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Undergraduate Summer Research Awards

The School of Computer Science at McGill University offers undergraduate students the opportunity to work on research projects supervised by a faculty advisor, under the auspices of the NSERC summer undergraduate research award program. Undergraduate research is often the highlight of a student's learning experience. The student is paid to stretch their imagination, and test their ingenuity and creativity. At the same time, they learn valuable problem formulation and presentation skills which will be useful in any career. The diversity of the areas in which a student can work are indicated by the abstracts below.

The school is fortunate to be able to offer the following supplemental award:

  • The $2500 Undergraduate Research Excellence Prize, awarded to the best project by a student holding a summer undergraduate award.

Students interested in taking part in this program should contact faculty members with whom they might like to work. THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IN 2006 is Friday February 3rd.

At the end of each summer we hold an "Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium" where undergraduate students present their research, and have the opportunity to meet the other students and faculty members involved in the program. The prize mentioned above is awarded at this time, by a committee of three SOCS faculty.

2004 Undergraduate Summer Research Awards

Two years ago there were 14 summer students working with 8 faculty members. The winner of the Courtemanche prize was Alexandre Bouchard-Côté The two runner ups were Zhentao Li and Jean-Sébastien Légaré

 
Henry Leighton (Associate Dean) together with Zhentao Li (U2, Runner up), Denis Thérien (Chair, SOCS), Jean-Sébastien Légaré (U3, Runner up), Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (U3, Courtemanche Scholarship winner).

More pictures of the presentations and the award ceremony can be found here.

Schedule'05:

Time     Title      Presenter   
9:00 am     Coffee and Bagels   
9:25 am     Welcome!    Bruce Reed
9:30 am      Featherweight Java: Theory and Implementation    Benjamin Azan
9:50 am   Focusing Prover for Bunched Implications    Sabrina Chantrelle
10:10 am   Options and Recognizers in Reinforcement Learning   Melanie Coggan
10:30 am   Short Break    
10:50 am   Linear Characters and Boolean Circuits   Laszlo Egri
11:10 am   A New Interface for OPTIMA   Samuel Gélineau
11:30 pm   Decision Making in Medical Domains   Adrian Ghizaru
12:00 pm   Lunch    
1:40 pm   Duality in Automata   Christopher Hundt
2:00 pm   A Command Interpreter for a Public Computing Utility   Jean-Sébastien Légaré
2:20 pm   SABS: An Adaptive bench marking Solution   Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert
2:40 pm   Coffee Break    
3:00 pm   Object Detection Using Medial Axes   Marc Gendron-Bellemare
3:20 pm   Enforcing ordering constraints in sets of DNA Motifs   Oana Sandu
3:40 pm   Decision Procedures for Propositional Logic and Equality   Xi Li
4:00 pm   Reconstruction of Ancestral DNA Sequences   Zhentao Li
4:20 pm   Reception and Prize Announcements in MC321  

Judges in 2005:

  • Prof. Luc Devroye
  • Prof. Nathan Friedman
  • Prof. Hans Vangheluwe

Location and Time in 2005:

  • Presentations will take place in MC103 from 9:00am to 4:30pm on August 31 2005.

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