Hello Everyone, Starting this week we will be sending out weekly digest (Just one email per week) containing details of interesting events , EGSA and CSGO announcements and other interesting things. The information in the email will also be available through CSGO web site at http://pollux.usc.edu/~csgo For people new on the list, CSGO: Computer Science Graduate Organization EGSA: Engineering Graduate Student Association All CS Dept. graduate students are members of the two organizations as long as they are enrolled. We do not have any membership fees and all our events are free unless explicitly mentioned and open to all CS majors. We would like to welcome all the new students who have joined the department this Fall. 1. EGSA events comming up -Movie Ticket Sale (Oct first week) Details TBA -Halloween mixer (Joint event with CSGO) (Oct 21) Dress your best to scare the rest. We will have lots of prizes to give away including best costume, scariest costume etc. Location TBA. RSVP csgo@usc.edu by 5pm Oct 16, 2005 -Fall Dance Party (Joint event with CSGO and other organizations) Location: Ground Zero Details TBA. We are looking for volunteers who can help us plan and arrange for the event. We are also looking for talented performers including singers, dancers, etc. 2. CS Department and CSGO events comming up -IX CSGO Chess Tournament is accepting entries. If you would like to contest, send an email to csgo@usc.edu by 5pm Friday Sep 30, 2005. The event is held during the length of the semester with 1-2 matches every week/player. Details: http://pollux.usc.edu/~csgo/Chess/ -CS Colloquium Sept. 27, 3:00PM-4:30PM Presenter: Dr. Francois Lekien (Princeton) Details : http://www.cs.usc.edu/colloq/default.htm -Ice Cream Social Sep 28,2005 Location: Outside SAL -Meet the Chair (for Phd Students) Date: Sept 29, 2005 Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Location: Commons Restaurant RSVP before 12:00 pm on Sept 28, 2005 @ http://csweb.usc.edu/meetthechair2005/register.htm Dinner will be served! -Disneyland Trip(Joint with EGSA) (~Nov first week) Details: TBA 3. Other On-Campus events comming up -Africa'SC Joint Welcome Event With The Caribbean Student's Association (Sep 23) Alumni Park 7PM -Career Fair (Sep 29) Trousdale 10AM-3PM -AIS Garba (Oct 1) Lyon Center -CSSA Moon Festival (Oct 2) Bovard -International Film Week (Oct 10-15) Lvl Library - Homecoming 2005 -Anything Goes, Monday, October 24th, 2005 at 8PM in McCarthy Quad (wacky games competition) -Tommy.s Tribute, Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at noon at Tommy Trojan -Float Building/Homecoming Parade, Tuesday, October 25th at 6PM (Parade is Wednesday, October 26th at noon at Tommy Trojan). -Rally Thursday night (awards given out) 4. Other announcements -USC 125th Anniversary celebration(Oct 6-9) -Paid GPSS Committee Chair Positions Elections will be held for the following Committees: 1) Campus Safety 2) Student Life. All Committee Chairs will receive 1 unit of tuition remission per semester. http://www.usc.edu/org/gpss/ -GPSS Nights at Ivar: Sept. 23rd - come spend an evening in one of LA.s hottest night spots with other USC graduate/ professional students. For more information, please e-mail GPSS Social Programming Chair, Dollie Davis: gpsssoc@usc.edu. 5. Call for volunteers and officers Programming Contest and Basketball/Soccer tournament CSGO is looking for volunteers who can help us organize the above events. If you would like to volunteer, send us an email at csgo@usc.edu . We would like to thank the following organizations for their support: ISA: International Students Assembly EGSA: Engineering Graduate Student Association GPSS: Graduate Professional Student Senate Visit us online at: http://pollux.usc.edu/~csgo Want to add an announcement, article, cartoons or anything else, just drop us an email at csgo@usc.edu Amit Dhariwal President, CSGO CS Senator - EGSA