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Summer 2014 

 

Student Researchers

Projects

Mentors
     

Adel Kamara

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

Keith Benning

Messiah College

Improving Kernel Density Estimation Calculation Time by Parallel Processing

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Arthur Lembo

Department of Geography and Geosciences

Salisbury University

 

Sarah Iftikhar

University of Alabama in Huntsville

 


Jessie Smith
Clemson University

Accelerating MIMO Acoustic Tomography on GPU

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Yuanwei Jin

Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

 

 Zachary Johnson

Salisbury University

CPU/GPU Workload Distributions for Sieve Factoring Methods

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

Dr. Donald Spickler

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Salisbury University

Chris Viqueira

Salisbury University

Progressive Photon Mapping in Real-Time Ray-Tracing using NVIDIA OptiX

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Andrew A. Barkley
State University of New York, Potsdam



Justin A. Martin
Lock Haven University, Lock Haven

 Implementing the Parallel Iterative Improvement Algorithm for the Stable Marriage Problem on GPUs

 

Poster
Final Presentation
Extended Abstract
Project Paper

 

Dr. Enyue (Annie) Lu

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science

Salisbury University

 

 

  
 

REU Program Schedule and Activities for Summer 2014

             (June 2-August 8, 2014)

 

Week

Day

Activity

  1

Monday June 2nd: 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

                                Henson School Associate Dean - Dr. Robert L. Joyner, Jr.

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
3:00pm-4:00pm Entry program pretest survey HS 101
4:00pm-5:00pm Responsible Conduct of Research Online Training HS 101

 

Tuesday June 3rd:  Crash Course with Dr. Lu

Time

Topics

Mentor

Location

9:00am--12:00pm

MapReduce and graph pattern detection

Stable matching problem

Professor Lu

 

HS 101

 

1:30pm-4:00pm

 

Hands-on with Hadoop programming

 

Wednesday June 4th: Crash Course with Dr. Spickler

Time

Topics

Instructor

Location

9:00am-4:00pm 

Cryptography and Graphics

 

Professor Spickler

HS 101

 

Thursday June 5th :  Crash Course with Dr. Jin

Time

Topics

Speaker

Location

9:00am-12:00pm

1:30pm-4:00pm

 

Medical image reconstruction and processing
Image algorithms and Matlab implementation

Professor Jin

HS 101

 

Friday June 6th: Crash Course with Dr. Lembo

Time

Topics

Instructor

Location

9:00am-4:00pm 

 

GIS  CUDA programming

Professor Lembo

HS 101

 

2

 
Monday, June 9

Students project proposal due

Tuesday, June 10 Project finalized;

Wednesday, June 11

Project proposal presentation at 10am in HS 101;

Monday-Friday

Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

3

 

Monday-Friday

Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

4
Monday-Friday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 
Wednesday, June 25 Students project progress due and presentation to faculty mentors

  5

 Monday -Wednesday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

Thursday, July 4

Independence Day

6 
Monday -Friday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings 

Friday, July 11

Meet High school summer STEM campers at 2pm
7 Monday-Friday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
Wednesday, July 16 Meet with Dean Dr. Olmstead at 9:30am
Students project progress due and presentation at 10am in HS 101
Thursday, July 17 Field trip to UMCP
8 Monday-Friday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
Friday, July 25 Field trip to NASA Wallops
9 Monday-Friday Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings

10

 

Monday- Thursday

Students work on projects

Tues., August 5

Final oral presentations at 9am in HS 101; Henson School Summer Research luncheon Celebration at 11:30am in Worcester Room; Project poster sessions held at SU Henson Summer Research Symposium  in the Montgomery Room and Rotunda of the Commons from 1:30-3:00 pm; 

Final PPTs and posters due

Friday morning

Mentor-student meetings; Exit Interviews at 11am with Dr. Barbara Wainwright

Friday afternoon

Final reports due  (including source codes and all data etc.) at myClasses@SU ; Program evaluations & survey due

 

 

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