Information Technology seminars
HD live from UCSD: MURPA eScience Project Outcomes 2010
- Date and time:
- 25/02/2010, 10:00am
- Location:
- Building: 26, Room: 135, Seminar Room, Clayton School of IT
- Presenters:
- Four Monash 3rd Yr/Honours Students
- Abstract:
- Four Faculty of Information Technology third year students are on an 8 week visit to University of California San Diego (UCSD) as part of MURPA 2009 (Monash Undergraduates Research Projects Abroad) . Following this experience they will be well placed to enter Honours in 2010. The students are:
Ms Aisa Na’im, Bachelor of Information Technology Systems (BITS)
Project: Data quality assurance in scientific workflows
Mr Jonathan McClure, Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)
Project: Mining for Bullet Clusters in Galaxies
Mr Andrew Paterson, Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)
Project: Interactively Visualising Density Fields (Astrophysics focus)
Mr Ben Morgan, Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE)
Project: Visualization of tensor data in cardiac models
- Speaker biographies:
- For 2008 and 2009 support has come from the the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (International), the Monash eResearch Centre (MeRC), the Faculty of Information Technology and Monash Abroad. It is modelled on the successful PRIME program at UCSD.
MURPA supports a unique summer mode placement in a leading research group overseas. It not only provides a research experience at the undergraduate level, but does that in an international context. Students are placed for a period of 8 weeks, allowing them to integrate into the research groups as team members. They have both a UCSD and Monash mentor for the project.
Projects usually have an eScience and eResearch basis as the main research group involved at Monash is the Monash eScience and Grid Engineering Lab (Message Lab), so students of faculties other than IT can, in principle, participate.
MURPA also involves an advanced seminar scheme, in which students can attend seminars given by world leading experts before they leave. The seminar scheme is novel, because it uses a cutting edge High Definition interactive video link to the University of California, making it feasible to attract some of the world's best researchers "virtually" to Monash. These seminars also allow students to "meet" potential UCSD mentors and get some information about potential projects.
- Enquiries:
- Rob Gray
