| January
2 - 8, 2005 |
|
| Tuesday, January 4 |
University Re-opens |
| 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Spring Term (05-2) Orientation |
| Wednesday, January 5 |
Spring Term (05-2) Classes Begin |
| Friday, January 7 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – noon |
School-wide faculty meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building), Brown Bag Lunch follows |
| January 9 - 15, 2005 |
| Monday, January 10 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| Tuesday, January 11 |
|
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession (Large
Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) |
| Wednesday, January 12 |
|
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Pizza Party (1st Floor Conference Room, IS Building) |
| Thursday, January 13 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker Steve Huth, Deputy Director, Network Systems
Survivability Program of CERT at CMU, discusses “Network
Security Issues and Research” (5th Floor
Alumni Hall—across from the Cathedral of Learning).
Reception Follows more... |
| Friday, January 14 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Information Assurance Seminar speaker Dave Keener,
Chief Security Officer, Vigilant Minds Inc., discusses “The
Future of Information Security” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| January 16 - 22, 2005 |
| Monday, January 17 |
University Closed for Martin Luther King Holiday |
| Tuesday, January 18 |
Spring Term add/drop ends |
| Friday, January 21 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Tatiana Gavrilova (Visiting Professor,
SIS) will discuss “Ontologies for Teaching
and Learning” (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| January 23
- 29, 2005 |
| Tuesday, January 25 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
SIS/DLIS Faculty Candidate Lorraine Normore, Visiting
Lecturer, School of Information Sciences, University
of Pittsburgh, gives a talk on "Special
Collections: Practices And Values". (Room
405, IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Student information session (1st Floor Conference
Room, IS Building) |
| Thursday, January 27 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series speaker Gloriana
St. Clair will discuss “The Implications
of Google Scholar and Google Print for the Digital
Library ”. 1507 Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie
Mellon University. more.. |
| Friday, January 28 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium. Rich Thompson (Professor and
Director, Telecommunications Program) will discuss “ ” (
IS Building) |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 404, IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Information Assurance Seminar speaker Pete Lindstrom,
CISSP, Research Director, Spire Security, LLC, gives
a talk on “Got Discipline? The Four Disciplines
of Security Management”. (Room 404 IS
Building) more... |
| January 30 - February 5, 2005 |
| Tuesday, February 1 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium. Heiko Spallek ( Assistant Professor,
Center For Dental Informatics, School of Dental Medicine)
will discuss “Dental Informatics – An
Emerging Discipline” (Room 501, IS Building) more... |
Wednesday, February 2 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
LIS Faculty Meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
Friday, February 4 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – noon |
School-wide Faculty meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building)
with Brown Bag lunch following |
| February 6 - 12, 2005 |
| Tuesday, February 8 |
|
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession (Large
Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) |
Thursday, February 10 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker Kathleen Criss,
Emergency Management Coordinator of the University
of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), discusses “Terrorism
and Emergency Planning” (5th Floor Alumni
Hall - across from the Cathedral of Learning). more... |
Friday, February 11 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| February 13 - 19, 2005 |
| Monday, February 14 |
Happy Valentine’s Day |
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| Wednesday, February 16 |
|
| 9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. |
Dissertation Defense. Kamol Kaemarungsi will discuss “Design
of Indoor Positioning Systems Based on Location Fingerprinting
Technique” (Room 503 IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
SIS/DLIS Faculty Candidate Meng Yang, Doctoral
Candidate, School of Information and library Science,
University of North Carolina, gives a talk on "Task-Dependant
Users' Video Relevance Criteria - A Naturalistic
Study". (Room 501, IS Building) more... |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Student information session (5th Floor Commons
Room, IS Building) |
| Thursday, February 17 |
|
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series speaker Zhendong
Niu will discuss “The Development and Strategies
of Digital Libraries in China”. 501 IS
Building, School of Information Sciences, University
of Pittsburgh. more.. |
Friday, February 18 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Colloquium. Rich Thompson (Professor and Director,
Telecommunications Program) will discuss “Disaster-Proof
Telecommunications from TeleContinuity“ (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
SIS/DLIS Faculty Candidate Judith A. Jablonski,
School Of Library And Information Studies, University
Of Wisconsin - Madison, gives a talk on "Just
Who Do We Think We Are? How LIS Faculty And LIS Practitioners
conceptualize The Field Of Library And Information
Science". (Room 501, IS Building) more... |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Student information session ( Room 503, IS Building) |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
Information Assurance Seminar speaker Peng Liu,
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
and Technology, Cyber Security Lab, Director, Penn
State University, discusses “Defending
against Internet Worm Attacks” (Room 404
IS Building) more... |
| February 20 - 26, 2005 |
| Monday, February 21 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
SIS/DLIS Faculty Candidate Joan P. Lussky, College
of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University,
gives a talk on "The Index Catalogue and Historical
Shifts in Medical Knowledge". (Room 501, IS
Building) more... |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Student information session ( Large Commons Room
5th Floor, IS Building) |
| Thursday, February 24 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
SIS/DLIS Faculty Candidate Sherry Koshman, Visiting
Lecturer, School of Information Sciences, University
of Pittsburgh, gives a talk on "Web Information
Visualization: Research and Real-World Results".
(Room 403, IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Student information session (1st Floor Commons
Room, IS Building) |
Friday, February 25 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Colloquium. Vladimir Zadorozhny (Assistant
Professor, IST) discusses “An Algebraic
Framework for Query Optimization in Sensor Networks” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. |
SIS/PITT Brown Bag Seminar on "Probability
Distributions over Joint Probability Distributions:
Prediction and Empirical Validation" (5th
floor Large Common Room, IS Building) more.. |
| February 27 - March 5, 2005 |
| Monday, February 28 |
University Honors Convocation |
| Wednesday, March 2 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
LIS Faculty Meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
Friday, March 4 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
School-wide Faculty meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) with Brown Bag lunch following |
| March 6 - 12, 2005 |
Spring break |
| March 13 - 19, 2005 |
| Sunday, March 13 |
Last day of Spring Break for students |
| Monday, March 14 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| Tuesday, March 15 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Colloquium for Faculty Candidate. Abebe Rorissa
discusses “Models of Similarity and their
Applications in Information Retrieval” (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| Wednesday, March 16 |
|
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Colloquium for Faculty Candidate. Christopher (Cal)
Lee discusses “Defining Digital Preservation
Work: A Case Study in Standards Development” (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker Janne Nolan, GSPIA, discusses “Terrorism
and Weapons of Mass Destruction” (5th
Floor Alumni Hall - across from the Cathedral of
Learning). Reception Follows more... |
| Friday, March 18 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon – 3:30 p.m. |
DLIS Spring Semester Doctoral Colloquium (Large
Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) more... |
| 1:00 p.m. |
SIS Brown Bag Seminar. Pieter Kraaijeveld and Mark
Voortman discuss "GeNIeRate: An Interactive Generator
of Diagnostic Bayesian Network Models" and "Improving
and learning Bayesian networks from cases". more... |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Colloquium. Lance J. Hoffman discusses “Information
Policy Issues in the Post-Attack Age” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| March 20 - 26, 2005 |
| Monday, March 21 |
|
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Colloquium for Faculty Candidate. Hur-Li Lee discusses “The
Concept of Collection from the User’s Perspective” (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| Wednesday, March 23 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
DIST Dissertation Defense. Boonchai Ngamwongwattana
discusses "Adaptive Rate Voice over IP".(Large
Commons Room, 5th Fl. IS Bldg.) more... |
| Thursday, March 24 |
|
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series Speaker. Hermann
Mauer discusses “Can We Avoid Catastrophic
Failures of Computer Networks?“ (Rangos
Hall 1, University Center, Carnegie Mellon University) more... |
| Friday, March 25 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Colloquium. Robert Bozsa (Director of Network
Monitoring and Analysis, TeleContinuity Inc.) discusses “New
Techniques for Telecom Network Monitoring” (Room
404, IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Colloquium. Kannan Srinivasan discusses “A
Lightweight Security Protocol for Wireless Communications” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| March 27 - April 2, 2005 |
| Tuesday, March 29 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Colloquium. Yi-Feng Zeng (Bio-medical Decision
Engineering (BiDE) Group, National University of
Singapore, Singapore) discusses “A Unifying
Framework for Learning Bayesian Network Structures
from Data: Block Learning Algorithm” (Room
403, IS Building) more... |
| Thursday, March 31 |
|
| 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. |
DIST Dissertation Defense. Wasan Pattara-Atikom
discusses "Quality of Service Support in IEEE
802.11 Wireless LAN".(Large Commons Room, 5th Fl.
IS Bldg.) more... |
| Friday, April 1 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
School-wide Faculty meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building) with Brown Bag lunch following |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Colloquium. David Ferraiolo discusses “Evolution
of Access Control in Commercial Products” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| Saturday, April 2 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Open house (IS Building) more... |
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. |
LIS Professional Development Day (IS Building) more... |
| 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
TELE Alien Day (IS Building) more... |
| April 3 - 9, 2005 |
| Wednesday, April 6 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
LIS Faculty Meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| Friday, April 8 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m. |
IST Faculty Meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 12:00 noon |
SIS/PITT Brown Bag Seminar, Jacopo Armani discusses "Taming
Adaptive Technologies for Education" (
Large Commons Room, 5th Floor, IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Colloquium. Gene Kim discusses “Advancing
Quantitative Management And Causal Science To IT
Operations And Security” (Room 404 IS
Building) more... |
| Saturday, April 9 |
FastTrack Weekend at SIS |
| 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Professional Development Day 2 for LIS students
with SIS Alumni Society (Career Service Center, William
Pitt Union) - registrations required more... |
| April 10 - 16, 2005 |
| Sunday, April 10 |
FastTrack Weekend at SIS |
| Monday, April 11 |
National Library Week (April 11-16, 2005) |
11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and
4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
SIS ReadOut. Libraries across America are celebrating
the freedom to read during National Library Week.
Please stop by to share your favorite story. (IS
Library, 3rd Floor IS Building) |
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| Tuesday, April 12 |
National Library Week (April 11-16, 2005) |
| 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. |
Ten Questions for the Information Profession (Large
Commons Area, 5th Floor IS Building) |
| Wednesday, April 13 |
National Library Week (April 11-16, 2005) |
| Thursday, April 14 |
National Library Week (April 11-16, 2005) |
| 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Read!365 Book Fair (Large Commons Area, 5 th
Floor IS Building) |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker Lisa Nelson, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
will speak on Biometrics. (5th Floor Alumni Hall
- across from the Cathedral of Learning). Reception
Follows more... |
| Friday, April 15 |
National Library Week (April 11-16, 2005) |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Colloquium. Fred Fonseca (Assistant Professor,
School of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania
State University) discusses “A Discussion
on Ontology-Driven Information Systems” (Room
404, IS Building) more... |
| 12:00 noon |
Brown Bag Seminar. Samvith Srinivas and Tomek Loboda
discuss "Decision Analysis in the context
of Geospatial Queries Interpretation" (Room
501, IS Building) more... |
| 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
DIST Dissertation Defense. Phongsak Kiratiwintakorn
discusses "Energy Efficient Security Framework
for Wireless Local Area Networks". ( Large
Commons Room, 5th Floor, IS Building) more... |
| Saturday, April 16 |
National Library Week (April 11-16, 2005) |
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
SIS Open House. Registration in 1st floor Lobby,
IS Building more... |
| April 17 - 23, 2005 |
| Thursday, April 21 |
|
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Meet the speaker refreshments (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor, IS Building) |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series speaker, Carl
Lagoze, Senior Research Associate, Cornell University,
discusses “A Network Overlay Architecture
for Contextualized Digital Libraries” (Room
501 IS Building) more... |
| Friday, April 22 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the speaker Coffee (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Colloquium. Rebecca Crowley (Assistant Professor,
Center for Pathology Informatics, School of Medicine)
will discuss “The SlideTutor Project – An
Intelligent Medical Training System for Visual Diagnosis” (Room
404, IS Building) more... |
| 12:00 noon |
SIS Brown Bag Seminar. Rosta Farzan (Intelligent
Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh) discusses "Social
Navigation Support through Annotation-Based Group
Modeling" and Denis Nkweteyim (School of
Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh) discusses "On
the Design of Hyperlink Recommender Systems" (Room
501, IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Colloquium. Susan M. Koski discusses “Considerations
for Security Outsourcing” (Room 404
IS Building) more... |
| April 24 - 30, 2005 |
| Monday, April 25 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Dissertation Defense. Laila Marouf discusses “The
Role of Business and Social Ties in Organizational
Knowledge Sharing: A Case Study of a Financial
Institution” (Room 503 IS Building) |
| 12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Dissertation Defense. Janie Golden discusses “The
Role and Contribution of Strategies and Factors
in the Career Successes of Public Library Directors” (Room
501 IS Building) |
| Tuesday, April 26 |
|
| 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
DIST Dissertation Defense. Stephen Hughes discusses "Assisted
Viewpoint Interaction for 3D Visualizations" more... |
| Friday, April 29 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
Brown Bag Seminar. Xiong Liu discusses “A
High Throughput Web Database for Protein Functional
Motion Analysis” (Room 501 IS Building) more... |
| May 1 - 7, 2005 |
| Sunday, May 1 |
University’s Annual Commencement Convocation |
| Wednesday, May 4 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
LIS Faculty Meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| May 8 - 14, 2005 |
| Monday, May 9 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| May 29 - June 4, 2005 |
| Monday, May 30 |
University Closed - Memorial Day |
| Thursday, June 2 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
SIS Alumni Society Meeting (Large Commons Area,
5th Floor IS Building), with Dean Larsen and Dr.
Thompson |
| June 12 - 18, 2005 |
| Monday, June 13 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
Info. Session/Open House (Large Commons Area, 5th
Floor IS Building) |
| July 3 - 9, 2005 |
| Monday, July 4 |
University Closed - Independence Day |
| Wednesday, July 6 |
|
| TBD |
CISCO Bootcamp at SIS |
| Thursday, July 7 |
|
| ALL DAY |
CISCO Bootcamp at SIS |
| Friday, July 8 |
FastTrack Cohort 4 on campus |
| ALL DAY |
CISCO Bootcamp at SIS |
| Saturday, July 9 |
FastTrack Cohort 4 on campus |
| TBD |
CISCO Bootcamp at SIS |
| July 17 - 23, 2005 |
| Friday, July 22 |
|
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Summer Graduation Ceremony and Reception (Frick
Fine Arts Auditorium and Cloister) |
| 7:05 p.m. |
Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Game with SIS Alumni
Society (PNC Park)—ticketed event |
| July 24
- 30, 2005 |
Wednesday, July 27
|
|
| 11:00 am |
Diversity Fair, hosted by the SIS Cultural Diversity
Class. Featuring presentation by Celeta Hickman on “Gullah
Storytelling”. (First Floor Conference
Room, IS Building) more... |
| Firday, July 29 |
|
| 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
DIST Dissertation Defense. Shuo Liu discusses “Geoprocessing
Optimization in Grids” (5th Floor Large
Commons Room) more... |
| July 31 - August 6, 2005 |
| Friday, August 5 |
|
| 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
DIST Dissertation Defense. Stephen Hughes discusses “Assisted
Viewpoint Interaction for 3D Visualizations” (5th
Floor Large Commons Room) more... |
| August 14 - 20, 2005 |
| Monday, August 15 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
Information Session (5th Floor Large Commons Room) |
| August 21 - 27, 2005 |
| Firday, August 26 |
|
| program times vary |
SIS New Student ORIENTATION |
| August 28 - September 3, 2005 |
| Monday, August 29 |
Fall Term classes begin |
| Wednesday, August 31 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
DLIS faculty meeting (Room 501 IS Building) |
| Friday, September 2 |
|
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Lorrie Cranor, discusses “Towards
Usable Web Privacy and Security” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| September 4 - September 10,
2005 |
| Monday, September 5 |
University Closed - Labor Day |
| Wednesday, September 7 |
|
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
LIS Adjuncts meeting (5th Floor Large Commons Room,
IS Building) |
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. |
Fall Term Pizza Party (SIS Patio - weather permitting;
otherwise TBD) |
| Thursday, September 8 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker, Mike Comiskey, discusses “Regional
Initiatives for Homeland Security” (Alumni
Hall, 5th Floor; Reception to follow) more... |
| Friday, September 9 |
Fall Term Add/Drop ends |
| 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
School-wide faculty meeting (405, then 501 & 5th
Floor Large Commons Area, IS Building) |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
School-wide staff meeting (Room 405 IS Building) |
| September 11 - September 17,
2005 |
| Monday, September 12 |
|
| 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |
DLIS meeting with Academic Librarians for COA (5th
Floor Large Commons Room, IS Building) |
| Wednesday, September 14 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
DLIS Doctoral Studies Committee (Room 501, IS Building) |
| 6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. |
DLIS meeting with Public Librarians for COA (5th
Floor Large Commons Room, IS Building) |
| Friday, September 16 |
|
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
DLIS breakfast meeting with Special Librarians
for COA (5th Floor Large Commons Room, IS Building) |
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST faculty meeting |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Nabil R. Adam, discusses “Semantically
Enhanced System for Enforcing Privacy Preferences
of Mobile Consumers” (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| September 18 - September 24,
2005 |
| Friday, September 23 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
Department of Information Science and Telecommunications
Colloquia, Lee Giles, discusses "Next Generation
CiteSeer" (Room 403 IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS
Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Patrick Heim, discusses “Managing
Information Security at a Fortune 100 - a View
from the Trenches” (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| September 25 - October 1,
2005 |
| Wednesday, September 28 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Roger Dannerberg discusses “Music
Understanding by Computer” (Room 403
IS Building) more... |
| Friday, September 30 |
|
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, George Cybenko (Dartmouth),
discusses “Process Detection in Network
Security and Autonomic Computing” (Room
404 IS Building) more |
| October 2 - 8, 2005 |
| Wednesday, October 5 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Doug Oard discusses “Nobody
Writes Letters Anymore: The Impact of Emerging
Search Technologies on the Archivist’s Dilemma” (Room
403 IS Building) more |
| Thursday, October 6 |
Pitt’s Showcase of Science and Technology “Science
2005: The New Research Ecology”—Alumni
Hall |
| Friday, October 7 |
Pitt’s Showcase of Science and Technology “Science
2005: The New Research Ecology”—Alumni
Hall |
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
School-wide faculty meeting |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Jose Carlos Brustoloni
(Pitt) discusses “Using Secure Coprocessors
to Protect Access to Enterprise Networks” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| October 9 - 15, 2005 |
| Tuesday, October 11 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speakers, Michael Allswede, Carey Balaban, and Ken
Sochats, discuss “The Center of Excellence
in High Consequence Event Preparedness and Response
Effort” (Alumni Hall, 5th Floor; Reception
to follow) more |
| Wednesday, October 12 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Richard A. Thompson discusses “Using
Probabilistic Languages to Model Complicated Processes” (Room
403 IS Building) more... |
| 1:30 p.m - 3:00 p.m. |
Digital Libraries Colloquium, Tony DiMaso discusses "(Verizon
Perspectives on) The Emerging Telecommunications
Environment and Implications for the User Experience” (
3305 Newell-Simon Hall, Carnegie Mellon University
) more... |
| Friday, October 14 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST faculty meeting |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, TBA (Room 404 IS Building) |
| October 16 - 22, 2005 |
| Tuesday, October 18 |
|
| 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. |
Visiting Scholar Colloquium, Charles Oppenehim
discusses "Copyright law and institutional
repositories: news and views from across the water" (Room
403 IS Building) more... |
| Wednesday, October 19 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
DLIS Doctoral Studies Committee (Room 501, IS Building) |
| Thursday, October 20 |
Home Coming Weekend (Oct. 20-23) |
| Friday, October 21 |
Home Coming Weekend (Oct. 20-23) & Freshman
Family
Weekend (Oct. 21-23) & FastTrack Cohorts 4-5.5 here |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Alexandros Labrinidis discusses “UserCentric
Data Management” (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Andrew Myers (Cornell)
discusses “Toward distributed systems secure
by construction” (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| Saturday, October 22 |
Home Coming Weekend (Oct. 20-23) & Freshman
Family
Weekend (Oct. 2123) & FastTrack Cohorts 4-5.5 here |
| October 23 - 29, 2005 |
| Sunday, October 23 |
Home Coming Weekend (Oct. 20-23) & Freshman
Family
Weekend (Oct. 21-23) & FastTrack Cohorts 4-5.5 leave |
| Monday, October 24 |
|
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Meet the speaker coffee (Room 403 IS Building) |
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium. Nancy Davenport, Director,
Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
will discuss “Academic Libraries--Changing
the Context for Scholarship” (Room 403
IS Building) more |
| Wednesday, October 26 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Michael B. Spring discusses “An
Overview o RAPAI Issues and Opportunities” (Room
404 IS Building) more |
| Thursday, October 27 |
please see: www.i-fest.pitt.edu i-fest
continuing student Spring (January) Term registration
begins (ends December 9 without a late fee) |
| Friday, October 28 |
please see: www.i-fest.pitt.edu i-fest |
| Saturday, October 29 |
please see: www.i-fest.pitt.edu i-fest |
| October 30 - November 5, 2005 |
| Friday, November 4 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
School-wide faculty meeting |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Ling Liu (Georgia Tech)
discusses “Countering Targeted File Attacks
using LocationGuard” (Room 404 IS Building) more... |
| November 6 - November12, 2005 |
| Tuesday, November 8 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the DIST speaker coffee (Room 503 IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Nick Chbat & Kees van Zon
discusse “Clinical Decision
Support at Philips Research North America” (Room 503 IS Building) more |
| Wednesday, November 9 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DLIS faculty meeting |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Joseph Kabara discusses “Death
of a Sensor Network” (Room 403 IS Building) more |
| Thursday, November 10 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker, Rusty Russell, Research Program Coordinator,
Office of Research and Economic Development, WVU,
discusses “Translating Homeland Security
to Campus Security” (Alumni Hall, 5th
Floor; Reception to follow) download
flyer |
| Friday, November 11 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Faculty meeting |
| November 13 - November19, 2005 |
| Tuesday, November 15 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Meet the DIST speaker coffee (Room 501 IS Building) |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, John Mark Agosta discusses " A
program proposal for "learning" diagnostic models
from just a few cases" (Room 501 IS Building) more |
| Wednesday, November 16 |
|
| 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
DLIS Doctoral Studies Committee (Room 501, IS Building) |
| Friday, November 18 |
|
| All Day |
VISC/SIS Celebrates GIS Day at the Carnegie Science
Center |
| 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
VISC Hosts GIS Teacher Training (828 IS Building
Lab) |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Chris Atkeson discusses “Robot
Learning” (Room 403 IS Building) more |
| 2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
Meet the LERSAIS speaker coffee (Room 404 IS Building) |
| 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
LERSAIS Seminar Speaker, Csilla Farkas (South Carolina),
discusses “Security in Web Applications” (Room
404 IS Building) more |
| Saturday, November 19 |
|
| All Day |
VISC/SIS Celebrates GIS Day at the Carnegie Science
Center |
| November 20 - November26, 2005 |
| Wednesday, November 23 |
Thanksgiving Recess for students (November 23-27
inc.) |
| Thursday, November 24 |
University Closed--Thanksgiving Recess for faculty
and staff |
| Friday, November 25 |
University Closed--Thanksgiving Recess for faculty
and staff |
| November 27 - December 3, 2005 |
| Wednesday, November 30 |
|
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
DIST Colloquium, Hassan Karimi discusses “The
Achilles Heel of Driving Assistance Systems” (Room
404 IS Building) more... |
| Thursday, December 1 |
|
| 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
Ethics and Accountability Lecture Series. Janne
Nolan discusses “Ethics of Dissent in National
Security” (Pittsburgh Athletic Association)
with refreshments following |
| Friday, December 2 |
|
| 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
Schoolwide faculty meeting |
| December 4 - 10, 2005 |
| Tuesday, December 6 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |
Digital Library Colloquium Series, Michael Carroll,
Associate Professor, Villanova University School
of Law, discusses "Copyright in a Networked
Society: Creative Commons and Machine-Readable Law" from
3:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. (Rangos 3, University Center,
Carnegie Mellon University Campus) Light refreshments
will be available. more... |
| Thursday, December 8 |
|
| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Center for National Preparedness Seminar Series
speaker, Louise K. Comfort, Professor of Public and
International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh,
discusses "Fragility in Disaster Response:
Hurricane Katrina" (Alumni Hall, 5th Floor,
Reception to follow) more... |
| Friday, December 9 |
Continuing Student registration for Spring Term
(January) ends without a late fee |
| 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 noon |
IST Faculty meeting |
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |
SIS Graduation Recognition Ceremony for December
graduates (Connelly Ballroom - 1st floor, Alumni
Hall) |
| December 11 - 17, 2005 |
| Monday, December 12 |
|
| 12:00 noon |
SIS Pot-Luck Holiday Party for faculty, staff,
and students (5th Floor Large Commons Areas) |
| Wednesday, December 14 |
|
| 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
Apple’s Podcasting in the K-12 Environment
(Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union) |
| 9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
DLIS Doctoral Studies Committee (Room 501, IS Building) |
| 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Apple’s Podcasting in the Higher Education
Environment (Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union) |
| December 18 - 24, 2005 |
| Firday, December 23 |
University Closed (Dec. 23 - January 2 inc.) -
Recess for faculty and staff |
