REU Program Schedule and Activities for Summer 2023              (May  31-August 8, 2023) (tentatively, will be updated once activities are added)
Week	Day	Activity
1	Wednesday May 31: Welcome and Introduction Time Events Location 8:30am-9:00am Welcome breakfast Outside of HPCL (HS 143) 9:00am-9:30am Opening remarks:  Henson School Dean - Dr. Michael Scott   Department Chair -Dr. Sophie Wang HPCL (HS 143) 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 1:  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 2 : Crash Course with Drs. Cone/Tu Time Topics Instructor Location 9:00am12:00pm    Artificial Intelligence, High-Performance Computing (HPC), Big Data Analysis, and Digital Humanities Research with Python, Haskell, and SVG Professor Cone HS 143 1:30pm-4:30pm Topological Data Analysis Professor Tu HS 143   Monday June 5:  Crash Course with Dr. Jin  Time Topics Speaker Location 9:00am-12:00pm   Medical image reconstruction and processing Image algorithms and Matlab implementation Professor Jin HS 143
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	June 6,  Tuesday	Students project proposal due
	June 7, Wednesday	Project finalized
	June 8, 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 29, Thursday	Students project progress due and presentation at 9am in HS 143
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	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
7	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	July 13, Thursday	Students project progress due and presentation @ 9am in HS 143
8	July 25, Tuesday	NASA Wallops trip
	Monday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
9	July 31, Monday	UMCP visit and graduate school application and academic career information session
	Tuesday-Friday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
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	Aug 2, Wednesday	Students work on projects; Mentor-student meetings
	Aug 3, Thursday	REU final research project presentation @9am; Exit Interviews with Dr. Barbara Wainwright and program post-test survey at 1pm
	Aug 4, Friday	Mentor-student meetings to finalize the final project reports
	Aug 7, Monday	Final PPTs and poster due; Project final report draft due
	Aug 8, Tuesday	Final reports due  (including source codes and all data etc.) at myClasses@SU ;