The IDL Reading Club will meet for 1-hour sessions once a month, where preselected texts on a specific topic will be discussed. Each session will be hosted by an IDL member who is responsible for selecting a topic and some reading material and making it accessible to everyone in the group. The host will also give a short intro (< 20 min) and lead the discussion during the session. Everyone attending the session can be assumed to have read the texts. Texts must be announced and posted 1 month in advance on this site. Hosts are also encouraged to announce their topics as soon as possible in order to get suggestions on reading materials from others. A rule of thumb for selecting texts is that they should be able to 'teach an intelligent non-expert about the field'[LF].

Some good sites to get ideas and on-line texts from:

MIT OCW

On-line math books

Engineering Statistics Handbooks

Human-Computer Interaction Research seminar at Stanford

Host	Topic	Text	Date	Time	Location
Thomas	Number Theory in Computer Science	text1 + text2(only chapters 1-3)	11/2/06	10-11	Pi 1L
Leslie	Two Great Examples of Mechanism Design	text1 + text2 + text3, which really supports text 1	12/7/06	10-11	Enigma, 1U
Mike	Computer-Supported Collaborative Work	text1 + text2 + text3	1/22/06	11-12	Chaos, 1U
Tad	Technology's effects on economics and legal institutions	text1 + text2 (full source reference)	2/8/07	11-12	Chaos, 1U
Fang	Card Shuffling Theory	text	3/15/07	11-12
Scott	Micro and Macro Levels of Networks	text1 + text2 + text3	4/26/07	11-12	Chaos, 1U
Kevin	Net Neutrality	Links	5/31/07	11-12	Chaos, 1U
Dennis	Weird lessons from quantum mechanics	text1 + link1 + text2 + text3 + link2	6/21/07	10:30-11:30	Enigma, 1U
Li	Arrow's impossibility theorem	text1+text2+text3	7/13/07	11-12	Chaos, 1U