Subject NoticeBoard
(Messages are presented in reverse chronological order)
| Week 1 (Posted by Anne Ngu, August 11, 2024) |
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Welcome to CS7300 Course Site. I look forward to meeting everyone and please come prepared with an elevator speech of yourself for the first class (on August 30).
We will be going over the program requirement and listen to PhD journeys from faculty and researchers:
It is very useful to go through the self-paced new graduate orientation materials prepared by the Graduate College. You can find the NGO Link |
| Week 2 (Posted by Anne Ngu, Sept 4, 2024) |
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We will finish off the overview of PhD program and start on doctoral research, CS research processes, advisor management, time management and research ethics this coming week.
At 11:15 am, there will a sharing of two PhD alumi and then at 11:45am, there will be sharing of the fourth PhD journey from a research scientist from ARM.
Please remember to start creating your PhD personal webpage, the first in class HW. You can host your pages under your unix's account in your public_html directory. I need an url that looks something like: https://userweb.cs.txstate.edu/~your netid. |
| Week 3 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 7, 2024) |
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We will finish off CS Research Processes and ethnics and discuss time and advisor management. Please read the article on On Being a Scientist if you have time. Come to class with some well known cases of unetheical conducts. Please complete your PhD Journey webpage ASAP and move on to the degree plan HW. Be ready to share your degree plan in class if called upon. |
| Week 4 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 16, 2024) |
The following faculty will be presenting their research. As indicated in the schedule, you need to take note and reflect on each presentation in terms of how the research is being communicated, why it is a good research question and how the result is being validated. Please download the file form.pdf under modules in Canvas for that purpose. We will finish off research ethnics on week 6.
One faculty will present remotely. |
| Week 5 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 27, 2024) |
The following faculty will be presenting their research for this week.
Hope you take good notes on last week's presentation and continue to do so for this week. You need to make a final decision on the title of your rotation project and update it on the google doc posted on Canvas. Don't forget to post your time management tip to the class discussion forum. The due date for this is September 30. Please remember that We will meet at Comal Rm 103 for this week. |
| Week 6 (Posted by Anne Ngu, September 29, 2024) |
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We will finish off research ethnics, then starts on systematic literature documentation presented by librarian, Graduate College resources presented by Ashley, and finally how to critically review a research paper this Friday. This is an in-person class.
Please install the endnote software on your laptop by following this link and bring your laptop to class: https://itac.txstate.edu/support/endnote/personal.html The EndNote Web version is here: https://www.myendnoteweb.com Please note that we will meet in Rm 212 this Friday. |
| Week 7 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 6, 2024) |
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This will be an asynchronous online class (i.e. we do not meet as a class).
You will need to finish the online library module and complete the library quiz HW by Oct 18, 12 midnight. Your literature collection HW is also due on Oct 18. Your paper review is due on Oct 25 at 12 midnight. The paper review template is available under module "Paper Review". You can find the Gloucose forecasting paper there as well. I have put a list of "Breakthrough papers" that faculty recommended on canvas as well. Don't forget to enter your rotation project details (title and mentor) if you have not done so using the shared spreadsheet. There are more than half of you have not entered details of your rotation project. Please beware that you only have a total of six weeks to complete your rotation project and present your poster in a public event. |
| Week 8 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 16, 2024) |
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We will be covering communicating your research (oral presentation, poster presentation, paper writing) this Friday.
This is an in-person only class. Note the due dates for your paper critique and the literature collection HWs. |
| Week 9 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 21, 2024) |
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We won't meet this week in-person. You will use class time to complete the CITI online training on Responsible Conduct of Research. You need to upload the completion certificate to Canvas as evidence for class attendance.
The instruction on how to logon to the CITI website is listed under the class schedule page on the class website. At the completion of the course, they will send you a certificate and please upload that certificat to Canvas under the CITI assignment link. |
| Week 10 (Posted by Anne Ngu, October 28, 2024) |
| We will not meet this Friday. You should use the time to prepare for your Rotation Project presentation on Nov 8 or Nov 15. Please check the spreadsheet posted on Canvas for your presentation date. |
| Week 11 (Posted by Anne Ngu, November 4, 2024) |
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Seven of you will be giving a 20 +5 mins presentation regarding the progress of your rotation project this coming Friday. The presenttaion will be asessed by three faculty.
Please finish your presentation on time. You should not have more than 15 slides. |
| Week 12 (Posted by Anne Ngu, November 11, 2024) |
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We will be hearing the presentation from the second batch of nine students this Friday.
Please email me if you can be a driver on Dec 6. I have two drivers now, but I need 4 drivers. |
| Week 13 (Posted by Anne Ngu, November 22, 2024) |
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We do not meet this Friday. Use the time to prepare for your poster.
Looking ahead, the poster presentation is on Dec 6 at STAR PARK. Remember to register for the workshop, and submit you abstract by Nov 30. Remember to email Karen your poster by Dec 2 at 12 noon if you want her to print it for you. |
| Week 14 (Posted by Anne Ngu, Dec 2, 2024) |
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We will be having the Rotation Project Poster session on Friday, December 6.
Remember to email your poster to Karen by noon on Dec 2 if you want it to be printed by the department. We will meet at STAR PARK for the workshop, then lunch and the poster after lunch. Please prepare an elevator speech for your Poster Presentation. |