Deadlines Approaching for SC08 Conference
The annual Supercomputing Conference has several deadlines coming up for faculty, staff and students who wish to participate. SC08 will take place in Austin, Texas from Nov. 15-21. CCT will host a booth at SC08 to showcase innovative research from the past year.
July 31 is the deadline to apply for ACM Student Research Competition, Doctoral Showcase, poster submissions, and Student Volunteer positions. Aug. 15 is the deadline for travel grant applications for under-represented groups. If there are people working within your research group or focus area who wish to attend any of these events during SC08, please be aware of these deadlines.
For more information on SC08, please visit http://sc08.supercomputing.org/ .
Pats on the Back:
• Shantenu Jha was invited to be the Program Chair for CLADE2009 -- Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments, to be held in Munich in 2009.
Upcoming Lectures:
• There are no lectures scheduled for this week.
Please Note:
• An ALL CCT meeting will take place this Wednesday, July 16, at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Please make every effort to attend.
• The Office of Group Benefits is requiring all plan members to submit documents verifying the status and relationship of covered dependents (i.e. children, spouses) through Nov. 30, 2008. LSU employees will have several opportunities to submit the appropriate documentation at locations on campus. For a list of required documentation and dates/times when Office of Group Benefits representatives will be on campus, please visit http://appl003.lsu.edu/hrm/benefitsweb.nsf/index. For more information, please contact CCT’s human resources coordinator, Laurie Rea, at lrea@cct.lsu.edu.
• The University Office of Finance and Administrative Services has issued an updated memo regarding employees’ responsibility for University-owned property. Everyone employed by the University, including student workers, is responsible for the proper safeguarding of University equipment. All employees should have a fundamental understanding of the basic Property Management regulations of the University. Specific information can be found at Property Management’s Web site, http://www.fas.lsu.edu/purchasing/propmgmt.htm. Contact Property Management at 225-578-6922 for additional information. The memo is online on the CCT Business Office Web site at: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site134.php .
• Please review your meeting room reservations for CCT facilities. If your reservation extends beyond a five-month period or continues indefinitely, it will be removed. For further information, please review CCT Policy Statement # 18 at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site133.php.
• 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:
07-15-2008
