http://illinois.edu/calendar/list/2768 This moderated calendar contains a listing of student events submitted by users. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28547187 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28547187 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 08:30:00 CDT Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government, and industry are invited to sign up for this summer school course offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (http://www.vscse.org/). The course will be delivered to sites nationwide using high-definition videoconferencing technologies, allowing students to participate at a number of convenient locations where they will be able to work with a cohort of fellow computational scientists, have access to local experts, and interact in real time with course instructors. There will be no charge for students participating at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications because the usual $100 registration fee has been waived. In addition to NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, other participating sites are: Louisiana State University; Marshall University; Michigan State University; Northwestern University and the University of Chicago; Princeton University; Purdue University; University of California Los Angeles; University of California San Diego; University of Delaware; University of Oklahoma; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Texas at Brownsville; University of Texas at El Paso; and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. For more information, including pre-requisites and course topics, visit http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2013/bigdata.html. To register, first visit the user portal for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE): https://portal.xsede.org/. If this is your first use of the XSEDE portal, follow the guidelines to create a free portal account. Once you have an XSEDE portal account, you may sign up for the Virtual School courses through the XSEDE course calendar: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar. For more information about the Virtual School, go to http://www.vscse.org. Questions about the summer school can be sent to info@vscse.org. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28547188 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28547188 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:30:00 CDT Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government, and industry are invited to sign up now this summer school course offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (http://www.vscse.org/). The course will be delivered to sites nationwide using high-definition videoconferencing technologies, allowing students to participate at a number of convenient locations where they will be able to work with a cohort of fellow computational scientists, have access to local experts, and interact in real time with course instructors. There will be no charge for students participating at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications because the usual $100 registration fee has been waived. The Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors summer school will present students with the seven most common and crucial algorithm and data optimization techniques to support successful use of GPUs for scientific computing. Studying many current GPU computing applications, the course instructors have learned that the limits of an application's scalability are often related to some combination of memory bandwidth saturation, memory contention, imbalanced data distribution, or data structure/algorithm interactions. Successful GPU application developers often adjust their data structures and problem formulation specifically for massive threading and executed their threads leveraging shared on-chip memory resources for bigger impact. The techniques presented in the course can improve performance of applicable kernels by 2-10X in current processors while improving future scalability. In addition to NCSA, other participating sites are: Clemson University; Louisiana State University; Marshall University; Michigan State University; Princeton University; Purdue University; University of California Los Angeles; University of Delaware; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Texas at Brownsville; University of Texas at El Paso; and University of Utah. For more information about the Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors course, including pre-requisites and course topics, visit http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2013/manycore.html. To register, first visit the user portal for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE): https://portal.xsede.org/. If this is your first use of the XSEDE portal, follow the guidelines to create a free portal account. Once you have an XSEDE portal account, you may sign up for the Virtual School courses through the XSEDE course calendar: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar. For more information about the Virtual School, go to http://www.vscse.org. Questions about the summer school can be sent to info@vscse.org. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28325054 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28325054 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 08:30:00 CDT CEE 498 is a 3-hour design course by Prof. Joshua Peschel to be offered in Fall 2013. This course will provide students with a working knowledge of modern geographical information systems (GIS) applied to all areas of civil and environmental infrastructure. Focus will be on developing sustainable and resilient GIS - based solutions to open end design problems. Students from any major are allowed to take this class. http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28873767 http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2768/28873767 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:30:00 CDT Join the AREMA Student Chapter as we travel to Indianapolis for the largest railway engineering conference in the country! The trip will cost $40 for each attendee which covers a hotel room in downtown Indianapolis for 3 nights, most meals, and travel on a charter bus to and from the conference. Many companies will also be looking to hire as well! Conference features: - 300,000 sqft of indoor company exhibits featuring all disciplines of engineering - 60+ technical presentations on topics including Manufacturing, Structures, Signals, and High Speed Rail - Student Job Fair Visit our website and follow the links to signup and find out more! https://sites.google.com/site/aremauiuc/