The events for Fall 2012 are listed here. You can also download an ICS of them.
SCS First-year Welcome Dinner
Math 3 Atrium, 2012-09-06, 17:00: The School of Computer Science is hosting a dinner event for incoming first-year students. You'll get to meet us, some of the faculty, and other new undergraduates. Food will be provided.
Code Party 1: FROSH-A-THON
MC 3001, 2012-09-14, 19:00: The Computer Science Club is running our first "welcome back" code party of the term! Whether you're a hacking guru or a newbie to computer science, you're welcome to attend; there will be activities for all! Our party is loosely themed as a Linux installfest, where we will have a team of members dedicated to helping individuals install and learn to use one of many flavours of Linux.
Elections
Comfy Lounge, 2012-09-18, 4:00 PM: CSC Elections have begun for the Fall 2012 term, nominations are open!
Tron Screening: Frosh-A-Tron
PHY 150, 2012-09-28, 7:00 PM: ehashman's lousy frosh event naming scheme continues as we prepare for this week's movie night---a screening of the original TRON in PHY 150. Come watch the groundbreaking film that defined the role of computer graphics and the quality of special effects in modern cinema. And bring your friends!
The Cryptographic and Game-Theoretical Fundamentals behind Bitcoin
MC 2034, 2012-10-18, 4:00 PM: by Vitalik Buterin. In this talk, we will cover the cryptographic and game-theory principles behind the currency, including how the issues of double-spending, the "51% attack," and "mining" are addressed, the game-theory incentives to use Bitcoins honestly, and other issues being faced today in practice, such as implementation, attacks, and future scalability.
CSC Code Party 2
MC 3001, 2012-10-26, 7:00 PM: We will be holding our second code party of the term. Watch for further details, as we plan on working with some robots and Scala, git, and Haskell.
KW Perlmongers Talk
DC 1302, 2012-11-15, 7:00 PM: by Justin Wheeler.In his own words, this talk will cover the virtues of Perl: CPAN, Moose, CPAN, Catalyst, CPAN, DBIx::Class, CPAN, TMTOWTDI, and did I mention CPAN?
UNIX 101
MC 3003, 2012-11-19, 3:30 PM: by Calum T. Dalek. New to the Unix computing environment? If you seek an introduction, look no further. We will be holding a series of tutorials on using Unix, beginning with Unix 101 this upcoming Monday. Topics that will be covered include basic interaction with the shell and use of myriad powerful tools.
SASMS
MC 5136B, 2012-11-21, 4:30 PM: by PMC.The Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Combinatorics & Optimization Club is hosting the Fall 2012 Short Attention Span Math Seminars (SASMS).
Code Party 3
MC 3001, 2012-11-23, 19:00: The Computer Science Club is running our third, and last, code party of the term! Whether you're a hacking guru or a newbie to computer science, you're welcome to attend; there will be activities for all. Syed Albiz will be presenting a tutorial on implementing a ray-tracer in C and Scheme.