News and Information for the Broad EOT Community
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists (MAES) 36th Symposium
October 5-8, 2011 – Oakland, California
MAES Symposium is the premier conference event for MAES, featuring a variety of unique and innovative events not seen at other similar conferences. It features traditional workshop sessions, with a newly restructured curriculum under the MAES PLUSS Program. University students will compete for academic scholarships, present cutting-edge technical research, and participate in the fast-paced College Decathlon competition. The Career and Graduate School Fair is the ideal venue to recruit internship and full-time talent in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). For more information, please visit http://www.maes-natl.org/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=539.
NACME 2011 National Symposium
October 18-20, 2011 – St. Paul, Minnesota
The 2011 NACME National Symposium is a biennial conference of public and private sector leaders focusing on diversity in engineering education and the workforce, and issues affecting the representation of African American, Latino, and American Indian women and men in engineering and math- and science-related careers. For more information, please visit http://www.nacme.org/NACME_D.aspx?pageid=89.
High Performance Computation Conference
October 26-28 2011 – Rochester, New York
The HPC2 consortium is pleased to announce the High Performance Computation Conference to be held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The conference goal is to provide a competitive advantage to industry through high-performance computing. The first two days will be a technical program with technical presentations and discussions focusing on case studies of successful application of HPC. The latter half o the conference will be an executive summit focused on current use of HPC and future directions necessary to create competitive advantages. For more information, please visit http://www.rpi.edu/hpcw/.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
Conference
October 26-30, 2011 – Anaheim, California
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, the leading source for quality Hispanic engineers and technical talent, announces it will hold its premier annual conference in California at the Anaheim Convention Center. The multi-faceted national conference offers a wide-range of programs for middle and high school youth, university students and professionals in STEM fields of all levels. For more information, please visit http://conference.shpe.org/shpe2011/.
SACNAS Annual Conference
October 27-30, 2011 – San Jose, California
Registration Deadline – October 8, 2011
Four new institutions have confirmed their support as elite sponsors of the 2011 SACNAS National Conference. SACNAS, a national society of scientists advancing Hispanics/ Chicanos and Native Americans in science, celebrates the University of California, Davis, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley as platinum sponsors, and the University of California, Santa Cruz as a gold sponsor. Thee 2011 SACNAS National Conference "Empowering Innovation & Synergy Through Diversity" will take place in the heart of Silicon Valley, the birthplace of the world's high-tech industry.The conference offers four days of scientific research presentations, professional development, networking, exhibits, culture, and community! Interdisciplinary, inclusive, and highly interactive, the national meeting offers an unparallel venue for the advancement of scientists and science students. For more information and to register, please visit https://sacnas.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=11.
Grace Hopper Annual Conferenc
November 9-12, 2011 – Portland, Oregon
Registration Deadline – October 31, 2011
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today’s technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. For more information, to view the agenda at a glance, and to register, please visit http://gracehopper.org/2011/.
SC11
November 12-18, 2011 – Seattle, Washington
SC11 will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together
scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and managers, The conference will be the forum for demonstrating how these developments are driving new ideas, new discoveries and
new industries. The SC11 thrust is Data Intensive Science; the theme is Connecting Communities; and the technical program focus is on sustained performance. For more information and to register, please visit http://sc11.supercomputing.org/.
Talks and Seminars
Computational Science Kickoff at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Advances in high performance computing are fundamentally transforming the way we do science and engineering in the 21st Century. Over the past decade, UTK has been in the vanguard of this revolution. This past August, leaders of the campus computational science community invited students, faculty, and staff to the University Center’s Shiloh Room to discover some of the exciting developments in computational science at UTK. Students and faculty learned how they can participate in, and benefit from, these activities. The kickoff was a success, and those in attendance began the academic year by learning about the exciting intellectual, educational, and professional opportunities in computational science and engineering. To read further and to view the talk slides, please visit http://igmcs.utk.edu/kickoff.
Research News and Announcements
The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Announces Globus Online to Provide Service-as-a-Software for NSF's XSEDE Project
The Computation Institute at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory announced that its Globus Online data movement service will be a key component of the XSEDE project for advanced cyberinfrastructure and digital services. XSEDE is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to replace and extend the TeraGrid supercomputing environment. Globus Online will provide initial implementations of XSEDE User Access Services (XUAS), which will focus on reliable file transfer and user authentication. To read further, please visit http://www.newswise.com/articles/globus-online-to-provide-software-as-a-service-for-nsf-s-xsede-project.
Petascale Humanities: Supercomputing Global News Media at the University of Illinois
News abounds at lightning speeds—on the Internet and T.V., in newspapers, magazines, blogs, and social networking sites—but what do we get when we consume news? Scientist Kalev Leetaru believes news is capable of teaching us much more than just what happened in the world today. “News gives you incredible information about people, places, and organizations,” said Leetaru, assistant director for Text and Digital Media Analytics at the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. “It also tells you about the relationships between them, about how people view each other.” To read further, please visit http://www.nics.tennessee.edu/leetaru.
Campus Champions
Campus Champions Add Their 100th Champion
On August 29, 2011, Thomas Hauser and Jazcek Braden of the University of Colorado became the most recent Campus Champions to join a long and distinguished list of 98 other Champions. Who are Campus Champions? Campus Champions are campus representatives who serve as a local source of knowledge about high-performance and high-throughput computing and other digital services, opportunities and resources offered through XSEDE. This knowledge and assistance empowers campus researchers, educators, and students to advance scientific discovery. To find out more, please visit https://www.xsede.org/campus-champions.
Educator Programs and Curriculum
ITEST STEM Careers Quarterly Webinar Series
The ITEST National STEM Learning Exchange, in partnership with ITEST PIs and STEM professionals who work with ITEST projects, hosts a quarterly public webinar series designed to provide guidance counselors and educators with resources and strategies to increase student awareness of STEM career opportunities. The series features STEM professionals speaking about their fields of expertise, how they became interested in this career, and how their work contributes positively to society. The session will include recommendations for transferring this knowledge to increase students’ engagement and motivation in STEM learning. The webinars will be archived for future access, and topics will include the four major areas of ITEST program content focus: Bioscience, Computer Science, Engineering, and Environmental Science. For more information and to view the current webinar calendar, please visit http://itestlrc.edc.org/news_and_events/stem-careers-quarterly-webinar-series. To view an archived session from June 2011 via Adobe Connect, please visit http://squirrel.adobeconnect.com/p97645245/?launcher=false&fcsContent=true&pbMode=normal.
SDSC and SDSU Receive NSF Grant to Expand Computer Science Curriculum
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University (SDSU), have received National Science Foundation (NSF) grants to jointly expand the computer sciences curriculum among San Diego’s high schools, community colleges, and universities. The three-year grants, worth a total of almost $1 million, are for a project called ‘Computing Principles for All Students’ Success’ or ComPASS. The overall goal of ComPASS is to improve Southern California’s educational capacity for preparing high school and college students of all backgrounds and disciplinary interests to contribute to and participate in what has become a computationally driven economic future. To read further, please visit http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/2011_09comPASS.asp.
K-12 Computing Teacher Workshop
November 11-12, 2011 – Portland, Oregon
The 2011 K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop will be held at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference (GHC). The K-12 workshop is hosted in Partnership with the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) and will be the third K-12 teachers workshop held at the GHC. For more information and to view the workshop agenda, please visit http://gracehopper.org/2011/k-12-computing-teachers-workshop/agenda/.
SC11 Education Program Full of Opportunities: LittleFe, Four-Day Program, Grants, Opportunities and
Workshops
This year the Education Program will host SC's first ever LittleFe (co-funded by Intel Lab's University Program Office),
a portable mini-cluster of multiple nodes, whose primary focus is on turnkey classroom demonstrations of and exercises
in HPC, parallel programming, and CDESE. The Education Program also will host a four-day intensive program, taking place Saturday, November 12 through Tuesday, November 15, with plenary sessions, focused hands-on tutorials and birds-of-a-feather gatherings, in addition to formal and informal opportunities to interact with the full spectrum of conference attendees and exhibitors.
Limited grants are available to support teaching faculty from both secondary and postsecondary institutions. International transportation grants, to attract attendees from around the world, are also available. For more information, please visithttp://sc11.supercomputing.org/?pg=edprog.html
Student Engagement and Opportunities
XSEDE Scholars Program
Application Deadline – September 30, 2011
Underrepresented minority undergraduate or graduate students in the computational sciences are encouraged to apply to the XSEDE Scholars Program. Scholars will: attend SC11,which is taking place November 12-16, through travel grants; meet other XSEDE Scholars in special sessions at SC11; participate in at least four activities with other Scholars during the year, e.g., technical training, content-based and mentoring webinars; network with leaders in the XSEDE research community; and learn about research, internships, and career opportunities. To apply online, please visit http://bit.ly/xsede_2011. Question should be directed to Alice Fisher, Manager of the XSEDE Scholars Program at Rice University at afisher@rice.edu.
SACNAS National Conference – Local Community College Student Day
October 29. 2011 – Portland, Oregon
Application Deadline – October 6, 2011
NASA Ames Research Center has generously provided scholarships for 300 local community college students to experience SACNAS. Students will experience:
- Orientation to SACNAS
- Morning access to the Exhibit Hall featuring over 300 exhibitors and 450 student presenters
- Lunch and Keynote Address
- Afternoon Professional Development Sessions
- Dinner, Evening Keynote Address
- SACNAS Closing Pow Wow
Registration is limited. For more information, eligibility guidelines and to register, please visit https://sacnas.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=27.
NASA Seeks Undergraduates To Fly Research Missions In Microgravity
Proposal Submission Deadline – October 28, 2011
Team Selection Announcement – December 7, 2011
NASA is offering undergraduate students the opportunity to test an experiment in microgravity as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program. The program is accepting proposals for two different flight experiences in 2012. The initiative, managed by the Education Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, provides future scientists and engineers an opportunity to design, build and fly an experiment aboard a microgravity aircraft. The aircraft is a modified jet that flies approximately 30 roller-coaster-like climbs and dips to simulate micro- and hyper-gravity. The overall experience includes scientific research, hands-on experimental design, test operations and public outreach activities. For more information and submission guidelines, please visit http://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov.
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for US Graduate Students
2012 Application Process Now Open!
Application Deadline – November 9, 2011
The National Science Foundation (NSF) East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) is an international fellowship program for developing the next generation of globally engaged U.S. scientists and engineers knowledgeable about the Asian and Pacific regions. The Summer Institutes are hosted by foreign counterparts committed to increasing opportunities for young U.S. researchers to work in research facilities and with host mentors abroad. Fellows are supported to participate in eight-week research experiences at host laboratories in Australia, China, Japan (10 weeks), Korea, New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan, The program provides a $5,000 summer stipend, round-trip airfare to the host location, living expenses abroad, and an introduction to the society, culture, language, and research environment of the host location. For more information, eligibility guidelines and application instructions, please visit http://www.nsfsi.org/.
MentorNet Opens its Doors to Students from All Campuses – All That is Needed is a .edu Address!
The U.S now ranks 27th in the world in the production of graduates in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), while the global economy increasingly requires engineers and scientists to enter the workforce. To help address this critical need, MentorNet is announcing this week that its program is now open to all STEM students, especially woman and minorities, from any campus. If you are an underrepresented student who wishes to find a mentor in your chosen field, please visit http://www.mentornet.net/.
News at 11 – XSEDE Staff in the Spotlight
Ralph Roskies Appointed to National Library of Medicine Board of Regents
Ralph Roskies, scientific co-director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, has been appointed to the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine . The appointment, for a four-year term, was made by Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. The National Library of Medicine (NLM), in Bethesda, Maryland, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the world’s largest biomedical library. As a developer of electronic information services, it delivers trillions of bytes of data to millions of users every day. To read further, please visit http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2011/080511_PSCRoskiesAppointed.php.
Laura McGinnis Featured on NSF's ScienceLives
Laura McGinnis, XSEDE's Manager for Outreach Services, at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is the subject of a recent post on NSF's "ScienceLives" video blog. In a three-minute interview, she talks about how she became interested in science and the importance of K-12 education in computational science. For more information and to view the interview, please visit http://www.livescience.com/15173-preparing-future-workforce-supercomputing-nsf-sl.html.
Amit Chourasia and His Colleagues Recognized by Wired Magazine for Magnitude-8 Earthquake Simulation
Seismologists keep a close eye on faults in the Earth’s crust with extensive sensor arrays, yet massive ruptures are too infrequent to understand well. To probe the behavior of big quakes along the San Andreas fault, visualization scientist Amit Chourasia of the San Diego Supercomputing Center and his colleagues created a “worst-case scenario” magniture-8 earthquake model. The simulation, which took 5.3 million processor hours to compute, condenses about four minutes of time after a fault ruptures near Bombay Beach. Most of the energy ripples southward, but unlike in previous earthquake simulations, the team displayed the sporadic movement of simulated pieces of the ground with an exaggerated height. To read further and to view the simulation, please visit http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/science-simulation-videos/?pid=1744&pageid=68951.
NCSA's John Towns Talks About the NSF-funded XSEDE Project
John Towns, principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's new Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment project, talks about the vision for XSEDE and how it will build on the TeraGrid. To view the video, please visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/Video/.
Who, What, Where - XSEDE Across the Country
XSEDE Booth at SC11
SC11 returns to Seattle, Washington for its annual conference. Visit us at Booth #1123 in the 4th floor exhibit hall at the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. Follow us on Twitter for information on what to expect @psc_live.
Look for XSEDE to Exhibit at the Following Conferences This Fall
National Society of Black Physicists/National Society of Hispanic Physicists
Sept 21-25, 2011
Austin, Texas
Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
October 27-30, 2011
San Jose, California
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
November 9-12, 2011
Portland, Oregon
XSEDE’12 and XSEDE’13 Conference Locations Set
The location for the next two XSEDE annual conferences has been finalized. For XSEDE’12, participants will be gathering in Chicago, Illinois. Craig Stewart of Indiana University will chair the conference. For 2013, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, will chair the conference, which will be held in La Jolla, California. Stay tuned for upcoming details!
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