Graduate Council Meeting Dates 2013-2014

When the Council hears students petitions.

FALL 2013
• Monday, September 9
• Monday, September 23
• Monday, October 7
• Monday, October 21
• Monday, November 4
• Monday, November 11
• Monday, November 18
• Monday, December 9

SPRING 2014
• Monday, February 3
• Monday, February 17
• Monday, March 3
• Monday, March 24
• Monday, April 7
• Monday, April 21

XSEDE Student Champion

The XSEDE program just announced a new 'Student Champion' program.  If you are interested in high performance computer and promoting high performance computing, please let Dr. Xinlian Liu know.  The program is a great opportunity to get exposed to this subject, as well as help the local community.  It is a program where you 'serve' and 'enhance yourself academically'.

Elsevier Back to School Discount (8/15-10/15/2013)

**Special Back to School Offer (from Aug. 15 to Oct. 15, 2013)**

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Student Working on Reading Recommendation System

Computer Science student Taylor  Kulp designed and implemented a data mining system of reading recommendations.  In this work, Taylor collected the collection of Project Gutenberg.  It will offer a list of 5 interesting books to read next, given a book you like.

Related reading, an interview on Netflix's recommendation system.