Thesis work at the Computational Structural Biology group at the NCI

Computational studies of protein folding, binding, misfolding in disease, structural systems biology and protein function. In particular, focuses on cancer-related proteins and pathways.

XSEDE SUMMER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Call For Students (2/22/2014 Deadline)

This, and the Bluewater project is a great opportunity for graduate students.

The XSEDE Student Engagement Program is seeking undergraduate and graduate students for a 10-week project experience for this summer. Working with XSEDE researchers and staff, students will make meaningful contributions to research, development and systems projects that benefit the national scientific and computational community. In exchange, students will be provided with travel support for project orientation and to attend the XSEDE14 conference in Atlanta, GA in July, and a small stipend.

Projects for 2014 address a wide variety of computational needs. Some of the projects allow students to work remotely (from their home or home institution), although some require the student to be onsite at their supervisor's institution. All projects will have well-defined work plans, established collaboratively at the orientation meeting. Students are also expected to participate in surveys and other evaluation activities, to help XSEDE track the effectiveness and impact of the program.

Available projects are listed at 2014 Student Engagement Projects. To apply, complete the form online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/StuEngApplication-2014  and email your required documents to outreach-stueng@xsede.org. Your application will not be considered until all material has been received.

Michael Starobin, NASA film/media producer

From: Hamner, Marvine
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2014 8:42 PM
To: Chang, Elizabeth; Salem, Ahmed; Dong, Aijuan; Pierce, Bill; Jim, Carol; George Dimitoglou; Giri, Jiwan; Lateef, Khalid; Liu, Xinlian; Ford, Randy; Hylton, Russell; Shawn Lupoli; Maher@hood.ed
Subject: Starobin TOMORROW...  Want a FREE DINNER???

Michael Starobin from NASA will be talking with/to us about (data) visualization tomorrow from 4-5pm in Hodson 114.  My understanding is that there should be some posters with his schedule around...  After that I/we will walk him to dinner (free!!!).

Please send an email and let your students know about his talk.  Since his talk is so relevant to the product(s) most of us work toward I'm allowing my students the equivalent of 1 homework assignment to attend.

If you want to go to dinner let me know and I'll make sure your name is added to the list!
Marvine

HPC in Life/Med Sci at VT 7/29-8/8, graduate and undergraduate students

High Performance Computing in the Life/Medical Sciences
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
Tue July 29 - Fri Aug 8 2014
Applications due Sun March 30 2014
http://nsfsi.vbi.vt.edu/

Research Experience for Undergrads

REU are components of regular NSF programs, where HPC related topics are always promoted.

• Louisiana State University (3 programs)

5/26/2014-8/1/2014

Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences
http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/

$5,000 stipend, free housing, $600 travel expenses

Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Material Sciences
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/
$4,500 stipend, $400 travel expenses

Interdisciplinary Research Experience for Teachers in Materials Science
http://reu.lasigma.loni.org/
current STEM teachers in middle schools and high schools
$7,000 each

• Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (U Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory

http://www.jics.utk.edu/csure-reu/
6/2/2014-8/8/2014

The Computational Science for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSURE) REU site project will direct a group of undergraduate students to explore the emergent computational science models and techniques proven to work in a number of data and compute intensive applications using the supercomputers at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Each student accepted by the program receives a stipend of $500 per week and, if necessary, a travel stipend of up to $1000.  In addition, students may receive $210/per week for the housing at UT apartment.

• University of Texas at Dallas

http://paris.utdallas.edu/REU
5/23/2014-7/31/2104

Software Safety: Methodology, Practice and Research

$5,000 stipend, free on campus housing and a travel reimbursement.

• Clemson University (2 programs)

6/2/2014-7/25/2014

http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/reu/
Data-Intensive Computing in complex systems modeling, medical informatics, intelligent river, next generation sequencing.

on-campus housing, a generous stipend, access to on-campus facilities and assistance with travel.

http://citi.clemson.edu/viz/reu/
Collabrorated Data Visualization Applications

• University of Maryland Baltimore County

http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu/
6/15/2014-8/8/2014

Parallel, Scientific, or Statistical Computing

campus housing, meal plan, travel allowance, free course tuition, stipend $3,600 or more

Independent Studies

Independent study courses in the Computer Science program are student guided study which are used:

• Faculty and students explore subjects not covered by regular curricular;
• Research topics appeal to both faculty and students;

They are not designed to replace regular courses, or used as alternative schedules.

We often see interesting projects, for example:
Kenneth May and Seth Kress, Enhancement of DARS (Spring 2014, advsior: Dr. Salem)
This research project aims to create an simulation environment that allows the security aspect of ad hoc networks to be analyzed more closely by implementing AODV.

CS 525 Software Testing in Spring 2014

CS 525 Software Testing & Quality Assurance (Wednesday 6:20-8:50pm) was on the edge of being cancelled because of low enrolment, but we have been making an argument to keep it.  If anyone is still looking for an elective computer science course, please consider this course for following reasons:

1. We may not be able to offer it again in two years;
2. This is an important and pragmatic subject, especially for experienced programmers;
3. The instructor has extensive experiences in software engineering.