BSOE Graduate Student Newsletter
Announcements
Summer 2023 University Deadlines
Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.
Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment: N/A
If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee. Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units.
Graduate Student Part-Time Status: N/A
This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees. Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. Part-time application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Friday, July 6th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Summer 2023), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.
Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses: *Varies*
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses. You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.
Session 1 (June 26th - July 28th, 2023):
Add/Swap: Thursday, June 29th
Drop: Monday, July 3rd
Session 2 (July 31st - September 1st, 2023):
Add/Swap: Thursday, August 3rd
Drop: Monday, August 7th
8-Week Session (June 26th - August 18th, 2023):
Add/Swap: Thursday, June 29th
Drop: Monday, July 10th
10-Week Session (June 26th - September 1st, 2023):
Add/Swap: Thursday, July 6th
Drop: Monday, July 10th
Deadline to Change Grade Option: *Varies*
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.
Session 1 (June 26th - July 28th, 2023): Sunday, July 23rd
Session 2 (July 31st - September 1st, 2023): Sunday, August 27th
8-Week Session (June 26th - August 18th, 2023): Sunday, August 13th
10-Week Session (June 26th - September 1st, 2023): Sunday, August 27th
IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.
Late Add with Fee Deadline: N/A
There is no “Add by Petition” in summer. You must enroll by the deadline.
Leave of Absence Deadline: N/A
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. LOA application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Fall 2023 University Deadlines
Please note the following upcoming university deadlines, and ALWAYS check the Academic and Administrative Calendar for important dates and deadlines. Bookmark this year's Academic and Administrative Calendar and refer to it regularly.
Thursday, October 12th Graduate Student Enrollment & Fee Payment
If you have not paid your registration fees or enrolled in the minimum number of courses by this date, you will be charged a $50 late fee. Please keep in mind that pending aid (Fellowship, GSR, TA) will not credit your account until you are enrolled in at least 5 units.
Thursday, October 12th Graduate Student Part-Time Status
This is the deadline to apply for reduced course load and fees. Part-time status forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. Part-time application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Thursday, October 12th Deadline To Apply For Degree
If you plan to complete your MS or PhD this quarter (Fall 2023), the degree application needs to be submitted to BSOE Graduate Advising office. This is also the deadline to pay for filing fee, if applicable. More guidelines for graduating are available on the Graduate Advising website.
Wednesday, October 18th Deadline to Add/Drop/Swap Courses
This is your last day to add, drop and swap courses. You will not be able to drop or withdraw from courses after this deadline has passed. If you are enrolled in a placeholder class, you MUST drop it by this deadline. More information on how to add, drop, and swap classes is available on the registrar website.
Sunday, December 1st Grade Option
This is your last day to change your grading option for any courses you are enrolled in.
IMPORTANT: The system defaults to Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading. Instructions for how to change your grading option to letter grades (ABC) can be found here.
Sunday, December 1st Late Add with Fee Deadline
The Add by Petition form requires the signatures of both the instructor and the department adviser and needs to be submitted to the Office of the Registrar.
Thursday, August 10th Leave of Absence Fall Deadline
Deadline to petition for leave of absence (LOA) beginning the next quarter. LOA forms must be approved/signed by your faculty advisor and submitted to the BSOE Graduate Advising office by the posted deadline. LOA application forms are available on the Graduate Division's website.
Events
2023 Preparing for Inclusive Teaching
Event Date and Time: 09/22/2023 9:00 amEvent Location:
Save the Date: Preparing for Inclusive Teaching 2023
Preparing for Inclusive Teaching is the Teaching and Learning Center’s one-day professional development program for early career PBSci, SocSci, and SOE graduate students. During this program, grads will participate in interactive workshops designed to help new TAs feel prepared to lead welcoming, equitable sections in their STEM and Social Science disciplines. Registration will open in early July, but in the meantime, if you’d like more information, please visit the program page or contact tlc@ucsc.edu.
EAI INTETAIN 2023
Event Date and Time: 08/31/2023 12:00 amEvent Location: Lucca, Italy
This is the third call for papers related to the 14th EAI International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (EAI INTETAIN 2023). This year’s edition of EAI INTETAIN focuses on the several ways in which modern technologies inspired by game science are changing how humanity interacts with reality.
Important Dates:
Extended Deadline for Paper Submission: 31 August 2023 (Aoe)
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 October 2023 (Aoe)
The conference will be held from 27 (Mon) to 28 (Tue) November 2023 in IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
The conference program will include the keynote talk "Music and AI: What's going on?" by Francois Pachet, Director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab. The social program will include a classical music concert.
In the official website, you will find detailed call for papers: https://intetain.eai-conferences.org/2023/
Jobs
Software Engineering Research Opportunity
We are looking for a software engineer, who wants to contribute to our Phased Array technology at Yektasonics. Our Phased Array is a hardware-software co-designed system, which is an order of magnitude lower cost than other Phased Arrays in the market with performance breakthroughs. The technology has applications in a wide range of medical and non-medical fields. In medicine, Focused Ultrasound is a revolutionary medical therapy, which uses harmless sound waves to cure cancer with no chemo-therapy or surgery, and brain treatment without opening the skull, to name a few. Our technology drives the transducers, which generate these sound waves at ultrasound frequencies, with fine phase and power control. We have launched our Power Module successfully, which is the power stage of our Phased Array.
Yektasonics has received numerous awards and recognitions, such as a recent award from the National Science Foundation - Innovation Corps program in 2023, a second prize from the UC Santa Cruz chancellor at launchpad 2022, being a finalist of American Heart Association in the Bay Area in 2022, being a finalist of the University of California Big Ideas Competition in 2021, and being part of UC Berkeley Incubator Citris Foundry in 2020, to name a few.
Our Phased Array consists of different software modules, such as our embedded computing interface, our Yektasonics OS, our feedback processor, and more. A strong candidate will mostly code in C/C++ in our challenging environment. If you are interested and ready for the next level in your career, please email your resume with your transcripts to Navid Gougol at gougol@yektasonics.com. The work place will be at Baskin with possible remote arrangement. Compensation arrangements will be made mutually.
Navid is the the CEO/Founder of Yektasonics. You can check out the company website for more information at www.yektasonics.com.
NIH T32 Stanford Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
NIH T32 - Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) Program
The Stanford Molecular Imaging Scholars (SMIS) program is an integrated, 3-year cross-disciplinary postdoctoral training program at Stanford University that brings together 28 faculty mentors from 13 departments in the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Humanities and Sciences. Molecular imaging (MI), a noninvasive technique to visualize and quantify specific molecular and biochemical processes in living organisms, has revolutionized medicine and biomedical research and continues to expand its applications in the detection, treatment, and management of cancer.
SMIS faculty mentors, and extensive resources, provide a rich and diverse training environment spanning fields such as biology, physics, mathematics, biocomputation/biomedical informatics, engineering, chemistry, biochemistry, cancer biology, immunology, and medical sciences. The centerpiece of the SMIS program is the opportunity for trainees (with Ph.D., MD, or MD/Ph.D. degrees) to conduct innovative molecular imaging research that is co-mentored by faculty in complementary research and clinical disciplines. SMIS trainees also engage in specialized coursework, seminars, national conferences, and clinical rounds, including ethics training and the responsible conduct of research. The three-year program culminates with the preparation and review of a mock NIH grant proposal, in support of trainee transition to an independent career in cancer molecular imaging.
Funding is available for 3 years for stipend, health insurance, and supplies/travel.
ELIGIBILITY:
1. Candidate must have an MD or Ph.D. degree
2. Candidate must be a US citizen, or a non-citizen national, or must have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence and possess an Alien Registration Card (1-151 or 1-551) or some other verification of legal admission as a permanent resident.
Application Deadline: September 4, 2023
APPLY HERE: https://stanforduniversit
SMIS WEB SITE: https://med.stanford.edu/
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NIH T32 – Stanford Cancer Imaging Training (SCIT) Program
The Stanford Cancer Imaging Training (SCIT) Program, funded by the National Cancer Institute, aims to train the next generation of researchers in the development and clinical translation of advanced techniques for cancer imaging and its application.
SCIT is a two-year program training five fellows (roughly half Ph.D. / half MD) per year over a five-year funding cycle. Jeremy Dahl, PhD, and Bruce Daniel, MD lead this program, featuring mentors with independent cancer-focused or -related funding and ten distinguished program advisors. The strengthened required coursework includes 2 courses in the clinical/cancer sciences, 2 in imaging science, 1 in biostatistics, 1 in medical ethics (“Responsible Conduct of Research”), 2 workshops in grant writing, attendance at a minimum of 4 multidisciplinary tumor boards, and regular attendance during a continuing education workshop that covers topics in responsible conduct of research and rigor and reproducibility. In addition, trainees can select from a multitude of electives offered by various Stanford University faculty across numerous clinical, science, and engineering departments. Each trainee’s primary focus is a mentored cancer-imaging research project aimed at publications in peer-reviewed journals and presentations at National meetings. Trainees are paired with both a basic science and physician mentor, to provide guidance in course and research-topic selection and to develop a translational mindset.
Funding is available for 2 years for stipend, health insurance, and supplies/travel.
ELIGIBILITY:
1. Candidate must have an MD or PhD degree.
2. Candidate must be a US citizen, or a non-citizen national, or must have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence and possess an Alien Registration Card (1-151 or 1-551) or some other verification of legal admission as a permanent resident.
Application Deadline: October 1, 2023
APPLY HERE: https://stanforduniversit
SCIT WEB SITE: https://med.stanford.edu/