24 Aug 2018

CS group meeting 24 Aug 2018

What do we want to do in group meetings?

Scientific talks

• Fred has invited several speakers.
• ACM speakers group - can be cheaper to invite people if they are already in the area.

Web page

• Do we want a (public) seminar web page similar to Math/Stats? http://naumathstat.github.io/seminars/
• or do we want to use blackboard? (private)

Conference organization

Formal training for grant writing / student advising

Share experience on grant evaluation panels

Calendaring: google or exchange? mac ical client can do both.

Python user group, 1 good meeting, then no more.

Best practices for organizing, from math colloquium organizer Jim Swift

• Decide on one day week/time that never changes. Don't change from semester to semester. EX math colloq is always Tuesday at 4pm.
• Public web pages / github is useful.
• Two other seminars with more specialized topics.
• Topics should be general and understandable by all grad students in the department.
• Coffee or popcorn is great.
• Used to have sponsorship from publishers.
• Organization does NOT change every semester -- same guy organizes pretty much all the time.

Brainstorming session

• SICCS seminar not CS.
• web page should be under SICCS instead of github.
• require grad students to go, sign up sheet.
• require grad students to give talks? There is a competing grad student seminar ... so maybe not
• have one meeting at the beginning of the semester to fix the schedule of speakers.
• one week internal speaker, next week external speaker who has travel grant 500$
• invite people to our houses.
• cant pay for flights from far away.
• maybe invite local people (ASU, UofA, companies in phx).
• bump grad students if we get invited speakers.
• ACTION ITEM: Toby should initiate meeting with Paul, Slava, James to get support for the seminar. A number of people from this group (Toby, Eck, +n) will also meet with them.