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Department to sponsor hack-a-thon

Details: Created: Friday, 17 February 2017 18:59; Last Updated: Monday, 13 February 2017 11:58

The Department of Scientific Computing announces its sponsorship of this year’s HackFSU event to be held Friday, February 17 through Sunday, February 19, 2017 at Dirac Science Library.

The event will begin with an opening ceremony, then students and recent graduates will have 30 hours to meet partners, create teams, determine skill sets, brainstorm an idea, and build a software application or hardware project from start to finish. In fact, participants may implement any concept that is computer related – hardware, software, mobile apps, or web design. After working through the weekend, HackFSU will conclude with closing ceremonies Sunday afternoon.

Slice lab to deliver morphometrics workshop

Details: Created: Tuesday, 07 February 2017 16:31; Last Updated: Sunday, 12 March 2017 14:32

Professor Dennis Slice and his lab are traveling to New Orleans, LA, February 13, 2017 to present their research at an all day workshop. Slice will present his work on estimation of age at death in forensic anthropology from 8:30-4:30pm at the 69th annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Sockwell finalist for paper prize

Details: Created: Friday, 27 January 2017 08:56; Last Updated: Friday, 03 February 2017 13:26

SC grad student Chad Sockwell has been named one of eight finalists for the Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering Student Paper Prize to be awarded at the SIAM Computational Science & Engineering Conference in Atlanta. The prize will be awarded for outstanding student work in the field of computational science and engineering.