The Brown Bag Lunches are informal talks given by graduate students, post-docs, and regular or visiting faculty within the Computer Science department.
The purpose of these talks is to give people an opportunity to present topics and to receive feedback (and, of course, participants can eat their lunch at the same time).
If you are working on a topic and get stuck, they provide a wonderful opportunity for you to get a different perspective. In addition, speakers may give talks simply to discuss interesting issues and results or to educate department members on some area of research. Students or faculty are welcome to participate by either giving talks or by attending.
We like to have a speaker each week; however, this requires volunteers. As a goal, speakers try to limit their talk to 1/2 hour, although the lecture and Q&A portion of the talk can run for a whole hour.
This talk series hasn't run in a while. Students interested in this series should consider reviving it. If interested, contact the current Graduate Representative for the Computer Science department.