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Student Research and Programming Opportunities at the Computation Institute
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Independent Study and Student Employment
The Computation Institute is a research collaboration of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory that creates partnerships between computer scientists and computation scientists working in a wide variety of scientific domains: from astrophysics to zygotes and everything in between.
The mission of the Computation Institute is to address the most challenging problems arising in the use of strategic computation and communications across a broad spectrum of intellectual activities. We believe that this will lay the groundwork for significant advances in the biological, physical, social, and financial sciences, medicine, law, the arts, and the humanities.
Exciting opportunities are available at the Computation Institute for qualified and motivated students. Opportunities are available for both student employment and independent study research.
At the Computation Institute, students work in close partnership with leading faculty, practicing scientists, computer scientists, research staff and professional software developers. The opportunities provide great mentorship, exciting projects, and valuable hands-on experience in computational and visualization- intensive scientific research.
Examples of project include:
- developing and applying Grid-based workflow systems to automate complex data analysis tasks
- creating web-based Grid execution portals for hands-on high- school and museum science education
- assisting social scientists in massively parallel database queries in scientific citation network analysis
- integrating the world's bioinformatics data sources through a network of distributed data warehouses
- creating visual interfaces for social science experiments that combine multimedia data with multi-channel physiological telemetry and eye gaze, to automate annotation and signal processing and longitudinal data analysis
- development of gateways to rich computational environments that push science forward
- development of visualization gateway, provide analysis resources to a wide variety of different scientific domains
- development of Grid services that interact with large data sources
- helping develop next generation systems for use in medical analysis and training
- investigation of the integration of diverse data-sets for data fusion
The Computation Institute's research covers a wide gamut some of its current projects are in bioinformatics and molecular biology, biomedical applications spanning a range that includes neuroscience, computer assisted surgery, and physiology, earth systems science, high energy physics, astrophysics and astronomy, and the social sciences.
The Computation Institute provides a truly awesome array of exciting technology to power these exciting and computationally challenging disciplines. This infrastructure includes a high resolution tiled display, a state of the art Access Grid node, and the 128 node TeraPort cluster.
To learn more, and discuss the opportunities available, send your CV and a statement of your research interests to: opportunities@ci.uchicago.edu
- (a) This position is only for students with a valid student VISA or are legal US residents.
- (b) I have an immediate opening for a position.
The ideal candidate must be an expert in Java and have knowledge about Grids and workflows. You will be working under the supervision of Dr. Gregor von Laszewski (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~gregor). Relocation would be ideal. You must be a Masters or PhD student and be willing to integrate our activities into your PhD thesis together with your host institution. We would assume a tight collaboration between you, your advisor and myself. For more information, please contact gregor@mcs.anl.gov and use the subject line "OPEN PAID POSITION". Please attach your resume. In case you are applying for a PostDoc or a fulltime position please contact me so we can discuss how to apply to University of Chicago.
Here a preliminary description:
- Job Begin Date: immediately
- Job Title: Research Assistant
- Description: The students general tasks will be do participate in a project to dynamically allocate compute resources for the real time data analysis of a water thread management system. You will have access to a Grid with 10000 of thousands of computers at your disposal. The task will be to develop an end to end system that uses the resources efficiently. In addition you will be working at a later stage in the project on an advanced reservation system they includes the binding to a sensor data network deployed in the City of Cincinnati to obtain threads in real time. The assistant will work with and under the direction of Gregor von Laszewski (gregor@mcs.anl.gov). You will be required to work over the summer on this project. For advance students it could be advantageous to negotiate if this activity could be part of a PhD thesis or Masters project.
- Qualifications: Excellent program knowledge in Java and/or Python for parallel programming. A strong background in thread programming is necessary. Skills in user interface design are desirable.
In case you are not a UC student, you may still qualify if we can establish with your thesis supervisor an agreement.
- Pay Rate: TBD
Number Of Positions: 2
Hours: up to 20
Department: Computation Institute
Contact Name: Gregor von Laszewski
Contact: gregor@mcs.anl.gov
(c) You must fulfill condition
- I do not have funding for applicants outside of the US.
- (d) If you like to participate in our projects without pay you can do so as unpaid volunteer. (You do not have to reside in the US). In such cases I can serve also as external thesis committee member. In case you are interested please contact gregor@mcs.anl.gov with the subject line "VOLUNTEER"
