Over the summer Charlie Peck was one of the instructors for a series of NSF funded workshops on computational science in the undergraduate curriculum. The audience was science faculty from a broad range of institutions. The National Compuational Science Institute (http://www.computationalscience.org) organized the workshops which were held in Daytona Beach, FL (Embry-Riddle University) and Norman, OK (University of Oklahoma).
Josh Hursey (2003), Josh McCoy (2004), Charlie Peck (1984), and John Schaefer (2005) recently attended SuperComputing 2004 in Pittsburgh, PA. SuperComputing is one of the leading conferences for high performance computing. While there Charlie gave a presentation on the groups most recent project, Folding@Clusters, at the Purdue Research area. The entire group participated in a birds-of-a-feather session on computational science education and research at the undergraduate level.
Jim was in the Schwartzwald last week (11--14/Nov) speaking at a festcolloquium
on the occassion of the retirement of Uwe M"onnich from the Seminar f"ur Sprachwissenschaft (Theoretical Computational Linguistics) at Eberhard Karls Universit"at, T"ubingen (http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/festcol/). His talk (one of 11) was on "Some Notions of Higher-Order Grammars". It snowed daily.
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Ford-Knight Research from the Summer of '04.
Friday, Nov. 5, from 12:15 - 1 pm in Dennis 220.
Dave Brown -- "An Introduction to Multidimensional Trees and Grammars"
Alex Lemann -- "Representing Multidimensional Trees"
Colin Kern -- "A CNF Transformation for Multidimensional Grammars"
Supported by Ford-Knight, Matthews Summer Research Fund, and the CS Department Collaborative Research Fund
Bring your lunch!
CS majors Dave Brown, Alex Lemann, and Colin Kern presented two papers, "Representing Multidimensional Trees" and "A CNF Transformation for Multidimensional Trees" at the Midstates Conference for Undergraduate Research in Computer Science and Math (MCURCSM '04) at Dennison University on Nov. 30. This was joint work with CS major Greg Sandstrom and CS '04 Ian Kelly.