Students Form New Chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
A group of LSU students has successfully petitioned the national Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, or SIAM, Board of Trustees to create a SIAM student chapter at the University.
SIAM members explore new ways of applying mathematics to science, technology and industry. There are more than 50 educational institutions with SIAM chapters. The LSU chapter is sponsored by the Center for Computation and Technology, or CCT, and the Department of Mathematics.
“The students really drove the effort to bring a SIAM chapter to LSU,” said Susanne Brenner, Ph.D., LSU Department of Mathematics professor and recipient of a 2005 Humboldt Research Award. “They worked hard with the national SIAM board to establish a chapter this semester and have already selected officers. Because SIAM is an interdisciplinary organization, the student officers will recruit chapter members from all disciplines in science and engineering.”
LSU’s SIAM officers for 2008 are:
President: Rick Barnard, mathematics graduate student
Vice President: Silvia Jimenez, mathematics graduate student
Treasurer: Jintao Cui, mathematics graduate student
Secretary: Alvaro Guevara, mathematics graduate student
Webmaster: Sean Farley, mathematics graduate student
Liaison Officer: Laurentiu Marinovici, electrical engineering graduate student
Brenner and Li-yeng Sung, both Department of Mathematics professors, will serve as advisers for the SIAM chapter. Brenner is also the organizer of CCT’s Frontiers of Scientific Computing lecture series that overlaps with many of the SIAM chapter’s themes.
SIAM’s first event took place Monday, with a visit by Professor David Keyes, Columbia University and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
CCT in the News:
Fiber-optic pipeline yields flood of opportunities
2-10-08 – Shreveport Times
The words "Louisiana" and "high tech" rarely have appeared together in headlines, so it is refreshing to hear the most recent news about LONI, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative. Aside from the network's recent expansion, LONI is now providing crucial improvements to the state's medical infrastructure.
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/OPINION03/802090309/1007/OPINION
Pats On The Back:
• Congratulations to Daniel S. Katz, who will be the Posters and Research Demos Chair for eScience 2008 to be held in Indianapolis in December 2008. For more information go to http://www.infomall.org/escience2008/
Upcoming Lectures:
• Paul Walter, a CCT ALPACA postdoctoral candidate from the University of Texas at Austin will deliver a special guest lecture on “Using openGR for Numerical Relativity Simulations” on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 11:30 a.m. in Nicholson Hall Room 201.
• Ronald T. Cenfetelli, University Of British Columbia, will give a special guest lecture Thursday, Feb. 21 at 1 p.m. in Johnston Hall 338. The lecture is titled “An Exploration and Identification of Technology Usage Inhibitors”
• William Gropp, Department Of Computer Science, University Of Illinois, will give a lecture titled “Challenges for the Message-Passing Interface in the PetaFLOPS Era” Thursday, Feb. 22, 2008 at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston 338. The lecture is part of the Frontiers of Scientific Computing Lecture Series. Gropp’s lecture replaces Colloquium for this week.
• IMPORTANT: Anyone organizing a lecture should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures 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 needs to be filled.
Please Note:
• ALL CCT Meetings for the spring are scheduled as follows: Feb. 27, March 26, April 23, 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.
• The Red Stick International Animation festival is currently looking for preliminary judges for the festival. If you wish to be on this year's jury, go to http://www.redstickfestival.org/judging/register. If you were on the jury last year, your login is still valid. Contact Steve Beck at sdbeck@cct.lsu.edu if you have any questions.
• CCT will host the Finite Element Circus and Rodeo March 5-8 on campus. Please contact Dr. Susanne Brenner if you have questions or would like to participate.
• Dr. Brenner also is organizing the Workshop on Automating the Development of Scientific Computing Software at CCT March 5-7. Please contact her to participate. Web site: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/scientificomputing .
• The Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place from April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge.
• 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:
NSF Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT)
NSF EMT
March 13, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.
A Portion Of $16,000,000 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08517/nsf08517.htm
Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
March 18 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
At Least $50,000 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08520/nsf08520.htm
George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research (NEESR)
March 18, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
At Least $750,000 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08519/nsf08519.htm
Publish Date:
02-19-2008
