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Summer 2012 

 

Student Researchers

Projects

Mentors

Joshua Schultz

Salisbury University

 

 Jonathan Vieyra

Cal Poly Pomona

Analyzing Patterns in Large-Scale Graphs Using MapReduce in Hadoop

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Enyue (Annie) Lu

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Salisbury University

 

 

Pedro Bello

Florida International University

GPU Accelerated Ultrasonic Tomography Using Propagation and Backpropagation Method 

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Yuanwei Jin &

Dr. Enyue (Annie) Lu

Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Sean Kirby

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

 William Kostan

University of Virginia

Parallelizing Raster-Based Data in GIS with CUDA C

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

YouTube Videos

Dr. Arthur Lembo

Department of Geography and Geosciences

Salisbury University

Raymond Imber

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Real Time Ray Tracing of Implicit Surfaces Utilizing GPGPU Computing

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Donald Spickler

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Salisbury University

 

Alexander Streit 

Old Dominion University

 GPU Acceleration of Special Purpose Integer Factoring Algorithms

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Donald Spickler

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Salisbury University

Mostafa Awwad 

Old Dominion University

 GPU Implementation and Parallel Optimization for Electromagnetic Imaging

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Yuanwei Jin

Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

 

 

REU Program Schedule and Activities for Summer 2012

             (June 4-August 10, 2012)

 

Week

Day

Activity

  1

Monday June 4th : Welcome and Introduction

Time

Events

Location

8:30am-9:00am

Welcome breakfast

HS Hallway

9:00am-9:30am

Opening remarks: Dean of Graduate Studies & Research -Dr. Clifton Griffin

Introduction of REU Program: Department Chair -Dr. Michael Bardzell

Faculty Mentors/REU students introduction

HS 101

9:30am-11:30am

Orientation meeting, grant paper work, Gull card 

Grant office: Vanessa Collins

Gull card office

HS 101

 

CB 036

12:00pm-1:30pm

Joint lunch with all participants

Commons

1:30pm-2:00pm

Campus and facility tours,  group pictures

 

2:00pm-3:00pm

Computer accounts, lab facility, work log, summer schedule, etc.

HS 101

 

Tuesday June 5th: Research Project Description

Time

Topics

Mentor

Location

9:00am-11:00am

11:00am-12:00pm

MapReduce and Hadoop

Stable matching problem

Professor Lu

HS 101

1:00pm–2:00pm   

2:00pm– 3:00pm 

What is a GIS, What can GIS do, etc.

GIS and GPU example

Professor Lembo

HS 155

3:00pm-4:00pm

4:00pm-5:00pm

Medical image reconstruction and processing  

Image algorithms and Matlab implementation           

Professor Jin

HS 101

 

Wednesday June 6th: Crash Course on GIS

Time

Topics

Instructor

Location

9:00am-11:00am

11:00am-12:00pm

1:00pm–2:00pm   

2:00pm– 3:00pm 

GIS data types and data structures

Raster functions with emphasis on focal functions

Raster GIS Exercise

GIS and GPU (video), Nvidia_cuda demo, Supercomputer_GIS

Professor Lembo

HS 155

 

Thursday June 7th: Guest Lectures

Time

Topics

Speaker

Location

9:30am-10:30am

10:30am-11:30pm

 

Meet with Professor Burns from Johns Hopkins

Talk: High-Throughput Data-Intensive Computing: I/O Sharing in Scientific Databases and the Cloud [flyer]

Professor Burns

HS 101

1:30pm-2:00pm

2:00pm– 3:00pm 

Meet with SU Graduates: Dan Dunning and Omar Ejaz

Talk: GPU Computing with CUDA

Dan Dunning and Omar Ejaz

HS 101

 

Friday June 8th: Crash Course on GIS

Time

Topics

Instructor

Location

9:00am-11:00am

 

11:00am-12:00pm

1:00pm–4:00pm 

Modern GIS at the ESRGC - iPhone, Android, HTML5 (Frank and Tu)

Mathematical operations with raster

Rolling our own kernel function

Professor Lembo

HS 155

 

2

 
Monday, June 11

Hands-on Labs (mapReduce, GIS, Matlab, CUDA)
Tuesday, June 12 Crash Course on Cryptography and Graphics (Prof. Spickler)

Wednesday, June 13

Students project proposal due

Thursday, June 14

Project finalized; Entry program evaluation; Mentor-student meetings

Friday

 Students work on projects

3

 

Monday-Friday

Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

Friday, June 22

Project proposal presentation
4 Monday, June 25 Field trip to NASA Wallops
Thursday

Meet with Dean Dr. Olmstead at 11am

Tuesday-Friday

Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

  5

Friday , July 6

Midterm project progress presentations  and reports due;

Midpoint program assessment

6

 

 Monday , July 9 Field trip to Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday-Friday

Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

7 Monday-Friday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
Thursday, July 19 (4pm-8pm) Social Event (with Henson School Summer Undergraduate Research Groups): cookout at Schumaker park

Saturday, July 21

National Aquarium trip (with Henson School Summer Undergraduate Research Groups)

8

Tuesday, July 24

Guest Speaker [flyer]
9 Monday , August 1 Meet Students from Eastern Shore Summer High School Apprenticeship Program in Remote Sensing and Radar Imaging at 9:30am

Monday-Friday

Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

10

 

Monday- Thursday

Students work on projects

Wednesday

Project poster sessions and final oral presentations at SU Henson Summer Research Symposium

Friday morning

Mentor-student meetings 

Friday afternoon

Final reports due; Program evaluations; Exit Interviews

 

  
 

 

 

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