CMPE/CMPS 200: Research and Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering -- Fall 2016

Fall 2016
Tue 11:40am - 1:15pm
Baskin 101 Auditorium

Useful Links and Resources

List of MS Projects for CS:

• projects.soe.ucsc.edu

Graduate Student Resource:

• Graduate Student Handbook
• CMPE Graduate Requirements
• CMPS Graduate Requirements
• Help with Instructional Computing
• UCSC Web Support
• Important People:
  • Your faculty advisor
  • William Suh CS/TIM Graduate Advisor
  • Emily Gregg CE/CM Graduate Advisor

Writing Resources:

• Elements of Style
• A 5 Step plan for better journal writing
• Latex Links:
  • Prof. David Helmbold's Introduction to LaTeX (and the tex source)
  • Introduction to LaTeX
  • LaTeX package for Windows: MiKTeX
  • LaTeX package for Mac: MacTeX
  • Online collaborative LaTeX editors: ShareLaTeX and writeLaTeX
  • Use Detexify to quickly find LaTeX symbols (also on Android and iOS)
  • LaTeX package for making posters

Presentation Resources:

• Ian Parberry's guide to public speaking
• Martine Schlag's slides on giving conference talks
• Research Skills by Simon Peyton Jones

TA Resources:

• TA Starter Package
• TA contract
• Plagiarism Detection Tools:
  • Turnitin.com: Great for comparing research pages or reports. Not so useful for code.
  • MOSS: Code comparison tool, works on C, C++, java, ML, lisp, scheme, pascal, ada, haskell, fortran, ascii, vhdl, html, perl, and matlab. You submit the files to their server and they email you a link to the results.
  • SIM: Default code comparison tool at UCSC.

Proposal Writing Resources:

• Best Practices
• Grant Workshop

Scholarship and Fellowship Opportunities:

• CRA-Women Graduate Student Cohort Due November 30, 2016
• National Physical Science Consortium Fellowship Due December 1, 2016
• Jack Baskin & Peggy Downes Baskin Fellowships Due August 1, 2016
• Lawrence Fellowship Due October 1, 2016
• National Science Foundation (NSF) GRFP Home Due October 25, 2016
• NSF GRFP example applications (since these were written, the essays have been consolidated from 3 essays to 2 essays)
• IBM PhD Fellowships Awards Program Due October 25, 2016
• The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program Due November 21, 2016
• GloCal Health Fellowship Due December 1, 2016
• Google Lime Scholarship (for students with disabilities) Due December 4, 2016
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship and application guide Due December 9, 2016
• Generation Google Scholarship (for students of underrepresented groups) Deadline TBA
• Google Anita Borg Scholarship (for female students) Deadline TBA
• Google PhD Fellowship Must be nominated by department
• UCSC financial aid office Various
• The Reverie Innovation Scholarship Program. Scholarship application deadline is November 15, 2016. . DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Deadline is Jan 18, 2017.