Joint effort between Center for Computation & Technology, NFS IGERT-CFD
Baton Rouge – LSU researchers with the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, or IGERT, program and the Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will host a computing workshop on Friday, April 20, for more than 30 high school students and their high-school teachers. The IGERT on Computational Fluid Dynamics at LSU is a National Science Foundation program that provides doctoral students with an enhanced, multidisciplinary education and training to prepare them for research in multiscale computational fluid dynamics and its application to complex problems in science and engineering. The one-day workshop will take place at the University beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, April 20. It is designed to introduce high school students to the tools scientists use today to conduct research, particularly those used in high-performance computing and computational fluid dynamics. The workshop has been primarily organized by the students in the IGERT program, as part of their training experience at LSU. IGERT and CCT researchers will give presentations to the students to help them become more familiar with the center and the research being conducted. Students also will work through two tutorials. A visualization tutorial will teach students to visualize results of a glaucoma computer model developed by the LSU Computational Fluid Dynamics group that simulates fluid flow and pressure distribution in the eye using the visualization software tool Amira. Students at the workshop also will take part in a high-performance computing tutorial using the Cactus Framework, using which they will run simulations of black holes on the large scale computing resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative. One of the main developers of Cactus was CCT researcher Gabrielle Allen, Ph.D. Cactus has been used for more than 100 research publications in the field of numerical relativity alone, and is now being extended partly though the IGERT program to be used for fluid dynamics applications. “These tutorials will give students a chance to get some hands-on experience at working with real scientific research data and tools that they could not get in a regular high school classroom setting,†Allen said. “Also, through this workshop, the students will get the chance to see what computational research is really about --- and we hope the experience will help inspire them to study science and engineering at university.†For more information on the workshop, please contact CCT Manager of Public Relations Kristen Sunde at 225-578-3469.
Baton Rouge – LSU researchers with the National Science Foundation's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship, or IGERT, program and the Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, will host a computing workshop on Friday, April 20, for more than 30 high school students and their high-school teachers. The IGERT on Computational Fluid Dynamics at LSU is a National Science Foundation program that provides doctoral students with an enhanced, multidisciplinary education and training to prepare them for research in multiscale computational fluid dynamics and its application to complex problems in science and engineering. The one-day workshop will take place at the University beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, April 20. It is designed to introduce high school students to the tools scientists use today to conduct research, particularly those used in high-performance computing and computational fluid dynamics. The workshop has been primarily organized by the students in the IGERT program, as part of their training experience at LSU. IGERT and CCT researchers will give presentations to the students to help them become more familiar with the center and the research being conducted. Students also will work through two tutorials. A visualization tutorial will teach students to visualize results of a glaucoma computer model developed by the LSU Computational Fluid Dynamics group that simulates fluid flow and pressure distribution in the eye using the visualization software tool Amira. Students at the workshop also will take part in a high-performance computing tutorial using the Cactus Framework, using which they will run simulations of black holes on the large scale computing resources of the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative. One of the main developers of Cactus was CCT researcher Gabrielle Allen, Ph.D. Cactus has been used for more than 100 research publications in the field of numerical relativity alone, and is now being extended partly though the IGERT program to be used for fluid dynamics applications. “These tutorials will give students a chance to get some hands-on experience at working with real scientific research data and tools that they could not get in a regular high school classroom setting,†Allen said. “Also, through this workshop, the students will get the chance to see what computational research is really about --- and we hope the experience will help inspire them to study science and engineering at university.†For more information on the workshop, please contact CCT Manager of Public Relations Kristen Sunde at 225-578-3469.
Publish Date:
04-18-2007
