This Week

End of Semester CS Party

Join with everyone from CS department one last time to celebrate the end of classes and the upcoming “Holiday Season”™ (in which people celebrate a wide variety of winter festivals, including but not limited to Hogswatchnight, Winterval, HumanLight, Chrismahanukwanzaka, Rohatsu, New Year's Day, Modranect, Yalda, Yule/Yuletide, Kwanzaa, Decemberween, Karachun, Hogmanay, Zamenhof Day, Festival of the Bells, Hanukkah, Winters Day, Festivus, Winterfair, Chrismukkah, Dong zhi, Saturnalia, Winter-een-mas, Kwanamus and The Festival of the Birth of the Unconquered Sun — apologies if your favorite celebration got missed in our list, with so many it's easy to lose track of one or two of them!).

For many of you, this will be your last chance to see everyone together before the winter break. We hope to see you there!

Note: For everyone enrolled in colloquium this party does count as an official colloquium and so we'd like to see you there just like we would for a regular colloquium.

HMC CS Colloquium-Speaker Calendar

HMC CS colloquium talks begin at 4:15pm sharp in Galileo Pryne on Thursdays. Prior to the talk, at 4:00pm, we have drinks and snacks in Hixon Court.

Some talks will take place at Pomona College, in room 101 of the Edmunds building (the new building on N. College Way that houses their Computer Science Department). These talks are considered part of our HMC colloquium series.

Fall, 2007

DateWhereEvent
6-SepHMC, PryneConvocation
13-SepHMC, PryneWelcome Back, ACM
20-SepHMC, PryneGarbage Collection
27-SepHMC, PryneTealia and BFSNet
4-OctHMC, PryneGoing to Graduate School
11-OctHMC, PryneSketch recognition
18-OctHMC, PryneBeyond vacuuming
20-Oct Fall Break Begins
23-Oct Fall Break Ends
25-OctHMC, PryneRZ: Computable and Constructive Mathematics for Programmers (Chris Stone, HMC)
1-NovPomona, Rose HillsFoundation for Many-Core Programming (Leaf Petersen, Intel)
8-NovHMC, PrynePARAID: A Gear-Shifting Power-Aware RAID (Andy Wang, Florida State)
15-NovPomona, Ed 101The Future of News (Sanjay Sood, AllVoices)
22-Nov Thanksgiving Break Begins
25-Nov Thanksgiving Break Ends
29-NovHMC, PryneGames Night
6-DecPomona, Ed 101Emotions in Human-Agent Interactions (Jonathan Gratch, USC)
13-DecAviation RoomEnd of Semester Party

Spring, 2008

DateWhereEvent
24-Jan  
31-Jan  
7-Feb  
14-Feb  
21-Feb  
28-Feb  
6-Mar  
13-MarHMC PryneSuresh Venkatasubramanian
20-Mar Spring Break
27-Mar  
3-Apr  
10-Apr  
17-AprHMC PryneDavid Blei
24-Apr  
1-May  

Student Guidelines

If you are a CS major, the Thursday 4:15–5:30pm time-slot belongs to CS Colloquium. An event is held every week at this time (sometimes at Pomona College).

Attendance

You should plan on attending colloquium every week. To handle situations such as illness, Clinic site visits, forgetting to sign in, and so forth, you are allowed to miss three colloquia. Don't miss more than three!

There is a sign-in sheet at every colloquium. Do not forget to sign it, otherwise we won't know that you attended. Do not sign for other people—doing so would violate the honor code.

Dinner

When we have external speakers, there will be an after-colloquium dinner, to which students are invited on a first-come, first-served basis.