LSU Visualization Lab Helps University Researchers See Their Data in New and Exciting Ways, from Underwater to Outer Space
A virtual underwater environment in Second Life. A new, high-resolution video of neutron stars colliding. A 3-D movie of Hurricane Gustav’s wind field that impacted coastal Louisiana and Baton Rouge. Live, streaming video to show elementary students the creepy crawlies that live on their skin and in their hair.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site.php?pageID=63&newsID=941
CCT in the News:
• Disney Sneak Peeks Princess and The Frog at Red Stick Preview
Source: AWN Animation Blog
Back in the pre-digital, pre-xerographic days of Disney animation, the Ink and Paint department was responsible for tracing the animators’ pencil drawings onto acetate cells and filling those transparent images with color. Technological advances rendered hand inking and painting a thing of the past, but the name lived on in 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the Ink and Paint Club, an after-hours honky-tonk where the ‘toons’ entertained Hollywood bigwigs.
http://events.animationblogspot.com/2009/01/27/princess-and-the-frog-preview/
• Workshop addresses coastal resiliency needs
Source: LSU Public Affairs
BATON ROUGE – Experts from around the world gathered Jan. 20-21 on the LSU campus to take part in a workshop looking to improve the technology of coastal inundation prediction for the needs of emergency managers and regional planners.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site.php?pageID=63&newsID=942
Pats On The Back:
• The NINJA project, which includes CCT scientists Peter Diener and Erik Schnetter, is a collaborative effort among members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave data analysis communities. This project, published its first e-print "Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project" .
• Jorge Pullin was selected by the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation to chair the committee that chooses the winner of the Basilis Xanthopoulos prize. This international prize is the most prestigious in gravitational physics for candidates younger than 40. It is awarded every three years and consists of $10,000. It is funded by the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) of Greece. The award is given to a scientist for outstanding (preferably theoretical) work in gravitational physics. At the time of the nomination deadline, the candidate should be younger than 40, or with no more than 12 years of research experience following his or her Ph.D. Pullin will oversee the international group that will accept nominations and select a recipient.
• Brygg Ullmer, CCT and LSU Department of Computer Science, was the Flagship Faculty profile in the Jan. 30 edition of LSU Today.
• The Cactus Computational Toolkit workgroup announces Cactus 4.0 beta 16, the next stable version of Cactus. This release contains many features and improvements that were designed, implemented or contributed over the past four years, and it supports several new system architectures. The Cactus group has also updated the documentation and made it more complete. More information online at: http://www.cactuscode.org .
Upcoming Lectures:
• Richard D. Loft from the National Center for Atmospheric Research will lecture as part of the CCT Colloquium Series on Feb. 6 at 11 a.m. The lecture will take place in 338 Johnston.
Please Note:
• The next training seminar will be Wednesday, Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to noon in Johnston 338. This training is for users that would like to learn the basics of MPI concepts and calls. To register visit: http://hpc.lsu.edu/training/tutorials/#spring09mpi1 .
• Abstracts for Computational Science Poster Day are due on Thursday, Feb. 12! This activity is open to all undergraduate students in Louisiana. Computational Science Poster Day is an initiative of faculty working on CyberTools. There is no fee to submit work or attend the Computational Science Poster Day. Students who wish to participate should submit an abstract describing their research questions/purpose, methods and outcomes (actual or anticipated) by Feb. 12. The committee invites posters on all topics related to computational science, including cyberinfrastructure, computer architecture, supercomputing and its related tools and technologies, basic science applications, and more! (Full details on submissions can be found at www.cct.lsu.edu/posterday09.) Abstracts should be submitted to: Kathy Traxler, LSU CCT, 216 Johnston Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, or by e-mail: ktraxler@cct.lsu.edu. For more information on Computational Science Poster Day, please visit http://www.cct.lsu.edu/posterday09 .
• ALL CCT meetings of the Spring 2009 semester will take place Wednesdays at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. If you have any information, news or announcements you wish to include at the meeting, please notify Karen Jones, kjones@cct.lsu.edu. ALL CCT meetings for this semester are scheduled for Feb. 11, March 18, April 15 and May 20. Please make every effort to attend.
• The 2009 CCT security badges are now ready to be picked up. They can be picked up in my cube Frey 200 C1C.
• CCT is accepting applications from high schools to attend the CyberTools Boot Camp (July 6-10, 2009). If you have worked with Louisiana high school students and know of a school, teacher or students who might be interested, please notify Kathy Traxler, ktraxler@cct.lsu.edu. More information about the camp is available online at: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/CyberToolsCamp09
• 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:
Note: Please see the CCT deadline Web site, as many NSF deadlines are listed here:
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/grants/deadlines/events.php
RFP--Amendment--Defense Sciences Research and Technology
February 16 2010 10:00 am
https://www.fbo.gov/spg/ODA/DARPA/CMO/BAA07-21/listing.html
RFP--Amendment--Communications and Networking Technology
ONR-BAA-07-012
February 16 2010 10:00 am
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=da7a0376fc5b9f2ffae2f66dd64b07dd&tab=core&_cview=1
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS)
February 24 2009 10:00 am
At Most $ 5,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08611/nsf08611.htm?govDel=USNSF_30
Publish Date:
02-03-2009
