EGSA Council meeting notes January 27th, 2005, 6pm at E2-311 Meeting Attendees: Javi, Nacho, Sina and Cintia. AGENDA ------ 1) SOAR advisor meeting scheduled 2) Next Grads/Faculty/Staff Forum 3) Proposal for visits to companies on Silicon Valley 4) EGSA unique event MEETING ------- SOAR advisor meeting scheduled for Monday January 31st at 11am. Our SOAR advisor is Lee Moranto. The four signers must attend the orientation meeting with advisor. Next Grads/Faculty/Staff Forum: The food ordered by Nacho for last forum seemed a better option than the lunch boxes. For next forums, we will order from the "Party Platters" menu then. We also decided to change the room from BE330 to E2-280. Cintia will check reservations. Next forums on Winter are scheduled for: Feb/09, Feb/23 and Mar/9. Javier will try to get a speaker by Friday, and if not he will let Sina know (so he can invite Don Wiberg). For the other two forums we should get people from AMS and BioInformatics. As for the company visits, Javier will draft the proposal. Cintia needs to get contacts from Katia and JJ for network companies, and a list of students and abstracts for talks that would be given on these companies. President's homework: we need to think of a nice event to be held one a month (or maybe twice) for Grads. Meeting adjourned.