New Student Orientation 2009

Event: Orientation for New Students, including a picnic, grad student panel and meeting with the head of the Doctoral program.
Date: August 28, 2009

Student Guide
People to Know

Doctoral Student Retreat 2009

Date: Monday, July 27
Location: Room 234 in the Danforth Center
Meeting Time: 9:00 am start time (continental breakfast available by 8:30 am)

Free Food!: Continental breakfast (to include coffee, tea, juice, pastries and fruit) ----- Lunch at Blueberry Hill in The Loop (walk over together at the end of the meeting, approx 12:30)

Department Picnic 2009

When: July 17, 2009, 4:00 pm
Where: Forest Park at Picnic Ground #7 (The pavillion with the big red roof, located here: http://tinyurl.com/nomnomnompicnic)
RSVP: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=clBwdjUtUW5PaXp2QXRHd3ZrblNWV1E6MA

Exec Board Minutes - 7.14.2009

In attendance: Gazi, Ruosi, Greg, David

1. Retreat Scheduling
   • Possible dates: 7/27, 7/28, 7/31, 8/3, 8/4, 8/6, 8/7 (best dates for Roman and Buhler)
   • Last week of July is Infocom
   • Secretary gets married August 1
   • SIGGRAPH is first week of August
   • Leaning toward 7/27 or 7/28
   • Decided on Monday 7/27
2. Finding Representative Groups
   • Ethnic Representation
   • Lab Representation - require one person from every lab - DL to send email
   • All 4 officers will attend
     
3. Topics
   • Arch. class required?
   • Grad student input into hiring
   • Bad DSS talks should be remediated - possibly do over in front of faculty
   • Solicit ideas at picnic
4. Picnic Planning
   • Gazi will rent truck/pick up grills/coolers
   • Ruosi and Greg to shopping (trying to find Sams Club)
   • Madeline has rental agreement
   • Caitlin has volleyball net
   • Some people are baking
   • Need volunteers to clean up (David)
   • We have volunteers to grill
5. Lack of Happy Hours - David to email Ruoyon
6. No Summer Talk Series yet
   
7. Budget
   • We have money to spend, let's spend it
   • Using last years budget

Exec Board Minutes - 5.21.2009

In attendance: Gazi, Ruosi, Greg, David

1. Budget (Greg)
• Need to set next year's budget
  
• Settled Trivia Night expenses, came in $12 under budget!
  
• Need to figure out when the current budgeted money expires
  
• Need to set up a meeting with Dr. Roman
  



2. Picnic - June 26th
   
   • Need to find volunteers for grilling and shopping (Gazi)
     
   • Need to determine how many grills we need and reserve picnic area (David)
     
   • Need to find recreational activities (Gazi with check with Caitlin for volleyball equipment)
     
   • Need to send an Invitation/RSVP system/Vegetarian (David)
     
   • Need to make a Flyer (Ruosi)
     
   • Need to develop a shopping list: Add charcoal/grilling utensils to list
     
   
   
3. Orientation - Sometime in August
   
   • Information
   • Picnic
   • Tour
   
   
4. Graduate Council
   
   • Need to send email asking for volunteers (Gazi)
     
   • Approve of Joe as CSE rep
     
   
   
5. Other Stuff
   
   • Cosponsor AGES float trip?
     
   • CS in CS talks - approve of funding some money for food
     
   • Pan-engineering happy hour
     
   
   

Trivia Night 2009

Event : Trivia Night
Date/Time: April 10, 2009 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location : Cupples II 200
RSVP : http://snipurl.com/fcnme (guests are welcome)

Come join other grad students, faculty and staff for a fun trivia night
this Friday, April 10th. Please notice that the location changed to
Cupples II 200, which is equally spacious. There will be:

* Chinese food from Wong's Wok, with a vegetarian option
* Chips and snacks
* Soft drinks and alcoholic drinks (beer and wine)
* PRIZES! for the first three teams, and a raffle for the leftovers.

Please RSVP at http://snipurl.com/fcnme with your guests so that we have a
rough head count. You can also show up if you did not RSVP. We will try to
randomize the groups by drawing names, so don't hesitate to join if you
don't know people with good trivia skills. However we will make sure you
can be in the same team with one person that you prefer, such as your
guests.

Please note that this event replaces the happy hour. Hope you can make it.

Executive Board 2009

Executive Board

President: Gazihan Alankus
Vice-President: Ruosi Li
Treasurer: Gregory Hackmann
Secretary: David Lu!!

Seminar Chairs

Doctoral Student Seminar: Justin Wilson & Andy Kalcic
Happy Hour "Seminar": Ruoyun Huang

Contact: gradsa@cse.wustl.edu