Schedule of Activities for Summer 2011
| Date |
Day |
Activity |
| Pre-program |
|
Papers to read, tentative project selection |
| June 2-3 |
Thursday-Friday |
Arrival, employment paper work at Student Employment |
| June 4 |
Saturday |
Attendance at yearly dance recital of Natyasangam, an Indian classical dance school; Dinner at BJ's afterwards. |
| June 5 |
Sunday |
Hike at Garden of the Gods, lunch afterwards in the hill town of Manitou Springs. |
| June 6 |
Monday |
First day of the REU program; Introduction at 9 AM; Pizza Mixture at 4:30 PM |
| June 7 |
Tuesday |
3:30-4:30 PM: IT infrastructure including clustes available to REU students (Sean Staples) |
| June 8 |
Wednesday |
9:15-10 AM: Group Meeting; 3:30-4:30 PM: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (Jugal Kalita) |
| June 9 |
Thursday |
3:30 - 4:30 PM: Research Process, Science, It Works! (Ryan Freckleton) |
| June 10 |
Friday |
9:15-10:00 AM: Group Meeting |
| June 11 |
Saturday |
6-10 PM: Berbecue at Kalita's |
| June 13 |
Monday |
3:30-4:30 PM: Introduction to Machine Learning (Brian Parks |
| June 15 |
Wednesday |
4-5 PM: Phases in Natural Language Processing (Kalita) |
| June 17 |
Friday |
2-4:45 PM: Proposal Presentations; 2-3 page proposal papers due |
| June 18 |
Saturday |
3 AM - 6 PM: Conquering Pikes Peak, the most famous mountain in the Continental United States, the First Fourteener of the Summer! |
| June 21 |
Tuesday |
4-5 PM: Natural Language Processing (Kalita) |
| June 25 |
Friday |
4-5 PM: Supervised Learning (Kalita) |
| June 27 |
Monday |
4-5 PM: Status Meeting |
| June 28 |
Tuesday |
4-5 PM: Machine Learning (Kalita) |
| June 30 |
Thursday |
4-5 PM: Haskelll Tutorial (Sujay Jayakar) |
| July 1 |
Friday |
4-5PM: Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (Andrew Bates) |
| July 4 |
Monday |
2-10 PM: Berbecue at Daryl Woodward's |
| July 5 |
Tuesday |
4:15-5PM: Status Meeting |
| July 6 |
Wednesday |
4-5 PM: Naive Bayes Classifier |
| July 8 |
Friday |
4-5 PM: Naive Bayes Classifier (continued) |
| July 10 |
Sunday |
9 AM-6 PM: Hiking around Rampart Reservoir, 13.5 miles! |
| July 13 |
Wednedsay |
2 PM-5PM: Midterm presentations; 4-5 page midterm papers due |
| July 15 |
Friday |
3:45 PM-4:15 PM: Visit with Chancellor Pamela Shockley-Zalabak; 4:15-4:30: Beth Griswold midterm presentation |
| July 21 |
Thursday |
4-5 PM: Clustering (Kalita) |
| July 23 |
Saturday |
2 AM-4PM: Conquering the Second Fourteener of the Summer, Huron Peak!! |
| July 25 |
Monday |
9:30 AM: Status Meeting |
| July 26 |
Tuesday |
4-5 PM: Hidden Markov Models (Kalita) |
| July 29-30 |
Friday-Saturday |
10 PM-4 PM: Conquering the Third Fourteener, Long's Peak!!! |
| July 31 |
Sunday |
6PM: Dinner at Caspian Cafe |
| August 2 |
Tuesday |
Draft of final papers due |
| August 5 |
Friday |
9:30 AM-4:15 PM: Final Presentations, 8-10 page final papers due; Get-together at Kalita's |
| August 6-7 |
Saturday-Sunday |
Departure |
| Post-program |
|
Writing papers for submission to conferences and journals! |