Career Planning Seminars

CSGS and the Department of Computer Science are pleased to present two career planning seminars this month.
 
Event #1: Thursday, April 5, 4 PM @ ICT 516
Non-Academic Career planning: Making the Move from Academia to Industry
 
We have some great speakers lined up and they're going to show you:
* how to prepare for your job search (resume and cover letter writing, networking)
* what companies are looking for from graduate students (how to prepare for interviews, leveraging your training, making your job search a career search)
* how to extend your training even further (further certifications, lifelong learning)
 
Julie Brown is the GSA's Employer Relations and Transitions Coordinator, who helps graduate students transition to permanent careers during and after the completion of

CSGS Photo Contest

Posted February 20th, 2012 by csgs

Here is the photos submitted to the CSGS photo contest. Click on a photo to go to its page. You can view the original size photo by clicking on the "original" tab (down right) in this page.
To vote for a photo, email its ID (e.g. Nxx, Pyy, ..) to csgs@cpsc.ucalgary.ca. You can vote for up to 3 photos in any categories:

Photos in Nature category:

CSGS Photography Contest, Ferburay 2012

CSGS is organizing a Photography contest and we’re looking for the best photos in the department!. The contest is open to all current graduate students of Department of Computer Science.

Alan Turing Centenary 2012

The University of Calgary will offer a series of talks on Turing's work throughout the Winter and Fall 2012 terms.  The lectures will be aimed at a general audience and are open to the public. Later in the year, Telus Spark will also host some events related to Turing as part of their Adults Only Thursday night series and the Calgary Science Café.

You can watch previous talks on mathtube.

Winter 2012 CSGS Welcome Back Party

Hi everybody,

We hope everyone had a good holiday break!

The CSGS will be holding a welcome back party
on Thursday, January the 26th, at 12:00 pm (noon) in ICT 516.  There will
be chelo-kabob as the main dish and other snacks/refreshments (there
will be vegetarian options as well). This is a great opportunity for new
graduate students to meet and mingle with other graduate students,
staff and faculty, while returning graduate students get to catch up
with each
other.

WHAT: CSGS Winter Welcome Back Party
WHERE: ICT 516
WHEN: Thursday, January the 26th at 12:00 pm (noon)

We hope to see everyone there!

Pason programming contest

The ECE department has hooked up with Pason Systems to sponsor a programming contest on Feb 4. Open to ECE and CPSC students (ugrad/grad). Poster is by the ICT elevators on ground floor. Generous cash prizes!!

http://www.pason.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=570&It...

There are prizes of up to $1000 in the grad student category now, even though the poster does not show it.

CSGS Annual Food Drive - 2011

The annual campus food drive is an important event for students in need here at the University of Calgary. In previous years, grad students have accounted for as much as 60% of those who must patronize services such as the food bank. For a couple of years, all proceeds has been going to the Campus Food Bank. CSGS will be participating in the GSA's Holiday Food Drive. The Departmental Graduate Association which gathers the greatest number of donations will receive a sizeable gift certificate for the Last Defense, so help us compete for the department!

CSGS is organizing a food drive by getting all computer science labs to donate. Items like food and toiletries are the most welcome towards helping students in need. CSGS is also pleased to offer the lab which donates the most points (as outlined below) the honour of receiving the one and only Soup Can Cup, as well as a small prize of their own. Each item your lab donates to the cause is worth points, as listed below:

Food Drive Item Points awarded
Expired, damaged, or opened/unsealed goods -2 / -5 *
Dry pasta, rice, lentils and cereal (>=500g) 5
Household supplies (detergent, toilet paper, paper towels) 4
Peanut butter, juice, soy or rice milk (>= 750g or 750mL) 3
Feminine hygiene or family planning products (>=12ct) 3
Toiletries (full-sized toothpaste, bar soap, shampoo, shaving products) 2
Pre-prepared complete meals (Kraft Dinner, Stag Chili), pasta sauce and other meal helpers (marinades, condiments, prepared side dishes) 2
Canned beans and vegetables 2
Canned or dry soup, instant noodles 1
Canned seafood or fruit 1
Other 1 **

* The penalty for such (unusable) items is -2 EA, for the first three, and -5 EA thereafter. The policy is put to encourage labs to double-check their collection of items before the collection date.
** Cash donations will be accepted on December 6 and 7 only, at a value of 1 point per dollar.

Labeled boxes should arrive in your lab by November 18, 2011, for the generous donations of you and your labmates. Here follows a list of currently known box locations:.

Lab Box Location
AI ICT 716
Computer Vision ICT 715
Database ICT 515
iLab MS 680
Networking ICT 720
Programming Languages ICT 618A
Theory ICT 625
iCIS ICT 617
General CSGS lounge ***

*** Should you wish to donate to the food drive, but are unable to find your box, a donation box will also be left inside the CSGS lounge.

The lab with the most points will win "The Soup Can Cup"! More importantly, it will mark your lab as the most caring and generous lab in the department. Donations will be collected on Wednesday, December 7, 2011.

For more information, you may contact us at csgs@cpsc.ucalgary.ca, or alternately, talk to your lab rep to get your lab organized.

Please help us help your fellow students, and make campus a better place!

CSGS Award Seminar

We had the CSGS Award Seminar on September 15. The slides for that seminar is attached to this page.

CSGS Beach Volleyball Tournament 2011

Where: Volleydome (2824  24th Ave NW, Calgary).

When: Friday, August 5, 2011, 4pm-6pm.

Free Tickets to Fringe Festival

Did you know that like many cities around the world, Calgary hosts a Fringe Festival annually?

For nine days this summer starting July 29, Calgary will be playing host to independent, uncensored, experimental theatre shows in the Inglewood area. AND CSGS has secured two pairs of FREE TICKETS! Two pairs of tickets that YOU CAN WIN.

We will be hosting a random draw for these tickets. To enter this draw you must: