Monday, July 14, 2008

Stony Brook

Graduate School Application ChecklistStony Brook University

Online Applicaton
􀁆 Personal Statement
􀁆 Application Fee
􀁆 Letter of Recommendation #1
􀁆 Letter of Recommendation #2
􀁆 Letter of Recommendation #3
􀁆 OFFICIAL School Transcript(s)
􀁆 OFFICIAL GRE Scores
􀁆 OFFICIAL TOEFL Scores
* Required for students who declare a language other than English as their native language
􀁆 Proof of Permanent Residency
* Required for students who declare themselves as Permanent Residents

applicantion fees is 60$. The copies must be send to the graduate program, and another must be send to the department. Deadline is January 15th.

ibt limit 80 ,but 90 or higher is common.if(Speaking >=28 ) exempt from the ESL.

Research Areas
Visual ComputingThe Center for Visual Computing is an internationally recognized center dedicated to research, industrial interaction, and education in the technology of and applications for digital images and computer-human interaction. Software tools developed by the Center include VolVis for volume visualization (disseminated to more than 3,500 sites), Virtual Colonoscopy for navigating in a reconstructed 3-D model of the colon for cancer screening, and BrainMiner for visual data exploration of the brain. The Center pioneered several architectures; the most recent has been the Cube-4 for real-time high-resolution volume rendering, which has been commercialized by Mitsubishi Electric as the VolumePro board—the first such hardware for the PC. Faculty in this group includes Ashikhmin, Brennan, Chiueh, Gu, Kaufman, Liang, Mitchell, Mueller, Pavlidis, Qin, Samaras, and Stent.
Computer Systems The Computer Systems faculty work on many aspects of computer system problems: distributed systems, networks, and operating systems; communication networks and protocols; high-speed networks; multimedia and P2P networks; wireless and mobile networking; computer security; network security; fault-tolerance and security; storage and file systems; performance evaluation; modeling and analysis; processor and computer architecture; parallel I/O; superconducting computers and networks; massively parallel computation; compression; software systems and portability; software testing and verification; program analysis and optimization; compilers; and more. The Computer Systems faculty include Badr, Chiueh, Das, Gao, Gupta, Mohr, Sekar, Sion, Smith, Stoller, Wittie, Yang, and Zadok.
Applied Logic and Information Systems This research group spans the areas of databases, logic programming, programming languages, Web information systems, and deductive systems. The group includes one of the largest and finest applied logic groups in the world, which attracts international visitors. XSB, developed by the group, is a widely-used deductive database/Prolog engine. FLORA-2, a deductive engine for the Semantic Web, is another popular project. Other important work includes tools for creating intelligent Web agents and automation of inference systems. Deductive calculi proposed by members of the group have been adopted in many state-of-the-art theorem-proving systems and were a key in the automated proof of the Robbins conjecture, a long-standing open mathematical problem. Faculty in this group are professors Bachmair, Gupta, Kelly, Kifer, Liu, C.R. Ramakrishnan, I.V. Ramakrishnan, Warren, Wasilewska, and Zhao.
Concurrency and Verification The Concurrency and Verification group investigates methods for constructing reliable, robust, and secure concurrent and distributed systems. These methods are being used to verify the correctness of a number of safety-critical systems, communication protocols, and e-commerce protocols, as well as security properties of distributed systems. Primary industrial partners include ADEMCO, Computer Associates, Northrop Grumman, and Reuters International. Faculty in this group include Bernstein, Cleaveland, Grosu, Lewis, C.R. Ramakrishnan, I.V. Ramakrishnan, Smolka, Stark, Stoller, and Warren.
Algorithms and ComplexityThis group does research in algorithms and data structures, computational biology, computational complexity, computational geometry, computational finances, complexity theory, string processing, and graph algorithms. In addition to our theoretical contributions, we have a strong record of developing widely-used systems for combinatorial computing, computer graphics optimization, and parallel-processor scheduling. This group includes Arkin, Bender, Gao, Ko, Mitchell, and Skiena.
Apart from research, furthering computer science education is another important part of the departmental agenda. Many faculty members have written books and developed educational software and Web-based material that is in use in hundreds of classrooms around the world. This group of distinguished faculty includes professors Bachmair, Bernstein, Kaufman, Kifer, Ko, Lewis, Pavlidis, Skiena, Smolka, Smith, and Warren
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