AHPCRC Summer Institute 2011
The third AHPCRC Undergraduate Summer Institute in Computational Science and Engineering was held at Stanford University from June 20 to August 12, 2011. Participants included 17 undergraduate students from AHPCRC partner universities. Twenty Stanford professors, research associates, postdocs, and graduate students served as instructors and mentors. This institute represents a key part of the AHPCRC mission: to foster the education of the next generation of scientists and engineers—including those from racially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds—in the fundamental theories and best practices of simulation-based engineering sciences and high performance computing. Students, mentors, and research topics are as follows:
• Daniel Espinel (Stanford), Robert Mitchell (NMSU), Curtis Tade (NMSU), Ian Villa (Stanford). Mentors: Philip Avery, Charbel Bou-Mosleh, Kevin Wang, Matthew Zahr, Charbel Farhat. "AERO-S Regression Testing"
• Adam Duran (NMSU). Mentors: Sohan Dharmaraja, Adrian Lew. "Braille Input Technology for Android Devices"
• Matt Anderson (Stanford), Michael Osborne (NMSU), Maxwell Wu (Stanford). Mentors: Eric Darve, Wei Cai. "GPU-Accelerated Crystal Defect Detection and Visualization on Android Devices"
• Joel Quintana (UTEP). Mentors: Kevin Brown, Kunle Olukotun. "Testing and Development of Applications Under OptiML"
• Samantha Chacon (NMSU), Michael Chavez (NMSU), Alyssa Day (NMSU). Mentors: Youngsoo Choi, Nick Henderson, Walter Murray. "Optimization of Vehicle Paths Over Arbitrary Terrain"
• Adriana Contreras (UTEP), Ana Quevedo (UTEP), José Segura (UTEP), Abimbola Akinmeji (Morgan State). Mentors: Elliot English, Michael Lentine, Mridul Aajaneya, Ron Fedkiw. "Realtime Simulation and Visualization of PhysBAM on Android"
• Gregorio Hiram Hinojos (NMSU). Mentors: Omprakash Gnawali, Leonidas Guibas. "Time-Parallel Simulations of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Using NS-2"