What:
FIRST -- Featured Information Research Student Talks, a new series of
public invited talks from SI graduate students.
When:
Alternating Fridays, from 11:30am -
1pm. Lunch will be provided.
Where:
The Atkins Conference Room, 1st Floor SI North.
Why:
- To let the broader SI community know about student research
- To provide students with professional training by creating
a venue in
which they present their work in front of a mixed audience
- To provide students with additional feedback and
perspectives on
their work.
Who
(Winter 2008 term):
Jan 18: Ben Chiao (tentative)
Feb 8: Ricky Punzalan
Feb 22: David Lee
March 7: Paul Hartzog + Rupa Patel & Maureen Hanratty
March 21: Reserved for CHI Student Competition Finalists
March 28: Bonus Session! Jiang Yang and Daniel Zhou
April 18: Rescheduled (again!): new date! Anna Osepayshvili
Invited faculty discussants are planned for all sessions, and will be
announced when confirmed.
Who
(Fall 2007 term):
9/21: PhD Poster Session: All 2nd year+ SI PhD
students
10/5: eSocial Science talk: Cory Knobel
10/19: ASIST talks: Rick Wash + Emilee Rader, Nikhil Sharma +
Tapan Khopkar
11/2: GROUP talks: Jude Yew + Libby Hemphill, David Ribes
11/16: GROCS talk: Ben Congleton
11/30: MTOP talks: Erin Gong and Josh Gerrish
12/14: ICD talks: John Lin and Greg Gamette
We look forward to seeing you there!
The FIRST planning group,
Eric Cook, Tom Finholt, Karen Woollams, Erik Hofer.
