REU Program Schedule and Activities for Summer 2021              (June  2-August 10, 2021) (tentatively, will be updated once activities are added)
Week	Day	Activity
1	Wednesday  June 2: Welcome and Introduction Time Events Location 9:00am-9:30am Opening remarks: Henson School Dean - Dr. Michael Scott    9:30am-10:00am Faculty Mentors/REU students introduction HPCL (HS 143) 10:00am-11:30am Grant office: Vanessa Collins Orientation meeting, grant paper work, Gull card  Gull card office HPCL (HS 143) 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. HPCL (HS 143) 3:00pm-4:00pm Entry program pretest survey HPCL (HS 143) 4:00pm-5:00pm Responsible Conduct of Research Online Training HPCL (HS 143)    Thursday  June 3:  Crash Course with Dr. Lu Time Topics Mentor Location 9:00am--12:00pm MapReduce and graph pattern detection Stable matching problem Professor Lu   HS 143   1:30pm-4:00pm   Hands-on with Hadoop and GPU programming   Friday June 4: Crash Course with Drs. Cone & Anderson Time Topics Instructor Location 9:00am12:00pm    Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Big Data Analysis, Hadoop, Scala, and Spark  programming  Professor Cone HS 143 1:30pm-4:30pm Parallel Machine Learning, High-Dimensional Convex Geometry, AI Opponents in Games Professor Anderson HS 143   Monday June 7:  Crash Course with Drs. Jin & Zhang Time Topics Speaker Location 9:00am-12:00pm Multiprocessor architectures Professor Zhang HS 143 1:30pm-4:30pm Medical image reconstruction and processing Image algorithms and Matlab implementation Professor Jin  HS 143
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	June 8,  Tuesday	Students project proposal due
	June 9, Wednesday	Project finalized
	June 10, Thursday	Project proposal presentation at 9am in HS 143;
	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
3	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
5	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	June 30, Wednesday	Students project progress due and presentation at 9am in HS 143
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	July 12, Monday	UMCP graduate school application and academic career information session @12pm
7	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	July 14, Wednesday	Students project progress due and presentation @ 9am in HS 143
	July 15, Thursday	NASA Wallops Presentation @9:30am
8	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	July 27, Tuesday	UMCP Professor Nikhil Chopra' research talk @2pm
9	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	July 29, Thursday	NASA Internships & Career Presentation @9:30am
	July 30, Friday	UMBC Big Data REU research presentations @1-2:30pm
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	Aug 4, Wednesday	SU-UMCP jointed REU research project presentation @12pm
	Aug 5, Thursday	SU-UMCP jointed REU research project presentation (continued) @9am; CISE REU Virtual Poster Symposium @3-5pm
	Aug 6, Friday	Exit Interviews with Dr. Barbara Wainwright and program post-test survey at 10am; Mentor-student meetings to finalize the final project reports
	Aug 9, Monday	Final PPTs and poster due; Project final report draft due
	Aug 10, Tuesday	Final reports due  (including source codes and all data etc.) at myClasses@SU ;