SCHEDULE — Graduate Student (Virtual) Welcome Weekend 2021

Thursday, March 4th

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pre-scheduled Faculty Meetings
(Faculty member will provide meeting link to students with a scheduled appointment.)

6:30-7:30 pm Graduate Assistantships/Funding Question & Answer Session  (Zoom link here.)  Please view this short recording on grad assistantships before the Q&A session.
Click here for Graduate Assistantship FAQ

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Friday, March 5th

8:30 am – 12:30 pm Welcome and Faculty Research Presentations (Zoom meeting link)

• • 8:30-8:45 am Welcome from Department Chair
  • 8:45-9:45 am Architecture, Systems, Optimization, Security
  • 9:45-10:00 am Short break
  • 10:00 am- 11:15 am Machine Learning, Networking, Database, Robotics, Programming Languages
  • 11:15-11:30 am Short break
  • 11:30 am- 12:30 pm HCI, Visual Computing, Computer Vision, Theory

1:00 pm – 9:00 pm

• • Pre-scheduled Faculty Meetings (Faculty member will provide meeting link to students with a scheduled appointment.)
  • Somesh Jha will be available 2-3pm – Zoom link
  • Research Area Open Houses (Zoom links below)
    • Human-Computer Interaction, 1-3pm
    • Programming Languages, 1-3pm
    • System, 1:30-3pm (also session on Saturday)
    • Security, 3-4pm (also session on Saturday)
    • Architecture, 4-5pm 
    • Networking, 5-6pm
    • Databases, 6-7pm
    • Programming Languages, 7:30-9pm

6:30-7:30 pm Ask the Grad Coordinator Open Question and Answer Session (Zoom link for this session.)

7:30 pm SACM Student Panel (Link to Zoom meeting)

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Saturday, March 6th

8:00 am – 10:00 am

• • Pre-scheduled Faculty Meetings (Faculty member will provide meeting link to students with a scheduled appointment.)
  • Research Area Open Houses (Zoom links below)
    • System, 8-9am (also session on Friday)
    • Security, 9-10am (also session on Friday)

9:00 am WACM Student Panel (Meeting link was emailed to all individuals who registered for this session.  Email anjali@wisc.edu to request link access.)