Oberlin College Computer Science

• Computational Social Science at Carleton College with Alexa, Tom, and David

Alexa Sharp and Tom Wexler are looking for a total of up to 2 or 3 students interested in a seven-week program on Computational Social Sciences at Carleton during Summer 2010 (June 21st through August 6th). The program will focus on the application of (both theory- and implementation-based) computer science to social networks and game theory, and it will be co-advised by Alexa, Tom, and David Liben-Nowell (Carleton College). The program will primarily involve students of Carleton and Oberlin, and we hope to include one or two students from other similar liberal arts schools in the program if circumstances permit.

Students will work in groups of three or four on computational problems related to social networks and algorithmic game theory, working closely with all three faculty members. Groups will have different focuses: some will be more implementation based (working with real large-scale social network data to better understand patterns of friendship), some will be more theoretical (for example, working to understand what the strategic implications of network structure are for certain types of network games). You should expect to read recently published papers, develop and attempt to prove conjectures about various problems or algorithms, write programs to generate and test hypotheses, and read about new techniques in computer science to tackle these questions.

Students should have taken at least CS 150 and CS 151. For more theoretical groups, you’ll want CS 280. More CS is better, as is more math, and knowledge of Game Theory and Discrete Mathematics and helpful, but these are not requirements.

These are paid research positions, and travel and housing expenses will be subsidized. For details on how to apply, or further questions, please contact Alexa (alexa.sharp@oberlin.edu) or Tom (tom.wexler@oberlin.edu).

• The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis is running a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program over the summer of 2010. Participants will be paid a stipend for the 10 weeks of the program, and we will provide assistance in finding on-campus housing for the duration of their stay in St. Louis.   Deadline February 21. Program Dates: May 31-august 12, 2010

Check out more details of the Summer 2010 program, see the sorts of projects you could be working on, and send in an application.If you have any questions about the program that aren’t answered on these web pages, send us an email at reu@cse.wustl.edu, and we can answer them for you.

• Depauw University – REU summer Research. Stipend of $4,500

Information and application packet due March 15th.  Program runs from May 26-July 30,2010

• Computing Research for Undergraduates

Socially Relevant Computing Summer 2010 at UNC Charlotte
June 1-July 30, 2010 Application deadline: March 15, 2010

• Computational and Systems Biology at Iowa State University

June 6-July 30, 2010.
Application deadline: April 15, 2010

Katie Kuksenok

Congratulations to Katie Kuksenok for being selected for an Honorable Mention in the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award competition for 2010!

Katie worked with Oberlin CS alum, Professor Jennifer Mankoff at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute.  Their project explored how individuals with chronic illness, and their caregivers, use online resources such as social websites.

More information can be found at the Research on Chronic Illness on the Web website and on Katie’s Summer 2009 DREU Research Journal.

http://www.cra.org/Activities/awards/undergrad/

About the Program Student participants will work on a research team with other students and a faculty mentor to carry out a research project. Research teams will present their progress to the entire group at various points throughout the summer. In addition, the participants will present the final results of their work at their home institutions during the following academic year and, when appropriate, at regional and/or national conferences.

Program Details:

• Program runs from May 27th through July 31st, 2009

• Students will be paid $4,400 for the ten week summer

• A travel allowance (up to $350) will be provided for students who travel from a distance

• All program participants will live in a DePauw University townhouse

• Housing will be provided at a highly subsidized rate

Eligibility: By NSF Mandate, applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or its possession and must plan to be full-time undergraduates as of September 2009. An additional requirement for DePauw’s REU program is that applicants must be enrolled at a primarily undergraduate institution (i.e., at a school that does not have a graduate program in computer science).

Applications must be received by March 13. Decisions will be mailed by March 30th.

For the application and more information go to   http://www.depauw.edu/univ/reu/index.html

Application Deadline: January 31, 2009

DIMACS, DyDAn, and the Rutgers University Mathematics Department invite applications for a NSF/DHS Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. DIMACS was founded as one of 24 Science and Technology Centers funded by the NSF. It is located at Rutgers University, and is a joint project of Rutgers, Princeton, AT&T Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, Telcordia Technologies, and the NEC Research Institute. DIMACS has over 250 permanent members in mathematics, computer science, and operations research, and hosts many distinguished visitors each year.

US Program: June 1-July 24    optional trip: Prague Trip: July 20-august 5

Deadline for applications are due January 31, 2009

http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/REU/
DIMACS, with National Science Foundation sponsorship, has offered an REU program since 1992. There are four associated REU programs:

• The DIMACS REU program offers projects mentored by DIMACS members.
• The DIMACS/DIMATIA REU program offers projects mentored by DIMACS members, the program is extended by two weeks, and the last two and a half weeks of the program are spent at our sister site DIMATIA at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Students selected to participate in this program generally exhibit strong interests in combinatorics.
• The Rutgers Math Department program offers projects mentored by members of the Rutgers Mathematics Department.
• The DyDAn REU program offers projects related to homeland security mentored by DyDAn researchers.

Many of you know (or will get to know) DLSim in CS 210, where it has been used for many years as a tool for building and simulating logical circuits. The newest version of DLSim (version 3) has some exciting new features that make it possible to simulate much more complex examples, even an entire CPU!

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We are now accepting applications for an appointment as a research assistant for summer, 2008. We have funding for two assistants to work for 8 weeks during the summer. The research will involve work on DLSim 3, the latest version the digital logic circuit simulator that we use in CS 210. (more…)