[LA-SiGMA] LONI Institute's Call for Projects, January 24 deadline

[Bety Rodriguez-Milla]

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Dear All,

One of the goals of the LONI Institute (LI) is to foster interdisciplinary and interuniversity research. For this, we would like Louisiana State researchers to propose projects that involve the LI Computational Scientists (CSs).

These computational scientists will help State research groups take advantage of advanced cyberinfrastructure deployed across LONI and the nation. Distributed across the LI participating campuses, these staff are experts in the use of LONI hardware and cyberinfrastructure, including parallel computing, networks, visualization, grids, computational mathematics, and data management.

These projects will be based on applications from all State campuses, with the applicants being encouraged to commit some internal resources, such as access to the PI's LONI allocations and getting students and postdocs involved in the collaboration. The projects will be in computational biology and materials science applications; however, we expect projects from other areas of importance to the State, in disciplines ranging from astrophysics, CFD, coastal science, medicine, engineering, digital arts and humanities, and business. Application teams from all State campuses and all companies are eligible to apply for LI partnerships to develop applications that make use of LONI hardware and the staff.

To aid in the professional development of the LI CS researchers, it is expected that they will be given opportunities to make a significant intellectual contribution to the formalisms, algorithms, and codes or the analysis and interpretation of results; and therefore, it is expected that the LI CSs will be co-authors on publications resulting from projects in which their time was committed.

Please send your proposals (up to 1 page) requesting time from the LI CSs to manager at institute.loni.org by January 24, 2011. In your proposal, explain what you want to do, about what effort (in FTE-months) you think will be required, and how the project will benefit the LI. The LI scientific committee will then review the proposals, rank them according to potential contribution to the LI deliverables, and decide which projects should be supported and at what level.

For more information about the LI CSs, please visit http://institute.loni.org/people.php. A link to the ongoing LI Projects can be found at http://institute.loni.org/liprojects.php. 

Regards,

-Bety

Dr. Bety E. Rodriguez-Milla
LONI Institute Scientific Coordinator
Center for Computation & Technology
Louisiana State University
216 Johnston Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
brodrig at cct.lsu.edu