AMALTHEA: An NSF-REU Site

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Welcome to the web portal of AMALTHEA!

Please note that, unfortunately, we will not be able to offer the AMALTHEA REU Program for summer 2010 and, thus, we are not able to accept any applications. For more details, please read this news item. If you are indeed interested in taking part in a summer REU internship related to Machine Learning, you may want to consider applying to one of these fellow sites:

REU Site Name	Location	Application Deadline
TRACK: Training and Research in Advanced Computing Knowledge	University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA	April 2, 2010
MedIX: Medical Informatics Experiences in Undergraduate Research	DePaul University, Chicago, IL	March 1, 2010
Integrated Machine Learning Systems	University of Oklahoma, University of New Mexico, Norman, OK	February 1, 2010
REU Site for Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval	University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO	February 28, 2010
UTEP REU Summer Site in Applied Intelligent Systems	University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX	April 2, 2010
Research Experiences for Underrepresented Undergraduates in Smart Environments	Washington State University, Pullman, WA	March 5, 2010

We got word that additional REU sites that may still be recruiting (even past their announced dealdines are the following:

Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Engineering and Service Composition	Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX	April 16, 2010
Applied Computing Research in Wireless Sensing of Marine Data	Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX	April 7, 2010
Computing for Power and Energy	Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA	April 5, 2010
Data Sciences Summer Institute	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL	March 31, 2010
Digital Forensics and Computer Science	University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI	March 1, 2010
Information Assurance and Security	Dakota State University, Madison, SD	April 10, 2010
Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Computational Sciences	Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA	March 31, 2010
Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Massive Online Social Networks	Suffolk University, Boston, MA	April 15, 2010
ITSE	Lamar University, Beaumont, TX	April 1, 2010
Multidisciplinary Research in Secure Computing	University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC	N/A
Numerical Computing and Optimization in Multidisciplinary Applications: Methods and Software	Florida International University, Miami, FL	April 30, 2010
Passionate on Parallel	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL	N/A
Undergraduate Research Experience in Computational Science and Cybersecurity	University of Houston, Houston, TX	April 1, 2010

Finally, you can always check for more REU sites (REU summer internships), including ones with a completely different intellectual focus, on the National Science Foundation's search page, which is located under Links | Search for other REU sites at NSF.

Want to find out more about the AMALTHEA experience? Find out who is involved in this effort by navigating to the People pages. See what our REU community has achieved so far in our Showcase. Find out more about the sponsors and supporters of this effort under Credits. Do you have more questions? Then visit our FAQ pages. See our most recent announcements just below or see all of them on our News page. Finally, please do not hesitate to contact us; we would love to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by!

News \ Announcements

Whenever we have important or noteworthy information to share with you, we will post it on our website under the News page. These announcements pertain to matters such as the application process, achievements of our members and our community, as well as events related to the Program. Below we display our 3 most recent announcements.

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No AMALTHEA experience for 2010!
Posted by Project Staff on: 2010-02-02 12:30:00

To all of you that have or will inquire about the AMALTHEA REU Program, we regret to inform you that we were, unfortunately, unable to secure continuation funding from our main sponsor, the National Science Foundation. This means that we will not be able to offer summer internships for 2010 :(

In lieu of today's disappointing news, we would like to share with you our deep commitment and determination to continue the AMALTHEA program and, therefore, we will try once again to reapply to the NSF for additional funds later this year. We will post any developments regarding this issue on this website; you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed to be continuously kept up to date.

Finally, we would like to thank the NSF and our other sponsors for generously supporting this program during the period 2007-2009. We are also indebted to our Advisory Board members, who over the years helped us in assessing the program and contributed significantly to its improvement. We would also like to offer our warmest gratitude to the, literally, hundreds of applicants that expressed their interest in AMALTHEA over the last 3 years and, of course, to the 29 AMALTHEA participants that joined us in our research endeavors. You are what makes AMALTHEA what it is...

	The 2009 showcase materials have been posted! Posted by Project Staff on: 2009-12-06 23:00:00
We've just updated the Publications page with this year's technical reports and latest, published papers. We also updated our Projects page with the 2009 project descriptions and posters respectively.Please, check them out!

2009 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Posted by Project Staff on: 2009-09-30 00:00:00

Graduate mentor Mahsa Maghami, former graduate mentor and current assistant professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU)Dr. Anna Koufakou are attending the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing [link], which this year is themed "Creating Technology For Social Good" and is held in Tucson, Arizona, from September 30th to October 3rd, 2009.

According to their website: "...The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are leaders in their respective fields, representing industrial, academic and government communities. Leading researchers present their current work, while special sessions focus on the role of women in today's technology fields, including computer science, information technology, research and engineering. Past Grace Hopper Celebrations have resulted in collaborative proposals, networking, mentoring, and increased visibility for the contributions of women in computing..."

Maghami and Dr. Koufakou will advertise at this venue the AMALTHEA REU Program in an effort to recruit female undergraduates that may be interested in Machine Learning.

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