Course calender, Fall 2006

Week 1: Intro, being a grad student
* Tue, Aug 22: Course Intro, what do CS researchers do?
Notes 0-4.
Reading Assignment: 4 websites listed in the notes.
* Thu, Aug 24: How to be a successful research-track graduate student.
Notes 5-18.
Meet in McB 655, open to all grad students.

Week 2: Writing
Notes 19-25
* Tue, Aug 29: How to get started on writing, tools of the trade.
Reading Assignment: Chapters 1,2, and 13 of Higham. 
* Thu, Aug 31: English Hotspots. Research paper purpose and structure
Notes 26-31
Reading Assignment: Chapters 4 and 5 of Higham.

Week 3: Writing papers
* Tue, Sep 5: Research paper elements
Notes 32-38
* Thr, Sep 7: Research paper elements (cont)
Notes 39-48
*** Assignment 1 due in class
Reading Assignment: Chapter 6 of Higham.

Week 4: Revising papers; pubishing
* Tue, Sep 12: Revising a paper, Publishing a paper
Notes 49-56
*** Assignment 2 due in class
Reading Assignment: Chapter 7 of Higham.
* Thr, Sep 14: Reviewing a paper
Notes 57-64
Reading Assignment: Chapter 8 of Higham.
*** Friday, Sep 15: Assignment 3 due by noon to larryt@vt.edu.

Week 5: The Library and online Resources
* Tue, Sep 19: Library Tour (Meet in library)
* Thu, Sep 21: Online Resources, Endnote (Meet in library)
*** Assignment 4 due in class

Week 6: Being a grad student at VT; Jobs; Proposal writing
* Tue, Sep 26: Reviewing, Being a grad student at VT
Notes 65-68
* Thu, Sep 28: Jobs, finding a research topic
Notes 69-76
*** Assignment 5 due in class
Reading Assignment: Chapter 9 of Higham; Wilson paper posted at
                    website on reviewing

Week 7: Writing Proposals
* Tue, Oct 3: How proposals are processed
Notes 77-79
*** Assignment 6 due in class
* Thr, Oct 5: How to write a successful proposal
Notes 80-86

Week 8: Performance Analysis and Basic Statistics
* Tue, Oct 10: Performance Analysis
Notes 87-94
*** Assignment 7 due in class
* Thr, Oct 12: Statistics: Central tendency, some graphical devices
Notes 95-104
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 1

Week 9: Statistics and Probability
* Tue, Oct 17: Basic probability, measurement error
Notes 105-116
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 2.1-2.4, Chapter 3
* Thr, Oct 19: Distributions, central limit theorem
Notes 117-123
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 4
*** Assignment 8 due in class

Week 10: Stat stuff
* Tue, Oct 24: T-distributions, Hypothesis testing
Notes 124-134
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 5
*** Assignment 9 due in class
* Thr, Oct 26: Crosstabulations, Correlation
Notes 135-142
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 6

Week 11: Stat stuff
* Tue, Oct 31: Simple Regression
Notes 143-??
*** Assignment 10 due in class
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 7
* Thr, Nov 2: Multiple Regression
*** Assignment 11 due in class
Reading Assignment: Navidi Chapter 8

Week 12:
* Tue, Nov 7: Experiments
* Thr, Nov 9: Experiments
*** Assignment 12 due in class

Week 13:
* Tue, Nov 14: Experiments; Case study?
* Thr, Nov 16: Presenting quantitative data
*** Assignment 13 due in class

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Week 14:
* Tue, Nov 28: E-publishing, Websites
* Thr, Nov 30: Giving a talk
*** Assignment 14 due in class/electronically

Week 15:
* Tue, Dec 5:
*** Assignment 15 due electronically