CCT Staff to Showcase Digital Media Innovations at SIGGRAPH 2008
CCT will host a booth at SIGGRAPH: International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Technologies, the premier conference to showcase new developments in digital media. CCT staff will exhibit during the conference in Los Angeles Aug. 12-15 to display projects in digital art, electro-acoustic music, animation, video game design, scientific visualization and more.
CCT staff will advertise opportunities with the University’s Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, multidisciplinary hiring initiative. AVATAR establishes a university-wide faculty focus on the intersections among art, technology and computation, creating new research areas. The AVATAR initiative will bring six new faculty to LSU to conduct research primarily in intelligent and responsive systems -- video games, training systems and simulation visualizations -- and collaborative digital media arts.
CCT also will screen “Best of the Fest” winners from the 2008 Red Stick International Animation Festival, and will announce submission categories for the 2009 festival. Red Stick will begin accepting entries for the 2009 film competition on Sept. 1, 2008 in eight categories:
• Animated Short Film (student and professional)
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Commercials
• Animation for Games
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music (student and professional)
• Storyboard Competition
The fifth annual Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place April 22—25, 2009 in downtown Baton Rouge’s Arts District.
In addition to Red Stick, CCT will showcase 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.
The Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium will also exhibit at SIGGRAPH to promote economic development opportunities for digital media businesses in the state and city. The consortium, which is led by CCT and comprised of LSU Office for Research & Economic Development, the Mayor-President’s Office, Baton Rouge Area Foundation and Baton Rouge Area Chamber, is working to show the entertainment industry Baton Rouge is a lucrative area to locate video game design, animation, rendering and other digital media endeavors. The consortium is an outgrowth of CCT’s Red Stick International Animation Festival.
Upcoming Lectures:
• Sanjay Kodiyalam, LSU senior postdoctoral researcher for the Department Of Biological Sciences and candidate for the Cybertools postdoctoral WP4 position, will give a lecture in Johnston 338 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30. Kodiyalam will lecture on “Parallel Computing: Pressure-Driven Phenomena.”
• Nayong Kim, Indiana University Community Grids Laboratory in Pervasive Technology Labs and candidate for the Cybertools postdoctoral WP4 position, will give a lecture on “Atomistic Simulation Of Nanoporous Layered Double Hydroxide Materials And Transport And Adsorption Of Gas Mixture And Fluids In Them” on Thursday, Aug. 1 at 1:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
• 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.
July 31 is the deadline to apply for ACM Student Research Competition, Doctoral Showcase, poster submissions and Student Volunteer positions. For questions about student volunteers, please contact Kathy Traxler at ktraxler@cct.lsu.edu.
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 make them aware of these deadlines.
• 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.
• 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:
07-29-2008
