CCT Exhibiting at SIGGRAPH 2008 This Week
CCT is hosting a booth at SIGGRAPH: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies, Aug. 12-15 in Los Angeles. SIGGRAPH is the premier conference to showcase new developments in digital media.
CCT staff are advertising opportunities with the University’s Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, multidisciplinary hiring initiative, and announcing submission categories for the 2009 festival.
CCT also is showcasing LSU’s video game design course, which the University offers through the University of Illinois-Chicago. Students take the class, in which they work in teams as companies to create original video games, at LSU via HDTV streamed across high-speed networks from Chicago. LSU will offer the course for the third time in the Fall 2008 semester.
Pats on the Back:
• Anshul Tandon was the sole University Medalist at Summer 2008 commencement, graduating with a 4.0 GPA.
CCT Welcomes:
• Ashlen Boudreaux is moving from Interim Grant Coordinator to new CCT Grant Coordinator.
Upcoming Lectures:
• Jennifer K. Ryan, Delft University of Technology assistant professor of applied mathematics, will give a lecture on “ Local Smoothness-Increasing Accuracy-Conserving (SIAC) Filtering for Discontinuous Galerkin Methods” as art of the Computational Mathematics Seminar Series. She will speak on Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 11 a.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
• ALL CCT meetings for the fall semester will take place on Aug. 20, Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 12 and Dec. 17. All meetings take place at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend. Please be aware that these dates and times may change.
• Would you like to buy a CCT shirt? Events coordinator Jennifer Claudet will have sample shirts on display at the All CCT meeting on Aug. 20 so people can see the shirts before they buy. If you would like to purchase a shirt, please place your order with her by Friday, Aug. 21. E-mail Jennifer@cct.lsu.edu if you have questions or would like to see the sample shirts prior to Aug. 20.
• SC08 has extended the deadline for student volunteers to Aug. 15. SC08 will take place in Austin, Texas from Nov. 15-21. For questions about student volunteer positions, please contact Kathy Traxler at ktraxler@cct.lsu.edu.
• Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) just announced a call for proposals for a series of high-performance computing grants that would allow faculty and student research teams the opportunity to participate in research with the benefit of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) computing resources and staff. For more information about the ORAU/ORNL High Performance Computing Grant Program and proposal requirements, visit http://www.orau.org/consortium/programs/hpc/index.htm .
• Georgetown University offers professional training in high-performance computing and has been doing so for the past two years, training systems administrators and users from numerous academic and research institutions. The university currently offers two-to-four-day classes in clusters, job schedulers, benchmarking and tuning and accelerators (GPU, Cell, etc.). Fine more information at http://www.gridswatch.com (click on the “Training” section.)
• 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
NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
NSF CDI
August 30 2008 5:00 pm
A Portion Of $ 26,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm
Publish Date:
08-12-2008
