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Getting Undergraduates Interested in Computational Science

This presentation by Dr. Angela B. Shiflet at the 2013 SC Regional Cyberinfrastructure Symposium highlights the critical role of computational science in enhancing undergraduate education and career pathways. It discusses valuable research internships, interdisciplinary teamwork, and the practical applications of computational methods across various fields. The emphasis on real-world problem solving through computational techniques prepares students for significant contributions to science and engineering, making it a crucial part of modern education at Wofford College.

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Getting Undergraduates Interested in Computational Science

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  1. Getting Undergraduates Interested in Computational Science Angela B. Shiflet, Ph.D. Wofford College SC Regional Cyberinfrastructure Symposium February 12, 2013

  2. Research internships invaluable • Interdisciplinary teamwork on large problems • Can make significant contributions • New ideas, techniques, applications • Contacts • Other areas of country/world • Enhance classroom experience • Leverage for future http://www.wofford.edu/computationalscience/

  3. How can we help?

  4. Require • Wofford’s Emphasis in Computational Science • Bachelor of Science • 5 courses • Programming and Problem Solving • Data Structures • Calculus I • Data and Visualization or HPC or Bioinformatics • Modeling and Simulation • Summer internship involving computation in the sciences

  5. Don't wait 'til the last minute! • NIH-funded research project in bioinformatics at U. of SC • Wrote programs to study evolution of bacterial genomes • Mentor delighted • Biomedical engineering MS • Medical school

  6. NSF REU • Virginia Commonwealth U. NSF REU • Bioinformatics & Bioengineering Summer Institute • Center for the Study of Biological Complexity • Trypanosoma cruzi (T. cruzi) • Causes Chagas’ disease • 14 million people are affected • Multi-scale, high performance computational model of lifecycle • “Wet” and “dry” lab teams

  7. NSF REU • Junior Summer Abroad Program internship at the University of Vienna Austria • Computational chemistry • Graduate school • NC State • "Sensitivity analysis tool for Pfizer for research of biological systems pathways" • ORNL SULI Program • "Modeling Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy" • SAS • Analytics

  8. ORNL RAMS Program • Who are you??? • Computational physics • MS • Research Professional-Engineering Physics • Modeling metabolic pathways • Research in heart development • Medical school • Biomedical research • Modeling bone • Modeling heart • Modeling the electrical grid • Ph.D.

  9. DOE Labs • Pacific Northwest National Lab • Even as first-year student • Universität Mainz Nuclear Chemistry Department • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  10. NASA Labs - SCSGC • Goddard Space Flight NASA Academy • NASA Ames • Bioinformatics • SC Space Grant Palmetto Academy • Genes Regulating Elastogenesis • St. Jude Research Hospital • JPL • Mars Rover Operations • NSF Fellowship – Columbia U. • Modeling cloth movement • Disney, Weta, NYU Courant Inst.

  11. Blue WatersUPEP Interns MS SPAWAR - Space and Naval War Communications Command in Charleston National Institute for Computational Sciences – UT/ORNL Supercomputers http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/wp-content/uploads/Kraken1.jpg Graduate school at Carnegie Mellon

  12. "Go-Getter" • Genetic epidemiology at Greenwood Genetic Center • Developed Perl program to automate linkage analysis on disease genes • Created database on diets of Honduran women • Used SAS (Statistical Analysis System) to examine relationship between diet and birth defects

  13. "Go-Getter" • SIAM Minisymposium on Undergrad Research • Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard • National Institutes of Health • NIH research fellowship, then Ph.D. in genetics • Finding genetic associations with obesity • Perl programs • Database to store our genotypes • Work with many software programs • Research Triangle High School • STEM charter high school • $512K NSF grant

  14. "Go-Getter" • Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory • "Blown out of the water" • Defense mechanisms of cuttlefish • NIH • Post-baccalaureate NIH Research Fellow in the Biomedical Research Services Section • Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization • Computational environmental research masseffect.wikia.com

  15. Networking for other opportunities • Wadsworth Center, NY Dept. of Health, HHMI • Mechanism of protein synthesis • Nat’l Center for Biotechnology in Madrid • NIH • Medical school spain.info

  16. Contacts • EPA • Juiz de Fora University, Brazil • Heart visualization • U. of Bath, England • Impact of Economic Constraints on a Chlamydia trachomatis Screening Program • Fellowship MD/Ph.D. • U. of Washington • Milliken Corp. skyscrapercity.com commons.wikimedia.org

  17. Impact on Lab's research • Dept. of Bioengineering, U. of CA, San Diego • Direction of heart research • Greenwood Genetic Center • Hire 2-3 people to pursue research californiaposted.com

  18. Present work afterwards • Wofford • Conferences • SIAM • SIAM CSE • JMM • Supercomputing • Cyberinfrastructure Symposium • National conferences in subject areas • Professional papers • SIURO

  19. Impact on students • Jobs • GE, ORNL, EPA, NIH, SAS, NICS • Graduate and medical schools • Fellowships • Life changing • Molecular Graphics Lab., Scripps Research Inst.

  20. NASA JPL • Help with application • Asteroid • Ph.D. in astrophysics • Applied Physics Lab, John Hopkins U. • Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group • "more than any other experience it was those summer internships that pointed me toward a career in planetary science"

  21. Websites • NSF REU • http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/reu_search.cfm • State Space Grant Consortium • Funding for research on-campus & at NASA labs • http://prosper.cofc.edu/~scsgrant/scholar/overview.html • DoE Labs • ORNL RAMS Program • http://computing.ornl.gov/internships/rams/ • SIAM • http://www.siam.org/careers/internships.php • ACM • http://jobs.acm.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=1603

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