CENTER FOR COMPUTATION & TECHNOLOGY

Center for Bits and Atoms Director Featured as Keynote Speaker for SC07 Professor Neil Gershenfeld, one of the most innovative scientists in the United States, will be the keynote speaker at the SC07conference Nov. 10-16 in Reno, Nev. Co-founder and director of MIT's famed Center for Bits and Atoms, Gershenfeld's work on merging the physical world of atoms with the digital world of bits has ranged from developing molecular quantum computers to virtuosic musical instruments to programmable personal fabricators that will allow anyone to make almost anything. This conference, which showcases advances in high-performance computing, networking storage and analysis, always begins with a Technical Program that features a keynote address by a dynamic, nationally known speaker to set the tone for the conference. Gershenfeld's center is primarily focused on the fundamental elements of computing – bits and atoms – and how these elements could be changed or adapted with the rise of high performance computing to make it a more effective technology. Gershenfeld's laboratory has created a wide range of applications that apply digital concepts to real-world situations. While at MIT, he led the “Things That Think” industrial consortium and he runs MIT's Physics and Media research group. Technology from the Center for Bits and Atoms has been seen and used around the world, from New York's Museum of Modern Art to the White House to rural Indian villages. Gershenfeld has written numerous technical publications, patents, and books including "Fab," "When Things Start To Think," "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling" and "The Physics of Information Technology." His research has been featured in The New York Times, The Economist, and the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour. He was selected as a CNN/Time/Fortune Principal Voice and as one of the top 100 public intellectuals. Gershenfeld has a bachelor of arts degree in physics with high honors and an honorary Doctorate of Science from Swarthmore College. He earned his Ph.D. from Cornell University and was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. Gershenfeld also was a member of the research staff at Bell Labs. For more information on SC07, visit http://sc07.supercomputing.org/index.php. CCT in the News Students build supercomputers from bits, pieces 08-06-2007/The Advocate Ruth Nan of Baton Rouge Magnet High did not know what to expect when she arrived last Monday at LSU for a week of High-Performance Computing Boot Camp. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/8927222.html Pats on the Back
• A group of CCT faculty, staff and students hosted a booth at the SIGGRAPH 2007 conference in San Diego Aug. 7-9 to display computerized graphics, digital media, visualization and animation research taking place at the center. Lectures This Week:
• The all CCT scheduled for this Wednesday, Aug. 15, is canceled. Dr. Pete Kelleher from LSU Intellectual Property was scheduled to present LSU Intellectual Property policy and procedures at this meeting. He will make this presentation at the Oct. 17 meeting. The next all CCT meeting will be Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. • The CCT Colloquium Series, held each Friday at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338, will return in the fall with Shantenu Jha in charge of the speaker line-up. If you have a speaker wish list, please send it to Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu. Please Note:
• Firefly Digital is redesigning www.cct.lsu.edu. If you have any suggestions for the Web site and how the content could be better displayed, please e-mail PR Manager Kristen Sunde at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu. • 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:
NSF Community-based Data Interoperability Networks
INTEROP
August 23 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 1,250,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=502112&org=NSF&from=

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century Workforce
CI-TEAM
August 27 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 1,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12782&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund

NSF Physics Frontiers Centers
PFC
August 29 2007 5 p.m.
At Most $ 10,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf07567

Energy Biosciences (BES)
DOE BES
August 31 2007 10 a.m.
http://www.science.doe.gov/bes/eb/Grants/grants.html

NSF Biotechnology Program (BTEC)
September 15 2007 10:15 a.m.
At Least $ 100,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=501024&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund