Student Grant Opportunity: SCEC 2018 workshop - participation award

******************* Call for Applications for Workshop Participation Award *******************

Application Deadline for the Participation Award to Attend the Second Workshop on "Software Challenges to Exascale Computing" is September 15, 2018

The second workshop on "Software Challenges to Exascale Computing (SCEC)" will be held from December 13-14, 2018 in Delhi, India. We will be able to fund a limited number of undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S. based universities to participate in the SCEC workshop. This workshop will provide networking and skill development opportunities to the students in addition to providing them a platform to disseminate the information about their High Performance Computing (HPC) research and software. The SCEC workshop will also offer hands-on sessions on the topics related to HPC software development. In addition to this, mentoring activities are also planned for the selected students before and after the workshop. For more information on the SCEC 2018 workshop, please visit the following URL:

https://scec18.github.io/
The students interested in attending the SCEC 2018 workshop but having limited resources are encouraged to apply for the participation award by submitting the form at the following URL:

https://goo.gl/forms/SaVwz23puHRt2Ztf2

The participation award can be requested to cover one or all of the following: air-fare, hotel, workshop registration fees, ground transportation, and per diem. The deadline for submitting the application for the participation award is September 15, 2018.

In order to be eligible for the travel award, a student should be registered as a full-time students at a U.S. University or College. Selected applicants will be notified by October 2, 2018 and should be prepared to complete their travel arrangements by October 15, 2018.

For any questions regarding the SCEC 2018 workshop, or the participation award, please feel free to contact Dr. Amit Majumdar (majumdar@sdsc.edu) and Dr. Ritu Arora (rauta@tacc.utexas.edu).

Where do our undergraduate students go for internship

Internships for academic credit:
Spring 2105:

• Data Management Services, Inc.
• NSA, Department of Defense
• U.S. Silica
• CRW One Group, LLC
• Excivity, Inc.

Fall 2014:

• Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)
• United Way of Frederick County
• Ryan and Wetmore, P.C.
• U.S. Silica

Spring 2014:

• Frederick County Government IIT
• Digital Receiver Technology, Inc.

Internships completed not for academic credit

• NSSP at CACI
• NIST SURT
• Experient
• NIST

Job and Intern Information (inquiries from local area) Fall 2015

Interns:

Frederick Police Department (contact College Career Center)
Ryan & Wetmore Law Firm (contact College Career Center)

Employments:

Andrews Federal Credit Union
  .NET developer

Independent studies Fall 2015

Mark White: Implementation of Modular Robotic Platform for Demonstrating a Solution for Two-Wheel Inverted Pendulum System (supervisor, Dr. Dimitolgou)

The Ambassador Program

We are starting this alum 'Ambassador' program to help potential applicants to our MS in CS program better understand the ins and outs of our program and our college from a colleague's perspective.  For example, if a public school teacher in Hagerstown wants to know more about the program, we will refer Mr. Peter O'Conner, a current Master Degree student and a current teacher at WCPS.

I am building up this list slowly, whenever I ran into some student or alum who volunteers.  We will appreciate if you volunteer.  Please send me your employer and contact method.

Montgomery County Public Schools, Daniel Moxley
Maryland General Assembly, Jagriti Nanda

OpenACC license for Academic now free through NVIDIA

NVIDIA and PGI just launched a new, exciting product for scientists and researchers looking to get started on GPU computing.  The new NVIDIA OpenACC Toolkit is designed to provide everything required to quickly and easily accelerate scientific codes on GPUs. It's a great starting point for anyone who may be interested in GPU programming.

Best of all, the toolkit includes a free OpenACC compiler license for student, postdoc, or faculty at any academic institution.

• Read the blog on the OpenACC Toolkit:http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/07/13/openacc/
• To download the toolkit, go to: http://www.nvidia.com/openacc

Hood College is an NVIDIA Education Center.

Summer Independent Study

Peter O'Connor, Development and implementation of edge-finding algorithms for the surveying of freshwater bodies using LIDAR and sonar sensors (supervisor: Dr. Dimitoglou)