List of Announcements (details below):
* Careers in the Academy:Mason Program for Ph.D. Students
* International Summer School on High-Performance Computing
* Seminar:Bioengineering Dept.:Mar 6, 12pm
* Ariela Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi Receive Funding from
Pohang University
* Arun Sood and Duminda Wijisekera Receive Funding from the Cyber
Security Research Alliance
*Careers in the Academy:Mason Program for Ph.D. Students*
Mason's Center for Teaching and Faculty Excellence is now accepting
applications for its PROV 701 program, Preparing for Careers in the
Academy. This program is geared towards advanced PhD and MFA students
who are interested in joining the academic ranks after graduation.
URL:http://ctfe.gmu.edu/professional-development/preparing-for-careers-in-the-academy-program/
Deadline:Monday, March 31
*International Summer School on High-Performance Computing*
International Summer School 2014 on HPC Challenges in Computational
Sciences (sponsored by the National Science Foundation)
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Europe,
Canada, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the fifth
International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences,
to be held June 1-6, 2014, in Budapest, Hungary. The summer school is
sponsored by the European Union Seventh Framework Program's Partnership
for Advanced Computing in Europe Implementation Phase project
(PRACE-3IP), U.S. National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and
Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project, RIKEN Advanced
Institute for Computational Science (RIKEN AICS), and Compute/Calcul
Canada.
Leading American, Canadian, European and Japanese computational
scientists and HPC technologists will offer instruction on a variety of
topics, including:
* Access to EU, U.S., Japanese and Canadian HPC-infrastructures
* HPC challenges by discipline (e.g., bioinformatics, computer
science, chemistry, and physics)
* HPC programming proficiencies
* Performance analysis & profiling
* Algorithmic approaches & numerical libraries
* Data-intensive computing
* Scientific visualization
The expense-paid program will benefit advanced scholars from European,
U.S., Canadian and Japanese institutions who use HPC to conduct
research. Interested students should apply by March 9, 2014. Meals,
housing, and travel expenses will be paid for the selected participants.
Applications from students in all science and engineering fields are
welcome. Preference will be given to applicants with parallel
programming experience and a research plan that will benefit from the
utilization of high performance computing systems.
URL: http://www.prace-ri.eu/International-Summer-School-2014
For more information, contact Scott Lathrop (XSEDE) at NCSA, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
*Seminar:Bioengineering Dept.:Mar 6, 12pm*
/Title:/Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Basic Principles and
Applications to Aerospace, Medicine, and Clinical Life-saving Solutions
/Speaker:/Hasan Ayaz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Biomedical
Engineering, Drexel University
Thursday, March 6, 2014
12:00 PM
ENGR 3507
/Abstract/
Functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is an emerging brain
monitoring technology that relies on optical techniques to detect
changes in cortical hemodynamic responses to sensory, motor, or
cognitive activation. It was originally developed for clinical
monitoring of tissue oxygenation but evolved into a useful tool for
neuroimaging studies, and better understanding of human brain function.
The fNIRS technology is a portable, safe, affordable and negligibly
intrusive system that uses specific wavelengths of light, irradiated
through the scalp, to enable noninvasive measurement of localized
concentration changes of deoxygenated hemoglobin (deoxy-Hb) and
oxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb). Consistent with the neuroergonomic
approach, fNIRS sensor can allow capturing brain at work in naturalistic
environments during everyday tasks. This presentation will introduce
fNIRS technology principles, latest system designs, and signal
processing approaches. The second part of the presentation will review
our recent fNIRS applications ranging from human computer interaction to
medical devices, including cognitive workload assessment of operators,
synthetic speech perception (sound quality and neural correlates), brain
computer interfaces for control and communication.
/Bio/
Hasan Ayaz, PhD is an Assistant Research Professor in Biomedical
Engineering. He received his BSc. in Electrical and Electronics
Engineering at Bogazici University with high honors and MSc. and PhD
degrees in Biomedical Engineering and studied Functional Near Infrared
(fNIR) Spectroscopy. Research interests include brain computer
interfacing and human performance assessment using optical brain
sensors. Experienced in software development, computer graphics, user
interface design and embedded system development.
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Ariela Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi Receive Funding from Pohang
University*
Ariela Sofer, Edward Huang, and Abbas Zaidi of the Systems Engineering &
Operations Research Department received $100K from Pohang University of
Science and Technology for their project, "A Case Study: Designing an
Electric Power Plant Using Model-Based Systems Engineering Techniques."
*Arun Sood and Duminda Wijisekera Receive Funding from the Cyber
Security Research Alliance*
Arun Sood and Duminda Wijisekera of the Computer Science Department and
the International Cyber Center received $60K from the Cyber Security
Research Alliance for their project, "A Survey and Taxonomy on the Roots
of Trust in Cyber-Physical Systems."
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Stephen G. Nash
Senior Associate Dean
Volgenau School of Engineering
George Mason University
Nguyen Engineering Building, Room 2500
Mailstop 5C8
Fairfax, VA 22030
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Phone: (703) 993-1505
Fax: (703) 993-1633
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