[Okgrantsmanship] Virginia Bioinformatics Inst: HPC in Life/Medical Sciences - July 22-Aug 2 - DEADLINE MARCH 30

[Mason, Linda]

Please forward to appropriate computer science faculty and departments
Please reply directly to Kristy, and please feel free to forward to anyone who may be interested and appropriate.

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SUMMARY:

High Performance Computing in the Life/Medical Sciences
2 week summer institute
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA July 22 - Aug 2 2013 Applications due Sat March 30 2013 http://nsfsi.vbi.vt.edu/

DETAILS:

Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech is hosting a "High Performance Computing in the Life/Medical Sciences" 2-week summer institute

http://nsfsi.vbi.vt.edu/

sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

This summer 2-week intensive course (July 22 - Aug 2 2013) is directed towards eligible undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs interested in further developing their expertise in biology relevant high performance and data intensive computing field.

During the course, participants will attend lectures and discussions by leading field members including academic and industrial affiliates and work on a group research project with three other course participants.

The course is supported by a NSF Funded Award No. OCI-1124123.

A travel stipend, including lodging (in a Virginia Tech dorm room) and sustenance (primarily from the Virginia Tech dining halls) is provided.

Application deadline is March 30th; please see

http://nsfsi.vbi.vt.edu/application.php

For a flyer about this opportunity, please see:

http://nsfsi.vbi.vt.edu/PDFs/2013-nsfsi-flyer-web.pdf

You are welcome to forward this information to anyone interested!

Best,
Kristy

Kristy M. Collins, Ph.D.
Education and Outreach
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
Virginia Tech
Phone: 540-231-1389
Fax: 540-231-2606