Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad (MURPA) 2011 Student Presentations live – including High Definition Video links with the United States

Event Details

Date:
18 March from 9:00 am — 11:00 am
Venue:
Room 135, Bldg 26, Clayton Campus
Open to:
All
Cost:
Free
Website:
http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/
Categories:

Description:

The Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad (MURPA) is a unique program that enables third year students from different disciplines to travel abroad and undertake research projects at US universities under the guidance of international experts in both computational thinking and the sciences. (eScience)

 

The program also guides undergraduate students towards honours projects and potential careers in research.

 

Monash students who have participated in the MURPA program in the past have undertaken research in areas such as pharmaceutical modeling, astrophysics, environmental science and bioengineering.

 

Many of these projects are underpinned by contemporary visualisation facilities and techniques.

 

Six Monash students have been involved with the program this year, and  travelled to the United States to their hosts, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois and the University of California, San Diego.

 

On Friday, 18 March 2011, the returned students (who travelled to the US in January) will present their research outcomes to the Monash community and also to their hosts in the US via High Definition video.

 

Last year, students presented research projects that not only tackled a core scientific  issue but also delved into a number of critical aspects of e-Research such as data mining, data quality, efficiency of data processing, workflows and related software.

 

The MURPA Seminar Series received a prestigious CENIC award at an awards ceremony  in Monterey, US last year, for ‘Innovations in Networking’ in support of a student exchange program - involving both PRIME and MURPA student exchanges from UCSD and Monash.

 

If you would like to see the exciting results they can achieve, learn about their experiences and more about the MURPA program, then please join us.

 

Monash University Students Presenting for 2011:

  

To UCSD -  Geoff Pascoe,  James Wetter,  Lin Wei,  Wai Keung Yiu Man Lung; 

To NCSA -  Jian Zhang,  Edgar Kautzner

Event Contact

Name
Rob Gray (Faculty of IT)
E-Mail
Rob.Gray@monash.edu
Phone
(03) 990 31249
Organisation
Monash University