NDSSL Seminar Series
Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Lab (NDSSL) Seminar Series
Title: Optimizing Influenza Vaccine Distribution
Speaker: Dr. Jan Medlock, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson Univ.
Date: Monday, October 12, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: NDSSL Conference Room, RBXV, Coporate Research Center, 1880 Pratt Drive.
Abstract
Stylesheet Transformations for Interactive Visualization: Towards Web3D Chemistry Curricula
CS Department’s Hussein Ahmed named “Featured Graduate Student”
Publish Date: 10/07/2009
Computer science Ph. D candidate Hussein Ahmed has been selected by The Graduate School as this month’s “Featured Graduate Student.” Congratulations Hussein on this recognition!
Please see the full article at Featured Graduate Student.
This Friday - Eugene H. Spafford speaking at CS Distinguished Lecture Series
Publish Date: 10/06/2009
Location: Squires Haymarket Theatre
Date: Friday, October 9, 2009
Time: 11:15am-12:30pm
This talk is open to the general public.
Speaker: Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University
Abstract
Fall 2009 CSRC Career Fair and Luncheon
Publish Date: 10/02/2009
The week of September 14th was a busy week for Computer Science majors thinking about future career opportunities. On Monday, September 14, the Computer Science Resources Consortium fall luncheon and Career Fair were held in Owens Banquet Hall. The CSRC welcomed 10 new companies: Abraxas Corporation, Comcast, CSC, ExcelaCom, G3 Technologies, General Dynamics AIS, OPOWER (Positive Energy), Qualcomm, SAIC, and Sapient.
The members of the Computer Science Resources Consortium, the department’s industrial affiliates group, were on campus to learn more about the department and to recruit students as full-time employees, interns, and cooperative education students. CSRC companies provide support to the Department of Computer Science and student groups.
Attending the luncheon were CS undergraduate scholarship winners. Forty-five undergraduates were recognized for receiving scholarships for 2009/10 academic year. The majority of these funds were provided by the College of Engineering, with the Department of Computer Science, the CSRC, and four CSRC members, CGI, Lockheed Martin, HPTi, and NetApp also contributing to the total.
All 29 companies participated in the Career Reception, held in Owens Banquet Hall. This career fair allowed CS undergrads and graduate students to discuss career opportunities and industry trends with CSRC representatives.
Also during the week of the 14th, the CSRC members had the opportunity to have dinner and speak with CS faculty. They also visited several classes and spoke with Computer Science and General Engineering majors to discuss CS as a major, the variety of opportunities in the field, and the abundance of jobs available to CS majors.
For pictures from the events, please continue to scroll down the page.
Photos of our Scholarship Winners
Dr. Barbara Ryder, Mrs. Anne Gorsline, Ben Scott (George Gorsline Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Mrs. Anne Gorsline, and Beth Timmons (Anne and George Gorsline Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Mrs. Anne Gorsline, and Sarah Hendon (Anne and George Gorsline Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Tim Ellis, Sarah Hendon (Lockheed Martin Scholarship), Stephanie Lockhart
Dr. Ryder, Tim Ellis, Jacob George (Lockheed Martin Scholarship), Stephanie Lockhart
Dr. Ryder, Tim Ellis, Tiffany Tate (Lockheed Martin Scholarship), Stephanie Lockhart
Dr. Ryder, Tim Ellis, Dante Wiggins (Lockheed Martin Scholarship), Stephanie Lockhart
Dr. Ryder, Stephen Dolenc (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder thanking Jeff Mickey and Nathan Baker for the NetApp Scholarship.
Dr. Ryder, Mallory Simmons, Grant Pan (CGI Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Russell Wolf (CSRC and Investment in Excellence Scholarships)
Dr. Ryder, Steven Beam (Investment in Excellence Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Andrew Street (Investment in Excellence Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, John Ryding (CSRC and Investment in Excellence Scholarships)
Dr. Ryder, Jacqueline Addesa (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Eric Woods (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Sahil Talwar (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Barry Bragg (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Chris Hairfield (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Jared Chelko (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Michael Hochkeppel (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Michael Matthews (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Thomas Duffy (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Max McCall (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Albert Fox (College of Engineering Scholarship)
John Goodnow (College of Engineering Scholarship), Dr. Ryder
Dr. Ryder, Ryan Honig (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Daniel McFarland (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Tim Hutchinson (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Marco Leung (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Gaurav Raja (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Youming Liang (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Robert Lyerly (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Kevin Mohammed (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Ujaval Patel (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Michael Schaefer (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Ben Reid (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, James Sheppard (CSRC Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Arunima Srivastava (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Weston Thayer (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, Daniel Won (College of Engineering Scholarship)
Dr. Ryder, George Zhang (College of Engineering Scholarship)
The following companies attended the Fall 2009 CSRC Career Fair:
Abraxas Corporation
Booz Allen Hamilton
CGI
Comcast
CSC
DCS Corp
Duke Energy
Eastman
ExcelaCom
Fidelity
G3 Technologies
General Dynamics AIS
HPTi
IBM
Lockheed Martin
ManTech
Meridium
Microsoft
MicroStrategy
Modea
NetApp
Northrop Grumman
OPOWER (Positive Energy)
Qualcomm
Rackspace
SAIC
Sapient
SWIFT
Vanguard
Additional Photos from the Events
New Research Awards for Computer Science Faculty
Publish Date: 10/02/2009
September has continued to be a very successful month for research awards! The Department is proud to announce that three new projects involving Computer Science faculty members have received funding through the National Science Foundation. The Department extends congratulations to Drs. Sandu, North, Ramakrishnan, and Quek on their new awards!
Dr. Adrian Sandu has received a National Science Foundation award for his proposal “General Linear Time-stepping Methods for Large Scale Simulations. “
Dr. Sandu’s research will investigate theoretically order conditions for a class of general linear methods of practical importance. This theory will be used to develop new high order methods that circumvent the efficiency and accuracy reduction due to boundaries, sources, and stiffness. A rigorous analysis of the stiff behavior will be carried out in a singular perturbation framework, and will be extended to index one differential algebraic systems. The proposed research is the first to address strong stability preserving GL schemes for hyperbolic systems.
Dr. Chris North was recently awarded funding as a co-investigator with Drs. Lehman and House (Statistics Department) for their proposal “FODAVA: Bayesian Analysis in Visual Analytics (BAVA).”
The goal of their research is to combine Visual Analytics and Bayesian Statistics. Currently, visualizations display inflexible deterministic transformations of data that inherently separate data visualization from visual synthesis. By changing the nature of the data transformation from deterministic to probabilistic Bayesian methods, manipulations to a display are possible to interpret quantitatively. The research immediately impacts how analysts discover new information in large datasets while the methodology will transition smoothly into the classroom. Students with varying backgrounds, interests, and talents, including undergraduates and underrepresented groups with limited academic history, will now have the opportunity to learn 21st century statistics.
Drs. Naren Ramakrishnan, Chris North, and Francis Quek have received funding through NSF for their “Formal Models, Algorithms, and Visualizations for Storytelling Analytics” proposal.
The project focuses on the task of storytelling or the stringing together of seemingly unconnected pieces of data into a coherent thread or argument. The PIs will develop a new theory of relational redescriptions that will provide a uniform way to describe data and to compose data transformation algorithms across a multitude of domains. Using this theory, the PIs will be able to define stories formally as compositions of relational redescriptions. The team will develop scalable and steerable algorithms that will respond to dynamic user input and contextualize their use in interactive visualizations that harness the power of spatial layout. The researchers will also investigate how analysts engage in sense-making using the new storytelling algorithms and visualizations, in the hope of finding answers to questions such as: How do analysts achieve insight and advance their conceptualization of patterns derived from datasets?
Collaborative Research: Coupled Models of Diffusion and Individual Behavior Over Extremely Large Social Networks
Start Date: 09/01/2009
End Date: 08/31/2013
Grant Institution: National Science Foundation
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Formal Models, Algorithms, and Visualizations for Storytelling Analytics
Start Date: 09/15/2009
End Date: 08/31/2012
Grant Institution: National Science Foundation
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FODAVA: Bayesian Analysis in Visual Analytics (BAVA
Start Date: 09/15/2009
End Date: 08/31/2012
Grant Institution: National Science Foundation
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General Linear Time-stepping Methods for Large Scale Simulations
Start Date: 10/01/2009
End Date: 09/30/2012
Grant Institution: National Science Foundation
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