First Network meeting of 02-2

[Joseph Peters <peters@cs.sfu.ca>]

The first meeting of the 02-2 semester of the Network Modelling Discussion
Group will be on Friday, May 10 at 11:30 in our usual room (ASB 10820).
Our agenda will be as follows:

1. Eat pizza.
2. Select a different meeting time if necessary.  (If you cannot attend the
   meeting, please tell me your preferred meeting times.)
3. Discuss the future of our research group (status of our CFI application,
   lab space, equipment, invited speakers, ...)
4. Web page: We should have a web page for our group.  Please bring your
   ideas about web page design and contents.
5. Lab manager: Petra, Qianping, and I have discussed the idea of hiring one
   of our grad student members to be a lab manager.  The duties would include
   organization of weekly meetings, creation and maintenance of the web page,
   and some other duties related to the operation of our research group.  This
   will be a paid position.  The pay will depend on the number of hours
   involved, but I expect that it will be approximately 2 base units in the
   02-2 semester.  Please let me know if you are interested.
6. There are more than 20 graduate student members in our research group.
   Some student members will graduate soon (in fact some have recently defended
   theses), some are working with a research supervisor, and some have not
   yet started research.  Almost all of the student members have been at SFU
   for at least two semesters and should be thinking about research.  Some
   group research projects, each involving a mixture of junior and more
   experienced student members (and at least one faculty member), would be a
   good way to get our junior members started on research.  Please think about
   suitable research topics and bring your ideas to the meeting.

Please note that Qianping will teach a graduate course in 02-2: CMPT 880 -
Routing on Computer Networks, with an emphasis on optical networks.  All
group members are encouraged to attend the lectures even if you are not
taking the course for credit.  The lectures are Tuesday and Thursday 10:30 to
11:50 in AQ 5037.  Future graduate course offerings including CMPT 816 -
Theory of Communication Networks (Joseph Peters) in 02-3 with an emphasis on
modelling, and a course on parallel computation (Petra Berenbrink) in 03-1.
There will certainly be more courses in 02-3 and 03-1 and these will be
announced when information is available.

Joseph Peters