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Welcome to the 2012 Computing Sciences Summer Student Program!

Dear Students,

Congratulations and welcome to the 2012 Computing Sciences Summer Student Program. I am Osni Marques, from the Computational Research Division (CRD), and I will be the Computing Sciences Summer Student Program Chair for 2012. We have planned a number of events for you this summer, including tours of the NERSC Supercomputing Center, Berkeley Lab Advanced Light Source, a seminar about the Department of Energy's fellowship opportunities, and a series of talks that will give you an idea of the range of the research being done at Berkeley Lab.

The program will kick-off on June 5, with a pizza lunch and a welcome from Kathy Yelick, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences, and 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 05*
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM		 Summer Student Program Pizza Lunch Kickoff Kathy Yelick
Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences
David Brown
Director, Computational Research Division 		2-100B
Jun 07*
12:00-01:00 PM 		Building a Community of Leaders with the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Program Mary Ann Leung
Krell Institute 		70-191
Jun 12*
08:00 AM - 12:00 PM 		Introduction to HPC Richard Gerber
NERSC 		70A-3377
Jun 14*
03:00-04:00 PM 		Science DMZ Eli Dart
ESNet 		50F-1647
Jun 21*
1:30-3:00 PM 		NERSC Tour Jim Mellander (Network and Security), NERSC
David Skinner (Science Gateways), NERSC 		Berkeley Lab's OSF
Jun 28*
12:00-01:00 PM		 High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Conservation Laws Per-Olof Persson
Department of Mathematics (UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab)
 70-191
Jul 05*
12:00-01:00 PM		 Data-Intensive Science in the Clouds and Beyond Lavanya Ramakrishnan
Advanced Computing for Science Department		 50A-5132
Jul 10*
12:00-01:00 PM		 Improvisation: Essential Skills in Learning and Working in Computational Science Raquell M. Holmes
University of Connecticut Health Center and Boston University		 50A-5132
Jul 12*
12:00-01:00 PM		 Visualization and Analysis of Large Data From Simulations Hank Childs
Visualization Group		 2-100B
Jul 19*
12:00-01:00 PM		 Origami Workshop Terry Ligocki
Applied Numerical Algorithms Group		 70A-3377
Jul 26*
12:00-01:00 PM		 Numerical Algorithms for Electronic Structure Analysis Lin Lin (Luiz Alvarez Fellow)
Scientific Computing Group		 70-191
Aug 01
03:30-05:00 PM		 Summer Student Program Participants present their research
(poster session)
Perseverance Hall
54-130
Aug 07
1:30-3:00 		ALS Tour
 Michael Banda, ALS Deputy Division Director, Operations
 Building 6 ALS Lobby
Aug 09*
12:00-01:00 PM		 The Data Revolution in Astronomy: A Case Study of the Palomar Transient Factory Peter Nugent
Computational Cosmology Center		 50A-5132
Aug 14*
12:00-01:00 PM		 Origami Workshop 2 Terry Ligocki
Applied Numerical Algorithms Group		  

(*) 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.