On Wednesday 4 June, the final CS290 project presentations will 
be televised to our collaborators at MIT.  

Here's the story on venue, schedule, and format.  


* Place:  We will meet in Kerr Hall Studio B, not Phelps.  
  We will have a video connection to MIT.


* Time:  We will begin at 9am sharp with project
  presentations.  Each presentation will have 10 
  minutes for the presenters plus 5 minutes for 
  questions and discussion.  I will be brutally
  strict with the clock.  


* Schedule:  Please get here at 9am sharp.  We will 
  begin without delay.  Here's the schedule:

   9:00:  Kirsten Meeker, Parallel landscape erosion
   9:15:  Imran Patel & Wasim Mohiudden, Matlab*P on the grid
   9:30:  Viral Shah & Gaurav Saxena, Geometric mesh partitioning
   9:45:  Jian Han & Ken Mixter, Sparse constructors and indexing
  10:00:  Nisheeth Shrivastava & Rachit Chawla, Fault tolerant Matlab*P
  10:15:  Xiuzhen Huang, Parallel image convolution 
  10:30:  Discussion
  11:00:  Close


* Format:  The presentations will be in SIAM conference 
  format.  That means the talk is only 10 minutes long, 
  followed by 5 minutes of questions.

  It is *really* hard to give a talk in this format.  A 
  short talk is much harder to prepare than a long talk.
  But knowing how to give a very short talk will be very
  valuable to you, whether your audience is collaborators, 
  customers, or politicians.

  The key point is very simple:
  
  ** The purpose the talk is to convince the listener to read the paper. **

  You don't have time to give all the details.  But your 
  audience can go read the details, if only you make them 
  excited enough to go look for them.  Your project web 
  site will have a writeup with the details, and links 
  to papers and references.