University Appoints Interim Management for CCT
LSU Provost Astrid Merget and Vice Chancellor of Research & Economic Development Brooks Keel appointed professors Stephen David Beck and Jorge Pullin as interim management for the CCT. Beck will be interim director, and Pullin will be interim co-director.
Beck currently heads the CCT Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies and is Professor of Composition and Computer Music at in the LSU School of Music. Pullin is the Horace Hearne Chair in Theoretical Physics in the LSU Department of Physics & Astronomy, and director of the Horace Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics. Both men have worked within the CCT since its inception in 2003.
“Professors Beck and Pullin bring a breadth of experience in applying computational technology to diverse and important areas of research,” Keel said. “Their leadership at the CCT will boost our efforts to foster a multidisciplinary perspective in the computational sciences.”
Beck and Pullin will jointly lead CCT while the University undertakes an international search to replace former director Ed Seidel, who accepted a position as the National Science Foundation’s Director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure starting Sept. 1.
The CCT search committee will be chaired by Kevin Carman, dean of the College of Basic Sciences, and co-chaired by Joel Tohline, professor of physics & astronomy and a senior faculty member at CCT. Both Beck and Pullin will be involved in the search process.
“Jorge and I are honored to lead the center through this transformative period,” said Beck. “We look forward to working with faculty across the University, using the CCT’s computational resources to advance scientific discovery, creativity, economic development and research opportunities at LSU.”
Added Pullin, “We are confident that during this period of change, the CCT will not just maintain, but in fact exceed the momentum built up during the past five years. We will continue pressing forward with new and innovative solutions in all areas of academia.”
CCT Welcomes:
• Marcel Ritter, an intern working on the Cybertools grant with Werner Benger and Gabrielle Allen.
• Eloisa Bentivegna, a postdoctoral researcher working on the ALPACA grant with Erik Schnetter.
• ChangJun Min, who will be join CCT next week as a postdoctoral researcher working with Georgios Veronis.
Upcoming Lectures:
• Hank Childs, a professor at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will speak as a part of the Colloquium Series on Petascale Visualization and the Visit Visualization Tool. His lecture will take place Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 2:30 p.m. in 338 Johnston.
• LSU Alumn and co-founder of the Anasim Corp. Raj Nair will hold a seminar/workshop on “Power Integrity: A Nanoscale VLSI Challenge.” The lecture will take place Thursday, Oct. 2 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Electrical Engineering Building, Rooms 145-149.
• George Em Karniadakis of Brown University will speak as part of the Frontiers of Scientific Computing Lecture Series on “Multiscale Modeling of the Human Arterial Tree on the TeraGrid.” His lecture will take place Thursday, Oct. 2 at 11:30 a.m. in Johnston 338.
• As part of the Computing the Arts & Humanities Lecture Series, Roger B. Dannenberg of Carnegie Mellon University will speak on “Computational Music: Understanding Performance.” The lecture will take place Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 2:15 in 338 Johnston.
• The LSU School of Music, in partnership with the LSU Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies, will host “Cinema for the Ears: The Best Music You’ve Never Heard” Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m in the Manship Theatre. The concert will use the ICAST Audio Sound Theatre, a 27-channel, state-of-the-art, surround-sound environment. ICAST’s capabilities far exceed typical movie theater sound quality and provide an immersive listening experience for the audience. Cinema for the Ears will feature pieces from Roger Dannenberg and will include music from Nick Hwang, Travis Scharr, Corey Knoll and others. Tickets are $12, with $6 discounted tickets for students. Order tickets online at www.manshiptheatre.org or by phone, 225-344-0334 or by e-mail, tickets@manshiptheatre.org.
Please Note:
• The training schedule for this week includes “Introduction to MPI” and will take place this Wednesday, Sept. 24 form 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in 338 Johnston. The updated calendar for all training is http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/ .
• Electronic Arts Inc. will host a Rock Band Tournament Thursday night, Sept. 25, at the Roux House on Third Street in downtown Baton Rouge. The tournament begins at 6:30 p.m. There is no cover charge to attend. The Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium is assisting EA to host the tournament so interested participants can meet EA representatives, learn more about EA’s presence in Baton Rouge, or ask about job opportunities at the upcoming North American quality assurance and testing facility set to open later this month on LSU’s south campus. For more information on the Rock Band Tournament, please contact the BRADIC office at 225-389-7182. For information on job opportunities with the EA center in Baton Rouge, please visit www.jobs.ea.com.
• The ALL CCT Meeting originally scheduled for this Wednesday, Sept. 24 has been rescheduled to next Wednesday, Oct. 1 at 3 p.m. in 338 Johnston. Future ALL CCT meetings for the fall semester will take place on 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. If you have announcements or news for the ALL CCT meetings, please send to Events Manager Karen Jones at kjones@cct.lsu.edu.
• The inaugural meeting for the LSU Virtual Worlds Research Group will be Thursday, Oct. 23 at 1:30 p.m. in the CCT Training Room, Johnston Hall 338. If you are interested in joining the group, please e-mail avatar@lsu.edu for more information.
• The 2009 “Call for Nominations” letters and supporting documents for the University-wide Faculty Awards and Alumni Professorships have been posted online at www.lsu.edu/facultyawards. The deadline for submitting packets is Wednesday, October 29. If you have any questions regarding the process or would like to make arrangements to view sample packets, please contact Stephenie Werline, Office of Academic Affairs, at 225/578-0021 or sfrank4@lsu.edu. The 2009 LSU Distinguished Faculty Awards Reception will be held on Tuesday, May 5, 2009, at the Lod Cook Alumni Center from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• Abstracts for The 2009 Mardi Gras Conference on “Virtual Worlds: New Realms for Culture, Creativity, Commerce, Computation and Communication” are due September 30. Submit online at www.mardigrasconference.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:
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
EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-1 (RII Track-1)
October 18 2008 10:00 am
A Portion Of $ 32,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08587/nsf08587.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
ACCELERATING DISCOVERY IN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING THROUGH PETASCALE SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS (PetaApps)
October 24 2008 10:00 am
A Portion Of $ 18,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08592/nsf08592.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI)
November 21 2008 10:00 am
At Least $ 26,000,000.00 available
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2008/nsf08604/nsf08604.htm?govDel=USNSF_25
Publish Date:
09-23-2008
