CCT Transition Team Establishes Web Site, E-mail for Feedback
As discussed at last week’s ALL CCT meetings, the University has established a transition team to implement the CCT’s day-to-day leadership plan as Ed Seidel prepares to accept his new position as Director of the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure in September. LSU's Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development, Brooks Keel, is leading the CCT transition team, which includes:
• CCT Executive Director Jarek Nabrzyski
• Associate Director for Computing Applications Gabrielle Allen
• Associate Director for Administration Joel Williams
• Chief Technology Officer Charlie McMahon
• CCT Director Ed Seidel
• Coast to Cosmos Focus Area Head Joel Tohline
To submit questions and comments to the CCT transition team, please send an e-mail to transition-team@cct.lsu.edu, or visit the transition team Web site at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/transition to offer feedback and suggestions.
Pats on the Back:
• Shantenu Jha and Ole Weidner gave a half-day lecture and tutorial on the Simple API for Grid Applications (SAGA) to 50 students at the International Summer School on Grid Computing at Balatonfured, Hungary on July 13.
CCT Welcomes:
• Lea Anne Couvillion as the AVATAR MHI coordinator. She will work for Steve Beck on this initiative.
August Incoming Joint Faculty:
• Assistant Professor, Hongchao Zhang - Department of Mathematics
• Assistant Professor, Xin Li - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Assistant Professor, Juana Moreno - Department of Physics and Astronomy
Upcoming Lectures:
• There are no lectures scheduled for this week.
Please Note:
• The annual Supercomputing Conference has several deadlines coming up for faculty, staff and students who wish to participate. SC08 will take place in Austin, Texas from Nov. 15-21. July 31 is the deadline to apply for ACM Student Research Competition, Doctoral Showcase, poster submissions and Student Volunteer positions. For questions about student volunteers, please contact Kathy Traxler at ktraxler@cct.lsu.edu. Aug. 15 is the deadline for travel grant applications for under-represented groups. If there are people working within your research group or focus area who wish to attend any of these events during SC08, please make them aware of these deadlines.
• ALL CCT meetings for the fall semester will take place on Aug. 20, Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 12 and Dec. 17. All meetings take place at 3 p.m. in Johnston 338. Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to attend. Please be aware that these dates and times may change.
• Please review your meeting room reservations for CCT facilities. If your reservation extends beyond a five-month period or continues indefinitely, it will be removed. For further information, please review CCT Policy Statement # 18 at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/site133.php .
• 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
NSF Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
NSF CDI
August 30 2008 5:00 pm
A Portion Of $ 26,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf07603/nsf07603.htm
Publish Date:
07-22-2008
