Red Stick International Animation Festival is April 18-22
Red Stick International Animation Festival, an annual event that brings together artists, animators, filmmakers, computer scientists to showcase the latest developments in Louisiana's digital arts and technology sectors, will take place April 18-22 in the Baton Rouge Arts District at a variety of historic venues in the capital city. Some highlight events of the 2007 Red Stick International Animation Festival will include: -- An appearance by James Redford, actor and son of Robert Redford, for Animation Collaboration. This part of the festival focuses on helping local schoolchildren use animation to express their feelings about various social issues. Last year, this event started with a focus on Hurricane Katrina. This year, the James Redford Institute will participate in Animation Collaboration, which will focus on organ transplant awareness. Redford is a double transplant survivor, and his foundation raises awareness about this. Redford will work with AnimAction to host workshops for schoolchildren April 4 and 5, and their work will be shown during the festival. Redford also will sit on a speakers panel on Friday, April 20, to discuss this topic at Red Stick. -- A retrospective of films by Karey Kirkpatrick, a Baton Rouge High School graduate who has written numerous animated films, including "Chicken Run," "James and the Giant Peach" and "Over the Hedge." Plans are in the works for a "Chicken Run" reunion to take place at the festival, with various actors who voiced the parts invited to attend. -- A tribute to the late animator Joe Barbera, who died in 2006. Academy Award-winning films from Hanna-Barbera will be screened, and representatives from his production studio will speak. -- Cartoon-a-palooza, a Saturday morning event at the festival where children come in pajamas to watch cartoons on the lawn of the Old State Capitol. There will be a pajama contest, clowns, face-painting, spacewalks and many activities for the children. Breakfast is provided. This will be on Saturday, April 21 at 10 a.m. Registration is now open on the festival Web site, www.redstickfestival.org, for Red and Gold passes. A Red Pass is no-cost to participants and entitles them to attend all festival film screenings. A Gold Pass entitles participants to attend all lectures offered at the 2007 Red Stick Festival, in addition to the free screenings. Gold Passes are $50. However, Gold Passes will be available to any faculty or staff from an educational institution for $25, and will be available to any students for $20. If someone purchases five or more student Gold Passes, the rate will be further reduced to $10 per student pass. In addition to lectures and screenings, participants can attend the workshops offered this year for $20 each, with a $10 each discount rate for students. Attendants must register for a Gold Pass before they can purchase admission to the workshops. Red Pass participants will not be eligible to attend the workshops. If you are able to help with the festival, please contact CCT Event Manager Karen Jones for information on becoming a volunteer. CCT in the News
LSU Expands Southern High-Performance Computing Resources 3-15-2007/HPC WIRE BATON ROUGE, La., March 15 -- LSU's Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has tripled the computing capacity of the Southeastern Universities Research Association's, or SURA's, regional grid service, known as SURAgrid, through the addition of LSU's largest current supercomputer, SuperMike. http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1320723.html SuperMike joins Southeastern supercomputer grid 3-16-2007/ THE ADVOCATE LSU's Center for Computation & Technology tripled the computing capacity of the Southeastern Universities Research Association's regional grid service by adding the school's largest current supercomputer, SuperMike. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/businesstoday/friday/6536672.html Pats on the Back
• Ana Rojas, CCT and Department of Physics & Astronomy professor, was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Rojas' paper, “Molecular dynamics with the united-residue force field: Ab initio folding simulations of multichain proteins†was co-authored with Adam Liwo and Harold A. Scheraga. • Three of Dr. Tevfik Kosar's students -- Ibrahim Suslu, Wei Zhang and Xinqi "Jack" Wang -- received student scholarships to attend the Midwest Grid Workshop'07, which will be held in Chicago March 24-25. • Several CCT students were awarded at the LSU College of Basic Sciences' 32nd Annual Dean Arthur R. Choppin Honors Convocation, which was held on March 14. Ryan Rousseau received the Award of Distinction; Blake Tregre received the Award of Excellence; and Marc Noel received the Award of Merit and Upper Division Honors. In addition, several students won Department of Computer Science Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards. Those students were Razvan Carbunescu (adviser: Dr. Gabrielle Allen); John Lewis (adviser: Dr. Gabrielle Allen); Alex Nagelberg (mentor: Dr. Gabrielle Allen); Marc Noel, who won Upper Division Honors Thesis (mentor: Dr. Tevfik Kosar); and Blake Tregre (mentor: Dr. Brygg Ullmer.) Congratulations to all these students for their hard work and success! Upcoming Guest Lectures:
• Jeffrey Stolet, University of Oregon School of Music, will discuss “Creating the Invisible: Simple Concepts, Random Ideas and Parenthetical Ramblings About Sound Design†on Wednesday, March 21, at 2:30 p.m. in Johnston 338. • Jun Ni, Ph.D. and M.E., University of Iowa, will lecture on “Spotlight on UI-Based Applications in Medical Imaging†on Wednesday, April 4, at 11 a.m. in Johnston 338. Please Note:
• Planning for SC07 is underway. CCT Event Manager Karen Jones would like your input on booth giveaway items for this year's convention, taking place in Reno, Nev. Please browse the promotional giveaway company 4imprint.com or others and send your ideas to Karen by Friday, March 30. • A free seminar for faculty, staff and students will be held next Tuesday, March 27. A representative from Mathworks will speak about the MATLAB program, which is used in the science fields. If you are interested in attending, please contact Stacie Olivier at 578-5484 or by email soliver@lsu.edu for more information. • This week, on March 21 - 24, the Mathematics Department of Tulane University will host the annual Clifford Lectures. The schedule of the conference is available at http://www.math.tulane.edu/%7Ekurganov/CliffordLectures2007.html. • The third annual Red Stick International Animation Festival will be April 18-22. Please visit www.redstickfestival.org for more information on becoming a volunteer for this festival. • The Forum in Higher Education will take place this year on April 15-17. The theme is “Keeping the Touch in Technology.†Please visit http://www.celt.lsu.edu/CFD/THE/index.htm for more information if you wish to participate. • If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at kmeyer@cct.lsu.edu. Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Advanced Learning Technologies NSF ALT April 25 2007 5:00 pm A Portion Of $ 2,800,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06535/nsf06535.htm Interfaces in Science: Career Awards at the Scientific Interface May 01 2007 12:00 am At Most $ 500,000.00 available http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/career_awards_background.html
Red Stick International Animation Festival, an annual event that brings together artists, animators, filmmakers, computer scientists to showcase the latest developments in Louisiana's digital arts and technology sectors, will take place April 18-22 in the Baton Rouge Arts District at a variety of historic venues in the capital city. Some highlight events of the 2007 Red Stick International Animation Festival will include: -- An appearance by James Redford, actor and son of Robert Redford, for Animation Collaboration. This part of the festival focuses on helping local schoolchildren use animation to express their feelings about various social issues. Last year, this event started with a focus on Hurricane Katrina. This year, the James Redford Institute will participate in Animation Collaboration, which will focus on organ transplant awareness. Redford is a double transplant survivor, and his foundation raises awareness about this. Redford will work with AnimAction to host workshops for schoolchildren April 4 and 5, and their work will be shown during the festival. Redford also will sit on a speakers panel on Friday, April 20, to discuss this topic at Red Stick. -- A retrospective of films by Karey Kirkpatrick, a Baton Rouge High School graduate who has written numerous animated films, including "Chicken Run," "James and the Giant Peach" and "Over the Hedge." Plans are in the works for a "Chicken Run" reunion to take place at the festival, with various actors who voiced the parts invited to attend. -- A tribute to the late animator Joe Barbera, who died in 2006. Academy Award-winning films from Hanna-Barbera will be screened, and representatives from his production studio will speak. -- Cartoon-a-palooza, a Saturday morning event at the festival where children come in pajamas to watch cartoons on the lawn of the Old State Capitol. There will be a pajama contest, clowns, face-painting, spacewalks and many activities for the children. Breakfast is provided. This will be on Saturday, April 21 at 10 a.m. Registration is now open on the festival Web site, www.redstickfestival.org, for Red and Gold passes. A Red Pass is no-cost to participants and entitles them to attend all festival film screenings. A Gold Pass entitles participants to attend all lectures offered at the 2007 Red Stick Festival, in addition to the free screenings. Gold Passes are $50. However, Gold Passes will be available to any faculty or staff from an educational institution for $25, and will be available to any students for $20. If someone purchases five or more student Gold Passes, the rate will be further reduced to $10 per student pass. In addition to lectures and screenings, participants can attend the workshops offered this year for $20 each, with a $10 each discount rate for students. Attendants must register for a Gold Pass before they can purchase admission to the workshops. Red Pass participants will not be eligible to attend the workshops. If you are able to help with the festival, please contact CCT Event Manager Karen Jones for information on becoming a volunteer. CCT in the News
LSU Expands Southern High-Performance Computing Resources 3-15-2007/HPC WIRE BATON ROUGE, La., March 15 -- LSU's Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, has tripled the computing capacity of the Southeastern Universities Research Association's, or SURA's, regional grid service, known as SURAgrid, through the addition of LSU's largest current supercomputer, SuperMike. http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1320723.html SuperMike joins Southeastern supercomputer grid 3-16-2007/ THE ADVOCATE LSU's Center for Computation & Technology tripled the computing capacity of the Southeastern Universities Research Association's regional grid service by adding the school's largest current supercomputer, SuperMike. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/businesstoday/friday/6536672.html Pats on the Back
• Ana Rojas, CCT and Department of Physics & Astronomy professor, was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry. Rojas' paper, “Molecular dynamics with the united-residue force field: Ab initio folding simulations of multichain proteins†was co-authored with Adam Liwo and Harold A. Scheraga. • Three of Dr. Tevfik Kosar's students -- Ibrahim Suslu, Wei Zhang and Xinqi "Jack" Wang -- received student scholarships to attend the Midwest Grid Workshop'07, which will be held in Chicago March 24-25. • Several CCT students were awarded at the LSU College of Basic Sciences' 32nd Annual Dean Arthur R. Choppin Honors Convocation, which was held on March 14. Ryan Rousseau received the Award of Distinction; Blake Tregre received the Award of Excellence; and Marc Noel received the Award of Merit and Upper Division Honors. In addition, several students won Department of Computer Science Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards. Those students were Razvan Carbunescu (adviser: Dr. Gabrielle Allen); John Lewis (adviser: Dr. Gabrielle Allen); Alex Nagelberg (mentor: Dr. Gabrielle Allen); Marc Noel, who won Upper Division Honors Thesis (mentor: Dr. Tevfik Kosar); and Blake Tregre (mentor: Dr. Brygg Ullmer.) Congratulations to all these students for their hard work and success! Upcoming Guest Lectures:
• Jeffrey Stolet, University of Oregon School of Music, will discuss “Creating the Invisible: Simple Concepts, Random Ideas and Parenthetical Ramblings About Sound Design†on Wednesday, March 21, at 2:30 p.m. in Johnston 338. • Jun Ni, Ph.D. and M.E., University of Iowa, will lecture on “Spotlight on UI-Based Applications in Medical Imaging†on Wednesday, April 4, at 11 a.m. in Johnston 338. Please Note:
• Planning for SC07 is underway. CCT Event Manager Karen Jones would like your input on booth giveaway items for this year's convention, taking place in Reno, Nev. Please browse the promotional giveaway company 4imprint.com or others and send your ideas to Karen by Friday, March 30. • A free seminar for faculty, staff and students will be held next Tuesday, March 27. A representative from Mathworks will speak about the MATLAB program, which is used in the science fields. If you are interested in attending, please contact Stacie Olivier at 578-5484 or by email soliver@lsu.edu for more information. • This week, on March 21 - 24, the Mathematics Department of Tulane University will host the annual Clifford Lectures. The schedule of the conference is available at http://www.math.tulane.edu/%7Ekurganov/CliffordLectures2007.html. • The third annual Red Stick International Animation Festival will be April 18-22. Please visit www.redstickfestival.org for more information on becoming a volunteer for this festival. • The Forum in Higher Education will take place this year on April 15-17. The theme is “Keeping the Touch in Technology.†Please visit http://www.celt.lsu.edu/CFD/THE/index.htm for more information if you wish to participate. • If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde directly at kmeyer@cct.lsu.edu. Upcoming Grant Deadlines:
NSF Advanced Learning Technologies NSF ALT April 25 2007 5:00 pm A Portion Of $ 2,800,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06535/nsf06535.htm Interfaces in Science: Career Awards at the Scientific Interface May 01 2007 12:00 am At Most $ 500,000.00 available http://www.bwfund.org/programs/interfaces/career_awards_background.html
Publish Date:
03-20-2007
