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SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) Interns
"Show Their Stuff" at Poster Session SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer Center) Student Intern Poster Presentation Summer 2000. EdCenter on Computational Science and Engineering was proud to participate in NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and SDSC (San Diego Supercomputer) Student Intern Poster Presentation. Please read more about this event in article we reprinted from NPACI & SDSC Online Magazine (text by Nicole Batchelor, SDSC student intern; photographs by Jeff Sale and Zarko Petrovic). |
Bringing Bioinformatics to Biology Education: A Hands-on Workshop to Develop Labs for Introductory and Advanced Courses Biology Workbench Workshop, July 28-30, 2000 at San Diego State University, is discussed in NPACI Online article
NPACI Participants Invited to Present at SIAM First Conference on Computational Science and Engineering on September 21-24, 2000
Computational Chemistry, Graphics & Visualization and the Connectedness of the Internet, SDSC Lab part of the General Atomic(GA) Plasma Institute 2000 June 28, 2000. This presentation from Dr. R. Steckler, Dr. M. Bailey and Dr. K. Stewart discussed in NPACI Online article. For more details please check the agenda for copies of the presentations.
NPACI Online
article describing SDSC's Tom Perrine to Speak at SDSU on Computer Security
in Academic Environment on April 27th, 2000.
Meanwhile, Award
Presentation to the winners of Computational
Science Olympics will be held .
NPACI Online articles about the proceedings for the third annual NPACI All-Hands Meeting (AHM), held February 8-12, 2000.
Presentation
at the SITE2000
Dr. Kris Stewart and Dr. Ilya Zaslavsky made a presentation (the slides
and paper)at the conference SITE2000
-Society For Information Technology& Teacher Education which is organized
by AACE -Association for the Advancement
of Computing in Education on Feb 8-12, 2000.
News for 1999
Prof. Shankar Subramaniam visited
the Ed Center
Prof. Shankar Subramaniam presented a Computational
Sciences Seminar on Friday, Nov. 5th 1999 at SDSU. Dr. Kris Stewart
hosted a luncheon for him prior to his seminar in the afternoon and toured
him around campus and at the EdCenter.
NPACI Online
article summarizing EOT-PACI Leaders Panel's discussion on Computational
Science Education at Educause '99
Educause99 paper online: Stewart, Roscoe Giles and Ilya Zaslavsky
submitted a paper to Educause 99 proceedings to complement the panel presentation
on Friday 10/29/99. For detail, look at the Dr.
Kris Stewart's slides of presentation (
html version ) and Prof.
Roscoe Giles' ( html version
) and
Prof. Ilya Zaslavsky's (
html version ).
NPACI Online
article describing EOT-PACI Leaders to hold a panel Discussion on
Computational Science Education at the Educause '99 conference . The program,
titled "Super-Partnerships: Computational Science Curricula, High Performance
Computing, and the Professional," will take place on Friday, Oct. 29.
Building on SDSU's high-speed computer network connection to Internet2,
the EC/CSE hosted
Carlos Casasus Director of CUDI
from Mexico City, cover in NPACI
Online, Sept. 9, 1999. If you would like more background on CUDI,
in English, please examine the
Internet2 Profile from the Internet
2 page from the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development,
UCAID
NPACI Online article
giving some information about Sociology WorkBench which is available on
the Web, with a collection of online resources including analysis tools,
datasets, sociology research, results of public surveys, discussion groups,
and pointers to professional organizations. NPACI
Online.
NPACI Online
article describing the new fiber-optic data network tests at San
Diego State University, showing transfer of a 411MB file in less than
9sec.
July 23, 1999,
Silkroad Laser/Internet technology successful test at SDSU. San Diego
Union/Tribune article. Note: this daily newspaper keeps its contents
online, but requires that you register. This is a free service
of the Union/Tribune, but warning - you will be prompted for your login/password.
You can register
online and then be able to see the article. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Ed Center Offers
Scientific Workshop to CSU Faculty
NPACI Online article describing the Ed Center's June 1999 scientific workshop
to share ideas on how new technologies can be incorporated by CSU faculty
into their undergraduate curricula.
Lecturing over the Web:
traditional tools in the new environment. The SDSU Journal for Learning
Enhancement encourages research into teaching paradigms and promotes collaboration
by faculty through this peer-reviewed journal. The recent publication
of the Zaslavsky and Stewart
article documents research at the EC/CSE on distance learning on a modest
budget. This is published in "Volume 2, Innovation in Teaching: Experimentation
and Assessment" of the online journal at SDSU.
Minisymposium on
Super-Partnerships
An extended discussion on Computational Science Curricula, High Performance
Computing, by Dr. Kris Stewart, Dr.Geoffrey Fox, Dr. Roscoe C. Giles,
Dr. Michael T. Heath and SIAM [Society for Industrial and Applied
Math.], Atlanta, May 1999. Participants'
Presentations/Slides
Open House at the Ed Center
Ed Center participates in Open House for incoming students (and their
parents) at San Diego State University on March 13, 1999. See some pictures
from that day.
PREP Teachers Visit
Ed Center February 19, 1999
Houston teachers visit Ed Center and SDSC to explore innovative use of
technology that might enhance disadvantaged students in middle high school.
Microsoft
Case Study
When Ilya Zaslavsky, Ph. D., an assistant professor of geography on leave
from Western Michigan University (WMU) needed to teach a class remotely
from San Diego, California, he teamed up with Microsoft® NetMeeting®
conferencing software. Not only did NetMeeting provide two-way audio and
video conferencing to simulate a traditional classroom setting, but its
shared white board, shared applications, and chat window supported real-time
Web-based instruction.
AAHE CSU Preconference
on Baccalaureate Ed. in the CSU
Stewart was invited present a short description of activities
of the EC/CSE as part of the Presentation of Exemplar Activities
in the CSU Campuses Harbor Island Sheraton, San Diego, Jan. 22, 1999
News for 1998
Building Infrastructure ... (Stewart & Zaslavsky) presentation at SC98, Orlando, FL, Nov. 12, 1998 online paper
Scientific Visualization in the Classroom (Emigh & Zaslavsky) presentation at SC98, Orlando, FL, Nov. 12, 1998
STEP Teachers Reunite
at SDSC: On September 19, 1998, STEP teachers reunited for a morning
of reminiscing and camaraderie with Kris Stewart--former STEP program
director--at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
The June 10, 1998 Webmagazine Online describes the NPACI Ed Center: A Growing National Community
The premiere issue of ENVISION magazine features the Ed Center. ENVISION is the new Science Magazine from NPACI and SDSC, the successor to Gather/Scatter (January-March 1998)
SDSU Added to National Science Foundation's High-Speed Internet (2/26/98) SDSU Office of Communication
NPACI Partners Approved for Connection to NSF's vBNS UCSD,San Diego State University, Montana State University, and Washington University in St. Louis Brings Number of NPACI vBNS Connections to 20. ( March 4, 1998)
SDSU's College of Sciences recognizes the EdCenter as one of the 1997-98 Points of Excellence.
News for 1997
EdCenter forms industrial partnership with the Math Works developer of the popular MATLAB software suite for data analysis,visualization, and modeling
NPACI Online featured the Ed. Center in its inaugural issue
Text submitted to CSU ITL newsletter "Exchanges", Fall'97:
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