CCT Honors Outstanding Members at End-of-Semester Crawfish Boil
CCT Director Ed Seidel hosted an end-of-semester crawfish boil to celebrate the work faculty, staff and students have accomplished throughout the year on Monday, May 12.
Everyone enjoyed boiled crawfish, hot dogs and veggie burgers in the Johnston Hall patio area as a Cajun band provided live musical entertainment. Ed Seidel treated the group to a special musical performance at the end of the evening, playing his guitar for the crowd.
As a special treat, any full-time graduate or undergraduate CCT student worker could pull a raffle ticket at the crawfish boil for a chance to win an iPod. The winners were Kevin Kolz, Anshul Tandon and Jennifer Claudet.
Ed Seidel presented the CCT’s annual Outstanding Achievement Awards to honor people who made commendable achievements to the center in the past year. CCT selected the winners by soliciting nominations from throughout the center.
The 2008 winners are:
- Administrative undergraduate student – Matt Kemp
- Research undergraduate student – Elena Caraba
- Graduate student – Xin Li
- IT staff – Honggao Liu
- Administrative staff – Laurie Rea
- Research staff – Erik Schnetter
- Faculty – Tevfik Kosar
- Director’s Award – Shantenu Jha
- Special Achievement – Joel Williams
Congratulations to this year’s outstanding CCT employees!
Pats on the Back:
• Daniel S. Katz has been asked to be co-Program Chair for HPC-Asia 2009 (http://www.nchc.org.tw/event/2009/hpcasia/).
• Shantenu Jha is the Posters and Research Demos Deputy Chair for eScience 2008 (http://www.infomall.org/escience2008/.)
CCT in the News:
5/10/08
Researchers create online virtual LSU campus
SOURCE: The Advocate
LSU is on an island, Nicholson Hall backs up to a beach retreat and the Quad houses a fountain. http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site.php?pageID=66&newsID=816
Upcoming Lectures:
• SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Yang Liu, Harvard University School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health, will give a lecture on “Estimating PM2.5 Exposure with Statistical Models Based on Satellite Remote Sensing, Meteorology, and Land Use Information” on Wednesday, May 14 at 11 a.m. in Johnston 338.
• SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Robert Kooima, University of Illinois at Chicago Ph.D. candidate and Graduate Research Assistant, Electronic Visualization Lab, will give a lecture on “Planetary-Scale Terrain Composition” on Friday, May 16 at 2:30 p.m. in Frey Computing Services Center Room 320.
• SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE: Chip Elliott, BBN Technologies And GENI PI/PD/Chief Engineer, will give a lecture on “GENI - The Global Environment For Networking Innovations Project” Tuesday, May 20, at 9:30 a.m. in Johnston Hall 338.
• IMPORTANT: Anyone organizing a lecture OR EVENT should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures/events 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:
• The next ALL CCT meeting is next Wednesday, May 21 at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. It is very important that all faculty, staff and students make every effort to attend.
• ALL CCT Meetings for the summer are scheduled for 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.
• Registration ends May 12 for the SC08 summer workshop that will take place June 8-14 at LSU, “Integrating Computational Science into the Undergraduate Curriculum.” Please visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/SC08educate for more information.
• 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
Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering
May 14, 2008 10:15 a.m.
A Portion Of $1,900,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08544/nsf08544.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
International Research and Education: Planning Visits and Workshops
May 20, 2008 10:15 a.m.
A Portion Of $1,500,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04035/nsf04035.htm
Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
Letter of Intent
May 30, 2008 5:00 pm
At Most $1,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08545/nsf08545.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Publish Date:
05-14-2008
