1/25/2008

Agenda

Reviving the Coffee/Tea Club
- Andrew moves to rename club to "Gradtuate Hot Water Club"
- Look into cart
- Food?
- Actionable:
  - Find Urnie
  - Price food and tea
  - Coffee Club money?
Look at process of registering as an official RSO (Probably not necessary)
Tool session series
- Sign up for attendance
- Parallel Python (import pp)
- Boost.Python: Python bindings library (similar to swig/pyrex)
- Numerical Analysis Death Match of Doom: R vs Python
- Stats tools (S+/R, Mathematica, SAS, Matlab)
- LaTeX skills/cool stuff with TeX
  - Intro session
  - Advanced session (How to impress your LaTeX friends)
  - Why LaTeX? What are the benefits? Why use over Word/other GUI editors
  - Thesis Template for PhD
- High precision library (arprec?)
Spring CS Research Symposium
- ISTEC symposium in Spring
- Combine! + a pannel of judges for CS Dept.
Spring soccer team
Topics relating to TA placement
- Communication
- Mention this to Elaine
High school recruitment
- A few presentations to high school students to increase their interest in the field
Other topics?
Biweekly Meetings on Friday at 11am
Officers
Secretary: Alan LaMielle
Treasurer: Malai