High Performance Computing REU

Friend of the Blog, Henry Neeman, sent us another REU (Rsearch Experience for Undergraduates) announcement for y’all:

SUMMARY:

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), June 20 – Aug 12 2011
Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing
Applications and details:

http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu

Application deadline: Fri Feb 18 2011

Please feel free to forward this announcement as appropriate.

DETAILS:

It gives us great pleasure to announce our NSF-funded REU Site:
Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing for Summer
2011.

The program is an innovative combination of learning scientific,
parallel, and statistical computing skills and applying them in an
interdisciplinary research context.

The webpage

http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu

has complete details of the 2011 program as well as special events
and a photo album of the 2010 program; monitor the webpage for a
link to a video in the near future!

Please forward this message to any student who might be interested
in a summer research experience with focus on applied mathematics,
numerical analysis, statistics, and scientific and parallel
computing, and their applications.

Also we welcome you to forward to anyone else who might be
interested, such as faculty at other colleges and universities.

If you received this mail by forwarding and would like to be
added to the mailing list, send e-mail to

hpcreu@umbc.edu

The REU Site:

Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance Computing is located
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC in the
heart of the Baltimore-Washington corridor of industry and
government.

The program is comprised of learning scientific, parallel, and
statistical computing and of project work on interdisciplinary
applications.

All activities of the program are conducted by teams of students,
closely supported by graduate teaching and research assistants as
well as the faculty of the program.

Key Elements for Summer 2011:

* 8 weeks from Mon June 20 to Fri Aug 12 2011

* UMBC is located south of Baltimore, Maryland, in the
Baltimore-Washington corridor of industry and government agencies

* Team work with dedicated graduate student mentors and faculty
instructors

* Professional development workshops, GRE preparation course

Unique Features:

* Fully transferable three-credit course Math 447 Introduction to
Parallel Computing

* Includes introduction to tools of scientific and statistical
computing: C, Linux, MATLAB, R, LaTeX

* Interdisciplinary projects with clients from industry and
government agencies

* Field trips to local industry and government labs such as NSA,
NASA, NIH

* Poster presentations at the university-wide Summer Undergraduate
Research Fest

Formal Details:

* Program benefits
– Program stipend $3,600
– UMBC campus housing and food allowance provided
– Travel allowance provided

* Eligibility Requirements
– 30 college credits
– U.S. Citizenship or Permanent Residency
– Courses in Calculus, Linear Algebra, Basic Probability and
Statistics, Introduction to Programming

Sincerely,

Nagaraj Neerchal and Matthias Gobbert

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