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Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022 – Registration is NOW OPEN!

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To whom it may concern,

RURS is a celebration of undergraduate research accomplishment at Rice designed to connect students with their communities and put research in context. This year, the 20th Anniversary of RURS will take place on Friday, April 15, 2022. The event provides opportunities for researchers to dialogue with and receive feedback from scholars, professionals, and advocates to develop an understanding of the purpose as well as the quality of research at Rice. Entrants may also opt to be considered for recognition of research merit in addition to receiving qualitative feedback from evaluators.

This year, the event hosts three categories for research presentation.

  1. Exhibition Sessions (No Mentor Approval Required): students at all levels of research will elect a theme and use visual and oral communication to give a five-minute “lightning talk” that adopts creative mediums to illustrate their research that encapsulates that theme. Attendees will vote for their favorite, with winners announced at the closing reception. Themes include topics like climate, health of the mind & body, justice & dignity, and more!
  2. Poster Sessions (Mentor Approval Required): provides a platform for sharing research, at any stage, with the broader Rice community in two one-hour sessions. Students need mentor approval to apply, and will be evaluated by attendees for the opportunity to be recognized as a top presenter at the closing reception.
  3. Shapiro Showcase (Nomination Required): features 10-minute research talks from 16 nominated competitors across the disciplines. One winner will be selected through judge evaluations and announced at the closing reception.

To register, students must respond to a brief questionnaire and submit an abstract for their research by 11:59 PM on Thursday, March 10. Student participants can find the application and further instructions here: https://tinyurl.com/rurs2022.

The Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry in collaboration with the Program for Writing and Communication are hosting workshops to help students prepare for registration:

  1. Thursday 2/17 (HRZ 210) & Wednesday 2/23 (Farnsworth Pavilion) 4-5pm: The “How to Write an Abstract” workshop supports undergraduate students writing an abstract for the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS). During the workshop, students will develop a strong understanding of abstract expectations and begin writing their draft.
  2. Thursday 3/3 (McMurtry PDR) 4-5pm: In the “Peer Review for Abstracts” workshop, students registering for the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium (RURS) can participate in a guided peer review session, in which they will revise abstracts for content and style.

For more information, please check the RURS website or email rurs@rice.edu. We look forward to celebrating the outstanding and diverse research carried out by Rice undergraduates!

Sincerely,

Brittney Espinoza ’22
RURS 2022 Co-Chair

Aman Eujayl ’23
RURS 2022 Co-Chair

Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022
Rice University | April 15, 2022
rurs@rice.edu
ouri.rice.edu/rurs

Brittney Espinoza ’22
RURS 2022 Co-Chair

Aman Eujayl ’23
RURS 2022 Co-Chair

Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022
Rice University | April 15, 2022
rurs@rice.edu
ouri.rice.edu/rurs

REU opportunity at Louisiana State University

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CCT REU: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences
http://reu.cct.lsu.edu/
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The Center for Computation & Technology (CCT) will host a ten week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program where students work collaboratively on a wide variety of computational science projects. Each student receives a stipend of $6,000, free housing in university dormitories, and up to $600 in travel expenses to and from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Ten students will be selected.

Qualifications:
Undergraduate, community college student, or high school senior attending college in the fall, interested in a major that is within the computational sciences umbrella (leaves out few majors as it includes all sciences, mathematics, engineering, finance, statistics, etc.) with at least a 2.75 GPA, considering a career in research and/or graduate school in your major, being a US citizen or permanent resident, and graduating at least one semester after completion of the REU.

Important Dates:
February 28, 2022: Application deadline.
March 20, 2022: Notification of decision.
May 23, 2022 through July 30, 2022: Program dates.

The research activities of the CCT are organized into five Focus Areas: Core Computing Sciences, Coast to Cosmos, Material World, Cultural Computing, and System Science and Engineering. These are broad, and sometimes overlapping areas where faculty from diverse departments (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Civil Engineering, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computing Engineering, Music, Business, etc.) collaborate in multidisciplinary projects. Our REU students learn how to use some of the nation’s largest supercomputers, may participate in the setup and management of large-scale simulations, and may take on an important role in the analysis and visualization of the simulation results.

For more information and to apply, visit: https://reu.cct.lsu.edu/
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The LSU Center for Computation & Technology, or CCT, is an innovative research environment, advancing computational sciences, technologies and the disciplines they touch. Researchers at CCT use the advanced cyberinfrastructure – high-speed networks, high-performance computing, advanced data storage and analysis and hardware and software development – available on campus to enable research in many different fields. By uniting researchers from diverse disciplines, ideas and expertise are disseminated across LSU departments to foster knowledge and invention. For more information on the CCT, visit: http://www.cct.lsu.edu.

Computational physics summer program

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From:
 Joel Giedt, Program Director
 Professor
 Department of Physics, Applied Physics and Astronomy
 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
We are hosting a boot camp and summer school on computational physics, “Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Training for Modeling Physical Systems at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,” with particular emphasis on applications that require high performance computing, organized here at Rensselaer, June 15 – July 8, 2022 (Troy, NY).  Due to COVID-19 restrictions, this program will most likely be held entirely on-line.  The boot camp and summer school is aimed at advanced undergraduates and all levels of graduate students.  This program is supported by the National Science Foundation.  More information can be found on the following flyer:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d15iiavtse8mx2n/flyer1.pdf?dl=0

We would greatly appreciate it if you could inform students about this unique opportunity.  Those who are interested in applying should go to the following webform to complete the application process:

https://webforms2.rpi.edu/physics-summer-program