Pats on the Back:
-Two students in the new undergraduate concentration in computational mathematics at LSU were recently awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. Rachael Keller will begin her graduate studies in Columbia University's Applied Physics and Applied Math Program in the fall, and Bruno Beltran will begin his graduate studies in Systems Biology at Stanford University in the fall.
-Susanne Brenner gave a Distinguished Research Seminar at the Missouri University of Science and Technology on April 10. She was also one of the plenary speakers at The 1st Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section that was held at the Missouri S&T campus on April 11-12.
News Highlights:
-The Board of Regents approved the Digital Media Arts & Engineering Master’s Program.
http://sites01.lsu.edu/wp/broadcasts/2015/04/27/digital-media-arts-engineering-masters-program/
-LSU Ranked 14th Best Public Animation Program in the Nation by Animation Career Review.
http://www.lsu.edu/ur/ocur/lsunews/MediaCenter/News/2015/04/item76218.html
Please Note:
-Red Stick needs volunteers for this year’s festival schedule May 28-31. For more information, please contact Lea Anne Landry at leaanne@cct.lsu.edu - use this form http://goo.gl/forms/a4u2tguoTN or go to https://redstickfestival.org/ for more information.
-Special meal requests must be approved prior to the event. In order to allow for sufficient administrative processing time, special meal requests must be submitted at least 14 business days prior to the event.
-On November 7, 2014, Governor Jindal issued Executive Order BJ 14-16 that directed executive branch agencies including higher education to cease spending in support (non-personnel) categories. In response, LSU has developed operating guidelines to meet the spirit of the order through June 30, 2015 in support of the state budget. These guidelines apply only to expenditures using State appropriated funds that are included in the University's 2014-15 Operating Budget and so identified with a zero (0) in the sixth digit of the account number.
-Upcoming LSU holiday: Friday, July 3rd (4th of July)
-If you are not receiving CCT Event emails and would like to be added to the list, please email jennifer@cct.lsu.edu.
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Upcoming Events:
May 29- 31: Red Stick FutureFest 2015
May 31- June 3: New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) Conference
June 1-3: LONI HPC Parallel Programming Workshop
June 4: Intel Xeon Phi Workshop
June 15- 19: Girls Rock! - Sound Engineering Camp 2015
June 22- 26: Alice in Computation Land Summer Camp 2015
July 6- 10: Beowulf Boot Camp 2015
July 13- 17: Gamecrash - Adventures in Game Design Camp 2015
July 13- 17: Baton Rouge Energy Venture Camp 2015
July 20- 24: PyFUN Programming Summer Camp 2015
July 27- 31: Programming Music Summer Camp 2015
January 29- 31, 2016: Global Game Jam 2016
Publish Date:
05-12-2015
