Successworks Drop-In Advising on Wednesdays

No Appointment Needed!

Do you have career questions? Visit the CS Advising Office (4th Floor, Tower 2) OR DS Advising Office (1217C, Med Science Center) every Wednesday from 1-4pm during the spring semester with your resume and career questions.

Availability is first come first serve, and meetings will be limited to 15 minutes if there is a line.

* Note: Drop-In Advising will be unavailable at CS Office on Feb 1^st and 8^th – DS Office will be open!

Opening Available in CS 402!

If you are interested in teaching kids about CS, one slot just opened up to co-lead an afterschool club on Mondays from 1:00 pm-2:00 pm at Marquette Elementary (1510 Jenifer St.) as part of our community-based-learning course, CS 402.

If you would like to co-lead the club, please enroll directly in CS 402, send dusseau@cs.wisc.edu an email, and show up to class this Wednesday (5:30 - 7:00) in CS 1325.

More info below. Send dusseau@cs.wisc.edu any questions!

CS 402 Description:

In this 2-credit course, you'll work in a small team with other UW students to co-lead a weekly CS club for 4th-5th graders at a nearby Elementary school or Community Center.  

The clubs focus on teaching kids basic CS concepts and how to create projects (e.g., animated stories and games) in Scratch. For those of you who haven't heard of Scratch, it is a highly visual programming environment specifically designed for novice programmers. Scratch will be easy for you to learn quickly -- it has the control structures, variables, and lists you're all familiar with. If you're curious, you should check it out at http://scratch.mit.edu -- it is free and has lots of examples.

The UW "lecture" will be held from 5:30 - 7:00 on Wednesday evenings. In that "lecture" time, you'll acquire skills to help you run a more effective and rewarding club.

Signing up for this course is a commitment; to run great clubs, we need to precisely match UW students with different sites and we need to ensure we have the right number of UW students (usually 3) at each club. If you drop the course shortly before the semester starts (or even worse, after the semester begins), you may disrupt the success of one of the clubs.  

You should NOT sign up for this course as a placeholder in your schedule if you think you might not stay enrolled.

If you are not sure whether or not you'd like to do this, I suggest watching this video that shows off how much fun the kids have in our clubs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P87zSkOwLkI

Colorstack Event with Spaulding Ridge

Tuesday, 1/31/23 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Room CS 2310

Computer Sciences Student Org Fair

Wednesday, 2/1/23 from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Lobby of the CS Building

IEEE: Tech Talk with Milwaukee Tool

We at the IEEE chapter of UW-Madison are excited to announce our first event of the semester, a Tech Talk with Milwaukee Tool that is happening this Wednesday! We will have a presentation about the company, what it does, and the opportunities available to students in terms of both internships and full-time positions. Pizza will be served!

Where: Engineering Hall, Room 4610

When: February 1^st (Wednesday) from 6pm to 7pm

RSVP: https://forms.gle/1DDXdrDYA6N7X3os6 

(RSVP not required, but can be used to indicate pizza preference)

Red Talks: Wade Bruce from Fetch Rewards

Information Sessions for Newly Declared CS Students!

Are you a recently declared Computer Sciences Major?

CS Advising is hosting two information sessions for newly declared CS students!

We Will:

• Review Major Requirements & Advising Resources
• Offer Enrollment Recommendations & Tips
• Have a Short Meet & Greet with Your Advisors

WHEN: Tuesday 2/7/23 & Thursday 2/9/23 from 2:30-3:30

WHERE: Room 1240 in the CS Building.

Please: RSVP HERE

SWE's "Evening With Industry" 2023

TRANSCEND MADISON INNOVATION COMPETITION

“Transcend Madison, created by Transcend UW, is the campus's first-ever student-led innovation competition. Each year we give away up to $55,000 worth of prizes, and this year's presenting sponsor Discovery to Product (D2P) has helped make it all possible. This event was created with one goal: to bring students across UW-Madison together to demonstrate their novel ideas and creations. 

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This is a competition for the doers. We judge heavily on execution: taking the necessary steps to turn your idea from nothing into reality. 

The 2023 Transcend Madison Competition will be held on April 13th and 14th at the Discovery Building.

To sign-up or access more information, visit https://www.transcenduw.com/.”

IceCube Machine Learning Competition

The IceCube Collaboration, in conjunction with Kaggle, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI), the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1258, Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, and PUNCH4NFDI, announces the launch of the IceCube – Neutrinos in Deep Ice project. This outreach project invites everyone to present a machine learning solution that tackles the problem of IceCube event reconstruction. 

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which encompasses a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice, searches for nearly massless particles called neutrinos in order to better understand the cosmos. Scientists achieve this by estimating the direction of neutrino events, allowing them to trace neutrinos back to their sources. However, with an average of three thousand events per second to process, the stream of data becomes daunting using current, traditional methods. This is where machine learning can shine. 

Over the next three months, participants will be challenged to devise a solution that can quickly and accurately process a large number of events to identify the direction that neutrinos came from. Their solutions will be scored on a hidden test set of one million events, and the three teams with the best overall performance on these events will win prize money.

Participants (excluding IceCube and Technical University of Munich members) will have a chance to win a total of $50k in cash prizes.

The final submission deadline is April 20, 2023.



REGISTER HERE

Plus One Pathway (POP) Information Session

Wednesday, 2/8/23 at 4:00 pm

Computer Science Building: Room 1221.

Undergraduate Research Fellowship Opportunities

Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships and Holstrom Environmental Research Fellowships support undergraduate research done in collaboration with UW–Madison faculty or research/instructional academic staff during summer 2023 or the 2023-24 academic year. The student researcher receives $3,000, and the faculty/staff research advisor receives $1,000 to help offset research costs. Students must have at least junior standing at the time of application. The Holstrom Fellowships require an environmental focus. Apply by February 13, 2023.

Sophomore Research Fellowships support undergraduate research done in collaboration with UW–Madison faculty or research/instructional academic staff during summer 2023 or the 2023-24 academic year. The student researcher receives $2,500, and the faculty/staff research advisor receives $500 to help offset research costs. At the time of application, the student must be a second-year undergraduate, a first-year undergraduate who will have more than 24 credits after May 2023, or a transfer student in their first year of attendance at UW–Madison. Apply by February 28, 2023.

Public Humanities Exchange for Undergraduates (HEX-U) is a high-impact program for undergraduate students that funds humanities-based projects that support a need in the Madison community beyond the university. The program provides training in community partnership, support for project development and implementation, and funding. Participating students receive a $600 stipend award and up to $2,000 in project funding. Students are encouraged to propose new, innovative ideas for engagement with the local community through a project. Apply for the spring 2023 cohort by Monday, February 6 (early-bird deadline) and Monday, March 27, 2023 (final deadline).

Wisconsin Idea Fellowships are awarded annually to undergraduate student projects that address a challenge identified along with a local or global community partner. Fellowships are awarded to semester-long or year-long projects designed by an undergraduate student (or group of students) in collaboration with a community advisor at a community organization and a UW–Madison faculty or academic staff member. Projects can receive up to $7,000 in total funding, and students receive 3 academic credits. Apply for 2023-24 fellowships by February 13, 2023. There is a priority deadline of January 30, 2023 for applicants seeking proposal feedback from the Wisconsin Idea Fellowship Advisor.

**Writing Proposal Workshops for the Hilldale and Holstrom Research Fellowships are offered in-person through the Writing Center on Thursday, January 26, 2023 at 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. This workshop is also appropriate if you are applying to a Sophomore Research Fellowship.



Register Here!

Thinking Ahead: MS Statistics, Statistics and Data Science (MSDS) Information Sessions

Thinking Ahead: MS Data Science (MDS) Information Sessions

Bick Lab Opportunities for Undergraduate Students

What: The Bick Lab is looking to digitize insect monitoring for data-driven decision making, reducing pesticide use, and securing our global food supply. To do so, we are looking for student collaborators to assist with signal data processing and building the convolutional neural networks for insect identification. Students can either earn credits via ENTOM 299 or be paid.|

When: Spring 2023, Summer 2023, potential for beyond

Where: Russell Labs, The Bick Lab

Eligibility: Successful completion of CS 200 or CS 220. Preferred CS or Data Science major

How to Apply https://forms.gle/KbmJ1ENKZ5MAHafJ9 

Deadline: February 1

Additional information: More information can be found at www.bicklab.com

MSC Remote Software Engineer Co-op

CAS Summer Internships Available

CAS uses unparalleled scientific content, specialized technology and unmatched human expertise to help R&D organizations across Commercial, Government and Academic sectors create groundbreaking innovations that benefit the world. As the Scientific Information Solutions Division of the American Chemical Society, CAS manages the largest curated reservoir of scientific knowledge, and for 114 years, has helped innovators mine, assess and apply that information to keep businesses thriving. The CAS team is global, diverse, endlessly curious and strives to make actionable scientific insights accessible to innovators worldwide.

CAS is currently seeking CAS Technology Interns and an intern to work in its Data, Analytics and Insights (DAI) division for the Summer of 2023. These positions will be located in our headquarters in Columbus, Ohio. Our Summer Intern Program seeks to create a high level of engagement and learning for participants through deep immersion into our working environment with our professional teams. Participants will benefit from exposure to a variety of state-of-the-art software technologies and practices and also benefit from professional networking with CAS staff and other Interns, both providing great insights into career possibilities.

Link to CAS Technology Intern Position Info

Link to DAI Intern Position Info

• Public Service Fair - Jan 31st (in-person)
• This fair is for you if you're interested in nonprofits/public sector work
• Engineering and STEM Fair - Feb 2-6th (in-person)
• Engineering Fair often includes computer engineering, software and machine learning roles
• Equity and Inclusion Fair - Feb 2nd (in-person)
• If you identify as first-generation, low-income, students of color, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized social identities, this fair is specifically for you! 
• Risk & Insurance Fair - Feb 9 (virtual)
• Lots of advanced data science and analytics roles in insurance
• All-Majors Career Fair - Feb 15, 16 (in-person) 
• Your widest view of employers looking for UW-Madison students
• CDIS Job Fair - Feb 20 (in-person)
• Organized with the CS, DS and IS Departments
• Tech, Data & Analytics Fair - Feb 23 (virtual)
• Hosted by SuccessWorks