Any graduate student in CS for the 2005-2006 academic year who plans on working in New Mexico after graduation should consider applying for the fellowship, which pays tuition, health benefits, and a stipend. Applicants are now being accepted for the fellowship, funded by the McCune Foundation, for the '05-'06 academic year, and the grant is eligible for renewal as well.
Related links: NM IT Fellowship page
Congratulations to CS grad student Sushmita Roy, who won the UNM Student Award for Innovation in Informatics for "Cell Population Deconvolution from Microarray Data using Particle Filters". She recently presented the paper at the Biocomputing @ UNM event. The award recognizes the degree of innovation or quality of the research, the application of informatics techniques, and the clarity of the proposal.
CS Professor Darko Stefanovic was named the School
of Engineering's Regents' Lecturer, based on his outstanding research,
teaching and service accomplishments. Specifically, Prof. Stefanovic's work
in biomolecular computation continues to break new ground, and he's received
a number of NSF grants.
Congratulations, Darko!
Undergrads, is a class or a subject giving you fits? Take advantage of the tutoring happening in FEC 309—the 3rd-floor computer lab. The undergraduate tutoring schedule shows when CS student tutors Peter Lu, Breanna Ammons, and Rory McGuire show up.
Other resources include tutoring from the Math Department (including some CS course) and CAPS for more general courses.
It'll take place from 9am to 5pm in Student Union Building, Lobo Rooms A & B. Orran Krieger from IBM will give the keynote at the conference, which features works from CS students.
See the conference web site for more details.
CSGSA President Aaron Clauset, Prof. Cristopher Moore, and co-authors David Kempe and Dimitris Achlioptas had their paper "On the Bias of Traceroute Sampling—or: Why almost every network looks like it has a power law" accepted to the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), a top CS theory conference. Clauset will present the paper in May at the conference.
The recently updated course
textbook list may interest some, while others may want to submit to the
CSGSA's 1st Annual CS UNM
Student Conference. Poster and talk submission deadlines are January
21st, so get busy.
Speaking of posters, the CS Dept recently acquired an HP DesignJet
800ps, which prints 42 inch wide posters at 2400x1200 dpi. Before you print,
stop by Farris room 307 and talk to those systems folks about the right
settings.
The Anita Borg
Scholarship deadline is January 14, 2005. This Google-sponsored
scholarship is for both undergraduate and graduate women in the computer
sciences.
In mentoring news, MentorNet, the
E-Mentoring Network for Women in Engineering and Science, has
immediately available mentors. While MentorNet's programs and missions
focus on women, men may participate and are treated equally within the
program. Contact Deborah
Chavez-Kennedy for more information.
CS Dept. Undergraduate Rory McGuire has won an Honorable Mention from the Computer Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Awards. Congratulations!
Rory's no stranger to awards: he snagged the 2004 School of Engineering Department of Computer Science Outstanding Junior Award.
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