| 2007 SIAM CS&E Meeting |
These sessions are focussed on structural and programmatic issues involved in the task of training graduate students and postdocs and career issues for young researchers intending to work in CS&E. Each session is centered on a discussion session conducted by a panel and led by a moderator. The panel will be preceded by a set of short presentations that are intended to seed the discussion. Additional panelists are included to provide a counterpoint to the presentations.
| R. Baird (NIH) | B. Beckner (UT Austin) | A. Bertozzi (UCLA) |
| P. Bochev (Sandia) | R. Caflisch (UCLA) | G. Carey (UT Austin) |
| J. Cary (Tech-X, U. Colorado) | P. Collela (LBNL) | P. Cook (U. Delaware) |
| P. Cummings (ORNL, Vanderbilt U.) | J. Curry (U. Colorado) | A. Deane (DOE) |
| J. Deang (Lockheed-Martin) | D. Estep (Colorado State U.) | D. Ewing (Texas A&M) |
| F. Fahroo (AFOSR) | J. Fish (RPI) | R. Ghanem (USC) |
| O. Ghattas (UT Austin) | G. Guirguis (SAS Institute) | M. Gunzburger (Florida State U.) |
| B. Hendrickson (Sandia) | T. Herdman (Virginia Tech) | M. Holst (UCSD) |
| M. Hyman (LANL) | C. Johnson (U. Utah) | D. Keyes (Columbia U.) |
| J. Lowengrub (UC Irvine) | D. Levermore (U. Maryland) | R. Mclaughlin (U. North Carolina) |
| C. Moler (The Mathworks) | S. Nash (NSF) | D. Rhoten (NSF) |
| T. Russell (NSF) | M. Shephard (RPI) | J. Stewart (Sandia) |
| G. Strang (MIT) | H. Tchelepi (Stanford) | J. Tribbia (NCAR) |
| J. Wang (NSF) | M. Wheeler (UT Austin) | C. Woodward (LLNL) |
In this session, we explore the skills and training that are required to create the foundation for a successful career in the national laboratories and industry. The presentations will touch on professional life in a CS&E working environment in a laboratory or a company, typical training hurdles for new employees, criteria used to evaluate new employees, and ideas about training that CS&E programs could provide.
| Presenters: | J. Cary (Tech-X and U. of Colorado at Boulder) | |
| P. Cummings (Oak Ridge Nat. Lab., Vanderbilt U.) | ||
| J. Deang (Lockheed-Martin) | ||
| G. Guirguis (SAS) | ||
| M. Hyman (Los Alamos Nat. Lab.) | ||
| C. Moler (MathWorks) | ||
| J. Stewart (Sandia Nat. Lab.) | ||
| H. Tchelepi (Stanford U., formerly Chevron Petroleum Tech.) | ||
| J. Tribbia (Nat. Center for Atmospheric Research) | ||
| Additional panelists: | none | |
| Moderator: | B. Hendrickson (Sandia Nat. Lab.) | |
| Format: | 10 minute presentation, discussion panel |
In this session, we explore possible career paths in CS&E. The presentations will provide personal perspectives on achieving a successful career in CS&E and the variety of routes that lead to success. The discussion will touch on topics such as: Where should CS&E graduates go after they graduate? How can potential employers be connected to CS&E graduates? What are the long term prospects for a career in CS&E?.
| Presenters: | P. Bochev (Sandia Nat. Lab.) | |
| (academia ® research laboratory) | ||
| G. Carey (U. of Texas at Austin) | ||
| (industry ® academic applied mathematics ® engineering) | ||
| J. Cary (Tech-X and U. of Colorado at Boulder) | ||
| (academia and industry together) | ||
| M. Holst (U. of California San Diego) | ||
| (computer science, CS&E ® mathematics) | ||
| D. Keyes (Columbia U.) | ||
| (research laboratories ® academia) | ||
| J. Stewart (Sandia Nat. Lab.) | ||
| (industry ® research laboratory) | ||
| Additional panelists: | J. Deang (Lockheed-Martin) | |
| C. Moler (Mathworks) | ||
| Moderator: | P. Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Nat. Lab.) | |
| Format: | 10 minute presentations, discussion panel |
In this session, we explore the relations between CS&E programs and traditional disciplinary programs in a university. Questions to be addressed include: How do existing traditional course requirements affect CS&E programs? How can interdisciplinary courses be incorporated into departmental course structures, or otherwise in the universities? What preparation is needed in the home discipline and how can that be accommodated into a CS&E program? How should disciplinary course structures and requirements evolve in the future? What are the impacts of disciplinary degree rules and requirements on CS&E students? How should disciplinary procedures evolve?
| Presenters: | J. Curry (U. of Colorado at Boulder) | |
| M. Holst (U. of California San Diego) | ||
| D. Levermore (U. of Maryland at College Park) | ||
| J. Fish (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.) | ||
| G. Strang (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology) | ||
| Additional panelists: | A. Bertozzi (U. California Los Angeles) | |
| O. Ghattas (U. of Texas at Austin) | ||
| R. Mclaughlin (U. of North Carolina) | ||
| Moderator: | J. Lowengrub (U. of California Irvine) | |
| Format: | 10 minute presentations, panel discussion |
This session will expose issues in training students and conducting research in a team-based environment. Questions to be addressed include: How can training in team-based research take place in traditional university settings? How can team-based research be included in theses? How can contributions to team-based research be evaluated by traditional disciplinary departments?
| Presenters: | A. Bertozzi (U. of California Los Angeles) | |
| R. Caflisch (U. of California Los Angeles) | ||
| M. Shephard (Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.) | ||
| M. Wheeler (U. of Texas at Austin) | ||
| C. Woodward (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab.) | ||
| Additional panelists: | D. Ewing (Texas A&M U.) | |
| D. Estep (Colorado State U.) | ||
| G. Carey (U. of Texas at Austin) | ||
| Moderator: | C. Johnson (U. of Utah) | |
| Format: | 10 minute presentations, discussion panel |
This session is devoted to exposing barriers to CS&E activities and programs. Questions to be considered include: How are CS&E programs affected by the lack of flexibility in traditional universities? What funding, hiring, tenure, and promotion issues affect CS&E programs? How do space issues affect CS&E programs? How are students, postdocs, and faculty affected by the barriers? What benefits accrue to traditional disciplinary programs as a result of participating in interdisciplinary programs? What are barriers to winning external support for interdisciplinary research activities?
| Presenters: | P. Cook (U. of Delaware) | |
| D. Ewing (Texas A&M U.) | ||
| M. Gunzburger (Florida State U.) | ||
| C. Johnson (U. of Utah) | ||
| T. Herdman (Virginia Tech.) | ||
| B. Beckner (U. of Texas at Austin) | ||
| Additional Panelists: | R. Caflisch (U. of California Los Angeles) | |
| R. Ghanem (U. of Southern California) | ||
| J. Lowengrub (U. of California Irvine) | ||
| R. Mclaughlin (U. of North Carolina) | ||
| Moderator: | D. Estep (Colorado State U.) | |
| Format: | 15 minute presentations, panel discussion |
In this session, representatives from various funding agencies will give their perspective and experience with supporting students and postdocs in CS&E and encouraging faculty, especially young faculty, to initiate new activity in CS&E.
| Participants: | R. Baird (Division of Interdisciplinary Training, NIH) |
| A. Deane (Math., Information, and Comput. Sciences, Department of Energy) | |
| F. Fahroo (Comput. Math., Air Force Office of Scientific Research) | |
| S. Nash (Direct. for Engineering, National Science Foundation) | |
| D. Rhoten (Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation) | |
| T. Russell (Div. of Mathematical Sci., National Science Foundation) | |
| J. Wang (Div. of Mathematical Sci., National Science Foundation) | |
| Moderator: | O. Ghattas (U. of Texas at Austin) |
| Format: | 10 minute presentations, panel discussion |