Fall 2009 mdl Group Meeting Schedule
Fall 2009 mdl group meetings will be held on Wednesdays from 11:00 to 12:30 in 333 IST for the entire semester.
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 26 |
Introductions and elevator talks by "senior" mdler's |
everyone |
| Sep 2 |
How to have a bad career as an mdl grad student | Drs. Vijay + Yuan |
| Sep 9 |
Trip reports from DAC, ISLPED |
Dr. Janie + |
| Sep 16 |
FPGA prototyping tools tutorial |
Kevin + |
| Saturday Sept 19 |
mdl Group retreat, Mt. Nittany Inn |
everyone |
| Sep 23 |
3DIC Conf. paper presentation |
Jin |
| Sep 30 |
Rules of publishing and effective paper/poster/presentation preparation |
Dr. Mahmut |
| Oct 7 |
Benchmarks tutorial (Spec, SpecOMP, SpecJBB, PARSEC, SPLASH2, ... and simpoints) |
Shekhar + |
| Oct 14 |
Circuit simulation and layout tools tutorial (HSPICE, virtuoso, designcompiler, primetime, astro) |
Ramki + |
| Oct 21 |
Circuit simulation and layout tools tutorial, con't |
Ramki + |
| Oct 28 |
CANCELED |
|
| Nov 2 |
Why networking is important to your career and how to improve your networking skills |
Dr. Yuan |
| Nov 9 |
Supercomputing Conf. paper presentations |
Shekhar, Xiangyu, Ramya |
| Nov 18 |
Compilation tools tutorial (Phoenix, suif, open64, ...) |
Emre, Praveen + |
| Dec 2 |
System simulation tools tutorial (SIMICS, GEMS, M5 SECS, WATTCH, HOTSPOT, ...) |
Niranjan + |
| Dec 9 |
MICRO paper presentations |
Asit, Shekhar, Sai |
| Dec 16 |
Time mgmt for mdl grad students |
Dr. Janie |

