CSE Undergrad News

Want a CSE shirt or hoodie? Choose from four designs and an array of colors! They will be available for purchase until 11:59PM on Wednesday, May 29, 2013.

UW is offering Certificate Programs in several topics that UW undergraduates can take as part of their normal credit load this summer. These Certificates consist of two to four courses and will give a good foundation in the various subjects listed below. The Summer Certificate in Business Essentials may be of special interest to engineering students because it provides:

·         Opportunity to cover the major business pillars of knowledge in one summer

·         Integrated curriculum with capstone business plan project, unique among UW business courses

·         Ten, 6 of which are Individual & Society Area of Knowledge (I&S)

·         Interaction with students from diverse perspectives since it is open to any major (except business majors)

·         Tuesday/Thursday schedule which fits well with MWF engineering courses

·         Access to industry professionals who now have adjunct or lecturer appointments with Foster School of Business

Come to information meetings Wednesday May 1 and/or Thursday, June 6, Mary Gates Hall, Room 420, 3;30 to 5:00 pm and meet the instructors and program managers for all programs. Find out which series of courses is the right fit for your educational goals and career aspirations.

Business Essentials, 10 credits, 6 of which are I&S

If you plan on working in an organization such as a business or nonprofit, you’ll need to know how they actually work by learning the three pillars—marketing, management, and accounting and finance.

Marketing Essentials, MKTG 275, Management Essentials, MGMT 275, Essential Accounting and Financial Management, ACCTG 275, and Business Plan Capstone, MGMT 490

Database Management, 10 credits

Learn to help organizations capture, store, retrieve and analyze information in meaningful ways in two courses that present the fundamentals of database management technology, design, development and administration.

Database Management Fundamentals I, INFO 240, and Database Management Fundamentals II, INFO 245

Localization: Language and Technology in the Global Market, 9 credits

Participate in a large and growing industry helping a business expand from one country to the global market. This field offers new opportunities for those interested in foreign cultures and in taking translation to a whole new level, beyond language to usability.

Introduction to Localization & Project Management, JSIS XXX and Localization Technology and Tools, JSIS XXX (pending final approval)

Nonprofit Essentials, 10 credits

Discover what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of nonprofits using nuances of leadership, fundraising, communications and financial management.

Understanding the Fundamentals of Nonprofit Organizations, PB AF  355 A, Program and Implementation Tools for Nonprofit Organizations, PB AF 355 B and, Budget, Financial Management and Fundraising Tools for Nonprofit Organizations PB AF 355 C

Quantitative Fundamentals of Computational Finance, 11 credits

If you love statistics, computation and math, you can prepare now for a career in the financial or investment industries.

Mathematical Methods for Quantitative Finance, AMATH 460, Probability and Statistics for Computational Finance, AMATH 461, and Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics, AMATH 462/ECON 424

Find web information here: Summer Quarter Certificate Programs

Mary Larson | Program Management Director, Summer Quarter | UW Educational Outreach |206.616-0619

Box 359485, Seattle, WA 98195-9485 | 4333 Brooklyn Ave, UW Tower, 19th Floor mlarson@pce.uw.edu |  www.summer.washington.edu

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Please join the eScience Institute Wednesday, May 1, 4:00 pm in EEB-303.  Refreshments will be provided. 

Jeff Gardner (UW Physics)

Jeff Gardner is Director of Research for Physical Sciences at the eScience Institute, Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Physics and Astronomy departments, and Visiting Faculty at Google, Inc.  Jeff received his PhD in Astronomy from UW in 2000.  In 2003, he become a Sr. Research Scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, where he participated in the deployment of the NSF TeraGrid (Extensible Terascale Facility; ETF), which became the largest open platform for scientific computing in the world. His research has focused on the overcoming the challenges of analyzing extremely large scientific datasets using a variety of approaches, including scalable DBMSs, MapReduce, as well as domain-specific libraries.  He is also actively involved in building the next generation of computational astrophysics codes capable of sustaining a petaflop (1 thousand trillion mathematical operations per second) and generating petabytes of data.

Simulating the Universe on Google’s Exacycle Platform

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST; http://www.lsst.org ) is one of the most ambitious astrophysical research programs ever undertaken.   From the 9,000 ft Cerro Pachon peak in Northern Chile, the LSST’s 3.2 Gigapixel camera will repeatedly survey the southern sky, taking one image every 15 seconds, generating tens of petabytes of data every year.  The images and catalogs from the LSST have the potential to transform both our understanding of the universe and the way that we undertake science.  As part of the implementation phase of this project, the LSST collaboration has undertaken a formidable program to simulate the flow of data from the telescope.  The image simulator traces individual photons of light from stars, galaxies, asteroids, through the earth’s atmosphere, the telescope optics, and onto the detector.  These simulations are used to optimize how the LSST surveys the sky, to develop the analytics required to understand how the universe forms and evolves, and to determine how astronomers (and the public as a whole) will scale science to data sets that will exceed a hundred petabytes in size.  For over a year now, Google has given LSST access to their Exacycle platform in order to perform these simulations (http://research.google.com/university/exacycle_program.html), reducing the time required to simulate one night of LSST observing, roughly 5 million images, from 3 months down to a few days.  This rapid turnaround enables the LSST engineering teams to test new designs and new algorithms with unprecedented precision, which will ultimately lead to bigger and better science.

Upcoming Seminars:

* May 13, 4 PM (EE303)

      Fernando Perez  (Berkeley)

               TBD

* May 22, 4 PM (EE303)

      Joe Hellerstein  (Berkeley)

             Why Computer Scientists Should and Can Learn Computer Science

Martin Tompa
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As part of the Monthly Math Hour that the UW math department runs for grades 6-10 (http://www.math.washington.edu/~mathcircle/mathhour/), I’m giving a talk on May 5 on combinatorial games: http://www.math.washington.edu/~mathcircle/mathhour/talks_2013/flyer3.pdf .  If you’ve got kids in that age range, or if you’re interested in the mathematics of 2-player games, you might be interested.

It’s that time of year again… ACM and ACM-W elections are coming up!

Who would you like to see in office next year? Know someone with great ideas? A proactive leader? Someone who loves being involved with the CSE community? Specific officer roles will be determined in the future. We will notify nominees with further steps after the nomination period ends.

You may nominate multiple people, including yourself, here: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/apacible/196901

If you cannot view this WebQ, please email Elise at elised[at]cs.washington[dot]edu.

This survey will close on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 5pm.

Gaetano Borriello	10:42 AM (40 minutes ago)
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This is a reminder to come join Solid State Disc this Spring quarter!

Who are we?
The CSE co-ed Spring Ultimate Frisbee team, part of the UW IMA League.

Who can join?
Any undergraduate student from the CSE department, including you!

Why should I join?
Get in shape, gain disc skills, learn how to play Ultimate, and connect with others in the department!

When does the team meet?
Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, 5pm – 7pm. Strict attendance is not required, but regulars will be preferred for roster spots.

Where does the team meet?
IMA fields, to be announced each day.

How do I join? Who do I contact with questions?
Please contact Preston Sahabu at sahabp[at]uw[dot]edu or via Facebook.

We would like to ask for your help in making students aware of an opportunity for a fully supported Ph.D. study in Health Informatics in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington. For this opportunity we have Department of Education backed funding (through a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need grant) to support U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident students for their Ph.D. studies. This opportunity is open to both M.S. and B.S. graduates, the latter through our expedited B.S. to Ph.D. program. The theme of our GAANN program is health informatics, an area in which our Department has many excellent researchers, focusing on such high tech research as bioinformatics, medical imaging, medical robotics, smart environments, smart health devices, etc.

We are lenient with our Ph.D. application deadlines and would love to talk to your qualifying students.

We appreciate your help. Please feel free to contact me with any question or any suggestions; I would love to hear from you or your academic advisors.

Best wishes,

Dr. Gergely Záruba
Professor
GAANN Site Manager for GAANN@CSE
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
zaruba@uta.edu

http://cse.uta.edu/GAANN/

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