Crafts + Conferences

Today in our weekly CS Pizza talk and discussion series, the CS department hosted a panel of senior CS majors sharing their off-campus study experiences. Five juniors went abroad last year, and four were able to join the lunchtime panel. I was unable to attend because of my daughter’s early school dismissal, but I hear […]

Here’s my usual report on our fall 2024 enrollments, as of week 2 of the semester. Number Title Enrolled under Math Women:Men Waitlist CS 167-A, -B, -C Intro. Computational Problem Solving 68/60 3:4 CS/Math 215 Introduction to Data Science 25/24 2:3 CS/Math 220-A, -B Discrete Math & Functional Programming 37/24 3 1:2 CS 270-A, -B […]

One of the responsibilities of the department chair is to introduce new colleagues at the first faculty meeting of the new academic year. So I just wrote one-minute introductions for my new colleagues, Sachintha Pitigala and Richard Torres Molina. I thought I’d share them here: Sachintha Pitigala joins us this year from Sri Lanka, where […]

Here’s my usual report on our fall 2023 enrollments, as of week 2 of the semester. Number Title Enrolled under Math Women:Men Waitlist CS 167-A, B Intro. Computational Problem Solving 60/60 1:2 ? CS 200 ST: Data Visceralization 17/16 3:2 ? CS/Math 215 Introduction to Data Science 29/25 7 1:2 ? CS/Math 220-A, B Discrete […]

We are trying again to fill our fifth tenure track position. Please share the position ad with anyone who might be interested! Whereas last time around we launched a spring search, this time we will start reading applications on October 18, the median application deadline for CS faculty jobs at primarily undergraduate institutions in 2022-23. […]