Conference Schedule

Please make an appointment to see me to make a presentation of your work during one of the time slots below.

To make an appointment: select your name, enter a password, and click the button. The password can be anything; it is important only if you want to change your appointment time.

To change a scheduled appointment to another time: make an appointment for the new time. The old appointment will be removed. To change your appointment time, you must use the same password that you used initially.

Conference Advice

Pretend that this conference is a job interview—although there is no need to dress up. The interviewer is looking for someone to do work in the area that you are demonstrating, someone who is competent in the technologies being discussed. Expect questions such as:
  • How did you achieve that result?
  • Why did you design it that way?
  • How does that work?
Unfortunately, the interviewer has seen applicants who claim to know things that they do not know. By now he is a bit skeptical that applicants really know what they are doing. You have 30 minutes to overcome this skepticism and to establish your technical competence.

Here are three of the interviewer's primary values.

  • Understanding. For each feature in your project, be sure that you can both (a) show the code that produces that feature and (b) explain how that code works. Without the ability to do this, you lose your credibility. Understanding is one of the greatest academic (and non-academic) values.

  • Intellectual honesty. If something comes up that you do not know, acknowledge that you do not know it. If you pretend to know something that you don't (or if you don't even know that you don't know something), that suggests that either (a) you don't know yourself or (b) you can't be trusted. Intellectual dishonesty is one of the greatest academic (and non-academic) sins.

    There is more to know than any of us can know at any one time. With clarity and honesty about what you do and don't know, there is hope that you will be able to learn what is needed.

  • Creativity. Besides technical competence, the interviewer is also interested in your creativity—including technical creativity, design creativity, structural creativity, graphical creativity. Be sure to show off features of your work of which you are particularly proud. Creativity is one of the greatest academic (and non-academic) joys.