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CSEweek - March 27, 2018

 
March Featured Fellow:

Shriyaa Mittal, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology
"A Cloud-Based Platform to Design ‘Optimal’ Probes for Protein Dynamics"

Wednesday, March 28, 2018
12:00pm - 1:00pm
1030 NCSA

Lunch Provided

 
Spring 2018 DEADLINE for Change of Curriculum Request

March 30, 2018 is the LAST DAY for Graduate students to submit a change of curriculum request for the Spring 2018 term. This includes changing degree program or adding or dropping minors and concentrations. Email CSE Education Coordinator, Bryan Wang (bpcwang@illinois.edu) or Graduate College if you have any questions.

 
Sixian You: Image of Research Semi-Finalist

CSE Fellow, Sixian You is a semi-finalists in the graduate student edition of the 2018 Image of Research competition.

https://grad.illinois.edu/news/image-research-semi-finalists 

View the entries and vote for the People’s Choice award on Wednesday, April 4 from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. in room 220 of the University Library.

 
Training Survey

If you are interested in the future of technical training on campus, please weigh in at https://surveys.illinois.edu/sec/1110950.  Research IT solicits recommendations from faculty, graduate students, and researchers from across campus.  This survey should take 5–10 minutes to complete, and we appreciate your input.

 
DEADLINE APPROACHING: 4/11/18!!!

Call for Proposals
for 
2018 - 2019 CSE Fellows

Graduate students in participating departments are invited to submit CSE Fellowship Proposals for support of interdisciplinary research in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE). Several awards are expected to be given for the 2018 -2019 academic year which is from August 16, 2018 to July 15, 2019. Proposed research projects must be interdisciplinary, and must be oriented toward computational science and engineering and/or applied mathematics.

The student submitting the proposal must be jointly supervised by at least two faculty members, preferably from separate departments or areas. Each faculty supervisor must be affiliated with the CSE program (see list here).The student must enroll in the CSE program once the fellowship begins. 

Submission Information:  2018 - 2019 CSE Fellows

Application Information:  Submit Proposals Here 
(You must create an account in EasyChair to Submit Proposal)

Submission Deadline:  April 11, 2018 at 12:00 Midnight (CDT)

Student participants in winning proposals will be designated as CSE Fellows and will receive the following benefits: 

  • 50% research assistantship
  • Tuition waiver 
  • Support for research-related conference travel up to $500

 Application Requirements:

  • Cover Page
  • Resume
  • Research Proposal
  • Summary of Accomplishments (RENEWALS ONLY)
  • DARS Report
  • Two Letters of Recommendation

Awards will be announced in May.

If you have further questions, please e-mail us at fellows@cse.illinois.edu

 
The Hacker Within (THW)

Join us for a Hacker Within meeting:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
2100 NCSA

April 4 - Game Engines for Scientific Visualizations
April 18 - Hardware and Software Accelerators
LUNCH PROVIDED
Questions
Learn More
Faculty Support:  Katy Huff
President:  Aaron Anderson

 
Software Carpentry Workshops

Please join CSE for a Software Carpentry workshop:    
March 29-30, 2018:
  MATLAB, Automation (Bash and Make), Data Management (Git)
April 5-6, 2018:  Women in Biology
May 7-8, 2018:  Instructor Training
May 15-18, 2018:  Scientific Software Development
Register for Workshop
Hands-on workshops teach you how to:

➔ organize your research computationally
➔ automate repetitive tasks
➔ make your research reproducible
➔ help other researchers access your work
➔ use your work collaboratively

 
CSE Fellows' Seminars

12:00pm - 1:00pm
1030 NCSA
Spring 2018

March 28, 2018Shriyaa Mittal
April 25, 2018 – Sixian You

LUNCH PROVIDED

 
CSE Certificate Option and Transcriptable Enrollment

CSE offers interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate specializations which are designed to provide students with a solid foundation in problem-solving using computation as a major tool for modeling complicated problems in science and engineering.

Graduate Concentration—transcriptable option available to both Ph.D. and M.S. students
Undergraduate Minor—transcriptable option available to students in the Colleges of Engineering and LAS
Undergraduate Certificate Option—available to undergraduate students enrolled in participating departments

For more information: https://cse.illinois.edu/education-programs

 
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