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Welcome to the 2013 Computing Sciences Summer Student Program!

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:

Schedule of Events

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.

Housing

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.