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extended deadline 2015 REU Site on HPC at UMBC in Maryland

  • 1.  extended deadline 2015 REU Site on HPC at UMBC in Maryland

    Posted 02-24-2015 09:57
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    Dear Colleagues, we are asking you to forward this mail to as many undergraduate students  as possible! Our REU Site: Interdisciplinary Program in High Performance  Computing is growing and has available funded positions this summer. We  are starting to admit candidates now, but the deadline for applications is  extended to March 15, 2015. We are very excited about the 2015 edition of our REU Site on High  Performance Computing with interdisciplinary application projects of  mathematics and statistics. The program is conducted in 8 weeks from June 14 to August 07, 2015. For  all information and to apply, please visit http://www.umbc.edu/hpcreu All activities are conducted in teams, each supported by dedicated  graduate assistants and faculty mentors. The instrution includes lectures  and hands-on computer labs on C, MPI, Matlab/Octave, R, Linux, and LaTeX,  using the state-of-art 240-node cluster in the UMBC High Performance  Computing Facility (www.umbc.edu/hpcf). The research projects are posed by  application researchers from local industry and government agencies. See  the program webpage's extensive information from past years to learn about  representative project topics. The webpage also has a YouTube movie with  testimonials from participants and an introduction by UMBC's President  Freeman Hrabowski. The webpage has also a detailed schedule and a  comprehensive description of the activities from a student viewpoint. For specific questions, please e-mail hpcreu@umbc.edu Sincerely, Matthias Gobbert, Mathematics Nagaraj Neerchal, Statistics Brad Peercy, Mathematics Kofi Adragni, Statistics


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    Nagaraj Neerchal
    Professor and Chair
    UMBC
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