Pathways
From Education
Introduction to Computational Thinking
Pathways Leader - Bob Panoff
Instructors:
- Bob Panoff
- Stephanie Stevenson
- Clyde Metz
- Susan Ragan
- Others (see the workshop wiki)
Computational Chemistry
Pathways Leader - Shawn Sendlinger
Instructors:
- Shawn Sendlinger
- Clyde Metz
- Victoria Crockett
Computational Engineering
Pathways Leader - Steve Gordon
Instructors (tentative):
- Dr. Steve Gordon - modeling and simulation
- Dr. Ashok Krishnamurthy - signal and image processing
- Dr. Richard Hart - biomedical engineering
- Dr. Dan Warner - numerical methods in MATLAB for mechanical engineering students
- Jim Giuliani - computational fluid dynamics
- Sidharth Samsi - MATLAB (serial and parallel)
Preliminary Software:
- Modeling and Simulation
- Vensim
- Chemical Engineering (SC09 - Portland)
- NAMD
- Gromacs
- Biomedical Engineering
- COMSOL
- Numerical Methods
- MATLAB
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- OpenFOAM
- Java applets
- MATLAB
The following additional topics were discussed as possible candidates, to be decided based on participant surveys. Green engineering applications were discussed as a possible topic of high interest for freshman engineering students.
- Mechanical Engineering
- Bridge structures
- Wind turbine design
- Heat transfer
- Thermal pollution
- Nuclear installations (use Landsat image analysis/processing)
- Newton cooling (determine hottest time of the day)
- Chemical runoff
- Optimization
- Genetic algorithms
- Pandemic modeling
- Statistics
Computational Physics
Pathways Leader - Dave Joiner
Instructors:
- Richard Gass
- Norman Chonacky
- Dave Joiner
- Others (see the workshop wiki)
Computational Biology
Pathways Leader - Jeff Krause
Instructors:
- Jeff Krause
- Ananth Kalyanaraman
- Others (see the workshop wiki)
Parallel Programming and Distributed Computing
Pathways Leader - Charlie Peck
Instructors:
- Charlie Peck
- Tom Murphy
- Kay Wanous
- Andrew Fitz Gibbon
- Henry Neeman
- Aaron Weeden
Computational and Experimental Mathematics
Pathways Leader - Dan Warner
Instructors:
- Dan Warner
- Neil Calkin
Important reference:
"Experimental Mathematics in Action" by Bailey, Borwein, Calkin, Girgensohn, Luke, and Moll.
This book is the outgrowth of the 2006 MAA workshop of the same name.
Pathways Kick-off Meeting at Shodor, April 24-26
- In-town attendees: Bob Panoff, Jeff Krause, Victoria Crockett, Shawn Sendlinger
- Out-of-town attendees: Charlie Peck, Laura McGinnis, Henry Neeman, Susan Ragan, Dan Warner, Steve Stevenson, Dave Joiner, Norman Chonacky, Richard Gass, Stephanie Stevenson, Clyde Metz, Tom Murphy, Paul Gray, Kay Wanous, Jim Guiliani, Steve Gordon, Andrew Fitz Gibbon, Scott Lathrop, Jose d'Arruda, Lisa Bievenue, Leandro Avila Diaz, Kevin Hunter
- Missing: Other Biology and Engineering people
Things to do in Durham
- Instructor and assistant training
- How to do an effective workshop
- Hands-on nature
- Surveys
- Weekly schedule
- Minisessions
- Participant projects
- Workshop - instructor mapping
- On-line/remote delivery and support - one AG and and non-AG (probably OU, Henry will check) See the Weekly Telecon page for additional notes. Also see note from Arkansas about the tool they use.
- Review evaluation report
- Organize HASS effort, talk to Bob about local people.
- After lunch Saturday 3 hour disciplinary breakout sessions
- On-line content - surveys, Moodle, wiki (Kay)
- How to support software, USB drive with BCCD and other tools?
- Do we need notebooks? If so what's in them by workshop type?
- Surveys and assessment
- Pre, daily, and post
- One for everyone or different for pre-college faculty, college faculty, student, administrator?
- Are we asking all the questions we need to? Are there questions we don't need to ask?
Pathways Meeting Agenda, April 24-26, Durham
- Friday, April 24: Travel day. Participants meet for informal dinner
- Saturday, April 25
- 8:30 AM Welcome, Introductions, Purpose [Shawn, Charlie, Bob]
- 8:40 AM How to do an Effective Workshop [Charlie, Bob]
- Lecture vs. Lab (Hands-on)
- Demo "teaching mode" (in class how to's)
- 1 computer/projector vs. computer lab
- Mini-sessions, participant projects, etc.
- Reviewing surveys and reacting to the feedback
- Discussion
- 9:30 AM SC09 Evaluation Report [Lisa, Paul (remote)]
- Overview
- Things done well and areas to improve
- Surveys, which populations?
- Missing questions, unnecessary questions? Pre, post and daily
- Discussion
- 10:15 AM BREAK
- 10:30 AM Online Content [Kay, others]
- Surveys
- Moodle and wiki usage
- Instructional materials uploads
- Participant team use
- 11:00 AM Petascale Education Projects - Update [Scott, Bob]
- 11:30 AM LUNCH (invite local HASS faculty to join)
- 12:15 PM Parallel Disciplinary Breakout Sessions [Lead Instructors]
- Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Engineering
- Parallel/Cluster, Computational Thinking, HASS
- Instructor to workshop mapping
- Weekly schedule and content
- Notebook contents - all of which must be available 10 business days in advance (and on the Moodle)
- Software needs - cluster access, BCCD, USB drives with applications? (which ones)
- Register yourselves for the workshops you are teaching
- Library contents
- Marketing
- 3:15 PM BREAK
- 3:30 PM On-line/Remote delivery and support [Charlie, Henry]
- AG and non-AG (Short Demo?)
- Groups vs individuals at remote location(s)
- LSU to PSC, others
- 4:00 PM CSERD [Dave, Bob]
- Inclusion of materials
- VVA Process (possible workshop activity?)
- 4:30 PM Brief Disciplinary team Report-outs [Lead Instructors]
- < 10 minute summary of workshop plans
- 5:30 PM Finish, Meet somewhere for dinner at ~7 PM?
- Sunday, April 26
- 8:30 AM Discussion of SC09 program in Portland [Charlie, others]
- Participants: Newbies/Oldies?
- Curriculum development?
- Discussion
- 9 AM Parallel Disciplinary Breakout Sessions [Lead Instructors]
- 10:15 AM BREAK
- 10:30 AM Final Team Report-outs [Lead Instructors]
- Status of workshop planning
- Topics, Software, Schedules, Ad placement, etc.
- 11:30 AM Workshop logistics
- TravelOn
- Reimbursements
- Traveling library
- Noon Depart
- 8:30 AM Discussion of SC09 program in Portland [Charlie, others]
Also consider the list of people on the committee page
Jeff Krause Shodor BIO Eric Jakobsson NCSA UIUC BIO Doug Roberts RTI International BIO Diglio Simoni RTI International BIO Gloria Rendon UIUC BIO Ananth Kalyanaraman Washington State University BIO Joel Stiles Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center BIO David Joiner Kean University PHYSICS Norman Chonacky Yale University PHYSICS Bob Panoff Shodor PHYSICS Richard Gass University of Cincinatti PHYSICS Rubin Landau Oregon State University PHYSICS Mario Belloni Davidson College PHYSICS Wolfgang Christian Davidson College PHYSICS Charlie Peck Earlham College PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Paul Gray University of Northern Iowa PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Christian Trefftz Grand Valley State University PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Greg Wolffe Grand Valley State University PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Michael Mascagni Florida State University PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Scott Lathrop Blue Waters and TeraGrid PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Brad Armosky TACC PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Kay Wanous University of Northern Iowa PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Alina Bejan University of Chicago PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Alex Leman Earlham College PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Kevin Hunter Earlham College PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Skylar Thompson Earlham College PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Jessie Puls University of Northern Iowa PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Andrew Fitz Gibbon Earlham College PARALLEL DISTRIBUTED GRID Shawn Sendlinger North Carolina Central University COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY Clyde Metz College of Charleston COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY Steve Gordon Ohio Supercomputer Center ENGINEERING Steve Stevenson Clemson University ENGINEERING Ashok Krishnamurthy Ohio Supercomputer Center ENGINEERING James Giuliani Ohio Supercomputer Center ENGINEERING Dan Warner Clemson University ENGINEERING Sidarth Samsi Ohio Supercomputer Center ENGINEERING Charlotte Trout Williamsport High School K12 Scott Sinex Prince George's Community College K12 Susan Ragan Maryland Virtual High School K12 Tom Loughran University of Notre Dame K12 Adam Frey Wiki Spaces K12 Richard Ladner University of Washington LCPE Jana Lollis North Carolina School for the Deaf LCPE Jonathan Stuart-Moore Shodor LCPE Kent Robertson Shodor LCPE
