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IEEE LANNM Section 2008 Activities and Student Opportunities

Explore the achievements and initiatives of the IEEE LANNM Section in 2008, including technical talks, scholarships, collaboration with LANL, and student internship opportunities. Learn about student activities, funding options, and the potential for collaborations with other sections.

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IEEE LANNM Section 2008 Activities and Student Opportunities

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  1. Section Report Los Alamos/Northern New Mexico Section ChairDavid Izraelevitz Presentation Hanna Makaruk Oct.18, 2008 Albuquerque, NM Southwest Area Fall Meeting

  2. LANNM 2008 Section Leadership Teri Roberts, Region 6  SouthWest  Area Outstanding Leadership Award. Executive • David Izraelevitz, Chair • John Zoltai, Vice-Chair • Robert Owczarek, Secretary • Teri Roberts, Treasurer Committees • John Zoltai, Electronic Communications • Hanna Makaruk, Student Activities • Teri Roberts, Membership Development • Tom Tierney, Awards and Recognition Active Chapters • Hanna Makaruk, Chair, Computer Society, CS Chapter, 153 members • Stephen Gilbert, Chair, Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, LEOS Chapter, 27 members • Tom Tierney, Chair, Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society NPSS Chapter, 89 members

  3. Membership Status 493 } 7 Fellows • 298 Active Members • 3 Life Fellows • 4 Fellows • 12 Life Senior Members • 36 Senior Members • 25 Life Members • 172 Members • 20 Associate Members • 22 Affiliate Members • 4 Student Members • 126 Inactive members • 11 Applicants • 58 Arrears Members }48 Senior Members

  4. Specifics of LANM Section • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is the largest local employer and home of the Road Runner Supercomputer with petaflop capabilities • No major technical campus • No IEEE Students’ Branch • LANNM Section is hosting students associated with other Sections

  5. 2008 Activities • Membership Development • Continued Senior grade upgrade program • Review possible local member nomination to Fellow grade • Active Promotion of IEEE certification program: CSDP (3 new certifications ‘08) • Collaboration with LANL • Hold technical talks accessible to LANL employees • Co-sponsorship of colloquium speakers with LANL • Technical talk series • Lunchtime technical talks on roughly monthly schedule • Spring dinner meetings, with an invited speaker • Continued collaboration with local ASME chapter on topics of joint interest • Community Activities • Funding a scholarship for high school students interested in engineering • Collaboration with LANL Bradbury Science Museum on preparation of Computers’ History Exposition • Spring talk on cybercrime and identity theft • Science fair judging, demonstrations • Summer Members’ family fun picnic

  6. Students Activities in 2008 • IEEE held information table at LANL Students’ picnic July 2008 • Plan to continue to promote IEEE at Los Alamos Students Annual picnic • One of the Section technical speakers was a UNM student • Nikita Sakhanenko, presenting his PhD thesis “COSMOS: A Context-Sensitive Probabilistic Modeling System” • March 25, 2008 

  7. Students-Related Opportunities • IEEE Section can serve as a matchmaker between university professors sending students for an internship or graduate research to LANL and local members who want to mentor students at LANL • Successful student’s internship requires: • Well defined project, relevant to both academia research, and to LANL work • Well prepared, highly motivated student (internships are challenging) • Funding • Types of funding for LANL student internship • LANL project funding - the most popular pathway • Project is usually disconnected from student’s thesis and advisor’s research • Competitive candidate selection (programming skills are important) • NSF-funded Los Alamos Summer School for undergraduate students • Two-three months summer program ½ lectures ½ mini-project • Collaborative grant between LANL and a University • Multiple funding pathways possible • Project typically becomes student’s thesis • Possibly a starting point for more extensive collaboration • Student’s visit funded by advisor’s project • Mentors rarely have adequate time for supervision of a project disconnected from their own work

  8. Summary • Main LANNM section’s activities in 2008: technical talks, high school scholarship, and promotion of CSDP certification • Students activities tailored to the specifics of the LANNM Section • We are seeking collaboration with other sections in coordination of student internships.

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