CENTER FOR COMPUTATION & TECHNOLOGY

“Tangible and Embedded Interaction” Conference This Week The first International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction is this week, from Thursday, Feb. 15- Saturday, Feb. 17 at the Sheraton Convention Center. On Saturday, the conference will conclude with a trip to New Orleans so participants can see the Krewe of Endymion parade. This conference, an outgrowth of the CCT Mardi Gras Conference, will host contributions from all seven continents. Organizers of the conference received nearly 100 submissions from 20 countries, and accepted 50 of these -- talks, posters, interactive exhibits, and a performance – for presentation. Related disciplines include: computer science; electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; design; architecture; art; fashion; business; psychology; et al. Example projects to be presented included instrumented furniture, board games, pillows, architectural windows, paper, wallpaper, shoes, hammocks, many new kinds of graspable physical objects, and even an art piece involving meat. A complete list of presentations, together with selected pictures, is online at http://tei-conf.org/program.html. CCT is the lead sponsor for this conference. If you wish to participate in the conference, today is the deadline to register. Please do so through the TEI '07 link on the CCT Web site, or from the TEI '07 site directly. Any CCT staff who are willing to volunteer during the event should contact CCT Event Manager Karen Jones at kjones@cct.lsu.edu CCT in the News State Geeks Out with Computer Network 2-12-2007/Baton Rouge Business Report – Daily Report Louisiana has secured a site on the Open Science Grid, a global consortium of universities and laboratories connected via the Internet. Through LSU and Louisiana Tech, the state's computing ability has skyrocketed, and its own researchers are participating in one of the most advanced and fastest-growing grid environments in the world. The concept is simple: by connecting with computer stations in Germany, Chicago or elsewhere, Louisiana can tap into the network and share its resources, meaning everything from computing power to actual research from other teams. For instance, Dick Greenwood, a physics professor at Louisiana Tech, is working on something dubbed ATLAS, a next-generation physics project based in Switzerland. As its title suggests, this is a lofty one. Scientists from all over the world are working together to conduct research on the fundamental nature of matter, with the goal of providing more insight into the creation of the universe. http://daily-report.com/ LSU to Host International Conference in Downtown Baton Rouge Feb. 15-17 2-9-2007/LSU Wire http://APPL003.lsu.edu/UNV002.nsf/PressReleases/PR4210?OpenDocument Business Briefs 2-11-2007/The Advocate Conference at LSU The LSU Center for Computation and Technology will be host for the first International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction Thursday-Saturday at the Sheraton Convention Center downtown. http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/5731211.html?index=65&c=y Pats on the Back • Tevfik Kosar was recently awarded an Economic Development Assistantships grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents through the LSU graduate school. The grant provides support for one graduate student at $100,000 throughout four years. Kosar's proposal was "Attracting Superior Students to Build Next Generation Cyber-Infrastructure for Coastal and Environmental Research” and aims to hire superior students who will perform research toward building a next-generation cyberinfrastructure. This project is designed to capitalize on Louisiana's recent investments in Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, National Lambda Rail and Vision 2020 projects to enable collaborative coastal and environmental research that will directly impact the economic development in Louisiana. Upcoming Guest Lectures: • Hung Le, Computer Science Department of New Mexico State University, will discuss “Exploiting Parellelism in Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning Systems” on Wednesday, Feb. 21 at 10 a.m. in Johnston 338. • Scott A. Wyatt, University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios director, will discuss “Sound and Sense, Beyond SenSurround,” on Thursday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. • Pavel Bochev, Ph.D., Sandia National Laboratories, will discuss “Mimetic Discretizations and What They Can Do For You.” Bochev will lecture Wednesday, March 14, in 338 Johnston at 11 a.m. Please Note: • The All CCT Meetings have been scheduled through July. The All CCT meetings will be on March 14; April 25; May 16; June 20; and July 18. All meetings will take place at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338 unless otherwise noted. • CCT Staff will participate in the IT Expo at Middleton. This expo, which is a joint venture between LSU Student Government and User Support and Student IT Enablement, will highlight the new Information Commons in Middleton Library. The Expo will take place Wednesday, Feb. 14 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m, and CCT will have an information booth there. Please notify CCT Manager of Public Relations Kristen Sunde if you wish to participate. • The Louisiana Academy of Sciences will host its annual meeting on Friday, March 16, at Southern University. Faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend. The deadline for pre-registration and abstract submissions is Friday, Feb. 16. Visit www.laacademy.org for more information on the meeting and to see for which tracks abstracts are being accepted. Upcoming Grant Deadlines: CISE Theoretical Foundations 2007 NSF TF February 19 2007 5:00 am At Most $ 1,500,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13679&org=NSF&sel_org=NSF&from=fund Human and Social Dynamics: Competition for FY 2007 (Type 1) NSF HSD February 21 2007 5:00 pm At Most $ 750,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2006/nsf06604/nsf06604.htm NSF Explosives and Related Threats: Frontiers in Prediction and Detection (EXP) NSF EXP March 01 2007 5:00 pm A Portion Of $ 20,000,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07528/nsf07528.htm NSF Mathematical Sciences: Innovations at the Interface with Computer Sciences NSF MSPA-MCS March 12 2007 5:00 pm A Portion Of $ 2,300,000.00 available http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07534/nsf07534.htm BOR Post-Katrina Support Fund Initiative Primary Education Subprogram BOR P-KSFI PES March 15 2007 4:30 pm At Least $ 1,000,000.00 available http://www.laregents.org/www2/index.htm