The CSL administrative leadership welcomes students, postdocs and faculty to the new CSL calendar year 2018. During the first Social Hour of the semester on Friday, January 19, 3PM in 301 CSL, Dr. Klara Nahrstedt, the director of CSL, Karen Cromwell, CSL associate director for administration and Michael Chan, Engineering IT, will discuss (a) CSL organization and facts about CSL, (b) ‘who is who’ in CSL you can get help from, (c) CSL upcoming events in Spring 2018 and (d) Engineering IT Service available to you during Spring 2018. Come and join us get useful CSL information, fun facts and nice refreshments.
Bio: Klara Nahrstedt is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Full Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department, and the Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Klara Nahrstedt received her BA in mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1984, and M.Sc. degree in numerical analysis from the same university in 1985. She was a research scientist in the Institute for Informatik in Berlin until 1990. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is the ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and the Member of Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences.
Join the Social Hour to learn about the people of the administrative infrastructure with whom CSL students, postdocs and faculty interact with and get emails from, and about the CSL place CSL members will spend many hours during the upcoming academic year. And most importantly come, and enjoy food and company of CSL peers, staff and faculty.