CSE Undergrad News

Stipends, housing and travel funds will be provided (due to NSF restrictions, only US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for funding).

My name is Shawn Rafalski. I am an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT), and the Director of the Fairfield University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Mathematics and Computational Science. Sponsored by a three-year grant through the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense, we will host our second summer program in 2012 from June 11 to August 3.

This upcoming summer will feature a number of projects in statistics and computer science, as well as one pure math project, and so we strongly encourage students from statistics and computer science to apply. Our first program (Summer 2011) was very successful, with each of the three research groups producing a research journal submission, as well as presentations at the National Joint Mathematics Meetings in Boston this January. The program announcement is below, and a poster announcement of the program will follow this email.

I hope that you’ll consider advertising our program to your most enthusiastic students, or forwarding this announcement to the appropriate contact for advising CS undergraduates on research opportunities. We look forward to a robust application season and a great summer.

Thanks very much for your time, best regards,

Shawn Rafalski
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Fairfield REU Program Director
Fairfield University
15 Bannow Science Center
Fairfield, CT
203.254.4000 x2198
www.facutly.fairfield.edu/srafalski

****2012 Fairfield REU in Math & CS Announcement****

The Fairfield University (Fairfield, CT) Mathematics and Computer Science Department announces its Summer 2012 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Mathematics and Computational Science. Sponsored by a three-year grant through the National Science Foundation that began in 2011, we will host our 2012 program from June 11 to August 3. The four research groups for our program will engage in original mathematics, statistics and computing projects in the following areas:

>> Easy Implementations of Difficult Program Analyses
> John Lasseter, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

>> “Lake Lilly” Time Series Analysis
> Laura McSweeney, Associate Professor of Mathematics

>> Authentication and Identification in Computer Security
> Amalia Rusu, Assistant Professor of Software Engineering

>> Knot Width and Khovanov Cohomology
> Stephen Sawin, Professor of Mathematics

We would like to encourage as many talented undergraduate mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists as possible to apply, and so we hope that you will keep our program in mind when advising your most active and enthusiastic students. A program poster will follow this announcement.

Stipends, housing and travel funds will be provided (due to NSF restrictions, only US citizens and permanent residents are eligible for funding). Fairfield University is located on Long Island Sound in southwestern Connecticut about an hour from New York City. The deadline for applications is March 2, 2012. For more details, please visit or direct your students to our webpage:

www.fairfield.edu/reu

Questions? Please feel free to contact Dr. Shawn Rafalski, the Fairfield REU Program Coordinator, by email at:

srafalski@fairfield.edu

Thanks for your interest — we hope to hear from your best and brightest in the near future!

From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 06:51:21 -0800
Subject: NY Times Science section today

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html

All about computer science.

Congratulations to Matt Bryan, who was selected as a Finalist, and Stephanie Dietzel, Hillary Worden, and Elliot Brossard, who were selected for Honorable Mention in this year’s CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awards!

– hank

Continue reading to see all national winners. 

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Wed 11/30; 5:00 EEB 125; 5:30 Atrium

Hey everyone, research night is this Wednesday. The event will start with an open panel of current or former undergraduate researchers to tell you about their experiences. This will be followed by a poster session in the atrium where grad students will be showing off their projects that you could potentially work on.

P.S. We still need more panelists for the event, please reply if you are interested.

Hey everyone, we’re holding research night next Wednesday 11/30 at 4:30pm or 5pm and we need about 5 undergrads with research experience to talk and field questions for other undergrads who are potentially interested in doing research.

If you’re interested in helping out, please reply. We’ll need you for about 30 minutes during the actual event.

For those of you without much work experience, this could be a great project for you to use to get move involved.

From: Daniel MT <damt@uw.edu>

I’m one of the officers of the UW-One Laptop Per Child student
organization. We are also part of the Engineers Without Borders UW
Chapter and we truly believe your students could benefit from our
activities, so we were wondering if you could please forward the
following message to your students mailing list.

Thanks in advance.

We are the One Laptop per Child group at the University of Washington.
Our group develops apps for the XO laptop, a simple computer distributed
to schoolchildren in the developing world.  These laptops foster
self-empowered learning and are supplied by the One Laptop per Child
Association.  Our work helps increase the educational, social, and
practical value of these laptops by developing new applications for
them.

Currently we are recruiting for new members. All students regardless of
background or programming experience are welcome to join us. There are
many opportunities available in our group:  visual user-interface
design, application design, learn how to program in Python, improving
programming skills, leadership possibilities, making new friends and
many more!  We’ve already made a Checkers game app, and we are working
on a Geography quiz app.  The next application we make could be your
idea!

On every Monday at 5:30 pm, we are meeting at the Electrical
Engineering Building, room 026. Our first few meetings will have
everyone participating in making a simple little app to get everyone
comfortable and friendly.  People interested in developing will be able
to learn Python from scratch (CSE 142 experience recommended).  People
interested in design will get to practice the process of user-centered
UI design and development.  After the ramp-up period, we’ll start
tackling the real applications we want develop for the year!

See you next Monday 😉

students.washington.edu/olpc

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Magdalena Balazinska <magda@cs.washington.edu>

Research Opportunity

We have a research opportunity for an undergraduate interested in
getting involved in research for at least 2 quarters. The goal of the
project is to experiment with real scientific workloads on a variety
of parallel data processing engines. Pre-requisite is a good grade in
344 (or 444) and familiarity with Linux.

If you are interested, please send your resume and transcript to Prof.
Magda Balazinska magda@cs.washington.edu.

thanks,
magda

Undergraduate research position in computational genomics
http://noble.gs.washington.edu/undergrad.html

One undergraduate research position is available in the lab of William Stafford Noble in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

This project involves developing software for the analysis of patterns in functional genomics data from the ENCODE Project, and analyzing data with this software. This is an extension of the Segway project described at. The researcher will work closely with Dr. Noble and a postdoctoral fellow on this project.

Our research group develops and applies computational techniques for modeling and understanding biological processes at the molecular level. Our research emphasizes the application of statistical and machine learning techniques, such as dynamic Bayesian networks and support vector machines. We apply these techniques to various types of biological data, including DNA and protein sequence data, shotgun proteomics mass spectrometry data, and a variety of high-throughput genomic data types. We also develop and maintain a variety of software to support research in molecular biology. More information is available at.

This is a paid position of 10-40 hours each week. It is also possible for a student to perform some or all of the work for research credit. The researcher may have the opportunity to be a co-author on research papers and to participate in ENCODE Project Consortium activities.

Experience or coursework in programming and strong written and oral communication skills are essential. Unix programming and Python experience are strongly recommended. Knowledge of molecular biology and the R statistical environment are helpful. Please e-mail a letter of interest, attaching a resume and transcript.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please e-mail a letter of interest, attaching a resume and transcript, to Michael Hoffman.

Research night is on the horizon with a tentative date of Nov30. If you’re at all interested in grad school or just research, then stop by and see some of the cool projects that you can work on.