REU Picture Book
Event
Agenda
Celebrating
20 Years of REU at UCF
REU Picture Book
August
3, 2007
Where:
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8:00
to 9:00
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Breakfast
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9:00
to 9:15
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Kickoff: President Hitt, Provost Hickey, MJ
Soileau, SEECS Director Batarseh, NSF Director DeMenthon, Jamal
Nayfeh
(Welcome, guest introduction, :) |
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9:15
to 10:00
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The
First Decade of
REU:
Mubarak Shah, Kevin Bowyer, Ganapathy
Krishnan
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10:00
to 10:30
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Reception
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10:30
to 11:15
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Panel
session:
Next Steps in Mentoring Undergraduates
in Research (moderated by
Louise Stark, Daniel DeMenthon, Alvin Wang, Adam
Hoover)
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11:15
to 11:45
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From
REU summer project to MIT Ph.D and
to
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11:45
to 12:30
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How
to start a startup?:
Panel discussion by Former REU students moderated by Ganapathy
Krishnan
(Maha Salam, Warren Macchi, Bonnie
Kaiser)
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12:30
to 2:00
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Luncheon (Student
Union)
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2:00
to 3:00
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Poster
Session 1010
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3-15
to 3:45
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The Second Decade of REU: Niels da Vitoria Lobo, Louise Stark, Takis Kasparis, Art Weeks, Marshall Tappen |
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3:45
to 4:15
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Panel Session: Challenges for New Assistant Professors: moderated by R. Kasturi, former REU students: Bill Allen, Melanie Sutton, Min Shin |
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4:15
to 4:45
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How
REU helped me to become a manager at Harris
Corporation:
Jay Hackett
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4:45
to 5:30
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Panel
session:
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7:00
to 9:00
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Banquet (Student Union), Keynote Talk
Ruzena
Bajcsy, UC Berkeley
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List of Attendees Celebrating 20 Years of REU at UCF
PI
Dr. Mubarak Shah
UCF CO-PIs
Dr. Niels da Vitoria Lobo
Dr. Takis Kasparis
Dr. Art Weeks
Non-UCF Co-PIs
Professor Kevin W. Bowyer
Schubmehl-Prein Department Chair
Computer Science and Engineering
University of Notre Dame
Professor Louise Stark
Associate Dean, School of Engineering and Computer Science
Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Computer Engineering
University of Pacific
Dr. Ganapathy Krishnan
UCF Personnel
President John Hitt
Provost Terry Hickey
Vice President of Research MJ Soileau
Executive Associate Dean, CECS, Debra Reinhart
Associate Dean, CECS Academic Affairs, Jamal Nayfeh
Director of EECS Issa Batarseh
Dean, Office of Undergraduate Studies, Alison Morrison-Shetlar
Dean, The Burnett Honors College, Alvin Wang
Keynote Talk
Professor Ruzena Bajcsy
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Distinguished Guests
Dr. Daniel DeMenthon
Program Director
National Science Foundation
Dr. Donna Williams
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Stetson University
Dr. Joan Peckham
Department of Computer Science and Statistics
University of Rhode Island
Dr. Rangachar Kasturi
Douglas W. Hood Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
Former REU Students
Name Affiliation William Allen Assistant Professor - FIT Alison Austin University of Rochester Jigna Bhatt Software Engineer Kyong (Jin) Chang Philips Medical Systems Ankur Datta Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon Univ. Jim Davis Associate Professor - Ohio State David Diel Scientific Systems Co. Inc Todd Gillette Krasnow Institute - George Mason University Jay Hackett Government Communications Systems Division Engineer - Harris Corporation Connie Harper Adam Hoover Associate Professor - Clemson University Christopher Ingrassia Columbia University Madhvi Kansagara Software Engineer - Northrop Grumman Corp. Bonnie Kaiser Medicomp, Inc (www.Medicompinc.com) Alfred Levy Harris Corp. Warren Macchi Abamis IT Solutions Glenn Martin Institute for Simulation & Training, University of Central Florida Merill McKee UCF Rusty Phillips Data Transfer Solutions Jan Prokaj UCF Vladimir Reilly UCF Maha Sallam Vice President, Director of iCAD Christopher Schwarz UCF Min Shin Assistant Professor - UNC Charlotte Paul Smith Northrop Grumman Michael Sollami Analyst, Warisan Capital Melanie Sutton Associate Professor - University of West Florida