# Important Dates: #
## May 20 - May 26 ##
+ Shantenu Jha, University College, London (5/22 - 5/26)
+ John Wooley, University of California, San Diego (5/24 - 5/26)
+ CactusEinstein Workshop, May 22-26, 2006
+ CCT Colloquium Series: Kamran Abdollahi, May 26, 2006, Room 338 Johnston Hall, 3:00 p.m.
+ Kamran Abdollahi, Southern University (5/26)
## May 27 - June 2 ##
+ Special Guest Lecturer: Nathan Debardeleben, June 2, 2006, Room and Time TBA
+ Robert Haber, University Illinois, Urbana-Chapaign (5/29-5/31)
+ Dan Stanzione, Arizona State University, (6/01-6/02)
+ Nathan Debardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, (6/01-6/03)
+ Petr Holub, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (6/1-6/25)
## Please Note… ##
* Congratulations Alex Nagelberg, Dylan Stark, and Elena Caraba who all secured great internships this summer. Alex and Dylan will be working at Argonne National Laboratory, and Elena will be at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
* The All CCT meeting for May will be held at 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 30th. The CCT end-of-the-year appreciation Crawfish Boil will be held after the meeting. Tickets must be picked up from either 311 or 213 Johnston Hall.
* If you have any news for the CCT Weekly, please send it to .
# Grant Information #
## FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES OF INTEREST ##
+ NSF: RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES: Due June 7th, 2006. Web:
+ NNSA: PREDICTIVE SCIENCE ACADEMIC ALLIANCE PROGRAM: Preliminary proposals due July 17th, 2006. Web:
+ FOR JUNIOR FACULTY: NSF CAREER grants. Due dates July, 2006. See the NSF website for more details:
- DOE Computational Materials Science Network: Due June 30 2006 (requires letter of intent March 31, 2006) Web:
- NSF Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC): Due August 11 2006 (Preliminary), 10th December 2006 (Full) Web:
# NEW ELECTRONIC GRANT ROUTING SYSTEM EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2006 #
+ In an effort to streamline the proposal routing and approval process, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) has developed the Sponsored Programs System (SPS). SPS is a web-based proposal routing and approval system, which will be implemented campus-wide on September 1, 2006. If you attend one of the training sessions prior to September 1, you will be able to use this new system. Register for the 1-hour session at:
# UPCOMING PROPOSAL DEADLINES #
+ SCI VIZ CHALLENGE REMINDER: Entries to NSF's Scientific Visualization Challenge are due May 31. Website:
+ LA Board of Regents EPSCoR Proposal: Due June 28, 2005. Notice of Intent due May 31, 2006. Web:
+ NSF CI-TEAM: June 5, 2006
+ NASA BEYOND EINSTEIN: June 2, 2006
+ Contact info for grant questions: Carrie Brinkley, 205 Johnston 8-1294
> 'Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it.'
> ~ Margaret Thatcher
_Prepared by Gina Palermo, LSU's Center for Computation & Technology_
Publish Date:
05-26-2006