Week 3 (06/13 - 06/19)

Monday

- 11:45am-1pm: Attended the USRG Luncheon.

- Met with Gabi to work on my Research Plan.

- Scheduled a meeting with Nancy for Tuesday to look over my Research Plan and make final changes.

- Went to the Rec Center in the evening and played racquetball with Andrew.

Tuesday

- 3-4pm: Attended the USRG Seminar. The topic was "Energy, Environment and Transportation."

- Met with Nancy to look over my Research Plan. The final changes were made and I got my Research Plan signed.

Wednesday

- Finished working on the sequential implementations of the Nth Element algorithm. I still have to modify one of the sequential implementations to incorporate the sampling technique (similar to the one used in Sample Sort) I am planning to use in my parallel algorithm.
- Started working on the parallel implementation of the Nth Element algorithm.

- Submitted my Research Plan to Beth Johnson.

Thursday

- 11:30am: Attended the CS Brown Bag Lunch. The topic was "Faculty Research Panel." Several faculty members from the CS department gave short presentations on their current research.

- Met with Tao to discuss possible ways of implementing the parallel version of the algorithm.

- Wrote down the steps of the parallel algorithm (the way I think the algorithm should be implemented).

Friday

- Met with Timmie to get help on how to compile code in STAPL. I still have a few problems with the process.

- 3:30pm: Attended the weekly CS Cookie Break.

- 4:15pm: Left for Austin. We watched the bats, visited the Capitol and played Laser Tag all night long (midnight-7am)!!!

 
 

Saturday

- 8:45am: Came back from Austin. Slept almost until 4pm.

- Worked on this website for a few hours. Added a page about my mentors and my graduate student mentors. Added links to my Research Plan to the main page.

- Watched a movie ("12 Monkeys") with CS crowd in the evening.

Sunday

- Worked on this website for a few hours. Added some pictures I took (campus, events, people, etc.).