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Summer Undergraduate Interns Arrive The Supercomputer Institute welcomed its summer interns to the program on Wednesday, June 19, 1996 with an orientation session and social hour. The interns come from diverse academic backgrounds but share an interest in science and computational approaches to solving problems in engineering, physics, chemistry, mathematics, and biochemistry. They come from colleges and universities across the nation, including Brown University, University of California-Berkeley, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (New York City), Harvard University, Princeton University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, University of Minnesota, and Augsburg College. There were 155 applications for this summer's program and appointments were made for 14 applicants. Of those, eight are from outside of Minnesota, one is from a Minnesota college other than the University of Minnesota, and five are from the University of Minnesota. The National Science Foundation provides support. Description and History of Program The Supercomputer Insitute's Undergraduate Internship Program in Scientific Computing and Graphics was started in 1990. It provides special opportunities for undergraduate participation in the Supercomputer Institute's state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research programs. During the summer, interns work 40 hours per week, immersing themselves in high-performance computing research as it relates to their field of interest. The goal of this program is to attract talented undergraduates to science and engineering careers, to encourage undergraduates to attend graduate school in science and engineering, and to enhance undergraduate education. All interns work closely under the direction of their faculty project supervisor and the supervisor's research group. Project Descriptions Following is an introduction to our summer interns, including brief descriptions of the projects they are working on. Linda Addis, a junior at the University of Minnesota majoring in Chemical Engineering is working in Professor Chris Cramer's chemistry research group on a project titled "Stereochemical Effects on Equilibria and Reaction Kinetics" Also working in chemistry is Molli Noland, a junior at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. Noland is majoring in Computational Mathematics and is a member of Professor Donald Truhlar's research group working on a project involving correlated capped subsystem methods for direct dynamics calculations on large systems. Marwane Berrada, a Mechanical Engineering junior at the University of Minnesota is doing research with Professor Joachim Heberlein on "Thermophysical Properties of Mixtures." Kevin Chou is an Electrical Engineering junior at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. He is working with Professor Ahmed Sameh in the Department of Computer Science. Their work involves developing and optimizing algorithms for solving the symmetric indefinite linear systems that arise from constrained optimization problems. Steven Clayton, a junior at the University of Minnesota majoring in Physics, is working with Professor J. Woods Halley on a project entitled "Simulations of Chemical and Cryogenic Systems." We note that Clayton successfully concluded a different project in Spring Quarter in which he developed a keyword-controlled input protocol for direct dynamics calculations with the POLYRATE direct dynamics code under the direction of Professor Donald Truhlar of the Chemistry Department and University of Minnesota Supercomputer Institute Research Scholar Laura Coitiño. G. Stuart Mendenhall is a Harvard junior majoring in Chemistry and Physics. His faculty supervisor for the summer is Professor Professor Leonard Banaszak, Department of Biochemistry. Their project is titled "Computer-Assisted Interpretation of X-Ray Diffraction Data in Protein Crystallography." Elizaveta Pachepsky, a junior at the University of Rochester majoring in Mathematics is working on a fractals project with Professor David Yuen's Geology and Geophysics research group. Julie Patterson comes to Minnesota from Princeton University where she is a junior majoring in Chemical Engineering. She is working with Professor David Ferguson in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry on a project which involves the simulation of HIV proteins. There are two interns working in the field of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. They are Larye Pohlman, an Augsburg College junior majoring in Physics, and Natasha Shekdar, a senior at Brown University majoring in Civil Engineering. Pohlman is working with Professor Graham Candler on a project titled "Simulation of Chemically Reacting Flows." Shekdar is working in Professor Tayfun Tezduyar's research group. Their work involves parallel finite element simulations of fluid flow applications. Agustinus Sutandi is a junior at the University of Minnesota majoring in Chemical and Electrical Engineering. Sutandi is working with Professor Jeffrey Derby's Chemical Engineering research group. Their project involves developing visualization software for finite element models of materials processing systems Vincent Voelz is a senior at the University of Minnesota majoring in Math and Physics. He is working with Professor David Thomas, Biochemistry (Medical School). Their project involves supercomputer simulations of muscle molecular biophysics to augment their laboratory work on force generation and movement in muscle. Danny Yang is a senior from Harvard working with Professor Bill Gleason on a project titled "Homology Modeling Studies of Oncogenic Heparin-Binding Proteins Based on Crystal Structures of Fibroblast Growth Factors." For more information on the Supercomputer Institute's Summer Undergraduate Internship Program, please contact the Undergraduate Internship Coordinator. Coordinator You may also reference our Internship Program World Wide Web page.
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