Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!rabaeza
From: rabaeza@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates)
Newsgroups: ont.events
Subject: Re: DATA STRUCTURING SEMINAR
Message-ID: <13289@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Apr 89 17:07:05 GMT
References: <2211@water.waterloo.edu> <150@sickkids.UUCP> <274@hcr.UUCP> <151@sickkids.UUCP>
Reply-To: rabaeza@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates)
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <151@sickkids.UUCP> mark@sickkids.UUCP (Mark Bartelt) writes:
  >In article <274@hcr.UUCP> mnarayan@hcrvx1.UUCP (Michael Narayan) writes:
  >
  >[  Answers to my questions about what building the seminar is in  ]
  >
  >Thanks for the info.  Now, I have one or two other questions ...
  >
  >> TIME:          3:30-5:30 PM
  >
  >Do UW seminars *really* last two hours, or is part of this time allocated
  >to pre- and/or post-seminar coffee/cookies/whatever?

No. Is only one hour (and I do not plan to talk longer than that :-).
I guess that is the time allocated when the room was booked.

  >Also, do they tend to start at the advertised time?  UofT has a curious
  >tradition of beginning at least five (and usually ten (or more)) minutes
  >after the posted time.  Nearly everyone is aware of this, so most people
  >don't even bother arriving until at least five minutes or so after the
  >seminar is advertised to begin, leaving those who aren't in the know (and
  >who therefore arrive a few minutes *before* the posted time) to sit around
  >reading, sleeping, or staring at the walls.

  >Does UW do the same thing, or do things begin when they're alleged to begin?

I would say that at UW we try to start on time, or at most 5 minutes late.

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