CCT to Demonstrate Innovative University Research at Supercomputing 2008
CCT researchers will showcase University research that applies computational science in unique and dynamic ways to different areas of academia during the annual Supercomputing Conference in Austin, Texas.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site.php?pageID=63&newsID=896
Pats On The Back:
• Jorge Pullin was named to the General Council of American Physical Society, or APS, the country’s leading professional organization of physicists.
• Baton Rouge Business Report has selected Brygg Ullmer as one of its 2008 "40 Under 40" honorees. This annual contest acknowledges people in the Baton Rouge area who are making important contributions to advance education, economic development and industry. Brygg was nominated for his research expertise in tangible and embedded interaction, computational applications for biological science and also for his education and outreach efforts with local students in the K-12 grades as well as his own students at LSU. Baton Rouge Business Report will feature an article on Brygg and his accomplishments in the Nov. 18 edition.
• Ram Ramanujam received a National Science Foundation Grant titled "An Effective Automatic Parallelization Framework for Multi-Core Architectures,” funded at $250,000 over a three-year period. Ram served as PI for this grant award.
• Jarek Nabrzyski was appointed by Brooks Keel as a voting board member in the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation to represent LSU. The consortium facilitates the widespread and effective use of petascale computing through the development of new computing software, applications and technologies. The consortium also is working on Blue Waters, the National Science Foundation’s first sustained petascale supercomputer, which will deploy at NCSA in 2011.
• Congratulations to SAGA and GridChem, both CCT projects, which were described and referenced to in the latest issue of IEEE Computer. Two of the five articles in this issue mentioned these CCT initiatives.
CCT in the News:
Jorge Pullin Named to Council of American Physical Society
Source: LSU Office of Public Affairs
BATON ROUGE – Jorge Pullin, Horace C. Hearne Jr. Professor of Physics & Astronomy and interim co-director of the Center for Computation and Technology, or CCT, at LSU, was recently named to the General Council of the American Physical Society, or APS, the leading professional organization of physicists.
http://appl003.lsu.edu/UNV002.nsf/PressReleases/PR5257?OpenDocument
Please Note:
• Attention NERSC users: The Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science allows recent graduates with a Ph.D. (or equivalent) with a strong emphasis on computing or computational science to acquire further scientific training at Berkeley Lab. The application deadline is December 2, 2008. See:
http://www.lbl.gov/CS/html/alvarez.html for more details.
• The LSU Center for Computation and Technology, or CCT, and the AVATAR: Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research Initiative will host a meeting on Monday, Nov. 24 for faculty and students interested in volunteering with SIGGRAPH: the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques. The meeting will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Johnston Room 338, and refreshments will be provided.
• If you plan to attend the CCT holiday lunch on Tuesday, Dec. 2 at Mike Anderson’s, please drop off cash or check (made out to Debra Waters) in 309 Johnston. The final day to pay to attend the event will be Wednesday, Nov. 26. Remember to indicate what meal you would like and mention if you would like dessert.
• CCT is currently accepting applications from high schools to attend the CyberTools Boot Camp (July 6-10, 2009). Five schools will get to attend, and each can send five students and one teacher to the camp. The camp is free, but schools must provide their own lodging. CCT can assist schools with making lodging arrangements on campus. If you have worked with Louisiana high school students and know of a school, teacher or students who might be interested, please notify Kathy Traxler, ktraxler@cct.lsu.edu. More information about the camp is available online at: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/CyberToolsCamp09
• 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
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
November 21 2008 10:00 am
At Least $ 26,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08604/nsf08604.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
January 19 2009 10:00 am
At Most $ 4,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2009/nsf09502/nsf09502.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Publish Date:
11-18-2008
