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From: T. Daniel Crawford <crawdad(a)vt.edu>
Date: Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:34 PM
Subject: Software Summer School: Application Deadline May 24th
To: "T. Daniel Crawford" <crawdad(a)vt.edu>
Forgive me for sending this a second time, but I've been informed that the
web links I included are stripped away by older email readers. Explicit
URLs are thus included in this version for your convenience.
Best regards,
-Daniel
Dear Colleague:
It is my pleasure to announce that the inaugural Software-Development
Summer School for Computational Chemistry and Materials Modeling will be
held at Virginia Tech July 15-25, 2013.
One of the challenges faced by many Ph.D. programs in computational
chemistry and materials science in the U.S. is the education of new
graduate students in modern programming methods and software development
techniques. Since most undergraduate curricula in chemistry and materials
science provide little training in such vital skills, many research
groups spend considerable time and effort educating incoming graduate
students on an *ad hoc* basis. The purpose of this and future summer
schools is to help our community overcome this obstacle and provide new
students with the sophisticated programming expertise their research
requires.
The software summer school is one component of a much larger effort to
establish a "Sustainable Software Innovation Institute" (S2I2) as part of
the NSF's SI2 program <http://www.nsf.gov/si2/> (
http://www.nsf.gov/si2/).
The Institute will be designed to serve the entire computational chemistry
and material modeling communities (both broadly defined) to develop new
software and extend existing programs. We will provide education,
resources, and expertise in state-of-the-art high-performance computing
hardware (including anticipated exascale systems), and we will help to
develop standards that enable long-term sustainability of our community's
codes. We are currently in the "conceptualization phase" of the institute
that will last until the end of 2014, following which we expect to submit a
full proposal for five (or more) years of funding. You can learn more
about the Institute – including ways that you can get involved – at our
S2I2 website <http://s2i2.org/> (
http://www.s2i2.org/).
The inaugural school will focus on junior-level graduate students in U.S.
research groups with an application deadline of *May 24, 2013*. We expect
a large number of highly competitive applicants, and we plan to admit 15-20
students. *Based on current funding levels, we expect to provide
substantial travel support, including accommodation and meals, for all
participating students.* The confirmed instructors for the school include
the Software Carpentry <http://software-carpentry.org/> (
http://software-carpentry.org/) team as well as Drs. Robert Harrison (Stony
Brook U.), Ross Walker (UCSD), Jeff Hammond (Argonne National Lab), and
David Sherrill (Georgia Tech).
More information and application details may be found at the summer school
website <http://www.s2i2.org/school.php> (
http://www.s2i2.org/school.php).
I hope you will encourage your students to apply and that you will share
this announcement with any colleagues you think might be interested.
If you have questions about the summer school or the burgeoning S2I2
Institute, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
--
Prof. T. Daniel Crawford
crawdad(a)vt.edu
540-231-7760