This is a good opportunity for REUs to learn about computing and present their work. Xavier ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rosalind Reid <rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 4:41 PM Subject: Let's talk computing (and eat pizza) To: Rosalind Reid <rosreid(a)gmail.com> Hello all, I'm writing as the executive director of Harvard's Institute for Applied Computational Science. IACS is a SEAS organization that is building a curriculum, degree programs and community at Harvard focused on computational science and engineering. On behalf of all of us at IACS, I'd like to invite all undergraduates doing computational summer projects, and their mentors as available, to some informal gatherings to talk about computing. We've done this in recent summers (a couple of you have participated!). Everyone enjoyed the chance to share their summer projects with other students interested in computational approaches and also to meet mentors--grad students and postdocs from other groups. You might find a hacker in another lab who can help you with a troublesome chunk of code! It's also a chance for you to meet some of the people engaged in research and academic programs at IACS, practice discussing your project with peers and learn more about graduate-school opportunities involving computation here at Harvard. I'd like to plan three Friday lunch get-togethers, as follows: July 5: Getting acquainted. Just a chance to go around the table, share what you're working on, and explore connections between the work of other groups. July 19: (1) Thinking about grad school and careers; (2) a short info session on Harvard's new graduate program in computational science and engineering; (3) some short project presentations. July 26: More short project presentations. Aug. 2: Optional additional lunch if there are remaining presenters and if people want to get together. Each confab will start at noon on Friday in Northwest Building B150. We'll order pizza and beverages. So that we can have enough food and get reminders out to you, please RSVP using this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1C6obmCDPrdtDxJBQztFvnFDlXyYmIXmqjQD1gMfFNP… Please feel free to forward this note to other undergraduates doing summer computational projects on campus, and to your mentor. I look forward to seeing you on the 5th! Ros Reid ----------------- Rosalind Reid Executive Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/people rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu | 617-384-9091