CENTER FOR COMPUTATION & TECHNOLOGY

CCT to Host International Conference During Mardi Gras CCT will host the First International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction at LSU from Feb. 15-17, 2007. This conference, which will welcome participants from around the world, highlights research in the emerging field of tangible and embedded interaction. The conference will be held this year as the 14th Annual Mardi Gras Conference. Tangible and embedded interaction focuses on applying computational behaviors to objects. With technological advances, computing has progressively moved beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. As objects gain new computational behaviors, they become reprogrammable, customizable, re-purposable and interoperable in rich ecologies and diverse contexts. They also become more complex and require intense design efforts to be functional, usable and enjoyable. Designing such systems requires interdisciplinary thinking, and bringing people together to study this field at the conference can lead to further breakthroughs and interdisciplinary collaboration. The conference will bring together researchers from the diverse groups involved with tangibles -- from computing, hardware and sensor technology, to human-computer interaction, interaction design and computer-supported collaborative work, to product and industrial design and interactive arts. Contributors at the conference will host a variety of presentations to showcase their work, including talks, interactive exhibits, demos or performances and posters. To register or to learn more about this conference, please visit www.cct.lsu.edu and click the “TEI ‘07” link. Get Ready for Google! CCT is bringing Google to campus to tell interested students how to find employment with the company. Google representatives will be on campus Wednesday, Jan. 31 from 5-8 p.m. in Dodson Auditorium to provide students majoring in engineering, ISDS and computer sciences with instructions on how to apply for job and internship openings. Google representatives will host a “Tech Talk” and then give career information. Free pizza and drinks as well as Google giveaway items will be provided, and students will have the chance to meet individually with Google employees. CCT has partnered with Career Services to host this event. Please be sure to let your students know about this opportunity at the start of the spring semester! Seating is limited, so they must register by Jan. 26 to attend – students can register online at: www.lsu.edu/career. CCT in the News Lights, camera --- and transmit! 12-31-2006/The Shreveport Times Not only is the calendar changing, but so are perceptions of the Pelican State. http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061231/OPINION03/612300334/1058 CCT Director, Professor Premiere LSU Supercomputing Course in Arkansas 12-20-2006/Supercomputing Online LSU Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) Professor Thomas Sterling believes supercomputing is the technology of the future for business and industry, and he wants to make sure many college students have the opportunity to learn about it. http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=12713 UL Lafayette Zeking Out 12-20-2006/The Independent Zeke, UL Lafayette’s computing node on the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, was launched last week. http://www.theind.com/news2.asp?CID=-1047308891 Pats on the Back • CCT Professor Frank Muldoon’s paper, “Analysis of k–epsilon Budgets for Film Cooling Using Direct Numerical Simulation” was published in the December 2006 edition of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal. Muldoon co-authored the paper with Sumanta Acharya. • The 2007 edition of the Livingston Parish Telephone Directory will feature a LIGO image from CCT Professor Werner Benger on its cover. One of the nation’s two LIGO detectors is located in Livingston Parish. The parish wished to highlight this and Benger’s image from the LIGO site was selected as the best. More than 50,000 copies of the book will be printed and distributed this month. Please Note: • CCT will host a special guest lecture featuring Dongwoo Sheen, Department of Mathematics at Seoul National University, on Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 3 p.m. in 338 Johnston Hall. Sheen will give remarks on nonconforming finite element methods. • The SC 06 wrap-up meeting originally scheduled for Friday, Dec. 8 has been moved to Wednesday, Jan. 17 from 3-4 p.m. in Johnston 338. • The first CCT student meeting of the spring semester will be Friday, Jan. 19 at noon. This meeting is mandatory; please save the date. Also, there will be a scholarship/internship page put up on the student Web site soon – please check to see if you qualify for any of these opportunities. • There will be a free, two-day, high-performance computing training course offered on Thursday, Jan. 25 and Friday, Jan. 26. Information, including a registration link, is available at: http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/training/index.php Upcoming Grant Deadlines: NSF Cyber Trust January 08 2007 5 a.m. At Most $ 34,000,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07500/nsf07500.htm NSF SBE Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants January 11, 2007 5 p.m. At Most $ 2,500,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06605/nsf06605.htm NSF Annual Solicitation for Research in Support of the National Space Weather Program January 16 2007 5 p.m. A Portion Of $ 1,500,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07520/nsf07520.htm Contact info for grant questions: Carrie Brinkley, 146H LBTC "A" or visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/grants/ * If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please send it to cctweekly@cct.lsu.edu *