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Applications open for HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award Lecturer

October 22, 2012 By

The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is now accepting applications for an award for preparing an outstanding set of three pedagogical lectures on a subject at the interface of the physical and biomedical sciences.  These lectures will be given at the Quantitative Biology Bootcamp, January 26, through January 27, 2013.  The award consists of a cash prize of $2,000.

Any graduate student or postdoctoral research associate currently at Brandeis is eligible to apply.  The application packet should consist of short  curriculum vitae and a one page outline of the three lectures.  QB faculty will work with the successful applicant in preparing the lectures.  Applications should be submitted to Jen Scappini, (jscappin at brandeis dot edu). Due date will be discussed at meeting.

An information session for potential applicants will be held on Friday, October 26th, 9:30-10:00 in Kosow 207

A list of past winners and links to their lecture presentations can be found at http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/quantbio/interdisciplinary.html

 

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Quantitative Biology Bootcamp 2012

January 25, 2012 By

What do dinosaur DNA, calculating the global amount of carbon dioxide consumed in photosynthesis, and cooperation and cheating between yeast cells have in common?  They were all topics discussed at the sixth annual Quantitative Biology Bootcamp, held on the Brandeis campus January 12 and 13.

At the bootcamp, more than 40 Ph.D. students and faculty participated in lectures, discussions, and computational projects using both computers and pencil-on-paper approaches.  The Brandeis Quantitative Biology Program is a unique “add-on” graduate program open to students in all six of the natural sciences Ph.D. programs at Brandeis.  The main goal of the program is to train students to work effectively as a part of research teams that span the boundaries of traditional scientific disciplines.  To this end, Quantitative Biology students participate in both courses and out-of-classroom activities, like the Bootcamp, that highlight the diverse approaches to scientific problems taken by scientists from different disciplines.

A central feature of this year’s Bootcamp were the lectures and computer laboratory exercise presented by Jeffrey Boucher, a student in the Biochemistry Ph.D. program and the winner of Quantitative Biology Program’s 2012 HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award.  Boucher’s presentations described mathematical techniques and experimental methods that can be used to understand the processes of biological evolution by reconstructing genes and proteins present in the long-extinct progenitors of present animal, plant and microbial species. Prospective graduate students and others interested in learning more about Brandeis Quantitative Biology can consult the program’s web site at http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/quantbio/index.html
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Quantitative Biology Lecture Prize

October 14, 2011 By

The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from Howard Huges Medical Institute, is now soliciting applications for an award for preparing an outstanding set of three pedagogical lectures on a subject at the interface of the physical and biomedical sciences.  These lectures will be given at the Quantitative Biology Boot camp, January 12, through Friday, January 13, 2012.  The award consists of a cash prize of $2,000.

Any graduate student or postdoctoral research associate currently at Brandeis is eligible to apply.  The application packet should consist of short/ curriculum vitae/ and a one page outline of the three lectures.  QB faculty will work with the successful applicant in preparing the lectures.  Applications should be submitted  to Jen Scappini either by campus mail (MS009), or e-mail (jscappin@brandeis.edu). (Due date will be discussed at the Wednesday, 10.19.11 Meeting).

An information session for potential applicants will be held on Wednesday, October 19th, 2:30-3:00 in Kosow 207.

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Lecture Series in Parallel Computing and CUDA-C

February 9, 2011 By

A new lecture series in practical aspects of Parallel Computing and CUDA-C will kick off on Tuesday, February 22nd. The series will run twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays from 2:30-3:30 pm in Bassine 251, for a total of 12 lectures over six weeks. Lectures will be given by Gianluca Castellani, Ph.D. Research Computing Specialist and HPC Cluster Administrator (Volen Center, LTS, and Physics) and Francesco Pontiggia, Ph. D., Postdoctoral Fellow, (Volen Center and Biochemistry). The series is jointly sponsored by the Volen Center, MRSEC, Physics Dept., and Library and Technology Services.

Tentative Schdule

Lecture 1 :  Why Parallel Programming? Parallel Architectures and Programming Models.
Lecture 2 :  Parallelization Techniques
Lectures 3 – 4 : Programming in a Shared Memory Environment — Introduction to OpenMP
Lecture 5 : CUDA-C fundamentals. Compiler, kernels, host-device data transfer
Lecture 6 : Time execution tuning, catching error and hardware evaluation
Lectures 7 – 8 : GPU memory types
Lectures 9 – 11 : Distributed Memory — MPI Paradigm
Lecture 12 : Using High Performance Parallel Libraries : An Example — Parallel Matrix Inversion.

Notes and Examples will be posted on the HPCC Wiki

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HHMI Interfaces Scholar Award: call for applications

October 1, 2010 By

The Quantitative Biology Program at Brandeis University, supported by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is now soliciting applications for an award for preparing an outstanding set of three pedagogical lectures on a subject at the interface of the physical and biomedical sciences. These lectures will be given at the Quantitative Biology Bootcamp, Sunday, Jan 16, through Monday, Jan 17, 2011.  The award consists of a cash prize of $2,000.

Any graduate student or postdoctoral research associate currently at Brandeis is eligible to apply. The application packet should consist of short curriculum vitae and a one page outline of the three lectures. QB faculty will work with the successful applicant in preparing the lectures.  Applications should be submitted before Friday, November 5, to Trisha Murray, either by campus mail (MS009), or e-mail (pmurray@brandeis.edu).

*An information session for potential applicants will be held on Friday October 8, Kosow Conference Room 207, 2:30-3:30 pm.

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