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EduPDHPC-13 Technical Program

EduPDHPC-13 Technical Program


Venue: ROOM 708/710/712

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10:30am - 10:35am Introductory Remarks from Workshop Chair
    Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University
10:35am - 11:20am Keynote
Session Chair: Arnold L. Rosenberg

Taming Asynchrony Without Losing It
    Laxmikant (Sanjay) Kale, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    (slides)

11:20am - 12:00pm Experience
Session Chair: Arnold L. Rosenberg

A Curricular Experience With Parallel Computational Thinking: A Four Years Journey
    Edusmildo Orozco, Rafael Arce-Nazario, Jose Ortiz-Ubarri and Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
    (paper)

Integrating Parallel Computing into the Undergraduate Curriculum at Texas State University: Experiences from the First Year.
    Martin Burtscher, Wuxu Peng, Apan Qasem, Hongchi Shi, Dan Tamir (Texas satet University, San Marcos, Texas) and Heather Thiry (University of Colorado, Boulder), Texas State University and University of Colorado
    (paper)

12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 2:00pm Invited Talk
Session Chair: Alan Sussman

An Industry Perspective on Parallel, Distributed, and High-Performance Computing in Undergraduate Curricula for future Employment
    Kirk Jordan, IBM Watson Research Lab
    (abstract, bio)

2:00pm - 3:00pm Pedagogy
Session Chair: Alan Sussman

PDC Algorithmics that “Stays with You”: A Proposal for the Core Undergraduate Curriculum
    Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern University
    (paper)

Teaching parallel programming to undergrads with hands-on experience
    Rainer Keller, Hochschule fuer Technik Stuttgart -- University of Applied Science, Germany
    (paper)

Toward Revamping Discrete Structures: Concurrency through Functional / Constraint Programming Integration
    Bruce Bolick, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Charles Jacobsen and Tony Tuttle, University of Utah
    (paper)

3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30pm - 4:00pm Invited Talks
Session Chair: Sushil Prasad

NSF Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Education in Computing
    Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova, National Science Foundation
    (slides)

Resources for Parallel Computing and Computational Science Education
    Steve Gordon, Xsede and Ohio Supercomputing Center
    (abstract, slides)

4:00pm - 5:15pm Panel on Undergraduate Core PDC Curricular Issues Facing Industry and Academia
Moderator: Sushil Prasad

Panelists
    Joel Adams, Calvin College
    Almadena Y. Chtchelkanova, NSF
    Mark Ebersole, NVIDIA
    Dennis Gannon, Microsoft
    Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University
    Michael Wolfe, Portland Group (PGI)
    Michael Wrinn, Intel

5:15pm - 6:00pm BOF Session on Early Adoption and Instructional Material
Session Chairs: Sushil Prasad, Alan Sussman and Arnold Rosenberg