something that no one else knows Start early Talk to students and faculty Attend group meetings Take courses in areas you might be interested in

Team building (20 minutes) You will have a team for the rest of the semester Assigned randomly Four or five members Getting to know your team Choose a team name When and why did you decide to study CS? List reasons you chose to pursue a Ph.D. in CS Are there good or bad reasons to get a Ph.D.? What will be different from undergrad? Elect a team member to summarize (3 minutes)

Team building (20 minutes) Vincentius vm76, Xiaonan xh61, Abraham ajf37, Shuzhi sy146 Make CS Great Again! Chris cds33, Andrew al309, Yuhao yl408, Ruiyi rz68 Team Stylus Yesenia yv10, Sudarshan sb453 Usama un6, Tiancheng tl173, Lesia ls305 Team OK Tianyu tw183, Dan df99, Congjie cs408, Taylor tpv, Sneha sm555

Jeopardy! in two weeks Five requirement categories RIP (Team 1) Prelim (Team 2) Quals (Team 3) Teaching (Team 4) Dissertation (Instructor) Think of five questions of increasing difficulty I’ll compile the questions We’ll play in two weeks http://www.cs.duke.edu/education/graduate/requirements