Computing Sciences 2008 Summer Student Program and Events
Computing Sciences hosts its own Summer Student Program with students from various universities in the United States and abroad. The program gives students an opportunity to gain relevant research experience while pursuing their degree. The students are partnering with one or more staff members on well-defined research projects. Many of their projects, which they develop at the Lab during the 12-week summer program, become the basis for their theses. At the end of the summer, the students will give presentations based on their research findings.
2008 Summer Students
Name |
Institution |
LBNL Host |
Project |
Ethan Alguire |
Harverford College | Joshua Schrier / Esmond Ng |
Computational materials science |
| Nikhil Anand | Monte Vista High School | John Wu | FastBit implementation in Java |
| Binit Bhatia | Texas Tech | Keith Beattie | CEDPS troubleshooting project |
| Robbie Bowmani | UC Santa Cruz | Chip Smith | Open LDAP, Open SSL |
| Spencer Bradley | Ames (IA State) | Joe Metzger | WAN Network Measurement |
| Cy Chan | MIT | John Shalf / Leonid Oliker |
Autotuning for Climate Simulator |
| Pietro Cicotti | UC San Diego | Esmond Ng | Develop new latency hiding / avoiding techniques for sparse LU |
| Dany De Cecchis | San Diego State University | Tony Drummond | Work on multi-scale climate modeling |
| Jan Durand | Grambling State University | Dhiva / Mike Helm |
Experimental OpenID service for DOEGrids |
| Manisha Gajbe | Georgia Tech | John Shalf / Leonid Oliker |
Autotuning scalable 3D FFTs |
| Tobias Gradl | Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Erich Strohmaier | Multigrid solver for massively parallel finite element computations |
| Mark Howison | UC Berkeley | Prabhat / Wes Bethel |
High performance, parallel I/O for visualization and data analysis |
| Erica Isaacson | UC Berkeley | James Sethian | Shape optimization in fluid dynamics |
| Jakub Kominiarczuk | UC Berkeley | Alexandre Chorin | Computational fluid dynamics |
| Marc Millstone | New York University | Chao Yang / Juan Meza |
Electronic struture calculations |
| Meiyappan Nagappan | North Carolina State University | Arie Shoshani | SRM & FastBit |
| Trevor Potter | UC Berkeley | Jon Wilkening | Time-periodic solutions of KdV equation on spatially periodic domain |
| Phillip Presley | UC Berkeley | Ali Pinar | Track Reconstuction |
| Wayne Ryan | Clemson | Cecilia Aragon | Eye tracking for visualization |
| Itai Sharon | Technion I.I.T. | Victor Markowitz | Integrated Microbial Community Genome LDRD |
| Bei Wang | UC Davis | Phil Colella | Particle-in-cell methods for plasma physics |
| Kristin Weber | University of Washington | Jon Dugan | Wide area network traffic measurements |
| Jia Yu | UC Berkeley | Jon Wilkening | Fast algorithms for the Smith form of a matrix polynomial |
2008 Summer Students Events / Seminars
June 11
Summer Student Program Kick-Off / Welcome
Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., 50B-4205 Conference Room
June 24
Scientific Visualization as a Means of "Seeing the Unseeable"
Wes Bethel, Group Leader, CRD Visualization Group
12:00 noon, 50 Auditorium
July 1
Regional and Global Climate Change: The Role of Particles and Gases
Surabi Menon, Atmospheric Sciences Department, Environmental Energy Technologies Division
12:00 noon, 50 Auditorium
July 15
New Directions in X-Ray Light Sources
Roger Falcone, Advanced Light Source Director
12:00 noon, 50 Auditorium
July 22
Multicore: Fallout From a Computing Evolution
Kathy Yelick, NERSC Division Director
12:00 noon, 50 Auditorium
July 29
Global Energy: Supply, Demand, Consequences, and Opportunities
Arun Majumdar, Environmental Energy Technologies Division Director
12:00 noon, 50 Auditorium
July 30
Roundtable Discussion with Juan Meza
Juan Meza, High Performance Computing Research Dept. Head
11:30 a.m., 50B-4205 Conference Room
August (dates to be announced)
Summer Students Presentations
12:00 noon, 50 Auditorium
Summer Students Program Coordinators
Marcia Ocon, Computing Sciences Human Resources, 510-495-2727, MOcon@lbl.gov
Frank Hale, NERSC, 510-486-7481, FVHale@lbl.gov
