| Date | Topics | HWs, Readings, and Resources |
| Aug 28 | Welcome. Introductions. Overview of class and intro to research in CSE. | Lecture: Part 1, Part 2 |
| Sep 4 | Orientation to CSE Literature. Anatomy of a conference paper. | HW1 (critical reading) assigned. Guide to CSE lit Lecture slides |
| Sep 9 | Intro to rotations. Ethics in research. | Updated list of faculty interested in supervising October rotations Lecture slides |
| Sep 11 | Tao Ju: Computer Graphics | |
| Sep 16 | Michael Brent: Reverse Engineering Cells | |
| Sep 18 | Raj Jain: Next Generation Internet and Wireless Networking Research at Washington University | HW2 (October rotation plan)
assigned. Sample rotation plan |
| Sep 23 | Yixin Chen: Big Data Research and Applications | HW1 (critical reading) due. | Sep 25 | S Joshua Swamidass: New Methods for Private Set Intersection |
| Sep 30 | Yasutaka Furukawa: 3D Computer Vision and Graphics | Oct 2 | Robert Pless: More Computer Vision: Widely Distributed Imaging and Applications to Climate Change and Public Health October rotations begin |
HW2 (October rotation plan) due. |
| Oct 7 | Jonathan Turner: Building Networks in the Clouds | |
| Oct 9 | Kilian Weinberger: | |
| Oct 14 | Sanmay Das: Computational Social Science | |
| Oct 16 | Ron Cytron: Trash in Cache | HW3 (October rotation report) assigned. |
| Oct 21 | How to Write a Great Research Paper | |
| Oct 23 | William D. Richard: Ultrasonic Imaging | HW4 (November rotation plan) assigned. |
| Oct 28 | Tao Ju: How to Give a Great Research Talk | |
| Oct 30 | October rotations end. | HW3 (October rotation report) due. |
| Nov 4 | November rotations begin October rotation report talks (1): Lav, James, Junjie, Shaurya, Justin, Doowon, Jake, Wenlin |
HW4 (November rotation plan) due. HW5 (November rotation report) assigned. |
| Nov 6 | October rotation report talks (2): Xiaoxin, Zhuoshu, Mohan, Dee, Missael, Joshua, Son, Chong, Adam | |
| Nov 11 | Using the University Libraries (with Lauren Todd, Engineering Subject Librarian). Meet in the library lobby, class will be held in the library computer lab. | |
| Nov 13 | Bryn Lutes (The Teaching Center): Teaching Resources at Wash U | |
| Nov 18 | Ting Wang: Computational Epigenomics | |
| Nov 20 | Roch Guérin: | |
| Nov 25 | Sharlee Climer: Network Approaches to Computational Biology Problems | |
| Dec 2 | November rotations end. November rotation report talks? (1) |
HW5 (November rotation report) due. |
| Dec 4 | November rotation report talks? (2) |