CSE Undergrad News

In connection with next Thursday’s talk, some special staging and lighting will be placed in the Atrium on Wednesday.  Apologies for the disruption.

We know that a lot of courses are full. At this point there isn’t much that can be done. We’ll see how things fall out over the next week or two, and we’ll send notice when we open the overload request form. We’ll likely open it late next week. Until then, please be patient, we’ll do everything we can to find more room. If you’re holding onto classes you’ll likely drop, please do your classmates a favor and drop them as soon as possible. Thank you

CSE Advising

From: Ed Lazowska
Date: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:16 AM
Subject: Video interviewing today
To: Faculty , Staff , Cs-Grads , Cs-Ugrads

There will be a small video crew in the Atrium at about 2:00 today, conducting very short (one-sentence) interviews with random passersby. The responses will be edited into a short video that will be used as part of a talk here next week. We cleared these folks to do this, so don’t be alarmed, and please play along if they approach you. Thanks!

Tonight, Tuesday, February 23rd
6:00pm Hack U™ Kickoff
Join Paul Tarjan and the whole Yahoo! crew.
Learn everything you need to know to participate
in the competition. Plus get in on Hack examples
and tips, a raffle, T-shirts and dinner!
Location: Paul G Allen Atrium

Wednesday, February 24th
6:00pm Guest Lecture
Douglas Crockford: JavaScript—The Good Parts
Location: EE 105

Thursday, February 25th
6:00pm Open Tech Night Dinner
YUI3 with Eric Miraglia
Location: Paul G Allen Atrium

Friday, February 26th
3:00pm Official 24-hour Hack Competition Kickoff
Let the Hacking begin! Ongoing talks, food, music,
games, raffle prizes and fun throughout the day
and night.
Location: Base Camp 6th floor commons

Saturday, February 27th
3:00pm Hack Demos, Judging and Awards
Show off your Hack for a chance to win prizes including
Netbooks, iPods, headphones, Thinkgeek.com gift
certificates and, of course, the grand-prize trip to the
Open Hack Showdown in California.
Location: Paul G Allen Atrium

The stat 391 course finally moved. It may not show on the time schedule yet, but you should be able to register now. It’s new time is T/TH 1230-220

What: 2010 IEEE Humanitarian Workshop

When: Today, February 18, 2010 from 6:00 to 8:30pm

Where: EEB 125

The objective of the seminar is to create awareness among engineering students and young professionals on how they can use their skills and knowledge to aid humanitarian work. At the same time, we aim to leverage on the seminar to encourage engineers to be personally involved in humanitarian projects.

Highlights:
* Interesting Keynote Speeches
* Connect with project leaders
* Question and Answer session
* Networking
* Food provided by Jim Johns

Thank you!
Josh Scotland

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: “Marya Dominik” <maryad@u.washington.edu>
Date: Jan 21, 2010 8:04 AM
Subject: [Escience_bbl] New course on High-Performance Scientific Computing coming, Spring Quarter
To: “bb Brown Bag” <escience_bbl@u.washington.edu>

From: Randy LeVeque <rjl@uw.edu>
Date: Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Subject: New course on High-Performance Scientific Computing coming
Spring Quarter
To: amath-current@amath.washington.edu


I will be teaching a new course *Spring Quarter* 2010 on High-Performance
Scientific Computing, appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate
students.  It is intended to be a broad-brush survey course as described
further below, for students who have had some programming experience.

Please help spread the word about this course.  Feel free to contact me
with suggestions for the course as well, since it is still in the planning
stage.

A pdf version of this announcement suitable for posting can be found
on the webpage
  http://www.amath.washington.edu/~rjl/hpsc10.html
where there is also a pointer to the seminar on this topic we ran last spring
as a warmup to this class, which may give more idea of the intended level.

Thanks,
 Randy LeVeque

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NEW COURSE --- SPRING QUARTER 2010

Applied Mathematics 483/583
High-Performance Scientific Computing

Instructor: Prof. Randy LeVeque
Time: Spring Quarter 2010, MWF 8:30am (tentative), EDGE Classroom TBA
Webpage: http://www.amath.washington.edu/~rjl/hpsc10.html

This class will cover a selection of topics in high-performance computing
(HPC), briefly introducing many of the issues that arise when solving
large scale computational problems in science and engineering. In
particular, the following topics will be touched on:

 - Computer languages and issues affecting the choice of language, e.g.
  compiled vs. interpreted, procedural vs. object oriented.

 - Programming in Fortran 95 and Python/Sage as representative languages
  (prior programming experience in some language is a prerequisite!)

 - Computer architecture issues relevant to HPC, e.g., cache and memory
  hierarchies, shared vs. distributed memory, vector pipelines, GPUs, parallel
  computers from multicore laptops to supercomputers with 100,000+ cores.

 - Languages for parallel computing, in particular MPI and OpenMP.

 - Tools for managing large computer programs, e.g., makefiles, debuggers,
  version control systems such as Mercurial or Subversion.  Best practices for
  reproducible research.

 - Dealing with large datasets arising from computation or scientific
  observations.

 - Graphics and visualization of scientific data.

This is a lot of material to cover in one quarter.  The emphasis will
be on seeing key concepts, getting started using a variety of tools, and
becoming familiar with the documentation and online resources available
for further learning.  Homework assignments will involve using many of
these tools.  Other courses, such as CSE 524 (Parallel Algorithms), go
into more details of some aspects of this class and would be a natural
next step.

Prior programming experience is required, at the level of CSE 142,
AMath 301, or AMath 481/581.  Students should be comfortable installing
software on their own computers and/or using ssh for remote access
to linux machines.  Assistance and documentation will be available
(including an introduction to linux/unix), but students averse to
exploring new software and overcoming the frustrations that typically
accompany this will probably not enjoy the class.

Some background in linear algebra at the level of Math 308 or AMath
352 is recommended.  Linear algebra is the basis for much of scientific
computing and we will study examples related to matrix multiplication
and solving linear systems in particular.

-- 
Marya Dominik
Administrative Specialist
eScience Institute
Box 359562
UW Tower O2-153
206.221.0778

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Just as a heads up, stat 391 the stat for CSE majors course is likely moving to T/TH 1230-220 for spring quarter. Right now it’s listed as meeting M, T, W, and Th.

Keep checking the time schedule for the change to become official. We’ll let you know if we hear of anything different.