CCT Announces Red Stick Festival Winners
CCT announces the winners for the 2008 Red Stick International Animation Festival Awards. The winners received their prizes in an awards ceremony on the last day of the festival, Saturday, April 19.
The festival, which took place April 16-19, received 207 film submissions from 27 countries for the annual competition. The festival awarded “Best of the Fest” prizes in five categories.
The winners of the 2008 Red Stick International Animation Festival are:
• Best Animated Short Film – Student: “Tong,” by David Cellier, Florent Limouzin, Arnaud Real (France) and Ecole Supérieure des métiers Artistiques (ESMA.)
• Best Animated Short Film – Professional: “Une petite histoire de l'image animée,” by Joris Clerté (France) and Doncvoilà & Mikros Image.
• Best Music Video: “Whatcha Got?” by Rogier Wieland (Netherlands.)
• Best Animation for Young Audiences: “Who’s That Knock’n?” by Peter Hriso and Gigi Alandt (United States.)
• Best Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional: “Mercurius” by Brett Battey (United States) and DeMontfort University (United Kingdom.)
The award-winning films and the runners-up in each category were shown during the festival as part of Red Stick’s “Best of the Fest” screenings.
Red Stick International Animation Festival will next take place April 22-25, 2009. Red Stick will announce the 2009 categories and begin the call for submissions in August 2008 at the SIGGRAPH convention in Los Angeles.
Please visit www.redstickfestival.org for updated festival entry information.
Pats on the Back:
• Bijaya Karki, Ph.D., CCT and LSU Department of Computer Science, won the 2008 Phi Kappa Phi non-tenured faculty award in the natural and physical sciences. Professor Karki received his award in a ceremony April 21 with Provost Astrid Merget. Congratulations!
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Teragrid Allocations: April 18 Application Deadline
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Scientists, engineers and other U.S. researchers can now apply by April 18 for allocations of high-performance computer time, storage and systems resources available through the TeraGrid, a partnership of 11 nationwide sites, sponsored by the Office of Cyberinfrastructure of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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Animation enthusiasts had better get in line for the coveted “gold pass,” which is the hottest ticket in town next week.
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Red Stick Animation Festival features two premieres
Daily Report
The fourth annual Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place April 16-19, and will feature two film premieres. Santa vs. Claus, a holiday-themed movie, will have its world premiere at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 19 at the Manship Theatre.
http://www.businessreport.com/archives/daily-report/2008/apr/10/496/
Upcoming Lectures:
• CCT Colloquium Series: Georgios Veronis, CCT and Electrical & Computer Engineering Assistant Professor, will give a lecture titled “Modeling Of Nanophotonic Devices For Manipulating Light At Deep Subwavelength Scale” on Friday, April 25 at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston Hall room 338.
• Special Guest Lecture: Steven Detweiler, Professor of Physics at the University of Florida, will deliver a lecture titled “Gravitational Waves From Small Black Holes Orbiting Big Ones,” on Monday, April 28 at 2 p.m. in Johnston 338.
• IMPORTANT: Anyone organizing a lecture OR EVENT should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures/events on the same day. Also, coordinate with your Focus Area lead so that CCT can get the best attendance possible. There may be open slots in a standard lecture series that need to be filled.
Please Note:
• The next ALL CCT meeting is this Wednesday, April 23, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend.
• Upcoming ALL CCT Meetings for the spring are scheduled as follows: May 21, June 18 and July 16. All meetings are held at 3 p.m. in 338 Johnston Hall. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend.
• If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
Note: Please see the CCT deadline Web site, as many NSF deadlines are listed here: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/grants/deadlines/events.php
Computer Systems Research (CSR)
April 23, 2008 10:00 a.m.
At Least $450,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08538/nsf08538.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program (IGERT)
April 24 2008 10:15 am
A Portion Of $12,600,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08540/nsf08540.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering
May 14 2008 10:15 a.m.
A Portion Of $1,900,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08544/nsf08544.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops
May 20 2008 10:15 am
A Portion Of $ 1,500,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04035/nsf04035.htm
Publish Date:
04-22-2008
