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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