Vivek Sarkar: Courses

  1. •  Short course on “Multicore Programming Models”, Second International School on Trends in Concurrency, June 2008.

  2. • COMP 422 (Introduction to Parallel Computing), Rice University, Spring 2008.

  3. • COMP 635 (Seminar on Heterogeneous Processors, Rice University, Fall 2007.

  4. • 6.035 (Computer Language Engineering), MIT, Fall ’96 & Fall ’97.  Sole instructor for the main compilers class at MIT. Restructured curriculum to use Java as  the language foundation instead of CLU. 

  5. • Code Optimization in Modern Compilers, Western Institute for Computer Science (WICS),  Stanford University, August ’94, August ’95, August ’96.  This one-week overview class on code optimization was designed for industry professionals and  overseas students (taught jointly with Prof. Krishna Palem from the NYU Courant Institute). 

  6. • Compiling for Parallelism, Indian Institute of Science, March 1990.  This intensive two-week course was sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme. 

  7. • CS 302, U. Wisconsin-Madison, Fall ’81 & Spring ’82.  Lecturer for introductory programming course in Pascal and Fortran.