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PRIMEPacific Rim Experiences for
Undergraduate
24 November 2008
Information Session
Gabriele Wienhausen
Peter Arzberger
Overview
• PRIME and Rationale
• What PRIME’s goals are!
• What’s new this year!
• Some previous students insights
• Logistics / eligibility issues
• Your questions
• PRAGMA Overview
The Stakes are High
• “What nations don’t know can hurt them. The stakes involved in study abroad are that simple, that straightforward, and that important. … college graduates today must be internationally competent.” [Lincoln Report 2005]
Why Should We Care?• “Most of the major problems
facing our country in the 21st Century require every young person to learn more about the world’s regions, cultures, and languages.” [Colin Powell]
• Our society is heterogeneous, multicultural
• Less than 1% of US undergraduates in US study abroad [IIE AnnRep05]
• “Diverse teams are more creative and find better solutions than homogeneous teams.” Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila.
• Students must be prepared to compete globally for jobs and opportunities
Pacific Rim Experiences for Undergraduate (PRIME)
Providing students international interdisciplinary Research Apprenticeships and
Cultural Competency Learning Experiences
Begun in 2004 as
a proof of concept for honing undergraduate research and cultural competency skills
an intensive international experiential learning experience
PRIME: A Project for Global Engagement
• Built on top of PRAGMA people network and activities for Undergraduate Research:– Summer Research Internship in a host country laboratory– Mentors in US and Abroad– Pre-/Post experience research opportunities – Cultural pre-/during-/post-activity awareness component
(use www.pacific.edu/culture)– Professional development seminars
PR
IME
Class
2008
Currently there are 4 host sites: Osaka, NCHC, Monash, CNIC;New in 2008: USM, NTU, U Auckland, U Waikato, New 2009 U Hyderabad;
And new US mentoring sites: U WI
U ZurichSwitzerland
UoHydIndia
USMMalaysia
NCHCTaiwan
Monash UAustralia
U AucklandU Waikato
New Zealand
CNICChina
Source Cindy Zheng
U WIUSA
Osaka UJapan
PRIME Host and Mentor SitesResearch Apprenticeship; Cultural Experience
UCSDUSA
Five Years of PRIME 70 Students, 8 sites, Engineering and Science
2004 2005
2006
2007 2008
What can you get out of this?
• Research experience and apprenticeship
• Cultural training and experience
• Travel
• More: such as opportunity to present results at national professional meetings
PRIME Projects• Projects (some from 2006,2007,2008)
– Avian Flu (CNIC, Malaysia)– Virtual Screening (Osaka, Malaysia, Monash)– Quantum Chemistry (Monash)– Tile display walls (CNIC, NCHC, Osaka, Monash)– 3d video teleconferencing (Osaka, NCHC)– Cardiac Modeling (Monash)– Imaging Pipeline (Osaka)– Computational materials modeling (NCHC, Monash)– Environmental Modeling and Sensors (NCHC, Waikato)– Computer science (All)
• Mixture of new projects and continuing ones
Source:L. Cheng et al
Source: A. Altshuler, I Wu Source: P. Pham et al.
Source: E. Liu
Source: D. JacksonA.Pierce
Source: R ChuD. Tenedorio
PRIME at SC08 and IEEE escience• Identification of a Specific Inhibitor for
the Dual-Specificity Enzyme SSH-2 via Docking Experiments on the Grid. Pham, Phil; Marshall Levesque (UCSD); Kohei Ichikawa, Susumu Date (Osaka), Jason Haga (UCSD).
• Virtual Screening for SHP-2 Specific Inhibitors Using Grid Computing. Han, Simon X; Marshall Levesque (UCSD); Kohei Ichikawa, Susumu Date (Osaka), Jason Haga (UCSD).
• Optimized Rendering for a Three-Dimensional Videoconferencing System. Chu, Rachel, Daniel Tenedorio, Jurgen Schulze (UCSD); Susumu Date, Seiki Kuwabara, Atsushi Nakazawa, Haruo Takemura (Osaka); Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC).
Publications and Software• Levesque JL, Ichikawa K, Date S, Haga JH. Design of a Grid Service-based Platform for In
Silico Protein-Ligand Screening. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (accepted Aug08).
• Cheng LS, Amaro RE, Xu D, Li WW, Arzberger PW, McCammon JA. Ensemble-based Virtual Screening Reveals Novel Antiviral Compounds for Avian Influenza Neuraminidase. JMC. (Accepted April 2008)
• Amaro R, Minh DDL, Cheng L, Olson A, Lin JH, Li W, McCammon J, Remarkable Loop Flexibility in Avian Influenza N1 and its Implications for Antiviral Drug Design, JACS ASAP Web Release Date: 01-Jun-2007
• Abramson D, Amoreira C, Baldridge K, Berstis L, Kondrick C, Peachey TC. A Flexible Framework for Protein-Ligand Docking, 2nd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Dec. 4- 6, 2006, Amsterdam, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos USA, pp. 1-8.
• Sudholt W, Baldridge K, Abramson D, Enticott C, Garic S, Kondrick C, Nguyen D. Application of Grid Computing to Parameter Sweeps and Optimizations in Molecular Modeling. Future Generation Computer Systems (Invited), 2005. 21, 27-35.
• Poster at Biophysics Soc. Feb 08(S. Amirriazi, S. Chang)• Cytoscape Plug In: Hyperbolic Layout Plugin
(Robert Ikeda)• Improved Software
(Covise – D. Jackson, A. Pierce)
Four and Five Years Later
“visiting Taiwan made me realize that there is a whole world outside of the United States”
Robert Ikeda, CS PhD Program, Stanford
http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1413
“Without question, PRIME was the most influential experience I had during my time as an undergraduate at UCSD”John Colby, MD PhD Program, UCLA
“I came to understand my family better, which really is to understand myself better." Shirley Lee, quality engineer, Abbott Vascular
“the PRIME program truly changed my life!" Laura Berstis, CompChem PhD Program U Zurich
YouTube
PRIME 2008 Video
PRIME 2007 VideoPRIME 2006 Video
http://www.youtube.com/Calit2ube
PRIME Research
Eligibility
• US Citizen or permanent resident– With a valid passport or the ability to acquire a valid
passport prior to April 2009– Visa requirements are the responsibility of the
student • Full time student• Typically completed sophomore year before
going• GPA of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0)• Return to UCSD as enrolled student for at least
one quarter• Expected to devote at least 4 hours / week
preparing in Spring Quarter!
Application Materials
• Application Form (web site)
• Personal statement
• Proposed Activity
• Letter of recommend from UCSD and Host mentor
• CV, Transcript, personal references
• Agreement to – Spend 4 hours a week prior to departure
working in UCSD mentors lab– Participate in future information sessions
Timelines
• January – Info Session 2 (food)– 14 January 2009 (tentative)
• Preliminary Application (application form)– 23 January 2009 Friday
• Application Deadline– 20 February 2009 Friday
• Decisions before Spring Quarter– Interviews weeks of 2 and 9 March 2009– Decisions week of 23 March 2009
• Depart a week to 10 days after Spring Quarter ends
Program Pays for What?
• Program Expenses– Airfare (round trip)– Lodging – 9 weeks– Food (student fare) – 9 weeks– Transportation (depending on location)– Enrollment in summer session at UCSD for
one unit of credit, via AIP• Students will enroll in AIP, receive a unit of credit
and a transcript notation.
New Opportunities Summer 2009
• Geosciences and computer and computational sciences– University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad India
• Participate in Study in India Program (SIP)
SIP Students at Golconda Fort SIP Students in front of the University Main Gate
SIP Students performing at a cultural evening
A Final Thought
• “Peace and prosperity around the world depend on increasing the capacity of people to think and work on a global and intercultural basis. As technology opens borders, educational and professional exchange opens minds.”[i]
•
[i] Annual Report IIE 2005, and http://www.iie.org/ “About”
prime.ucsd.edu
Comments from Prior PRIME Students
Comments from PRIME Mentors
Questions from Prospective PRIME Student
Questions
• How do I find a mentor?
• Am I really able to do this, since I don’t know much about grid computing?
• Why should I apply?
PRIME 2009 OverviewELIGIBILITY• US Citizen or permanent resident
– with a valid passport or the ability to acquire a valid passport prior to April 2009
– Visa requirements are the responsibility of the student
• Full time student• Typically completed sophomore year, junior
status before going• GPA of at least 3.0 (out of 4.0)• Return to UCSD as enrolled student for at
least one quarter• Expected to devote at least 4 hours / week
preparing in Spring Quarter!
APPLICATION MATERIALS• Application Form (web site)• Personal statement• Proposed Activity• Letter from UCSD and Host mentor• CV, Transcript, personal references• Agreement to
– Spend 4 hours a week prior to departure working in UCSD mentors lab
– Participate in future information sessions
TIMELINES• Nov 24 2008 - Info Session,
• CSE 1202, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm• January – Info Session 2
– Week of 12 January 2009 – TDB• Preliminary Application
– 23 January 2008 Friday• Application Deadline
– 20 February 2008 Friday• Decisions before Spring Quarter
– Interviews week of 2 March 2009– Decisions week of 23 March 2009
• Depart 7- 10 days after Spring Quarter ends
PROGRAM LOCATIONS: Osaka, JP; Hsinchu, TW; Melbourne, AU; Beijing, CN; Penang, MY; Hyderabad, IN; Hamilton, NZ
prime.ucsd.edu• UCSD Mentors• Projects from Previous years• Host Sites and Mentors• Application Forms• YouTube Video; Student Experienceswww.pragma-grid.net• PRAGMA Collaborative Overview
(projects)
PROGRAM SUPPORT• Expenses Covered by PRIME
– Airfare (round trip); Lodging – 9 weeks; Food (student fare) – 9 weeks
– Enrollment in summer session at UCSD for one unit of credit, via AIP
PRAGMA• Practical Framework
for Collaboration• 35 Institutions
around the Pacific Rim
• Catalyze collabora-tions to advance science using grid technology
• Foundation for PRIME
www.pragma-grid.net
Strengthen Existing and Establish New Collaborations
Work with Science Teams to
Advance Grid Technologies and Improve the Underlying
Infrastructure
In the Pacific Rim and Globally
PRAGMA
http://www.pragma-grid.net
A Practical Collaborative Framework
IOIT-VN
PRAGMA GridPRAGMA Grid
27 institutions in 17 countries/regions, 24 compute sites (+ 14 in preparation)Active Participation
UZHSwitzerland
NECTECThaiGridThailand
UoHydIndia
MIMOSUSMMalaysia
CUHKHongKong
ASGCNCHCTaiwa
n
HCMUTHUTIOIT-HCMVietnam
AISTOsakaUUTsukubaTITechJapan
BIIIHPCNGONTUSingapore
MUAustralia
APACQUTAustralia
KISTIKorea
JLUChina
SDSCUSA
CICESEMexico
UNAMMexico
UChileChile
UUtahUSA
NCSAUSA BU
USA
CeNAT-ITCRCosta Rica
BESTGridNew Zealand
CNICGUCA
SChina
LZUChina
UPRMPuerto Rico
UZHSwitzerland
LZUChina
ASTIPhilippines
SKUUIIndonesia
Working Groups: Organize ActivitiesResources Biosciences
GEOTelescience
Gfarm File System
applications
databases
/gfs/$USER
NAMDAutoDock
Zinc NCIDS
Virtual Directory Tree
H5N1 related glycan conformation analysis
using M*Grid and Glyco-M*Grid
Relaxed Complex Method Molecular
Dynamics Simulation Data Sets & Database
Virtual Screening Data Sets & Database
PRAGMA PortalMy WorkSphere
CSF4 Server
HPC Clusters, NBCR,
TeraGrid, MHPCC
Mr. Bayes
Oct 2008