This is a good opportunity for REUs to learn about computing and
present their work.
Xavier
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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
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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
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