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1. Michigan Tech Teams Score Big at NMU Programming Contest |
The Michigan Tech team "COME FROM Considered Harmful" took first place and Michigan Tech placed first overall in the Seventh Annual Northern Michigan University Invitational Programming contest Saturday, March 18. The overall first place trophy was awarded to Michigan Tech based on the scores of the top three teams from each school.
Michigan Tech was represented by eight three-person teams, sponsored by the Department of Computer Science. The contest was organized by the NMU student chapter of the Association for
Computing Machinery and drew 52 students and 19 teams from five schools.
* Algoma University College, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
* Lake Superior State University
* Michigan Tech
* Northern Michigan University
* University of Wisconsin--Green Bay
The full results of the competition are available at http://euclid.nmu.edu/~apoe/NMUCONTEST7 . |
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2. Visiting Women and Minority Lecturer/Scholar Application Deadline Extended |
Submitted by Chris S. Anderson
The Visiting Women and Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series application deadline has been extended to March 27. Contact Carol Argentati (caargent@mtu.edu or 487-3539) if you have questions or need an application package. |
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3. Custom Office Supplies Available from Design and Publications |
Need business cards? Envelopes? Letterhead? Design and Publications provides university offices and departments with just about any type of pre-printed paper product. For a list of typical items and their prices, visit http://www.mtu.edu/uc/design.pdf (this is a pdf file).
For more information, contact Mechelle Normand at 487-2360 or mnormand@mtu.edu.
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4. "Henry V" Performances Start Wednesday |
Submitted by the Department of Fine Arts
The fine arts department will present five performances of Shakespeare's compelling and timely play "Henry V" directed by Assistant Professor Christopher Plummer (Fine Arts). The performances will be held in McArdle Theatre (in Walker), beginning Wednesday, at 7:30 p.m. Performances will be held through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.
Tickets are on sale at the Rozsa Box Office (487-3200), on the web ( http://tickets.mtu.edu ), and at the door for $10 for the general public and $5 for students.
This is a rare chance to see one of Shakespeare's most popular history plays in a fine live performance. A cast of 30 students and community members, including Christopher Schwartz as King Henry V, join crews of costumers, electricians, sound engineers, carpenters and painters to bring the world of "Henry V" to life in the intimate setting of McArdle Theatre.
Moving from England to France, from palace to tavern to encampments and battlefields, Shakespeare presents politics, personalities and especially the psychology of war so shrewdly that "Henry V" is quoted today by people from every point on the political spectrum. One researcher found excerpts from "Henry V" on the reading lists of Pentagon training courses and in many graduate-level courses in leadership and public policy at America's universities, as well as in editorials and news articles.
Meanwhile, the play delights audiences with its live action, intrigue, fascinating characters from all levels of society and (this being Shakespeare) comedy.
As always, Shakespeare invites audiences to join him in close analysis of what people do and say. From the immortal rogue Falstaff and his cronies, to leaders faced with hard choices and powerful enemies, to the Battle of Agincourt itself, Shakespeare crafts fascinating scenes and asks the audience enthusiastically to participate with active imaginations.
Assistant Professor Mary Carol Friedrich (Fine Arts) designed set and costumes for the play and supervised lighting design by students in Michigan Tech's technical theater program. Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism assisted with armor and weapons. Plummer designed the sound and music for the play. Tara Smith is the stage manager.
More information on the play is available from the Fine Arts Office, 487-2067. |
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5. "The Night of All Nations" April 1 |
International Club will hold its annual international night, "Night of All Nations," on Saturday, April 1. This event is a showcase of the global cultural diversity that Michigan Tech offers to the Upper Peninsula. Everyone is invited to get together with students and scholars from around the world and celebrate the unique cultures that enrich the Michigan Tech campus and community.
The evening will begin with an international dinner featuring a "global platter" prepared by international students and served in the Memorial Union commons from 4:45 to 6:45 p.m. The dinner will feature a sampling of native cuisines, including African efo vegetable soup, Japanese sushi, South American fajitas (beef and vegetarian), Turkish kisir (bulgar salad), Vietnamese egg rolls (chicken) and Turkish Delight dessert.
The night continues at 7 p.m. at the Rosza Center where a multitude of cultural performances from Turkey, Mexico, China, India, Japan, Africa, Bolivia and the United States will be featured. International and U.S. students from Michigan Tech and Houghton elementary and high schools will team up to present a phenomenal cultural show. The evening will be capped by an international fashion show highlighting the fabric, colors and artistry of folk and modern dresses.
Michigan Tech hosts over 600 international students from 82 countries. International Club is an umbrella organization which represents all international students.
Tickets are $10 for students and $15 for the general public. Prices include dinner and the show. Performance-only tickets are also available for $3. Tickets are available at the Memorial Union, Rozsa Center and the Office of International Programs and Services. |
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6. Cultivating Campus Cultures Panel Discussion March 30 |
A panel discussion, "Cultivating Campus Cultures that Value Student Success," will be held on Thursday, March 30, 1-3 p.m., in the ATDC Conference Room.
The culture of any organization has an enormous influence on what happens to its members. Anyone who is seriously contemplating making our campus more effective in promoting learning and success in our first-year students must consider the powerful role played by campus culture. Before initiating change, we need to understand what works and what doesn't.
What does Tech value? What people and activities are celebrated? Do our standard operating procedures reflect what our mission says is desirable? Do you feel change is necessary to achieve campus goals, but feel powerless to accomplish it?
Join the panelists, who have successfully influenced campus cultures, as they tackle these and other fundamental questions and offer strategies to broach this all-important conversation on your campus.
For more information, visit the Student Affairs Professional Development site at http://www.sa.mtu.edu/vp/prof_dev.html or The National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition at http://www.sc.edu/fye/ .
Contact Kevin Czupinski at kdczupin@mtu.edu to RSVP for this event. There is still plenty of room. |
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7. Computer Science Seminar Friday |
Professor Steve Carr (Computer Science) will give a seminar, "Path-Based Reuse Distance Analysis," Friday at 3 p.m. in Rekhi G09.
Profiling can effectively analyze program behavior and provide critical information for feedback-directed or dynamic optimizations. Based on memory profiling, reuse distance analysis has shown much promise in predicting data locality for a program using inputs other than the profiled ones. Both whole-program and instruction-based locality can be accurately predicted by reuse distance analysis.
Reuse distance analysis abstracts a cluster of memory references for a particular instruction having similar reuse distance values into a locality pattern. Prior work has shown that a significant number of memory instructions have multiple locality patterns, a property not desirable for many instruction-based memory optimizations. This presentation investigates the relationship between locality patterns and execution paths by analyzing reuse distance distribution along each dynamic path to an instruction. Here a path is defined as the program execution trace from the previous access of a memory location to the current access. By differentiating locality patterns with the context of execution paths, the proposed analysis can expose optimization opportunities tailored only to a specific subset of paths leading to an instruction.
In this presentation, Carr gives an effective method for path-based reuse distance profiling and analysis. A significant percentage of the multiple locality patterns for an instruction can be uniquely related to a particular execution path in the program. In addition, he has investigated the influence of inputs on reuse distance distribution for each path/instruction pair. The experimental results show that the path-based reuse distance is highly predictable, as a function of the data size, for a set of SPEC CPU2000 programs. |
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8. New Funding |
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Associate Professor Judith Perlinger (CEE/RSI) received $156,865 from the Great Lakes Commission for "Measurement and Modeling of PBT Transport in Lake Superior." |
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9. Job Postings |
The following job descriptions are available in the Human Resources Office. For more information, call 487-2280, email jobs@mtu.edu or go to http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/postings .
Admissions Representative--Admissions Office (regular, full-time, nine-month position; based in the North Central/Northeast Wisconsin area)
System Administrator--University Career Center/Alumni Relations
Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer. |
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