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

2. Course format Website Meeting time and place Passing the course
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

3. Visualizing your educational journey

4. All of human knowledge

5. What you know after elementary school

6. What you know after high school

7. In college you start to specialize

8. A Master’s deepens your knowledge

9. Reading papers takes you to the edge

10. At the edge, you focus

11. At the edge, you focus

12. Until one day, the edge gives.
Ph.D.

13. Your view of the world during your defense

14. Don’t forget the big picture
Ph.D.

15. 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

16. 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)

17. 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

18. 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