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	<title>Glencora Borradaile</title>
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	<description>Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University</description>
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		<title>OSU announces new theoretical computer science group!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2013/04/16/osu-announces-new-theoretical-computer-science-group/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2013/04/16/osu-announces-new-theoretical-computer-science-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More exciting news from Oregon State!  Mike Rosulek will be joining our faculty in September.  Mike will bring some great complexity expertise to our department, but it is for his contributions to the fundamentals of cryptography that we recruited him to OSU.  We are building a security group at OSU, and Mike will lead things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algorithms group doubles!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2013/04/08/algorithms-group-doubles/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2013/04/08/algorithms-group-doubles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am super happy to announce that Amir Nayyeri will be joining our faculty at Oregon State next year! Amir completed his Ph.D. with Jeff Erickson at UIUC and has been, for the past year, post-doc&#8217;ing at CMU with Gary Miller.  Amir is an expert in combinatorial optimization in computational topology and geometry.  Not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would Aaron Swartz want you to do?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2013/01/20/what-would-aaron-swartz-want-you-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2013/01/20/what-would-aaron-swartz-want-you-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[social responsibility]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=1001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t checked my rss-feed reader since the winter break.  After the (deserved) attention of the life and untimely death of Aaron Swartz, I was interested in hearing the thoughts of my fellow computer scientists and so delved into the hundreds of unread articles in my rss-feed reader.  I was saddened to see that of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom competition, TSP style</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/12/12/classroom-competition-tsp-style/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/12/12/classroom-competition-tsp-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I changed up a few things in my undergraduate algorithms course this year.  I probably wouldn&#8217;t have if I wasn&#8217;t charged with designing an online version of the same course, one that would be static for at least three years, so far as I understand it. One major thing that I changed was the assignment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incentivizing healthy group dynamics in classes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/12/04/incentivizing-healthy-group-dynamics-in-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/12/04/incentivizing-healthy-group-dynamics-in-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished teaching our undergraduate algorithms course this quarter.  I changed the course quite a bit from previous iterations.  This was mostly because I have been designing an online version of the course for our online post-bacc degree (more on that in another post).  It gave me a chance to rethink many aspects of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My time</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/11/02/my-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/11/02/my-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=983</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last spring and summer I instituted &#8220;my time&#8221;.  I started scheduling off 3hr blocks of time 2-3 times a week on my calendar for research.  This happened around the time that I started making my calendar available so students would know when to find me.  (It has made scheduling meetings very easy.)  But I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many tenure track jobs available at Oregon State University!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/10/29/many-tenure-track-jobs-available-at-oregon-state-university/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/10/29/many-tenure-track-jobs-available-at-oregon-state-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our department is hiring: The School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science invites applications for several tenure-track professorial positions in Computer Science. We are building research and teaching strengths in the areas of programming languages, databases, software engineering, computer systems, computer security and privacy, and algorithms. There are also several openings in ECE and across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoke-free campus</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/09/04/smoke-free-campus/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/09/04/smoke-free-campus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 21:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=975</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of September 1, our campus is now smoke-free. OSU is joining over 700 campuses across the US with the same policy: no smoking on campus, inside or out.  It is definitely welcome to me, for both public and personal health reasons.  I&#8217;ve never understood why people still adopt smoking, knowing full well how many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grant writing style questions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/07/02/grant-writing-style-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/07/02/grant-writing-style-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t the most serious question, but when writing a grant (without a co-PI) do you use the royal editorial &#8220;we&#8221;?  Or do your refer to yourself in the first person?  When citing your own work, do you use your surname or do you say &#8220;the PI&#8221;?  When writing a grant with more than one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Theory</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/06/27/women-in-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/06/27/women-in-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on my way back from the 3rd Women in Theory biennial conference. I was invited to the first one, as a participant, but was unable to go due to a combination of teaching my first course, recovering from mono and generally travelling too much in the early months of my post doc. While I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The $17,500 computer science degree</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/04/30/the-17500-computer-science-degree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our department has announced a new, entirely online, bachelor&#8217;s degree in computer science which can be completed in one year.  Given that we are a public university, this translates to a $17,500 degree*. I will admit, when I first heard the idea I did not have very good thoughts about it.  My negative thoughts included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>crash course in TCS</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/03/17/crash-course-in-tcs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/03/17/crash-course-in-tcs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently gave a pair of talks in the Math Department&#8217;s Applied Math Seminar on basics of TCS.  It was intended for a mathematically mature audience with no background in TCS.  The slides for the talk are available here; they are far from perfect &#8212; but I will happily take suggestions on things that should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The is-my-comment-appropriate? test</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/03/15/the-is-my-comment-inappropriate-test/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/03/15/the-is-my-comment-inappropriate-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Take your comment and change any gendered words from male to female and ask yourself &#8220;Would I say this to or about a man in the same situation?&#8221; For example: &#8220;This office is a lot prettier than when I was here&#8221; [to a male graduate student, while thumbing the female grad student hard at work] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student depression, large classes and online classes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/02/29/student-depression-large-classes-and-online-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/02/29/student-depression-large-classes-and-online-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 03:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last quarter, three students I was teaching spoke with me about their depression.  Three of the 160 or so students I was teaching. This was the first time a student had spoken with me about their mental health.  I was happy that these students felt that they could approach me.  I was uncertain of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in Theory workshop &#8212; applications due February 29</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/02/22/women-in-theory-workshop-applications-due-february-29/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/02/22/women-in-theory-workshop-applications-due-february-29/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applications for attendance at the Women in Theory workshop are due February 29. The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and undergraduate students in the area of theory of computer science. The workshop will feature technical talks and tutorials by senior and junior women in the field, as well as social events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undergraduate-appropriate summer projects</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/01/29/undergraduate-appropriate-summer-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/01/29/undergraduate-appropriate-summer-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/?p=904</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(updated: now with links to projects) A friend asked me, in reference to my post about the call for proposals for REU positions from CRA, &#8220;What kind of projects did you have them work on?&#8221; Two years ago, I proposed two projects and used one.  (I was to have two students, but sadly the shuttle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It won&#039;t change</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/01/19/it-wont-change/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2012/01/19/it-wont-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in the week before Christmas. An older friend of mine dropped by, as he does so every few weeks. He is a university employee, not faculty, with whom I struck up a passing friendship shortly after starting at Oregon State. We chatted for a while. He asked me how a recent work trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wonderful, funded undergraduates for the summer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/12/21/wonderful-funded-undergraduates-for-the-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/12/21/wonderful-funded-undergraduates-for-the-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The solicitation for summer research projects for undergraduates from the CRA-W is out: the DREU.  I highly recommend proposing a project.  For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it, the DREU are Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (from Underrepresented Groups in Computer Science and Engineering). How it works: profs suggest projects; students apply; the fine people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your FOCS registration may have caused an unwanted registration to ActiveAdvantage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/12/02/your-focs-registration-may-have-caused-an-unwanted-registration-to-activeadvantage/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/12/02/your-focs-registration-may-have-caused-an-unwanted-registration-to-activeadvantage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 01:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I registered for FOCS via our school&#8217;s accountant.  It seems to have caused an automatic registration to ActiveAdvantage, run through active.com (which handled the FOCS registrations?).  After a one month &#8220;free trial membership&#8221;, the school&#8217;s credit card was charged $59.95 for a &#8220;membership renewal&#8221;. You may want to check your credit card bill to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How OSU professors learnt to program, short personal histories</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/18/how-osu-professors-learnt-to-program-short-personal-histories/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/18/how-osu-professors-learnt-to-program-short-personal-histories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our faculty email list has had a recent flurry of activity as we discussed changing the choice of programming language for our CS1/2 intro sequence.  When I jumped into the throes, I included my own programming education as I thought it was relevant.  Having never taken an introduction to programming course in university, I tend to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another algorithms person at Oregon State?  It could be *you*!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/08/another-algorithms-person-at-oregon-state-it-could-be-you/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/08/another-algorithms-person-at-oregon-state-it-could-be-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oregon State University is hiring!  In computer science! 4 positions! In algorithms! Okay, sure, they are probably not going to hire 4 algorithms people, but algorithms is in the list of targetted areas: We seek strong candidates with a commitment to quality teaching and with research strengths in the areas of programming languages, algorithms with [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/08/another-algorithms-person-at-oregon-state-it-could-be-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>FOCS/STOC/ITCS/SODA/ICALP/ESA/STACS/WADS/SWAT/TOO/MNY/CNFS</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/01/focsstocitcssodaicalpesastacswadsswattoomnycnfs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/01/focsstocitcssodaicalpesastacswadsswattoomnycnfs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conference]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed the FOCS business meeting for no good reason.  But I heard after that there was some discussion along the lines of how many papers FOCS should accept with people vying for fewer papers and a more prestigious conference.  Apparently there were complaints from the old guys that most of the conference was under [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/11/01/focsstocitcssodaicalpesastacswadsswattoomnycnfs/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teaching with a microphone</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After Claire&#8217;s post on accidentally taking a classroom microphone with her after teaching, I grumbled to myself &#8220;I wish I taught at a fancy university with a fancy microphone in the fancy classroom.&#8221;  One email later, I learn that there is a microphone in the computer cabinet in the classroom where I teach 130 students. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/26/teaching-with-a-microphone/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Teaching Matroids</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/19/teaching-matroids/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/19/teaching-matroids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grad algorithms]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my grad algorithms class, I taught matroids.  This was last Thursday and came on the heels of a class and problem solving session on greedy algorithms.  The class, I think, went well.  I went slowly (Socratically), building up the definition of a matroid using the graphic matroid as an example, motivated by Kruskal&#8217;s algorithm [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/19/teaching-matroids/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Death by Powerpoint</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/14/death-by-powerpoint/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/14/death-by-powerpoint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science orientation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[didactic lecturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undergraduate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=742</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my grad algorithms course, I am teaching in an increasingly Socratic way (not all the way there yet) and covering less material as well.  Well, going through fewer examples.  In my freshman &#8220;Orientation to Computer Science&#8221; course, I am doing this much less so.  I find it challenging because, while the material is quite [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reviewing a paper multiple times</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/12/reviewing-a-paper-multiple-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/12/reviewing-a-paper-multiple-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reviewing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=736</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has happened several times to me now. I (sub)review a paper for a conference and for one reason or another the paper is rejected.  The next conference deadline rolls around and I get a request to review the same paper.  I have never turned down these requests until today, and even today it was [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/12/reviewing-a-paper-multiple-times/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Free trip to SODA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/11/free-trip-to-soda/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/11/free-trip-to-soda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conference]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=737</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Kirk Pruhs, and, I am sure, to be reported elsewhere: 10,000 free round-trip tickets to SODA Japan Maybe this will help alleviate the concerns around such a remote (for the US and Europe) location.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Note to self: turn off cell-phone data connection during class</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/04/note-to-self-turn-off-cell-phone-data-connection-during-class/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/04/note-to-self-turn-off-cell-phone-data-connection-during-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undergraduate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=732</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my large intro class I used Robozzle to talk about program control and introduce recursion. Robozzle does use a true call stack and to solve some puzzles (for example, learning stack, recursed, learning stack 2, limit your stack, counting &#8211; green) you really need to understand both recursion and how the to use the call stack.  This is week [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/04/note-to-self-turn-off-cell-phone-data-connection-during-class/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>My office hours are gender balanced</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/03/my-office-hours-are-gender-balanced/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/03/my-office-hours-are-gender-balanced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If I didn&#8217;t see the students sitting in the lecture room while I taught and only knew who I was teaching to by the students who speak to me after class, in the hallways or in my office hours, I would think the gender ratio was at least balanced in computer science. Overwhelmingly, one-on-one, my [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/10/03/my-office-hours-are-gender-balanced/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Thinking like a computer scientist</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/09/25/thinking-like-a-computer-scientist/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/09/25/thinking-like-a-computer-scientist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[active learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computer science orientation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m teaching a course called &#8220;Orientation to Computer Science&#8220;.  It seems all the engineering departments have such a course at Oregon State.  It acts as an overview to a degree in a particular field.  I&#8217;ve been asked to teach it because I&#8217;m young and female delightful and, apparently, likely to increase retention.  I&#8217;ll talk more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Inoffensive stable matching</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/09/22/inoffensive-stable-matching/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/09/22/inoffensive-stable-matching/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grad algorithms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heteronormativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sexism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=720</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to start my grad algorithms course with stable matching.  It is a beautiful, clean, practical algorithm.  It can be covered relatively quickly and give an overview of the basics of algorithm design and analysis.  I love it. What I hate is that every treatment of stable matching available online and in the textbooks [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>How do you find conference acceptance rates?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/09/21/how-do-you-find-conference-acceptance-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/09/21/how-do-you-find-conference-acceptance-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s getting to be that time.  Mid-tenure.  I apparently am supposed to include acceptance rates for conference publications.  Google got me about half the numbers, but for the rest &#8230; is it annoying to email the program chair for that conference?  Even if it was a few years ago?  How else would you find out? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grade inflation and teaching evaluations</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/26/grade-inflation-and-teaching-evaluations/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/26/grade-inflation-and-teaching-evaluations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evaluations]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got my teaching evaluations back for a graduate course on approximation algorithms that I taught in the spring quarter.  They were significantly better reviews than I&#8217;ve received in my previous courses (which were okay &#8211; slightly above the College average).  I chalked it up to it being the first course I taught for [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/26/grade-inflation-and-teaching-evaluations/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Biking posts moving &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/09/biking-posts-moving/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/09/biking-posts-moving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Effective a while ago, all bike related posts will be made on Car-free Corvallis.  Thanks for reading.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/08/09/biking-posts-moving/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Getting started writing</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/20/getting-started-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/20/getting-started-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=682</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished writing a grant proposal which, while I spent more time on it than I wanted, I had purposely left not much time for it.  I do tend to spend as much time as I give myself on things, which is why I like teaching in the morning and not preparing for lecture [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Responsibility for versus responsibility to</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/18/responsibility-for-versus-responsibility-to/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/18/responsibility-for-versus-responsibility-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grad students]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I received some advice from an established biochemist via a friend in regards to the stress related to advising graduate students.  See, of the new tasks in the past year, graduate advising has been the most stressful for me.  I feel this weight of a person&#8217;s career in my hands.  What if I pick the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>FSM is from OSU</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/15/fsm-is-from-osu/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/15/fsm-is-from-osu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, when you arrive to Oregon State, in the spirit of, well, school spirit, you&#8217;re told of all the things that OSU is known for.  The marionberry, a cross between a raspberry and a blackberry and delicious, was cultivated here and the modern maraschino cherry developed here, too. Two-time nobelist, Linus Pauling graduated from OSU. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conversations with other theoretical computer scientists</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/03/conversations-with-other-theoretical-computer-scientists/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/07/03/conversations-with-other-theoretical-computer-scientists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=674</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Claire Mathieu caught me on IM a few weeks ago &#8211; she was in the middle of a discussing a quote with Valerie King by Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, at Barnard College&#8217;s commencement.  You can read our discussion on Claire&#8217;s much-more-prolific-than-mine blog.  I&#8217;m not sure at what point it became clear that this discussion would [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lecture notes for Baker&#039;s technique for PTASes in planar graphs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/05/18/lecture-notes-for-bakers-technique-for-ptases-in-planar-graphs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/05/18/lecture-notes-for-bakers-technique-for-ptases-in-planar-graphs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 23:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In teaching so far, I have relied almost exclusively on textbooks and other people&#8217;s lecture notes (Jeff Erickson comes to mind, again and again) for providing materials to my students.  Yes, I would recommend this to anyone who has not been teaching for too long.  Preparing lecture notes that are hand-out-to-your-students worthy is time consuming! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lens on the sciences</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/05/09/a-lens-on-the-sciences/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/05/09/a-lens-on-the-sciences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 19:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The workshop on Theory of Computation as a Lens on the Sciences at Berkeley was this weekend. For the three people out there that haven&#8217;t seen Christos Papadimitriou&#8217;s talk on the same, I recommend it.  A follow-up to a focus on the use of theoretical computer science as a methodology for study in seemingly distance fields [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSF Day at Oregon State</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/03/03/nsf-day-at-oregon-state/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/03/03/nsf-day-at-oregon-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 23:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSF is coming to OSU to hold a one-day workshop on Wednesday, April 13 on the &#8220;Foundation, its mission, priorities, and budget [covering] the NSF proposal and merit review process and NSF programs that cut across disciplines&#8221;: This workshop is primarily designed for researchers and educators less experienced in proposing to the NSF; however, more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topology through crochet</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/02/22/topology-through-crochet/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/02/22/topology-through-crochet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A good friend taught me how to crochet on Sunday night.  I started with the classic square-to-be-used-as-a-dish-rag project and moved onto the spiral-to-be-used-as-a-pot-stand project. Project number three? The Möbius Strip. Now, I understand the Möbius strip well. What kid has not taken a strip of paper, twisted it, taped the ends together and then drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flat 6-pack of SODA</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/02/11/a-flat-6-pack-of-soda/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/02/11/a-flat-6-pack-of-soda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 05:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rightly chastised by Suresh for not blogging while at SODA [1] &#8211; enough time has passed for me to completely forget anything I might have wanted to say. But the timing is perfect. I am procrastinating writing a paper that I do not wish to write [2]. So here are six (not necessarily technical) things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC innocence</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/02/11/pc-innocence/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/02/11/pc-innocence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 04:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=611</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve long been meaning to remark on my experiences of being on the SODA and ALENEX program committees this past year and fellow bloggers recent reflections on PC membership encourages me to finally post what little I have to say. I went into the SODA PC expecting a lot of work.  I (mostly) cleared out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equal access use for bicyclists</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/01/11/equal-access-use-for-bicyclists/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2011/01/11/equal-access-use-for-bicyclists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Corvallis City Club hosted a presentation by and discussion with ODOT&#8217;s Corvallis representative Jerry Wolcott and Corvallis Public Works Director Steve Rogers yesterday to discuss planned solutions to the traffic &#8216;problem&#8217; at the main (east) highway entrance to the city.  I put problem in quotation marks because Corvallis is a small town and, while I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking a gift horse in the mouth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/12/30/looking-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/12/30/looking-a-gift-horse-in-the-mouth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a grad student, I was in a professor&#8217;s office when an undergrad stopped by to give the professor an art card as a thank you for writing a recommendation letter.  The professor kindly turned down the gesture.  At the time, I thought that, as the offering was little more than a greeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this? quiz followup</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/12/17/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-followup/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/12/17/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-followup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my experiments in teaching this quarter was to have a quiz the second week of class on material that I considered so basic, that if you couldn&#8217;t do very well on the quiz, well, you may well consider (re-)taking the undergrad algorithms course first.  A few students with lower scores on the quiz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What does arXiving mean?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/11/20/what-does-arxiving-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/11/20/what-does-arxiving-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 02:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to post a paper to arXiv?  More specifically, a paper that has not been accepted to a peer-reviewed venue; less specifically, to any easily-searchable, time-stamped, respected depository. Scenario A: You have a result, but there is no decent deadline for another few months.  Maybe you know that a &#8216;competing&#8217; team is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writing reference letters</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/11/07/writing-reference-letters/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/11/07/writing-reference-letters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just sitting down to write the first1 reference letter that I have ever written and realized that I have never read a reference letter and have little idea of what should go into one.  This particular letter is for a graduate student applying for a fellowship.  Short post, but any suggestions? Maybe I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A skulk of FOCS talks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/11/05/a-skulk-of-focs-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/11/05/a-skulk-of-focs-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FOCS talks are now available online!  I waited until now to report on FOCS for this very reason.  I am not about to compete with Suresh or Lance for live blogging conferences.  I&#8217;m not sure where they find the time amidst talks and meetings in hallways to do so.  (I have to say, whenever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women are not at an advantage in our field</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/23/women-are-not-at-an-advantage-in-our-field/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/23/women-are-not-at-an-advantage-in-our-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 18:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked a question a few months ago: Do women have an advantage in our field? There was a time when I would have chirped &#8216;NO!&#8217; and stormed off.  That time might not have been too long ago.  But it is an interesting question, perhaps because it is so ill-defined.  What does advantage mean? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pedagogical excuses: bad penmanship</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/22/pedagogical-excuses-bad-penmanship/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/22/pedagogical-excuses-bad-penmanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally an excuse for my bad black/whiteboardpersonship! Apparently, retention of information is improved if the way it is presented is difficult to read: &#8230; if something is hard to see or hear, it feels disfluent &#8230; We&#8217;d found that disfluency led people to think harder about things. Aside: the lead author, Connor Diemand-Yauman, either has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: problem-solving sessions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/14/experiments-in-teaching-problem-solving-sessions/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/14/experiments-in-teaching-problem-solving-sessions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a more significant experiment than the am-I-ready-for-this quiz, I am rethinking the assignments that accompany my grad algorithms course.  In last year&#8217;s class, I had the grad students work in randomly-assigned and rotating (different for each assignment) groups.  I will comment on this in another post. I&#8217;m sticking with the group-based approach &#8211; partly for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this? quiz outcome</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/11/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-outcome/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/11/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz-outcome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=548</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I gave the students in my grad algorithms class an am-I-ready-for-this? quiz.  I promised to report back, and I&#8217;m already a little late on that.  The average for the quiz was ~ 70% &#8211; I was hoping for a higher average, given how easy the quiz was (in my opinion).  Two students did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experiments in teaching: am-I-ready-for-this quiz</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/01/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/10/01/experiments-in-teaching-am-i-ready-for-this-quiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 18:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am teaching &#8216;the grad algorithms course&#8217; for the second time.  It is the first time I am teaching a course for the second time and am excited at finally having the opportunity to fix my previous mistakes.  &#8217;The grad algorithms course&#8217; is required for all CS Ph.D. students in our department and a prerequisite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-readers compared</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/09/29/e-readers-compared/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/09/29/e-readers-compared/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been testing out various e-readers over the summer and thought my experiences might help save other late-adopters some time.  I started looking into e-readers because I suffer from eye strain from staring at non-reflective screens (laptop, desktop, smartphone).  If I need to read more than one page of a pdf, I will print [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: n-th Annual Combinatorial Potlatch 12/11/10 at Western Washington</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/08/30/announcement-n-th-annual-combinatorial-potlatch-121110-at-western-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/08/30/announcement-n-th-annual-combinatorial-potlatch-121110-at-western-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I spoke at the n-th Annual Combinatorial Potlatch and had a blast.  The informal workshop is a great idea; I wish there were more regional events like them.  Maybe there are and I just don&#8217;t know about them.  The n+1-st Annual Combinatorial Potlatch has been announced &#8211; I encourage you to go! This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experience Theory Project and Prezi</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/08/14/experience-theory-project-and-prezi/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/08/14/experience-theory-project-and-prezi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m participating in the Experience Theory Project at the University of Washington right now. ETP is an event for undergraduates with talent and interest in theoretical computer science, sponsored by the theory groups at the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. The purpose of the event is to exchange ideas about exciting results and research directions in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons on writing conference reviews</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/08/14/lessons-on-writing-conference-reviews/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/08/14/lessons-on-writing-conference-reviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the SODA 2011 program committee and finding it, as everything this last year (grant writing, NSF panelling, grad student advising), a condensed learning experience. Our reviews are almost due which means that this newbie has been through all but a a few of my stack. I asked for subreviews for roughly half my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Watermelon Problem</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/07/07/the-watermelon-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/07/07/the-watermelon-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Suppose you have gone bicycle camping and carried a small, but hefty, watermelon to enjoy by a fire1. Unfortunately, the watermelon is too big to eat in one sitting. And, unfortunately, since you don&#8217;t own any one-time-use plastic, you didn&#8217;t bring anything with which to protect a cut side.  Cleverly, you think &#8220;Can I cut2 this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer undergraduate research projects in theory</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/07/07/summer-undergraduate-research-projects-in-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/07/07/summer-undergraduate-research-projects-in-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In theory&#8221; as in &#8220;in theoretical computer science&#8221;. I am lucky to have a student through the CRA-W Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Anna Harutyunyan joins me for 10 weeks from Utah State University.  I think it might be more of a learning experience for me than Anna (although my opinion is biased) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journals ranked by turnover times: now with colour!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/04/22/journals-ranked-by-turnover-times-now-with-colour/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/04/22/journals-ranked-by-turnover-times-now-with-colour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Based on David&#8217;s link to the AMS data on journal backlogs in my last post (thanks Dave!) and the ISI Web of Knowledge citation report, I&#8217;ve wasted some time making the following fancy graph. There are some obvious missing journals that I didn&#8217;t have the data for: Theory of Computing (no impact factor), JACM (no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journals ranked by turnover times?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/04/20/journals-ranked-by-turnover-times/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/04/20/journals-ranked-by-turnover-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a search of the blogs and web at large to see if there was any evidence (anecdotal or otherwise) about the turnover rates for TCS (and friendly) journals.  Short answer: I couldn&#8217;t find much.  I would (and I am sure many other people would) appreciate any help in deciding what journal to submit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive analysis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/04/15/adaptive-analysis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/04/15/adaptive-analysis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jérémy Barbay was visiting me this week from Universidad de Chile.  Although we overlapped at Waterloo by a few months, we had never talked in depth about research before.  His visit was great timing to scoop me out of some research doldrums after a stressful winter quarter.  He gave a great talk on adaptive analysis. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SODA 2012 to be in Kyoto, Japan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/01/18/soda-2012-to-be-in-kyoto-japan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/01/18/soda-2012-to-be-in-kyoto-japan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I missed the business meeting to have dinner with a non-SODA-attending friend and so missed the voting over the location of SODA 2012 which was apparently a close tie. I&#8217;m a little dismayed at SODA being outside of North America.  As a graduate student I would have probably been excited in my responsibility-free state.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SODA 20 minute talks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/01/18/soda-20-minute-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2010/01/18/soda-20-minute-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people have been blogging on the technical content at SODA, but I won&#8217;t. Given that David has already hinted that I only value the first 10 minutes of most talks, clearly I&#8217;m not in the position to expound on the more than the definition of problems and all but the highest level of analysis. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm and fuzzy and orange all over</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/30/warm-and-fuzzy-and-orange-all-over/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/30/warm-and-fuzzy-and-orange-all-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As seen at the Women&#8217;s Center on campus at Oregon State University (in the spirit of &#8230; is powered by Orange).]]></description>
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		<title>Donation price of anarchy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/30/donation-price-of-anarchy/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/30/donation-price-of-anarchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Silent Glen Speaks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently went to a Christmas party where, instead of a gift exchange, there was a donation exchange.  Essentially, we each placed a cause&#8217;s name into a hat, people draw the names and are asked to donate to the cause.  You may donate any amount you wish (including nothing if you are particularly opposed to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>nth Combinatorial Potlatch</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/23/nth-semi-regular-combinatorial-potlatch/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/23/nth-semi-regular-combinatorial-potlatch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Combinatorial Potlatch is a semi-regular (which for last 7 years has been yearly!) one-day workshop in combinatorics held in Cascadia.  It is very informal (no name tags!), very relaxed (only three talks!) and runs on next to no funding*.  The latest installment was this past weekend in Vancouver, BC, held at Simon Fraser University&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/23/nth-semi-regular-combinatorial-potlatch/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
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		<title>Postdoc after postdoc after postdoc?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/20/postdoc-after-postdoc-after-postdoc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/20/postdoc-after-postdoc-after-postdoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s talk of postdocking* in the air &#8211; for one, Jonathan Katz posted about how to better match recent grads to postdoc positions. It looks like this year&#8217;s academic-job market is even worse than last and that postdocs might just fill in the gap for a year or two for some people &#8211; including those that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mathworld v. Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/20/mathworld-v-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/20/mathworld-v-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was a mathematics undergraduate in the MathWorld generation.  It spread like wildfire in our department.  I stopped carrying textbooks around with me &#8211; instead I could just walk into our undergraduate lab and look something up.  MathWorld was every math textbook I needed.  (A friend of mine was blocked from MathWorld after trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Princesses can be mathematicians too</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/02/princesses-can-be-mathematicians-too/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/11/02/princesses-can-be-mathematicians-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[greets three tiny trick-or-treaters] Them: Trick or treat! Me: I see we have a puppy, Mickey Mouse and, well, you must be a mathematician! Little girl [defiantly stomping foot]: I&#8217;m a princess! Me: Princesses can be mathematicians too.]]></description>
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		<title>Job talks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/27/job-talks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/27/job-talks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found out that when I gave my job talk at Oregon State University last year, I was being recorded.  I was hesitant to post it, but I hope that, despite this far-from-perfect performance, it might be useful to those on the job market this year.  Note that Oregon State is not a theory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INFORMS on the Smart Grid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/12/informs-on-the-smart-grid/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/12/informs-on-the-smart-grid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t heard of the &#8220;smart grid&#8221; until I arrived in Oregon.  Our department is pushing for a sustainability research collaboration initiative, SENERGI, and so it wasn&#8217;t long before I heard our former director, Terri Fiez, talking about the smart grid.  Now, at INFORMS in San Diego, I&#8217;m listening to a keynote on the smart [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to find a postdoc</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/08/how-to-find-a-postdoc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/08/how-to-find-a-postdoc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I hardly think I should be doling out advice &#8230; In algorithms, there have been a lot of postdoc positions advertising on the two main email lists, TheoryNT and dmanet.  In my experience, many of the positions are in Europe.  I&#8217;ve found that a lot of postdoc&#8217;s get their position by word of mouth. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/08/how-to-find-a-postdoc/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>What theory should every non-theory Ph.D. student know?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/05/what-theory-should-every-non-theory-ph-d-student-know/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/10/05/what-theory-should-every-non-theory-ph-d-student-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve survived my first week of teaching graduate algorithms and data structures. &#8220;Survived&#8221; really isn&#8217;t the right word. I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun and the students in the class are bright and interactive, which makes a 50 minute lecture go by in a flash. Since the time is going by so quickly, I realize [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feminism is still needed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/29/feminism-is-still-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many blogs have already piped up on the THE article on the deadly sins of academia (thanks to Gordon Wilfong for first directing me to it).  The article isn&#8217;t entirely at fault and meant to be in good fun.  The section on Lust, though, by Terence Kealey, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham contains such gems that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Department retreat</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/25/department-retreat/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/25/department-retreat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my first department retreat today.  I should have gone to the one at Brown when grad students were invited, but I skipped it &#8211; it was during one of my &#8220;I hate grad school and I just want to curl up and think about how I will never graduate&#8221; phases.  A topic for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why blog?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/14/why-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/14/why-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=163</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gasarch asked me to make a statement about my blog and in responding to him, I realized I might as well post it here. This blog will likely be YATB (yet another theory blog) &#8211; hopefully I will have something new and interesting to say.  I&#8217;d been subscribing to the Theory of Computing Blog [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Algorithms advertising for incoming grad students</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/13/algorithms-advertising-for-incoming-grad-students/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/13/algorithms-advertising-for-incoming-grad-students/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[grad students]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[professor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my first professorial tasks will be a 4-minute talk to incoming grad students. I don&#8217;t expect any of the students in the audience will be explicitly interested in algorithms research.  After all, when they applied, there weren&#8217;t any algorithms profs here to advise them.  So, I&#8217;m not sure what the best use of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Newly minted</title>
		<link>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/10/newly-minted/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/glencora/2009/09/10/newly-minted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glencora Borradaile</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.glencora.org/?p=133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just started &#8211; a week before my official start date &#8211; as an assistant professor at Oregon State University in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  I feel very luck to be here, to have landed a job in a year when many of few job openings were rescinded because of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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