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Welcome to the 2013 Computing Sciences Summer Student Program!
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Dear Students,
Congratulations and welcome to the 2013 Computing Sciences Summer Student Program. I am Osni Marques, from the Computational Research Division (CRD), and the Summer Student Program Chair for 2013. As a member of this select group of students, your participation in the Berkeley Lab Summer Student Program will contribute important and valuable insights to your future professional development.
The program will kick-off on June 4, with a lunch and a welcome from David Brown, Director of the Computational Research Division. Please check the table below for a schedule of our events, and join our facebook group to meet other students at Berkeley Lab this summer. I am looking forward to meeting you all, and I hope you will find your summer at the Berkeley Lab very stimulating.
Please feel free to contact the following people if you have any questions about the Computing Sciences Summer Student Program or the Berkeley Lab:
- Osni Marques, OAMarques@lbl.gov, (510) 486-5290 (Program Chair)
- David Skinner, DESkinner@lbl.gov, (510) 486-4748 (NERSC Program Coordinator)
- Elizabeth Bautista, EJBautista@lbl.gov, (510) 486-7454 (NERSC Program Coordinator)
- Brian Tierney, BLTierney@lbl.gov, (510) 486-7381 (ESnet Program Coordinator)
- Marcia Ocon-Leimer, MOcon_Leimer@lbl.gov, (510) 495-2727 (Senior HR Division Partner)
- Maria Maroudas, MMaroudas@lbl.gov, (510) 495-2772 (HR Division Partner)
- Jeff Todd, JLTodd@lbl.gov, (510) 486-5327 (Senior Recruiter)
- Teresa Montero, TMontero@lbl.gov, (510) 486-7181 (Logistics and Overall Support)
Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences organization does research, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to support research in areas as global climate change, combustion, fusion energy, nanotechnology, biology, and astrophysics. The Thursday brownbag lunch series aims at giving you an idea of the range of that research. For updates and reminders, please contact Teresa Montero to be added to the Google calendar for this series of events. Here is our tentative schedule:
| 012Day0/0time01 |
Event / Talk | Speaker | Location |
| Jun
04 12:00-01:30 PM |
Summer Student Program Lunch Kickoff | David
Brown Director, Computational Research Division |
50A-5132 |
| Jun
06 12:00-01:00 PM |
High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws (tentative) | Per-Olof Persson Department of Mathematics (UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab) |
70-191 |
| Jun
10 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM |
Introduction to HPC and NERSC Tour | Richard
Gerber (User
Service Group), NERSC David Paul (Computational System Group), NERSC Jim Mellander (Network and Security), NERSC |
Berkeley Lab's OSF |
| Jun
13 12:00-01:00 PM |
Big Bang, Big Data, Big Iron | Julian
Borrill Computational Cosmology Center |
70-191 |
| Jun
18 12:00-01:00 PM |
How to Write a Bad Proposal | Kathy
Yelick Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences |
50A-5132 |
| Jun
20* 12:00-01:00 PM |
Using Math and Computing to Model Supernovae | Andy Nonaka Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering |
70-191 |
| Jun
25 12:00-1:00 PM |
HPC Systems and Services: Collaboration to further Science | Nick
Cardo, Iwona
Sakrejda, Larry
Pezzaglia (Computational
Systems Group), NERSC |
Berkeley Lab's OSF |
| Jun
27 1:30-3:00 PM |
Computing Challenges in Bioinformatics |
Sarah Richardson, DOE JGI Alicia Clum, DOE JGI Alex Boyd, DOE JGI |
Berkeley Lab's OSF |
| Jul 09* 12:00-01:00 PM |
Origami Workshop |
Terry Ligocki Applied Numerical Algorithms Group |
70A-3377 |
| Jul
11* 12:00-01:00 PM |
Visualization and Analysis of Large Data From Simulations (tentative) | Hank Childs Department of Computer and Information (University of Oregon), Visualization Group (Berkeley Lab) |
70-191 |
| Jul
18* 12:00-01:00 PM |
Path to Exascale | Sudip
Dosanjh, Director, NERSC Nick Wright (Advanced Technologies Group), NERSC Katie Antypas (User Service Group), NERSC Shane Canon (Technology Integration Group), NERSC |
Berkeley Lab's OSF |
| Jul
25* 12:00-01:00 PM |
An Overview of ESnet's
Advanced Network Services |
Brian Tierney ESnet |
70-191 |
| Aug
01 03:30-05:00 PM |
Summer Student Program Participants present their research (poster session) | Perseverance
Hall 54-130 |
|
| Aug
08 1:30-3:00 PM |
ALS Tour |
Michael
Banda ALS Deputy Division Director for Operations |
Building 6
ALS Lobby |
(*) Brownbag lunch series: bring your
own lunch.
Subscribe to the Google Calendar for Reminders
Just click the add Google Calendar button below to subscribe to the CS Summer Student Program calendar.
Unfortunately, the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Summer Student Program cannot provide housing for participating students that are flying in for the summer. However, here are some resouces for those looking for a summer sublet or rental in Berkeley. Although we try to assure that the information we present here is correct, please do verify any terms and conditions before moving in.
- Berkeley Lab Classified Ads - This resource has a "Rentals and Roommates" section that lists housing opportunities by Lab employees.
- Dormitories are usually large community style housing with shared bathrooms and rooms off a main hallway. Some dorms offer meals in the summer, while others don't. Some dorms are expensive and gorgeous, while others are inexpensive and run down. There is the occasional exception, but on average you get what you pay for.
- Cooperative Student Housing offers furnished rooms in houses or apartments. Not all co-ops offer food services over the summer.

