On sabbatical leave Fall 1992. In Spring 1993, received
full-time NSF funding to begin work with high school computational
science program (STEP = Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program).
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Currently receive half time support during the academic year
1994/95 as well as 1995/96 from the San Diego Supercomputer Center to
allow me to continue my participation in curriculum development in
scientific computing. I represent SDSC at national meetings,
with the provision that I am listed SDSU first, SDSC second.
SAC Snowmass
Panelist at the Seminar
for Academic Computing (SAC) at Snowmass, Colorado, in August,
1995 to speak on "Is High Performance Computing Appropriate
for Undergraduate Education?". My answer is a very strong
YES .
CSU
I have worked with many of the faculty in the College of Sciences
at SDSU to promote curriculum development in computational science.
I have been working with Dr. Bruce Hillam at Cal Poly Pomona to
promote computational science through the CSU system. Bruce distributed
a summary of Supercomputing '94 which pointed out several of my
own activities in this area.
SciCADE95
Invited to sponsor a minisymposium at the Scientific
Computing and Differential Equations (SciCADE95) International
Conference at Stanford University, March 1995. The panel
consisted of Dr. R.C. Allen (Sandia Labs), Dr. Tom Marchioro
(Ames Labs), Chuck Swanson (Cray Research), Dr. Dan Sulzbach
(Genetech Corporation) and Dr. Gary Johnson (George Mason University).
These respected speakers from the bio-tech field, the
government labs and academia spoke on what they expect of students that
they hire to work in computational science.
SIAM VLP
I was invited to be a participant in the Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Visiting Lecturer Program in 1992.
I have given several talks and continue
to be a part of this program. The most recent invitation was to
visit the University of Houston-Downtown.
SDSC Steering Committee
I represent San Diego State University on the San Diego
Supercomputer Center Steering committee. The Steering Committee
has a representative from each the 27 member institutions and is the
mechanism for SDSC to receive significant input from the academic
community. This committee meets quarterly.
NSF funds SUE (Supercomputing and Undergraduate Education)
Undergraduate Curriculum Development in Advanced
Computing, NSF/DASC Research Grant with Dan Sulzbach (PI),
San Diego Supercomputer Center, 1990-93 ($79,833).