Spring 2025 - CS Grad New Student Orientation

Incoming CS grad students, mark your calendars!

On Friday January 24th the Department of Computer Science will welcome all new graduate students to campus at its spring semester orientation session. Incoming students will learn everything they need to know to have an awesome year. Activities include meeting with faculty and current students as well as socializing with new classmates.

As you can see from the tentative schedule below, new graduate students should prepare for a busy day!  See you on the 24th!

Day

Time

Where

What

Who

Fri 1/24

9-9:50am

NCS Lobby

Breakfast (Continental)

Events

10am-10:15am

NCS 220

Opening Remarks

Prof. Erez Zadok 

10:15am-12pm

NCS 115

PhD Program Orientation (in-person only)

Prof. Erez Zadok 

 

 

NCS 220

MS Program Orientation

Prof. Michalis Polychornakis, Kenna O'Leary

 

Students with visa issues, please use this zoom registration link to register for remote attendance.

12:10pm-12:30pm

NCS 115

RA/TA Union: GESU remarks (All PhDs and paid MS)

GSEU

12.40pm-2pm

NCS Lobby

Lunch (boxed)

Events

5:30-6pm

NCS Lobby

Pizza dinner

Events

6:15-8pm

NCS 120

MS Student Panel

MS Students

6:15-8pm

NCS 220

PhD Student Panel (incl. W-PhD remarks)

PhD Students 

Legend:

NCS - New Computer Science building