The Minority-Serving Institutions Cyberinfrastructure Institute MSICI²

Compilation of Research and Education Opportunities

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• NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 2006 Summer Faculty Fellowships with March 15 2006 Application deadline
• Lousiana State University in partnership with Southern University, Louisiana Tech, Louisiana Health Sciences, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, National Taiwan University and the University of Lyons in France has a new NSF IGERT initiative on Multi-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) . Their goal is provide graduate students with a multidisciplinary education that integrates various elements critical to CFD problems. Departments and outside partners that are involved include: Mechanical Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Oceanography, Petroleum Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Geology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Education. They are encouraging Minority and Women applicants at Master and Ph.D. levels. Applications can be submitted for any of three semesters.
• Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists (CSIG) San Diego Supercomputer Center August 14-18, 2006 San Diego, CA. The Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists series is designed to introduce geoscientists to commonly-used as well as emergent information technology (IT) tools. Topics covered include Data Modeling, Web Services, and Geographic Information Systems as well as a brief introduction to key concepts in Grid Computing, Parallel Programming, and Scientific Workflows.
• MURF Minority Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program at Caltech, provides support for talented undergraduates to spend a summer working in a research laboratory on the Caltech campus. The deadline for Summer 2006 has passed. This builds on Caltech's very successful SURF program.