From: Daniel Okunbor Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:32:34 -0600 (CST) Subject: NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates NSF Undergraduate Summer Research Institute Department of Computer Science University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, Missouri Topic: Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra June 8 - July 31 Stipend: $2000 Room and board are paid and travel allowance will be provided. Program Coordinators: Dr. Daniel Okunbor & Dr. Fikret Ercal The goal of this project is to take a group of undergraduate students each year, who have had limited or no opportunities for research, and provide them with a significant research experience that will stimulate their interest in mathematical and computational sciences to the point that they will react positively to the possibility of attending graduate school for further education and research in mathematics related areas. The project is selected to illustrate methods of research that will take the students progressively from the definition of the problem, through the statement of objectives, literature search, and the actual research, to the point of writing up their results and conclusions. In this project, students will be given an opportunity to do research in the area of numerical algorithms for problems arising from different areas in science and engineering. In particular, students will be involved in the design, analysis, and implementation of parallel numerical algorithms for the solution of large sparse linear systems, eigenvalue, least squares, optimization problems. This research will necessarily involve investigating the current literature in these areas as well as the parallel architectures that can be utilized for this project. In the instructional phase of the project, students will also learn mathematical concepts in numerical linear algebra, message passing interface (MPI) and C programming language with appropriate language extensions to provide a means of implementing the parallel numerical algorithms on parallel processors. For further information and application form visit http://www.umr.edu/~okunbor/reu/ -- Department of Computer Science University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, MO 65401 phone: 573-341-4726 fax: 573-341-4501 okunbor@cs.umr.edu