15th Annual Mardi Gras Conference to Highlight Distributed Computing
The CCT will host researchers from across the country and around the world for the 15th Mardi Gras Conference, Jan. 30-Feb.2.
CCT hosts this conference annually to study varying aspects of computational sciences. This year, the conference will focus on distributed computing. The Mardi Gras Conference 2008 theme is “from lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability and the incremental adoption of key capabilities.”
Participants will examine the technological advances high-speed networks have enabled, discussing how both applications and cyberinfrastructure must change to create new science breakthroughs.
“Researchers have studied distributed computing for years, but this field has expanded dramatically with the growth of the Internet, and now includes not just computer science and engineering disciplines, but also applications in industry, social sciences and the general public,” said Daniel S. Katz, CCT’s Director for Cyberinfrastructure and User Services and general chair of the Mardi Gras Conference. “This conference will bring together researchers who work in different areas of this field so we can examine the latest trends and understand how best to advance.”
The Mardi Gras Conference will take place Wednesday, Jan. 30 through Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Hilton Capital Center in downtown Baton Rouge and features invited keynotes, peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, workshops and a poster session.
Three internationally-recognized keynote speakers will address participants during the conference -- Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Carl Reed, Open Geospatial Consortium; and Larry Smarr, Calit2.
Reduced registration is available for students, and members of the media who wish to view presentations and speak with the researchers can obtain complimentary passes to attend the event. To register or learn more, please visit www.mardigrasconference.org.
Pats On The Back:
· The Association for Information Systems (AIS) named Rudy Hirschheim an AIS fellow last month. The AIS Fellow award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service.
· Susanne Brenner will be a Keynote Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications at the Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, June 2-5. Dr. Brenner also is one of the invited plenary speakers for the 14th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference that will be held at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia from July 13-16.
· Elena Caraba is on the Chancellor’s list for Fall 2007 and Razvan Carbunescu is on the Dean's list. Congratulations to our students on this accomplishment!
The CCT welcomes Michael Farrar as its first Assistant Director for Corporate, Foundation, and Research Relations (CFRR.) Under the supervision of Jeff Hale, Ph.D., Farrar will work closely with LSU’s Office of CFRR, as well as faculty and staff campuswide, to seek philanthropic and sponsored research funding for the CCT and its partners. Farrar's primary duty will be to communicate the CCT’s cutting-edge research to industrial, corporate, research, and philanthropic organizations interested in LSU’s advanced cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing capabilities. He joins a dynamic CFRR team recently reorganized as a partnership between the LSU Office of Research and Economic Development and the LSU Foundation. Farrar is a Louisiana native and a 1992 LSU graduate who holds a bachelor of arts in media. He has extensive experience in mass communication, having worked in advertising, television and radio. Prior to taking the assistant director position at CCT, he worked in California; he returned to Louisiana after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Upcoming Lectures:
· The Spring 2008 Colloquium Series will commence this Friday, Jan. 18. Please note that this semester, CCT has readjusted the Colloquium start time to Fridays at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston 338. The time change is meant to accommodate various conflicts with meeting and the room’s availability.
· Shantenu Jha is managing the Spring 2008 CCT Colloquium lecture series. If you have speaker or topic ideas, please e-mail Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu.
· Pete Beckman, University of Chicago Computation Institute, will deliver the first Colloquium lecture series for Spring 2008 on Friday, Jan. 18 at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston 338. Beckman will lecture on “An Infrastructure for Emergency, On-Demand, and Urgent Computing.”
· Hongchao Zhang, University of Minnesota, will deliver a special guest lecture on “Recent Advances in Box Constrained Optimization” on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 3:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Johnny Guzman, University of Minnesota will deliver a special guest lecture on “Superconvergent Discontinuous Galerkin Methods” on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 3:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Paul Rabinowitz, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin and a member of the National Academy of Sciences who received the 1998 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics will visit the LSU Mathematics Department for one week as part of the Office of Research and Economic Development’s "Academic Excellence Visiting Scholar Program.” He will deliver three lectures: Monday, Jan. 14, Wednesday Jan. 16, and Friday, Jan. 18. All three lectures will take place at 3:30 in Howe/Russell room 130. An abstract of these talks is available at: http://www.math.lsu.edu/~smolinsk/posts/Rabinowitz_abstract.pdf
· Jack Ox, of ARTS Lab, will deliver a Computing the Arts and Humanities lecture on Gridjam Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
· The University will be closed Monday, Jan. 21 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
· The 15th annual Mardi Gras Conference will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 at the Hilton in downtown Baton Rouge. Daniel S. Katz, Ph.D., is hosting this year’s conference. Please see www.mardigrasconference.org for more information.
· 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. Web site: http://www.math.lsu.edu/~brenner/circus_rodeo.html
· 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. Web site: www.redstickfestival.org
· 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 - U.S.-China Collaboration in Mathematical Research
January 17 2008 10:00 am
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08015/nsf08015.jsp
NSF Software for Real-World Systems (SRS)
NSF SRS
January 17 2008 5:00 pm
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07599/nsf07599.htm
The CCT will host researchers from across the country and around the world for the 15th Mardi Gras Conference, Jan. 30-Feb.2.
CCT hosts this conference annually to study varying aspects of computational sciences. This year, the conference will focus on distributed computing. The Mardi Gras Conference 2008 theme is “from lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements, applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability and the incremental adoption of key capabilities.”
Participants will examine the technological advances high-speed networks have enabled, discussing how both applications and cyberinfrastructure must change to create new science breakthroughs.
“Researchers have studied distributed computing for years, but this field has expanded dramatically with the growth of the Internet, and now includes not just computer science and engineering disciplines, but also applications in industry, social sciences and the general public,” said Daniel S. Katz, CCT’s Director for Cyberinfrastructure and User Services and general chair of the Mardi Gras Conference. “This conference will bring together researchers who work in different areas of this field so we can examine the latest trends and understand how best to advance.”
The Mardi Gras Conference will take place Wednesday, Jan. 30 through Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Hilton Capital Center in downtown Baton Rouge and features invited keynotes, peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, workshops and a poster session.
Three internationally-recognized keynote speakers will address participants during the conference -- Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology; Carl Reed, Open Geospatial Consortium; and Larry Smarr, Calit2.
Reduced registration is available for students, and members of the media who wish to view presentations and speak with the researchers can obtain complimentary passes to attend the event. To register or learn more, please visit www.mardigrasconference.org.
Pats On The Back:
· The Association for Information Systems (AIS) named Rudy Hirschheim an AIS fellow last month. The AIS Fellow award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service.
· Susanne Brenner will be a Keynote Speaker at the 6th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications at the Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, June 2-5. Dr. Brenner also is one of the invited plenary speakers for the 14th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference that will be held at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia from July 13-16.
· Elena Caraba is on the Chancellor’s list for Fall 2007 and Razvan Carbunescu is on the Dean's list. Congratulations to our students on this accomplishment!
The CCT welcomes Michael Farrar as its first Assistant Director for Corporate, Foundation, and Research Relations (CFRR.) Under the supervision of Jeff Hale, Ph.D., Farrar will work closely with LSU’s Office of CFRR, as well as faculty and staff campuswide, to seek philanthropic and sponsored research funding for the CCT and its partners. Farrar's primary duty will be to communicate the CCT’s cutting-edge research to industrial, corporate, research, and philanthropic organizations interested in LSU’s advanced cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing capabilities. He joins a dynamic CFRR team recently reorganized as a partnership between the LSU Office of Research and Economic Development and the LSU Foundation. Farrar is a Louisiana native and a 1992 LSU graduate who holds a bachelor of arts in media. He has extensive experience in mass communication, having worked in advertising, television and radio. Prior to taking the assistant director position at CCT, he worked in California; he returned to Louisiana after hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Upcoming Lectures:
· The Spring 2008 Colloquium Series will commence this Friday, Jan. 18. Please note that this semester, CCT has readjusted the Colloquium start time to Fridays at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston 338. The time change is meant to accommodate various conflicts with meeting and the room’s availability.
· Shantenu Jha is managing the Spring 2008 CCT Colloquium lecture series. If you have speaker or topic ideas, please e-mail Shantenu at sjha@cct.lsu.edu.
· Pete Beckman, University of Chicago Computation Institute, will deliver the first Colloquium lecture series for Spring 2008 on Friday, Jan. 18 at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston 338. Beckman will lecture on “An Infrastructure for Emergency, On-Demand, and Urgent Computing.”
· Hongchao Zhang, University of Minnesota, will deliver a special guest lecture on “Recent Advances in Box Constrained Optimization” on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 3:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Johnny Guzman, University of Minnesota will deliver a special guest lecture on “Superconvergent Discontinuous Galerkin Methods” on Thursday, Jan. 17 at 3:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
· Paul Rabinowitz, professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin and a member of the National Academy of Sciences who received the 1998 George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics will visit the LSU Mathematics Department for one week as part of the Office of Research and Economic Development’s "Academic Excellence Visiting Scholar Program.” He will deliver three lectures: Monday, Jan. 14, Wednesday Jan. 16, and Friday, Jan. 18. All three lectures will take place at 3:30 in Howe/Russell room 130. An abstract of these talks is available at: http://www.math.lsu.edu/~smolinsk/posts/Rabinowitz_abstract.pdf
· Jack Ox, of ARTS Lab, will deliver a Computing the Arts and Humanities lecture on Gridjam Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 4:30 p.m. in Johnston 338.
Please Note:
· The University will be closed Monday, Jan. 21 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
· The 15th annual Mardi Gras Conference will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 at the Hilton in downtown Baton Rouge. Daniel S. Katz, Ph.D., is hosting this year’s conference. Please see www.mardigrasconference.org for more information.
· 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. Web site: http://www.math.lsu.edu/~brenner/circus_rodeo.html
· 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. Web site: www.redstickfestival.org
· 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 - U.S.-China Collaboration in Mathematical Research
January 17 2008 10:00 am
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08015/nsf08015.jsp
NSF Software for Real-World Systems (SRS)
NSF SRS
January 17 2008 5:00 pm
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07599/nsf07599.htm
Publish Date:
01-15-2008
