<div>Hello,</div><div> </div><div>Dr. Randy Hall recently sent out an email about the Professional Development opportunity for graduate students being held at LSU. I have pasted his email below.</div><div> </div><div>I just wanted to add that I am able to reserve single rooms in the on-campus apartments (East Campus Apartments) at a rate of $45 per night. If you and/or your students would like to stay at ECA for the week, please contact me so that I can reserve a room for you. As a reminder, the home institution is responsible for paying for his or her housing and travel. </div>
<div> </div><div>The deadline to sign up for the workshop is May 30.</div><div> </div><div>Feel free to contact me with any questions,</div><div> </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Leigh </div><div> </div><div> </div><p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p><br>One of our LA-SiGMA outreach components provides professional development opportunities for our graduate students (Strategy 5 under Workforce Development, Page 17 of the proposal). To help accomplish this goal, LSU is hosting a National Computational Science Institute workshop from July 31-August 6, 2011. The workshop, titled: "Introduction to Computational Thinking," is open to all LA-SiGMA graduate students. Registration is now open and I request that you encourage your graduate students to sign up as soon as possible because after May 30 registration will open to other students and schools.</p>
<p>LSU will cover the cost of meals and housing for four instructors, as well as the breakfast and lunch for all workshop participants. Home institutions are responsible for graduate students' housing, travel, and dinner costs. These costs can be covered from each institution's LA-SiGMA travel budget (for details, please contact your campus PI or their designate).</p>
<p>In order to register, please visit the following site:</p><p><a href="http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops2011" target="_blank">http://www.computationalscience.org/workshops2011</a></p><p><br>The LSU workshop is near the bottom of the page, you must create an account to register.</p>
<p>The campus PI or designates are</p><p>LSU: Bety Rodriguez-Milla</p><p>UNO: Scott Whittenburg</p><p>Tulane: Lawrence Pratt</p><p>Xavier: Cheryl Stevens</p><p>Southern: Diola Bagayoko</p><p>La Tech: Ramu Ramachandran</p>
<p> </p><p>Please contact Leigh Townsend with any questions, </p><p>Best regards,</p><p>Randy</p><p>Randall W. Hall</p><p>Professor of Chemistry</p><p>
Louisiana State University</p><p>Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1804</p><p>Email: <a href="mailto:rhall@lsu.edu" target="_blank">rhall@lsu.edu</a> Web: <a href="http://chemistry.lsu.edu/hallPhone" target="_blank">http://chemistry.lsu.edu/hall</a></p>
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Phone</p></a><p>: 225-578-3472 Fax: 225-578-3458 AIM: rwhneauxs<br clear="all"><br>-- <br></p><div><font size="4" face="tahoma,sans-serif">Leigh Townsend</font></div>
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