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Week 3 (06/13 - 06/19)
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Monday
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11:45am-1pm: Attended the USRG Luncheon.
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Met with Gabi to work on my Research Plan.
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Scheduled a meeting with Nancy for Tuesday to look over my Research Plan and
make final changes.
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to the Rec Center in the evening and played racquetball with Andrew. |
Tuesday
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3-4pm: Attended the USRG Seminar. The topic was "Energy, Environment and
Transportation."
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Met with Nancy to look over my Research Plan. The final changes were made
and I got my Research Plan signed. |
Wednesday
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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.
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Submitted my Research Plan to Beth Johnson. |
Thursday
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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.
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with Tao to discuss possible ways of implementing the parallel version of
the algorithm.
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Wrote down the steps of the parallel algorithm (the way I think the
algorithm should be implemented). |
Friday
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with Timmie to get help on how to compile code in STAPL. I still have a few
problems with the process.
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3:30pm: Attended the weekly CS Cookie Break.
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4:15pm: Left for Austin. We watched the bats, visited the Capitol and played
Laser Tag all night long (midnight-7am)!!!
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Saturday
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8:45am: Came back from Austin. Slept almost until 4pm.
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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.
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Watched a movie ("12 Monkeys") with CS crowd in the evening. |
Sunday
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Worked on this website for a few hours. Added some pictures I took (campus,
events, people, etc.). |