From vouk@ncsu.edu Sat Aug 6 11:27:39 2005 Received: from yonge.cs.toronto.edu ([128.100.1.8]) by sanjuan.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <25211-13643>; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:27:34 -0400 Received: from loops.csc.ncsu.edu ([152.1.61.123]) by yonge.cs.toronto.edu with SMTP id <199899-18743>; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:27:30 -0400 Received: from ncsu.edu (vouk-static-vpn.ncsu.edu [152.7.93.206]) by loops.csc.ncsu.edu (8.12.9/8.12.4) with ESMTP id j76FPXw7012920 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:25:33 -0400 Message-ID: <42F4D6D8.7050800@ncsu.edu> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:27:20 -0400 From: Mladen Vouk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: miller@cs.toronto.edu Subject: [Fwd: WICS CRA-W Distinguished Lecturer Application] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by loops.csc.ncsu.edu id j76FPXw7012920 X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 229 Status: OR CRA-W Distinguished Lecturer Series Application for North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science Scheduling Constraints: Start Date of Fall 2005 Semester: August 17 End Date of Fall 2005 Semester: December 2 Unavailable Dates: September 5, October 5 =96 7, November 7 =96 18, Novem= ber=20 23 - December 2 Preferred Dates: Fridays (1st choice) or Tuesdays in 2nd half of=20 September, October, or November. The Computer Science Department at=20 NCSU will be moving into a new building in August/September. By having=20 the distinguished lecturer visit later in the semester, it will ensure=20 that all facilities are finished and that most of the move will be comple= te. Regular Colloquium Series: Mondays Advertising and Student Organizations: The Computer Science department at NCSU would be the host department for=20 this event. This fall we will be moving into a new building that will=20 be jointly shared with the Electrical and Computer Engineering=20 departments. We have two women=92s organizations at NCSU that would benefit from=20 attending an event like this. The first is Women in Computer Science=20 (WICS =96 http://wics.csc.ncsu.edu/), which would be the host student=20 organization. WICS has lunch meetings several times throughout the=20 semester. Last spring, WICS hosted their own panel event=20 (http://wics.csc.ncsu.edu/wics_panel_2005.html) with visiting faculty,=20 industry representatives, and graduates students. The second is Society=20 of Women Engineers (SWE - http://students.engr.ncsu.edu/swe/). Advertising would be accomplished in several ways. First, advertisement=20 would go through the WICS mailing list and through other student=20 organization mailing lists, the graduate student mailing list, and=20 possibly through departmental/college mailing lists. Next, fliers would=20 be posted around campus in areas where engineers, particularly in=20 computer science and computer engineering, would see them (these two=20 departments will move into a shared new building in NCSU=92s centennial=20 campus in Fall 2005). Also, the event would be posted on the Computer=20 Science department=92s website calendar. Professor Sarah Rajala, Associat= e=20 Dean of the Engineering College and herself a female faculty member in=20 ECE Department, regularly broadcasts messages related to women in=20 engineering to faculty and students in the college. There are several colleges nearby that would also benefit from attending=20 an event held at NCSU. Meredith College (http://www.meredith.edu/) is=20 an all girls college down the street from NCSU. They have a BS degree=20 in Computer Science and Computer Information Systems. Duke University=20 (http://www.duke.edu/) is a private university located in Durham, about=20 30 miles from NCSU. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill=20 (http://www.unc.edu/) also has related majors and is located about 32=20 miles from NCSU. Each year NCSU participates in a joint colloquia=20 series with Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill. In the aforementioned Spring 2005=20 WICS panel, Professor Carla Ellis from Duke was among the panelists. Contacts: Faculty Host: Dr. Xiaosong Ma Campus Box 8206, Raleigh, NC 27695 919.513.7577 ma@csc.ncsu.edu Colloquia Chair: Dr. Franc Brglez Campus Box 8206, Raleigh, NC 27695 919.515.9675 brglez@cs.ncsu.edu Student Liaison: Sarah E. Smith, WICS President Campus Box 8206, Raleigh, NC 27695 919.513.5082 sarah_smith@ncsu.edu Institution Information: North Carolina State University is located in Raleigh, NC. NCSU is=20 approximately 13 miles from Raleigh/Durham International Airport (RDU).=20 The Department of Computer Science (http://www.csc.ncsu.edu) at NCSU=20 was formed in 1967. We offer the degrees of Bachelor of Science, Master=20 of Science, Master of Computer Science, Master of Science in Computer=20 Networking, and Ph.D. in Computer Science. We are among the top in the=20 nation in the number of awarded Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in=20 Computer Science and in the top 40 in the number of awarded Ph.D.'s in=20 Computer Science. In fall 2005, our department will move into a new=20 building on the NCSU=92s Centennial Campus. Currently, we have 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty, about 800=20 undergraduate majors, and 360 graduate students. In each of the=20 following categories we have the following percentages of women=20 (percentages are based on enrollment numbers for the Spring 2005=20 semester): faculty =96 12.2%, undergraduate =96 10.9%, and graduate =96 2= 0.5%)