Red Stick Festival Draws More Than 200 Films for 2008 Competition
The Red Stick International Animation Festival has 207 films from 27 countries registered for its annual “Best of the Fest” animation competition. The 2008 festival will take place April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge.
The festival accepted entries from Aug. 1 through Dec. 17. Participants could enter their animation work in 10 categories:
• Animated Short Film – Student
• Animated Short Film – Professional
• Music Video
• Scientific Visualization
• Animation for Commercials
• Animation for Games
• Animation for Young Audiences
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Student
• Experimental Animation/Visual Music – Professional
• Storyboard Competition
The Red Stick film screenings will feature the competition entries, and judges will select and announce the winners during the festival.
The first festival, in 2005, drew 106 entries from 13 countries, the 2006 festival brought 158 entries from 28 countries and the 2007 festival received more than 200 entries from 30 countries.
Red Stick International Animation Festival is an annual event that showcases the links between art and technology and highlights innovations in digital media. The festival features free animation screenings, workshops and lectures from industry professionals and events for children. The festival takes place at the Shaw Center for the Arts, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Old State Capitol and Manship Theatre.
The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium, Baton Rouge Convention & Visitors Bureau, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, City of Baton Rouge and the Governor’s Office of Culture, Recreation and Tourism sponsor the festival.
For more information on the festival, please visit www.redstickfestival.org.
CCT in the News:
Researchers, NVIDIA collaborate on petascale GPU computing
2-1-2008/HPC Wire
High-performance computing is entering a new era as researchers work to develop petascale systems that will enable researchers to solve a new class of complex problems, such as designing new materials from the atom up, predicting changes in the earth's climate and ecosystem, and simulating entire engineered systems like power plants and aircraft for better performance.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site.php?pageID=66&newsID=758
LONI to Welcome First TeraGrid Users
2/1/08 – HPC Wire
Beginning Friday, Feb. 1, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, or LONI, will integrate its centerpiece supercomputer, Queen Bee, into the TeraGrid, a nationwide, National Science Foundation-funded research infrastructure that incorporates high-performance computing resources across the country.
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/2087807.html
Animex leads way for the rest
2/8/08
ANIMEX, the international festival of animation and computer games based at Teesside University, has set a global standard for others to follow.
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site.php?pageID=66&newsID=759
Pats On The Back:
• Congratulations to Daniel S. Katz, unanimously awarded the title of Adjunct Associate Professor in the ECE Department, for his contributions working with CCT.
• Elena Caraba was awarded a TAF scholarship by the Honors College to support her thesis research. Elena is working on her honors thesis titled "A preconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm for a weakly over-penalized interior penalty method" with Dr. Sue Brenner.
• Dr. Frank Muldoon’s paper “Control of a Simplified Unsteady Film-cooling Flow Using Gradient-based Optimization” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The paper can be found online at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~fmuldoo/wall-jet-2d-version-5.pdf
Upcoming Lectures:
• There will not be a Colloquium lecture this Friday, Feb. 15. Instead, staff, faculty and students are asked to attend the David Keyes lectures on Monday, Feb. 18.
• David E. Keyes, Columbia University, will give a Frontiers of Scientific Computing lecture, “A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto,” Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:40 a.m. in Johnston 338. There will be a reception before the lecture at 10:10 a.m. Keyes will deliver a second lecture, “Scalable Solver Infrastructure For Multirate, Multiscale PDE Applications” Monday afternoon at 1:40 p.m. in Johnston 338.
• IMPORTANT: Anyone organizing a lecture should first check with Karen Jones for available dates to avoid having multiple lectures on the same day. Also, coordinate with your Focus Area lead so that CCT can get the best attendance possible. There may be open slots in a standard lecture series that needs to be filled.
Please Note:
• ALL CCT Meetings for the spring are scheduled as follows: Feb. 20, March 26, April 23, May 21, June 18 and July 16. All meetings are held at 3 p.m. in 338 Johnston Hall. Faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend.
• The Red Stick International Animation festival is currently looking for preliminary judges for the festival. If you wish to be on this year's jury, go to http://www.redstickfestival.org/judging/register. If you were on the jury last year, your login is still valid. Contact Steve Beck at sdbeck@cct.lsu.edu if you have any questions.
• CCT will host the Finite Element Circus and Rodeo March 5-8 on campus. Please contact Dr. Susanne Brenner if you have questions or would like to participate.
• Dr. Brenner also is organizing the Workshop on Automating the Development of Scientific Computing Software at CCT March 5-7. Please contact her to participate. Web site: http://www.cct.lsu.edu/scientificomputing.
• The Red Stick International Animation Festival will take place from April 16-19 in downtown Baton Rouge.
• 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 Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation (EMT)
NSF EMT
March 13, 2008 at 5:00 p.m.
A Portion Of $16,000,000 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08517/nsf08517.htm
Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP)
March 18 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
At Least $50,000 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08520/nsf08520.htm
George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Research (NEESR)
March 18, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
At Least $750,000 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08519/nsf08519.htm
Publish Date:
02-12-2008
