In case anyone knows a student that may be interested in this.
Begin forwarded message: > > 1st Announcement: > SPI GRID Summer Workshop > June 21-25, 2004, > Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy > The University of Texas at Brownsville, > Brownsville, Texas > > Dear Colleagues, > > We wish to bring to your attention the following opportunity > for graduate and undergraduate students. > > The Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CGWA), a NASA > University Research Center at the University of Texas at Brownsville, > the Grid Physics Network (GriPhyN) and the International Virtual > Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL) will sponsor a one-week intensive > Summer Workshop program in Grid computing and its application > in scientific data analysis. > > The aim of the school will be to give the students a basic > foundation in distributed computing, and valuable hands-on training > in computing techniques. The workshop introduces essential skills > that will be needed by students in the natural and applied sciences, > engineering, and computer science to conduct and support scientific > analysis in the emerging Grid computing environment. > > Undergraduate or graduate students in CS, Physics, Math or other > sciences may apply. Applicants should have at least intermediate > programming skills (one to two semesters of hands-on experience in > C/C++, Java, Perl, and/or Python) and hands-on experience with UNIX > or Linux. > > The school's Scientific Organizing Committee consists of scientists > from CGWA, GriPhyn and iVDGL. Workshop participants will work > with some of the world's leading experts in Grid computing, through a > blend of lectures, discussions,and hands-on computing exercises > on large-scale Grid hardware and software resources. > > The curriculum will cover: > * Overview of distributed computing concepts and tools > * Concepts, tools, and techniques of Grid computing > * Discovering and using Grid resources > * Grid work scheduling and data management > * Web-service and Grid-service concepts > * Tracking, managing and sharing data and applications > * Techniques for collaboration > > Full scholarship (travel, accommodation, and per diem) is available > for students with US citizenship, subject to evaluation of their > application. Students from Minority Serving Institutions are strongly > encouraged to apply. Limited scholarships will also be made available > for > non US citizen students in exceptional cases. > > The school will take place at the University of Texas facility on > South Padre Island (off the coast of the Gulf of Mexico) from June > 21 to 25, 2004. > > The deadline of application is May 1, 2004. Selected candidates will > be informed by May 15, 2004. > > For more information and an application form, please visit our > web-site, > at http://cgwa.phys.utb.edu, or contact our Student Development > Coordinator, Martha Casquette (Phone: 956 574 6765 or 6690, > Fax : 956 574 6726). > > > > > --
