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'All-hands' Meeting

The Louisiana Cyberinfrastructure and Science Drivers Symposium took place on Friday, August 22, 2008 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The symposium included presentations from RII project participants, CyberTools WorkPackages demonstrations, and a graduate student poster competition. The meeting was attended by approximately 110 individuals, including the project's five External Review Board members. More info.
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Louisiana EPSCoR RII Undergraduate Students


Photo Barker, Tyler
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 334 2455
csc470019 AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Erik Schnetter & Gabrielle Allen


Photo Buleu, Ana Elena
CyberTools Webmaster
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 334 2455
anabuleu AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Gabrielle Allen & Shantenu Jha
Ana started working at CCT, and doing her undergraduate degree at LSU in January 2006. She is a Junior now in the College of Basic Sciences. She worked in the Performance Group for a couple of months, learning Cactus benchmarking. Since July 2006, she has worked in the Visualization Group under the supervision of Shalini Venkataraman, and Dr. Werner Benger, dealing with the HDF5 file format. She is now working with Dr. Shantenu Jha on a project involving Molecular Dynamics.

Photo Carbunescu, Razvan
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
carazvan AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Gabrielle Allen & Mayank Tyagi, Mr. Yaakoub El-Khamra
Razvan is a Romanian research student who has been working at CCT since 2004. He has been here for two years working in the Frameworks Group on different projects that ranged from fixing bug reports to reruning black hole simulations to other numerical projects with Level Set Methods and Computational Fluid Dynamics. With one of these projects he managed to go to NCUR (National Conference for Undergraduate Research) where he presented a paper on Integrating Level Set Methods within Cactus. He is currently working within the Computational Fluid Dynamics(CFD) group with Mayank Tyagi and Yaakoub El-Khamra on coding different examples, tests and methods of CFD within Cactus.

Photo Clary, Alex
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
aclary AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Dr. Gabrielle Allen & Mr. Archit Kulshrestha
Alex is an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU. Alex is contributing to the Environmental Transport science driver through his work in the SURA SCOOP project which is providing generic interfaces for integrating coastal models into a dynamic, priority-aware workflow manager.

Photo Davidson, Andrew
Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
adavidson AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Dr. Gabrielle Allen, Ms. Shalini Venkataraman
Andrew is a junior at LSU, and a member of the Louisiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (LA-STEM) Scholarship Program. He has been working at CCT since May of 2005 and his current research is the use of GPUs for General Purpose computation.

Photo Kolz, Kevin
Department of Computer Science
Louisiana Tech University
kkolz AT coes.latech.edu
Mentors: Drs. Jinghua Ge & Gabrielle Allen, Ms. Shalini Venkataraman


Photo Lewis, John
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
jlewis AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Jinghua Ge & Gabrielle Allen
John began working in the CCT department as a portal developer for the Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring Systems (UCoMS) in the fall of 2005. Recently he has been given the honor to present his research at the Student Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) summer of 2006 and the Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics fall of 2006.

Photo Micelli, Chris
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
cmicel1 AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Hartmut Kaiser & Shantenu Jha
I am a CSC major working with Dr. Hartmut Kaiser of incorporating a complete series tests into the C++ implementation of the SAGA api. I am a interesting in kernels and management of resources.

Photo Micelli, Michael
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
mmicel2 AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Hartmut Kaiser & Shantenu Jha


Photo Nagelberg, Alex
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
nalex AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Daniel S. Katz & Gabrielle Allen
Alex is an undergraduate in the Computer Science department at LSU. He has worked on developing modules for the Cactus Framework and performance profiling, and is currently working in the SCOOP team on Google Map and GPS interfaces to coastal data as well as running scientific applications on a Sony Playstation 3. Alex has had summer internships at Argonne National Lab and Cardiff University.

Photo Ram, Jonatan
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
jram1 AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentors: Drs. Jinghua Ge & Gabrielle Allen
Jonatan is an electrical and computer engineering student. He is under La Stem scholarship, working on 4k viz.

Photo Wesley-Smith, Ian
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
+1 225 578 7597
iwsmith AT cct.lsu.edu
Mentor: Dr. Brygg Ullmer
Ian originally began working with the Frameworks division at CCT in the Fall of 2004. While in that group, he began to pursue research on machine learning and artificial neural networks (ANN). He presented a paper at the National Undergraduate Research Conference (NCUR) in Spring 2006 on a parallel ANN implementation. Ian then became part of the Scientific Visualization group where he now resides working on GPGPU and UltraGird.