UCLA IDRE Summer Newsletter

Volume 2, No. 1, July 31, 2008

Announcements

The Digital Roman Forum developed through a partnership with the Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, the Experiential Technologies Center, the Institute for Social Science Research, and IDRE:ATS has just been selected for inclusion on the NEH's Edsitement list of the best online resources for education in the humanities.

IDRE Supported Projects

Virtual Worlds: The work of Chris Culbertson, an Interdepartmental Program Neuroscience graduate student, using a virtual world to try to find the most effective treatments for people addicted to methamphetamines, has been published in Nature. Itay Zaharovits of the ETC has been a main contributor in creating the virtual environment.

Funding and Resource Opportunities

• DOE INCITE Awards, Proposal due August 11, 2008: Significant allocations will be awarded on some of the world's most powerful supercomputers to innovative, large-scale computational science projects to enable high-impact advances.
• NSF CISE Computer Research Infrastructure, Proposals due September 22: Two new awards have been introduced, Institutional and Community Infrastructure awards to support the provision of state-of-the-art computing research infrastructure.
• Travel Grants: IDRE makes travel grant awards to graduate students and post docs interested in high performance computing. If you have a conference or seminar in mind that advances knowledge in this area please send a request to Warren Mori at info@idre.ucla.edu

Submission Procedure

To submit entries to the newsletter, please send an email to info@idre.ucla.edu by Friday 3PM of each week at the latest.

Warren Mori, Director, IDRE
info@idre.ucla.edu
www.idre.ucla.edu