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                          DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
                              University of Maryland

		        NEW GRADUATE STUDENT ORIENTATION
		       Monday - Friday, August 24-28, 1997
		  A.V. Williams (AVW) Building and Stamp Union

Monday, August 24

Day	INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICES ORIENTATION	Stamp Union
		International Students Must Attend

 3:30-5:00 p.m. 	"BUDDY UP"			AVW Room 1152
		Ice Cream Mixer for Old and New Grad Students

Tuesday, August 25

 3:30-5:00 p.m.	RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS BY STUDENTS	AVW Room 1112
		Short Research Talks by Students from Various Research Groups

Wednesday, August 26

 All Day	CAMPUS-WIDE TA ORIENTATION	Stamp Union
		New TAs Must Attend

 4:00-5:00 p.m.	GRADUATE STUDENT COFFEE HOUR

Thursday, August 27

		DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ORIENTATION DAY
			Host:  Dr. Bill Pugh

  8:30 a.m.		CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST	AVW Room 1152

  9:00 a.m.		WELCOME ABOARD	AVW Room 1112

	Greetings and Introductions
	Welcome to Department - Dr. John Gannon, Chair 

  9:15 a.m.		DEPARTMENT INFO, STAFF & FACILITIES	AVW Room 112

	Payroll and Personnal - Jodie Gray and Sue Blandford
	Mailroom -		Tawana Twitty
	Library - 		Jordan Landes
	Computing Facilities -  TBA

 10:00 a.m.		FACULTY INTRODUCES FIELD AREAS		AVW Room 1112

	Artifical Intelligence		Dana Nau
	Database Systems		Mike Franklin
	Networks & Distributed Systems	Pete Keleher
	Software Engineering		Bill Pugh

		Stretch and Coffee Break			AVW Room 1152

	HCI				Ben Shneiderman		AVW Room 1112
	Computer Vision			Larry Davis
	Theoretical Computer Science	Dave Mount
	Numerical Analysis		Howard Elman
	Computational Linguistics	Philip Resnik


Noon			PIZZA WITH THE FACULTY (LUNCH)		AVW Room 1152

  1:00-2:00		HOUSEKEEPING ACTIVITIES

		        Social Security Card Sign Up  		Armory 0131
			Registration Information		AVW Room 1119
			Computer Accounts			AVW Room 4120
			Advising				Faculty Offices

  2:00-4:00 p.m.	PEER COUNSELING				AVW Room 1112

			Chief Counselor:  Jaime Montemayor
			Panel: 		  Forrest Shull
					  Demet Aksoy
				  	  Sean Luke
				  	  Shamik Sharma

  4:00 p.m.		DEPARTMENT PICNIC			Behind AVW
			Hosts:  Excutive Council Members
	
Friday, August 28

			NEW GRADUATE STUDENT ORIENTATION
			          TA WORKSHOP

		 	 Facilitator:  Dr Samir Khuller

  8:30 a.m.		CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST			AVW Room 1152

  9:00 a.m.		WELCOME ABOARD				AVW Room 1112

  9:15 a.m.		GUIDELINES FOR TAs in CS - 
			 Dr. Samir Khuller 

		Stretch and Coffee Break			AVW Room 1152

 10:15 a.m.		TA ROUNDTABLE				AVW Room 1112

 11:15 a.m.		CAMPUS-WIDE TA ORIENTATION DEBRIEFING	AVW Room 1152

 11:45 a.m.		QUESTIONS?


There are several TA meetings with instructors scheduled for the afternoon.
Be sure to attend if your supervisor has set up a meeting.



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Spoken: Nancy Eagle Lindley    		Domain: lindley@cs.umd.edu
	Graduate Program 		1119 A. V. Williams Building
	    Administrator		University of Maryland