About

The Iowa Undergraduate Computer Science Consortium is an informal group of computer science faculty members from Iowa's many colleges and universities. The purpose of the group and annual meeting is to promote communication among CS faculty, facility discussion of common problems and issues, and hopefully to share solutions. Meetings occur roughly once per academic year, typically in October or March. If you are not yet on the very low volume mailing list, please join.

2009 Meeting: April 25th, 2009

Location:	University of Iowa, Iowa City.
Building:	W401 John Pappajohn Business Building.
Time:	Roughly 9 am until 3 pm. Schedule will be finalized in April.
Cost:	$10 cost for lunch and other expenses.

Note: Prentice Hall / Addison Wesley / Pearson is sending examination texts for your perusal during breaks.

(Tentative) Schedule

	8:45am - 9:30am	Registration & Breakfast
	9:30am - 9:45am	Welcome and Logistics
	9:45am - 10:15am	Talk: Tony deLaubenfels ("Public Key Encryption Collaborative Activity")
	10:15am - 10:45am	Talk: Paul Graven (On introductory programming with Python/Pygame)
	10:45am - 11:00am	Break
	11:00am - 11:45am	Research Demonstration(s)
	11:45am - 1:15pm	Lunch (At Iowa Memorial Union, River Room)
	1:15pm - 1:45pm	Talk: Jun Ni (On medical imaging informatics research & teaching)
	1:45pm - 2:15pm	Talk: Steve Cunningham ("NSF Programs for Education")
	2:15pm - 2:30pm	Break
	2:30pm - 3:00pm	Talk: Henry Walker ("A lab-based introduction to CS emphasizing collaboration")
	3:00pm - 3:15pm	Closing & Discussion of Next Meeting

Directions and Parking

See the map at right to get to campus. Take I-80 to the Dubuque St exit (Exit #244). Head south on Dubuque Street until you get to Market Street. Take a right on Market Street, and you'll drive by the Pappajohn building (on your left) in a block and a half. See the map below for parking options.

Below is a map of downtown Iowa City and central campus. The Pappajohn building is circled in red and parking ramps are circled in yellow (including one under the Pappajohn building, enter on Clinton Street). Parking in most ramps is not free on weekends. If you would like free parking, you can likely find on street parking downtown (or park in "Lot 11" on Court Street between Madison and Capitol Steets, which is off the map, 1 block south of Burlington).

Other possibly important buildings include the Union (in blue near the river) where we will eat lunch and MacLean Hall (in blue south of Pappajohn) which is the home of the Iowa Computer Science department.

Next Year's Meeting (2009-2010)

During discussions for this year's meeting, Jim Bohy at Mount Mercy College (Cedar Rapids, IA) offered to host the spring 2010 meeting.

If you can look over your schedules for Spring 2010 prior to this year's meeting. It might help Jim plan and everyone else to attend if we discuss dates this year!

2009 Attendees:

• University of Iowa: Jim Cremer, Jun Ni, Cesare Tinelli, Chris Wyman
• Cornell College: Tony deLaubenfels, Leon Tabak
• Coe College: Terry Hostetler, Cal Ven Niewaal
• Iowa State University: Simanta Mitra, Steve Kautz
• Grinnell College: Henry Walker
• St. Ambrose University: Gary Monnard
• Loras College: Michael Thompson
• Simpson College: Paul Craven
• Central College: Mark Johnson
• Graceland College: Jim Jones
• Kirkwood Community College: Cate Sheller
• Iowa City West High School: Steve Ehren
• Brown Cunningham Associates: Steve Cunningham