TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

In addition to the lectures, the students are also expected to watch the interviews in Research Diaries.

Semester Timeline
Date	Topic
1/18/2023	Course Introduction	Lecture 1
1/23/2023	PhD Goals and Process	Lecture 2
1/25/2023	Skills and Ideas	Lecture 3
1/30/2023	Evaluating Research Ideas	Lecture 4
2/1/2023	Introducing research on a paper	Lecture 5
2/6/2023	Related work	Lecture 6
2/8/2023	Data in your research paper	Lecture 7
2/13/2023	Paper types and Citations	Lecture 8
2/15/2023	Paper Review	Lecture 9
2/20/2023	Paper Review - continued	Lecture 10
2/22/2023	Metrics used in CS Research	Lecture 11
2/27/2023	Conferences. Journals. Design of CS experiments.	Lecture 12
3/1/2023	Paper claims. Ideas. Vetting ideas and setting up for success.	Lecture 13
3/6/2023	Idea generation and vetting. Descriptions of systems and experiments.	Lecture 14
3/8/2023	Adequate description of systems.	Lecture 15
3/20/2023	System comparision experiments.	Lecture 16
3/22/2023	Scientific Writing: Higher level concerns.	Guest: Holly Prevost
3/27/2023	Reading and tracking papers.	Lecture 18
3/29/2023	Co-authorship and disclosures.	Lecture 19
4/17/2023	Conference TPC meeting.
4/26/2023	Conference.