Undergraduate Research Challenge Internship Program

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Kennicott Glacier, near McCarthy, Alaska. Photo by Tim Stallard

DEADLINE FOR SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
in 2011 will be announced in approximately January 2011. There will be no summer intern program in 2010.

There will be no summer intern program in 2010. In order to perform program revisions and infrastructure changes, the 2010 summer intern program is postponed. Please check back in late 2010 for information about the 2011 summer program.

The Alaska Research Summer Challenge is a summer intern program for undergraduate students from U.S. universities to spend the summer in Alaska at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Interns work under the direction of the Program Manager at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) and are assigned projects where they work under the day-to-day mentorship of individual researchers on active research projects. These mentors are composed of senior staff and faculty members. Major objectives are to promote interests in arctic research, develop research skills, and become familiar with modern supercomputing. Minority students are particularly encouraged to apply.

In past years, project areas included the following:

Molecular dynamics: Computational chemistry simulations of molecular behavior; Modeling of mineral precipitation pathways in aquatic systems
Atmospheric sciences: Understanding of Atmospheric Phenomena using the WRF model; Computational weather forecasting enhancements and presentation; Output products for computational wildfire smoke prediction
Data intensive computing: Grid Information Retrieval
Computational methods: Large-scale eigensystem creation and interaction; Supercomputer scheduling analysis and optimization; Benchmarking supercomputers
Next-generation computing: Acceleration technologies; GPU programming; Parallel Global Address Space (PGAS) languages
Cryosphere modeling: Development of the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)

Program Dates: (No program in 2010)

Application Deadline: (No program in 2010)

ARSC Decision Date: (No program in 2010)

Applicant Commitment Date: (No program in 2010)

Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
PO Box 756020, Fairbanks, AK 99775 | voice: 907-450-8600 | email: