PRIME Pacific 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 –Professional development seminars PRIME 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 Zurich Switzerland UoHyd India USM Malaysia NCHC Taiwan Monash U Australia U Auckland U Waikato New Zealand CNIC China Source Cindy Zheng U WI USA Osaka U Japan PRIME Host and Mentor Sites Research Apprenticeship; Cultural Experience UCSD USA

Five Years of PRIME 70 Students, 8 sites, Engineering and Science

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. Jackson A.Pierce Source: R Chu D. 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 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), , 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 “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 Video PRIME 2006 Video

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] [i] Annual Report IIE 2005, and “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 Overview 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, 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 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 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 Experiences 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

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 pragma -grid.net A Practical Collaborative Framework IOIT-VN

PRAGMA Grid 27 institutions in 17 countries/regions, 24 compute sites (+ 14 in preparation) Active Participation UZH Switzerland NECTEC ThaiGrid Thailand UoHyd India MIMOS USM Malaysia CUHK HongKong ASGC NCHC Taiwan HCMUT HUT IOIT-HCM Vietnam AIST OsakaU UTsukuba TITech Japan BII IHPC NGO NTU Singapore MU Australia APAC QUT Australia KISTI Korea JLU China SDSC USA CICESE Mexico UNAM Mexico UChile Chile UUtah USA NCSA USA BU USA CeNAT-ITCR Costa Rica BESTGrid New Zealand CNIC GUCAS China LZU China UPRM Puerto Rico UZH Switzerland LZU China ASTI Philippines SKU UI Indonesia

Working Groups: Organize Activities ResourcesBiosciences GEOTelescience Oct 2008