Information for New Students (September, 2001)
Welcome to the University of Toronto's
Department
of Computer Science. On this page, I have gathered some useful bits
of information for new graduate students who are interested in theoretical
computer science or applied discrete mathematics.
The theory area meeting of the orientation for new graduate students
will be held on Tuesday, September 4 at 2:00p.m. in room 1101 of the Sandford Fleming Building at 10 King's College Road.
Seminars
The department has a series of theory seminars and combinatorics seminars.
During these seminars, a researcher, usually from outside the university,
talks for about 50 minutes about his or her recent work, and then there
is some time for questions. All graduate students are welcome to attend.
Announcements of upcoming seminars can be found on the newsgroup ut.dcs.theory.
Announcements of seminars in all areas of computer science are posted to
the newsgroup ut.dcs.seminars and to
the web on this page.
The mathematics department posts
information about combinatorics seminars (and other mathematics seminars)
to this page. (You
can also access information about math seminars by typing finger seminars@math.)
Last year, there was also a theory seminar exclusively for graduate
students. Each week, students took turns presenting topics that they found
interesting to the others in a fairly informal setting. This student seminar
will probably be revived soon. If you want to receive announcements about
this seminar, send email to Antonina
Kolokolova. A similar graph theory student seminar was organized by Harold Connamacher.
Mailing Lists
The theorygroup and combinatorics mailing lists are used
to distribute information to people at the University who are interested
in theoretical computer science and combinatorics. If your supervisor is
in one of these areas, then you should be added to the appropriate list(s). Prof. Molloy maintains the combinatorics mailing list, so please contact him to get added to it. To be added to the theorygroup list, please contact Prof. Rackoff.
Web Resources
Here is a list of web pages that may be of interest
to students of theoretical computer science. There are links to bibliographies
of computer science papers, various computer science organizations, some
resources within the University of Toronto, and an index of other computer
science department web pages.
There are also departmental web pages for the Applied
Discrete Math Research Group and for the Theory
of Computation Research Group.
The Fields Institute
The Fields Institute
for Research in Mathematical Sciences (at 222 College Street, just
around the corner from the CS department) sometimes has workshops, courses
and seminars that may be of interest to computer science students.
Faculty
Postdocs & Visitors
Graduate Students
Send comments or questions about this web page to Natasa
Przulj.
Created by Eric
Ruppert.
Updated by Natasa Przulj on August 22, 2001.