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Bill Bell at NCSA tweeted a note about Google’s new scholarship for first year computer scientists

Dr. Anita Borg devoted her adult life to revolutionizing the way we think about technology and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. Her combination of technical expertise and fearless vision continues to inspire and motivate countless women to become active participants and leaders in creating technology.

…As part of Google’s ongoing commitment to furthering Anita’s vision, we are launching a new scholarship, the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship for First Years. Google hopes to encourage aspiring female computer scientists to excel in technology and become active role models and leaders in the field by offering scholarship opportunities for incoming first years in computer science.

Recipients will each receive $10,000 in the 2010-2011 academic year and must meet the following criteria

• Intend to be enrolled in or accepted as a full-time student at a university in the U.S. for the 2010–2011 academic year. International students are eligible to apply as long as they intend to be enrolled at a local university
• Intend to be enrolled in or accepted for enrollment in a baccalaureate Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or related program
• Able to demonstrate a commitment to and passion for computer science and technology

Deadline is coming up: Monday, February 15, 2010.

We’ve covered this before, but want to remind you that the deadline for 2009 is coming up next month.

The scientific staff at Berkeley Lab recognize the increasing significance of computational science—and the need to help educate the next generation of computational scientists.

The Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science aims to achieve these goals by enabling a recent graduate with a Ph.D. (or equivalent) to acquire further scientific training and to develop professional maturity for independent research. Applicants must be a recent graduate (within the past three years) with a strong emphasis on computing or computational science. The successful applicant will be compensated with a competitive salary and excellent benefits.

Applications are due by December 2, 2008 for the fall 2009 semester. More info here.

Do you know about a fellowship or scholarship that’s in HPC or a related discipline and not already in our database? Email me with the details and I’ll add it.

Ian Foster posted over at his blog last week about postdocs available at Argonne National Lab

The Argonne Named Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a great opportunity for a recent or imminent PhD looking to work at the cutting edge of computing. You also get a fancy title, like “Arthur Holly Compton Fellow” or similar. (There are a few to choose from.)

More info in Ian’s post linked above, and here. Deadline is November 5.

I’m told the deadline on these is hard: absolutely no exceptions.

The ACM/IEEE Computer Society High Performance Computing (HPC) Ph.D. Fellowship Program is now accepting nominations for its second annual competition at https://submissions.supercomputing.org. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 8, 2008.

ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded with a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year. All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are invited to attend at least one SC conference (usually the one after one year of receiving the award). Furthermore, the SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites.

Students must be nominated by a full time faculty member at a Ph.D. granting institution. Nominees must be enrolled in a full-time Ph.D. program and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination.

For more information about the program, see the web page  or contact the committee at [email protected]

If you’re into HPC and enrolled as a fulltime PhD student who has completed at least one year of your program, this is the announcement for you

The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world with the focus areas of HPC, Networking, Storage and Analysis.  HPC covers the areas of computational sciences, computational engineering, and computer science using the most powerful computers available at a given time.  The ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowship Program also supports the sponsors’ long-standing commitment to workforce diversity and encourages nominations of women, minorities and all who contribute to diversity.

ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded with a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year.  All ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellows are invited to attend at least one SC conference (usually the one after one year of receiving the award).  Furthermore, the SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites.

Deadline for application is September 8, 2008.

Postdoctoral positions at ICES, Univ of Texas at Austin

I have several immediate openings for postdoctoral researchers within the Center for Computational Geosciences at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (www.ices.utexas.edu), University of Texas at Austin. The positions involve research on large-scale inverse problems in the geosciences, specifically in seismology, mantle convection, subsurface flow, and ocean dynamics. Research issues include the quantification of uncertainty in inverse problems, scalable algorithms, and parallel adaptivity.

The research will be conducted jointly with collaborators from ICES, the Jackson School of Geosciences, and several other universities and national labs, and will make use of Ranger, a .5 Petaflop supercomputer that is being deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center. Candidates should have a strong background in scientific computing, numerical analysis, and PDE solvers. Background in finite elements, inverse problems, continuum mechanics, optimization, and geosciences is desirable. Experience in large-scale parallel code development is essential.

To apply, please send your CV (listing courses taken and at least two references) to me at [email protected]

-Omar Ghattas http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~omar

The Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group is seeking to hire, as soon as possible, a postgraduate scientist to work on development and support of software infrastructure enabling LIGO data analysis efforts.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is an ambitious National Science Foundation funded project to detect gravitational waves and use them to explore the Universe. Members of the Syracuse group play an important role in the search for inspiral and burst sources of gravitational waves through their membership of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. The Syracuse group is constructing a 300 CPU core computing cluster with 96Tb of storage for gravitational wave and grid computing research, and is expanding its involvement with scientific computational infrastructure.

The successful candidate will work on design, development, deployment, and support of software infrastructure to further the scientific goals of the LIGO project. They will have a close connection with scientists conducting gravitational-wave data analysis and will have the opportunity make important contributions to the search for gravitational waves with LIGO. An incomplete list of projects includes tools for scientific data management, workflow management, metadata driven workflow planning, and other areas of grid and distributed computing in support of science.

Applications should have a Ph.D. or Masters degree in physics, information science, or a related field, excellent computer skills, extensive experience with Linux, C programming skills, a working knowledge of popular scripting languages including Python, and be highly motivated. Experience with the relational databases and/or Condor is a plus, but not essential. The successful candidate should be prepared to start February 1, 2008, although some flexibility of this date is possible.

Applicants should send a cover letter, a statement of research interests, and a curriculum vitae, and arrange to have at least three letters of recommendation sent via email to:

[email protected]

or via regular mail to:

Prof. Duncan Brown,
Department of Physics,
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY 13244, USA

Applications should be marked “LIGO Data Grid Position.”

Screening of applications will begin December 1, 2007 and will continue until the position is filled. Syracuse University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. Members of minority groups and women are especially encouraged to apply.

Based on a proposal from the SC conference Steering Committee, the ACM and IEEE Computer Society established a fellowship fund for worthy students who are studying topics in High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Funded by the surplus of SC|05, this fellowship is sufficiently endowed to fund at least $20,000 per year.

The Program honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world with the focus areas of High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Fellowships are awarded a certificate and a stipend of at least $5,000 (US) for one academic year. The SC Steering Committee and other conference volunteers are willing to facilitate, where possible, internships for Fellows at HPC research or development sites. Interns are paid by their host site and will be subject to the prevailing terms and conditions of the internship program at that site. ACM/IEEE-CS HPC Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded annually but previous awardees may compete annually to be renewed for up to two additional years (three total), based on the Award Recipient’s continued exceptional academic standing, progress, achievement, and sustained interaction with the HPC technical community.

Students must be nominated by a full time faculty member at a PhD granting, accredited institution. They must be enrolled in a full-time Ph. D program at an accredited college or university, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination.

For full details and the application, check out the Fellowship website.