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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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