Programs
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Educational Program
The IGERT Core Curriculum consists of the following:
- » 3 skills courses
- » 4 studio courses
- » An interdisciplinary projects course in the Spring semester of second year to crystallize the Trainees’ interdisciplinary thesis topic (supervised by IGERT faculty)
- » The Distinguished Speaker Series in the Spring semester
The students may fulfill the 4 studio courses requirement any time during their PhD career. The 3 skills courses must be taken during their first year entering the IGERT program. All IGERT Trainees must attend all of the Distinguished Speaker Series in the Spring semester. Please speak with your IGERT faculty advisor if you have any questions or concerns regarding the educational program requirements.
Fall 2013
(Studio Course)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science E6898:
TOPICS – INFORMATION PROCESSING: From Data to Solutions (3 Points)
Instructors: Professor Shih-Fu Chang (EE) and Professor Noemie Elhadad (DBMI)
Friday 1:10-3:00p.m. Room 453 (Conference Room) in Computer Science Building
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/igert/courses/E6898/
(Studio Course)
Psychology G4275: CONTEMP TPCS-LANG/COMMUNICATN (4 points)
Section 001 CONTEMP TPCS-LANG/COMMUNIC
Instructors: Michelle F Levine (mlevine@barnard.edu)
Wednesday 10:10am-12:00pm Location: TBA
(Skill Course)
Computer Science E6915 Section 001:
Tech Writing for CS and Engineers; Academic Writing (1 point)
Instructors: Janet Kayfetz
Tuesday Thursday 10:00am-12:00pm in Mudd 644
www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/subj/COMS/E6915-20133-001/
Computer Science E6915 Section 002:
Tech Writing for CS and Engineers; Great Presentations (1 point)
Instructor: Janet Kayfetz
Monday Wednesday 10:00am-12:00pm Location TBA
www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/subj/COMS/E6915-20133-002/
Computer Science E6915 Section 003:
Tech Writing for CS and Engineers; Writing/Presenting One-On-One (1 point)
Instructor: Janet Kayfetz
Monday Wednesday 2:00-4:00pm Location TBA
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/subj/COMS/E6915-20133-003/
(Studio Course)
CUNY course: Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and the Web
Instructor: Professor Andrew Rosenberg (CUNY-Queens)
Mondays 11:45-1:45, CUNY Graduate Center 3209
http://eniac.cs.qc.cuny.edu/andrew/nlp-ml-web/
Spring 2014
(Studio Course)
E6891: Topics in Information Processing: Replicating Computational Results
Instructors: Professor Dan Ellis (EE) and Professor Victoria Stodden (Statistics)
Location and Schedule TBA
(Skill Course)
EAS/CBS B8799: Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs
Location and Schedule TBA
Instructors: Orin Herskowitz, Jeff Sears (Columbia Business School)
IGERT DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES (SPRING 2013)
Date and Location TBA
Trainees are also required to attend 1-hour seminar series that will be held on every other Friday. Seminars will cover a variety of topics and feature a range of invited guest lecturers. The series is designed to give trainees a forum to discuss research amongst themselves as well as with IGERT faculty and invited speakers. The series will also include workshops centered on several topics and areas that will contribute to the academic and professional development of IGERT Trainees.
Some of the past speakers come from Google, Wall Street Journal, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, MIT, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute of Technology, and Columbia Journalism School.
Departmental Requirements and Electives
Advisors and trainees will meet at the start of each semester to identify other courses that will constitute the Trainee’s overall program.
SUMMER PROGRAMS
Trainees will have the opportunity to participate in IGERT activities in South America during the summer with our partner universities there (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, and Universidad Nacional de Cordoba). More details on these opportunities will be provided in the Spring semester.