594 and 595 Courses for Fall 2007
For help in enrolling in these courses, please contact the Undergraduate Advisor.
594. Academic Writing and Great Presentations – Fall 2007
Enroll Code: 08367
Instructor: Janet Kayfetz
Time: MW 900-1050
Location: CTL
Units: 4 units
Class Webpage: TBA
Description:
This class will combine academic writing and formal presentations into a single course. The following topics will be addressed:
Writing: We will discuss the characteristics of academic writing with a focus on rhetorical positioning, reader-centered writing, content and organization, clarity and precision, interest and beauty. Students will work on drafting and redrafting Introductions, Abstracts, and Data Commentaries.
Presentations: We will discuss and analyze the use of appropriate language and discourse for technical content, form, styles and listener preferences, the best use of visuals, connection with the audience, timing, clarity, fluency, coordination of content with movement, responding to questions. Students will give individual talks; presentations will be videotaped; detailed feedback will be given following each talk.
Do you have any questions? Please contact Janet at kayfetz@cs.ucsb.edu
595D. From Data Management to Process Management
Enroll Code: 73544
Instructor: Jianwen Su
Time: Organizational Meeting, 12:30pm, Oct. 5
Location: HFH 1152
Units: 2 units, S/U OPTION ONLY.
Class Webpage: TBA
Description:
Traditional database management research concerns primarily aspects of storage and retrieval of data that may be of different forms, relations or objects, temporal, spatial, multi-dimensional, etc. However, most database systems are merely one part of a larger business application environment that may consist of multiple autonomous software systems in which data are created, queried, updated, and eventually archived. Among the fundamental impact of the rapid adoption of SOA by enterprises is the possibility of modeling the "life cycles" of data in the entire application context, which makes the data being manipulated meaningful. The life cycles are often a key to essential quality of the business application. The failure of AT&T Wireless shows that a poor design of managing data and business processes can be fatal. In this seminar, we plan to discuss and explore existing technology, goals, and challenges in management of business processes---the bigger box that extends far beyond data management.
595H. Applications and Tools in Interactive Scientific Computing
Enroll Code: 73551
Instructors: John Gilbert
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Units: 1-2 units, S/U OPTION ONLY
Description:
Students in this seminar will investigate new applications, present current applications, and discuss problems and ongoing system development, in our research in interactive systems for parallel computation. We will particularly emphasize applications of high-performance combinatorial computation, in such areas as graph analysis, level set methods on irregular grids, and computational ecology.
595N. Distributed Analysis of Programs and Small World Networks
Enroll Code: 73536
Instructor: Pete Cappello
Time: R 300-400
Location: HFH 1152
Units: 2 units, S/U OPTION ONLY.
Description:
The course consists of 2 topics: 1) distributed analysis of programs (e.g., verification of correctness, etc.), and 2) aspects of systems distributed over small world networks.
595N. IGERT Complex Fluids Research Focus Group
Enroll Code: 72652
Instructor: Linda Petzold
Time: M 900-1000, starting October 1, 2007
Location: PHELP 3309A
Units: 2 units, S/U OPTION ONLY.
Class Webpage: http://www.cse.ucsb.edu/IGERT/groups/IGERT_fluids.htm
Description:
Complex fluids – fluids that contain polymers, surfactants, and often many components – are ubiquitous in everyday life. In spite of their commercial significance, the design principles for their formulation are not well established. The difficulty is that these systems are very complex from both thermodynamic and materials standpoints. The IGERT team on complex fluids focuses on mathematical and computational methods for simulation of both dynamic and equilibrium properties.
595N. IGERT Systems Biology Research Focus Group
Enroll Code: TBA
Instructor: Linda Petzold
Time: M 100-200, starting October 8, 2007
Location: HFH 1132
Units: 2 units, S/U OPTION ONLY.
Class Webpage: http://www.cse.ucsb.edu/IGERT/groups/IGERT_biology.htm
Description:
Systems biology has emerged as an important research discipline that holds promise as a systematic approach to interpreting the complexity that underlies regulation in biological systems. The research goal of the systems biology IGERT team is to achieve a systems level understanding of biological networks using system theoretic concepts and related computational tools. The team focuses on dynamic modeling and multi-scale deterministic and stochastic simulation of complex biophysical networks coupled with sensitivity and robustness analysis tools to aid in the understanding of these networks.
595N. TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY GATEWAY SEMINAR FALL 2007 Information Technologies and Globalization
Enroll Code: 72678
Instructor: Kevin Almeroth
Time: T 1100 - 1230
Location: Ellison Hall 1714
Units: 2 units, S/U OPTION ONLY.
Class Webpage: TBA
Description:
This fall, Lisa Parks of the Film and Media Studies department will lead the Technology and Society Ph.D. Emphasis gateway seminar focusing on information technologies and globalization. Professor Parks explains that the course is designed to focus attention upon different ways of studying information technologies and social issues in the context of globalization; expose students to qualitative research methods; foster a space for lively interdisciplinary discussions; and cultivate ideas for future individual and/or collaborative research. Discussion topics will include international expansion of web and wireless infrastructures, computing and mobile telephony in developing societies, information technologies and national identities, environmental aspects of information technologies, and the mapping and visualization of the global information economy. Students interested in registering for the seminar who have not already done so please attend the first course meeting October 2, 2007.
