2 Trondheim teams among top 7 in Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest!

(2nd and 7th place)

The problems they solved can be found here (and solution outline here).

"Multi-Core Architecture" at Google Speaker Series - 2007-May-2 17:15, R7 at NTNU

Talk by Professor Per Stenstrøm from Chalmers University

quote from announcement:
"Computing industry recently made a transition to multicore architectures. Yet, most software is inherently designed to only take advantage of the performance of a single core. As a result, society is faced with a major software crisis and strides have to be taken to smoothen the transition of software to leverage the power of multi-cores.

This talk begins with a brief summary of the reasons why multi-core architecture is the only way forward and why this is a dilemma for the software. The rest of the talk will be devoted to various approaches to convert software to expose parallelism on multi-cores. The main focus will be on architectural techniques researched at Chalmers to aid the compiler/programmer to convert software to run efficiently on multi-core architectures. These techniques include thread-level speculation and transactional memory."

Trondheim students helps make cleaning system for Lake Biwa in Japan (just north of Kyoto)

A couple of weeks ago, but still worth mentioning.

NOTE: original article is in Norwegian.

"A Different Universe" - talk by Prof. Laughlin

From the invitation:

"Prof R.B. Laughlin (Stanford University) will present a general lecture on Tuesday, April 17, at 12:15-13 in R1, Realfagbygget. The title of his lecture is "A Different Universe". The lecture is aimed at a general audience. Prof. Laughlin is known as an excellent expositor.

Prof. Laughlin received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998, and is the 2007 Lars Onsager Lecturer at NTNU."

For Whom the Bell Curves - Statistics Workshop

From the invitation:
"Statistics as a boundary object between science and the state in connection with the project “For Whom the Bell Curves” we will be holding an international workshop/conference at NTNU Dragvoll 14-16. May 2007, with plenary speakers Alain Desrosières, Susan Leigh Star and more."

Noteworthy events earlier this winter

Google Speaker Series:

November 8 - "Efficient Algorithms for Hierarchical Memory" by professor Lars Arge from Aarhus University.

February 5 - "Structured Peer-to-Peer Networks: the Distributed Hash Tables Approach" by professor Seif Haridi from Royal Institute of Technology.

Upcoming CS PhD defences at NTNU

April 20th - Thesis title: "Biopolymer-based Nanocomposites: Processing and Properties"

May 3rd - Thesis title: "Architectural Techniques to Improve Cache Utilization"

June 1st - Thesis title: "A Cased-Based Approach to Realising Ambient Intelligence among Agents"

IDI Open - Coding Contest - Apr 14

Quote from the announcement:
"IDI Open is a contest for teams of programmers of all skill levels, from those who are taking their first course in programming, to mad skill code monkeys. Each team can consist of up to three people, using one computer to solve the given problems. The programming tasks in the contest is similar to those found in NCPC (NM i programmering) and TopCoder, but the simplest problems in the set will be easier. You will be asked to write programs that takes an input problem definition and calculates a solution. The programs may be in Java, C or C++. Usually, there are around 9 problems, some easy, some medium, and some hard"

Note: IDI is the Department of Computer and Information Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) here in Trondheim