PhD Qualifier Instructions for CS Department, Spring 2015

Policy. Every area sets their own policies with respect to registration and deadlines. If an area chair does not set their own policy, the following default policies will apply:

Default Schedule and Deadlines

Students have 3 weeks to study the readings, and two weeks to answer the questions provided. The committee has 2-3 weeks to grade the exam and/or conduct oral exams (if needed or required by the committee).

December 5, 2014 (Friday): Complete Reading List Available. Some reading lists are already available, check for your area.
December 10, 2014 (Wednesday, last day of classes): Students must commit to take exam. You have to register with the chair of the exam.
January: Written Examination Available.
2 weeks later: Written Examination Due. Different committees might have oral presentations required too.
Feb 13, 2015 (Friday): Exam Results due to GPC.

Please read the web page for your area carefully as it may contain information that supercedes the information posted on this page. Be careful to follow any guidelines about required registration, in particular. Your participation in the survey did not register you for any exam. You also have not committed to taking any exam yet.

Please contact the chair of the area you are interested in for any further questions.

Area	Chair	Website	Registration Required?	Registration Binding?
Software Engineering	Dr. Osman Balci	Link	Yes	See early withdrawal policy
Numerical and Scientific Computing/Computational Science; High End Computing and Computational Science	Dr. Layne Watson	Link	Yes	Yes
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	Dr. Liqing Zhang	Link	Yes	Yes
Algorithms/theory	Dr. Lenny Heath	Link	Yes	Yes
Data, Information, Knowledge, and Libraries	Dr. Chang-Tien Lu	Link	Yes	Yes
Human-Computer Interaction	Prof. Steve Harrison	Link	Yes	Yes
Systems, Networking, Cybersecurity	Dr. Dennis Kafura	Link	Yes	See page for details.
Cyberarts and Visualization	Not offered this year		N/A	N/A