EA Sports to Host Meet-and-Greet with Students Thursday, Oct. 2
Electronic Arts Inc., or EA, will host a campus meeting Thursday, Oct. 2 to talk with students seeking careers in the video game industry. The EA meeting will take place at 2 p.m. in the CCT Training Room, Johnston 338.
Students will learn about success factors in working for EA and can discuss specific job opportunities, particularly for the upcoming North American quality assurance and testing facility set to open on LSU’s south campus. Faculty also are welcome to attend and learn more about EA’s university partnership programs and expanding curricula in digital media.
EA, the world’s leading independent video game developer and publisher, announced plans in August to build its quality assurance complex at LSU, where workers will test upcoming sports titles such as Madden NFL, Tiger Woods PGA Tour and NCAA Football before they hit the market. This center will create 20 full-time jobs and more than 200 part-time jobs, many of which will be occupied by LSU students.
There is no cost to attend the meeting, and refreshments will be provided.
For more information, please contact the Baton Rouge Area Digital Industries Consortium office at 225-389-7182. For information on job opportunities with the EA center in Baton Rouge, please visit http://www.jobs.ea.com .
CCT in the News:
LSU appoints interim director, co-director for CCT
Source: Supercomputing Online
LSU Provost Astrid Merget and Vice Chancellor of Research & Economic Development Brooks Keel appointed professors Stephen David Beck and Jorge Pullin as interim co-directors for the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT.
http://supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=16247
LSU Appoints Interim Co-Directors for CCT
Source: HPC Wire
BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 25 -- LSU Provost Astrid Merget and Vice Chancellor of Research & Economic Development Brooks Keel appointed professors Stephen David Beck and Jorge Pullin as interim co-directors for the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT.
http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/LSU_Appoints_Interim_Co-Directors_for_CCT.html
Interim co-directors picked for LSU research center
Source: The Advocate
LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology had new interim co-directors appointed Thursday. Taking over the center are professors Stephen Beck and Jorge Pullin.
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/29782774.html
Pats on the Back:
• The Board of Regents addressed the five-year formal renewal of CCT. Steve Beck and Jorge Pullin attended the meeting with Jarek Nabrzyski, Charlie McMahon, Theresa Markey and Joel Williams. The renewal was approved unanimously without discussion or questions. In private, several regents approached to remark on how well CCT is doing. Congratulations to everyone for making CCT such a success!
CCT Welcomes:
• ChangJun Min, who will be join CCT this week as a postdoctoral researcher working with Georgios Veronis.
• Nayong Kim, a postdoctoral researcher for the Cybertools work package 4, who will start with CCT on Oct. 1.
Upcoming Lectures:
• LSU Alumni 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 Friday, Oct. 3 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 LSU Center for Computation & Technology will host a booth at the Baton Rouge Business Report 2008 Biz Tech Expo, Oct. 8 and 9 at the River Center, to highlight research achievements and opportunities to work with local businesses. As an exhibitor, the CCT receives complimentary passes to the expo, which will take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on both days. There are seven tickets available, and these will be distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you would like one of the tickets to attend the Expo, please contact Kristen Sunde at ksunde@cct.lsu.edu.
• The training schedule for this week includes Introduction to OpenMP on Oct. 1 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. in 338 Johnston. The updated calendar for all training is http://www.hpc.lsu.edu/. Please register at http://www.hpc.lsu.edu//training/tutorials/reservation-forms/openmp-20081001.php.
• The ALL CCT Meeting set for Wednesday, Oct. 1, is cancelled. 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.
• 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:
09-30-2008
