The NCSA CSM Digest   Saturday, April 1, 2000   Volume 1, Number 2

TODAY'S EDITOR
   David O'Neal
   oneal@ncsa.uiuc.edu

IN THIS ISSUE
   News Briefs ................. ASC Project; Ron Hinrichsen; AIAA Symposium
   Events ...................... Upcoming Conferences and Symposia
   Training .................... HPC Users; CEI EnSight 7; NASA FEM
   Recent Group Publications ... ICCE; DoD HPC Users
   Student Internships ......... DoD; DoE; NASA; ASME; others
   Employment Opportunities .... NCSA

NEWS BRIEFS

CSM takes on a new project this month. The Micromechanics Damage Model
suite out of the AFRL Materials Lab to be retrofit with a portable ODE
solver for handling discrete analyses.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/projects/mdm.html

New on-site lead to start at the Aeronautical Systems Center April 3rd.
Updated contact information for Ron Hinrichsen has been added to our
People page. Please join us in welcoming Ron to the team.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/people/ncsa-csm-people.html

NCSA was well-represented at the 25th Annual Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace
Sciences Symposium this week. Drs. Harry Hilton and Cristina Beldica
contributed a paper and a presentation. Slides will be posted in next
month's issue.

EVENTS

The 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and
Materials Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, April 3-6, 2000.
   http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/ssdmc00cfp.html

p and hp Finite Element Methods: Mathematics and Engineering Practice,
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, May 31-June 2, 2000.
   http://www.bgu.ac.il/me/yosibash/p-FEM2000.html

The DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group
Conference 2000, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 5-8, 2000.
   http://www.asc.hpc.mil/ugc/index.htm

For a more complete listing of upcoming conferences, symposia and
workshops, visit the NCSA CSM Events Calender.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/conferences.html

TRAINING

Applications Programming on ASC MSRC HPC Systems. Covers the basics
of creating and running parallel programs at the Aeronautical Systems
Center MSRC, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 4-5, 2000.
   http://www.asc.hpc.mil/education/training/pl304_04apr00.htm

ARL Global Resource Director Tutorial. Will acquaint users with much
of what they need to know to compute at the Army Research Laboratory
MSRC. Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland, April 18, 2000.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/TUT04.html

EnSight 7 workshop. Presentation will focus on the latest release of
the EnSight visualization packages available to users of the ARL MSRC,
HEAT Center, Aberdeen, Maryland, April 26-27, 2000.
   http://www.arl.hpc.mil/PET/training/VIS08.html

First NASA Workshop on Innovative Finite Element Solutions to
Challenging Problems, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Maryland, May 18, 2000.
   http://analyst.gsfc.nasa.gov/FEMCI/workshop/

RECENT GROUP PUBLICATIONS

"Lateral creep buckling and failure probabilities of linear visco-
elastic beams" by C. E. Beldica and H. H. Hilton, abstract submitted
to the Seventh International Conference on Composites Engineering.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/ICCE-00-abs.pdf

"CAPTools Project Final Report: Evaluation and Application of the
Computer Aided Parallelisation Tools" by D. O'Neal, R. Luczak and
M. White, abstract submitted to the DoD High Performance Computing
Modernization Program Users Group Conference 2000.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/dsc/UGC-00-abs.pdf

For a more complete listing, visit the NCSA CSM Publications page.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SCD/Science/PET/publications/

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS

The Department of Defense (DoD) Human Resource Services Center
features information on a number of student employment programs.
   http://www.hrsc.osd.mil/SpecEmployProg/StudEmp.htm

The Department of Energy (DoE) Jobs website includes links for
student partnership and internship programs and other Federal
job opportunities.
   http://www.hr.doe.gov/pers/doejobs.htm

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Jobs
Information site includes links for a number of student programs.
   http://www.nasajobs.nasa.gov/jobs/student_opportunities/student_opportunities.htm

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Jobs Database
focuses on Internships and Entry Level positions for engineers.
   http://www.asme.org/jobs/

USA Jobs lists summer jobs and internships available at Federal
agencies throughout the United States. Applications are typically
accepted between December 1st and April 15th.
   http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/a7.htm

InternshipPrograms.com features listings for large corporations,
advertising, marketing, and PR firms, government agencies, and
journalism, communications, and sports-related companies.
   http://www.internshipprograms.com/

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

NCSA is actively seeking qualified candidates for the position of
CSM On-Site Lead at the Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland.
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SRC/6346-0001.html

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