Wednesday, April 3, 2024

 13th Annual QU Sigma Xi Conference (2024)

April 21st Abstract submission deadline https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SigmaXiQU2024

  • Posters are 4' long by 3' high. You can either :
    • print the poster as a  large document (Staples or Kinkos Fedex North Haven) and clip it (clips provided) to the trifold
    • OR print 8.5x11 inch sheets and bring thumb tacks and come early and tack the sheets to your board.

April 24th -- Distinguished Speaker and Student Poster Public Viewing

  • Poster Hours: 3:00-5:00 pm 
    • Students present posters with public attendance (students will be at their poster either 3:00-4:00 or 4:00-5:00, they can visit other posters during the other hour) 
    • 33 posters
    • View the abstracts here: https://tinyurl.com/SigmaXiQU2024 (live)
  • Poster Session 3:00 – 5:00 PM on Burt Kahn Court in the Recreation and Wellness Center (students assigned first or second hour to attend to their poster).  To help out judging, contact Neil Schultes (Neil.Schultes@ct.gov) or me (james.kirby@quinnipiac.edu).
  • Distinguished Speaker: 5:15pm, followed by Student Awards 
    • Sigma Xi Speaker:  5:15 PM also on Burt Kahn Court:  Dr. David Bader will present Solving Global Grand Challenges with High Performance Data Analytics
    • Dr. Bader’s website: https://davidbader.net/
    • David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science in the Ying Wu College of Computing and Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to this, he served as founding Professor and Chair of the School of Computational Science and Engineering, College of Computing, at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and SIAM; a recipient of the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award; and the 2022 Innovation Hall of Fame inductee of the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. The Computer History Museum recognizes Bader for developing the first Linux-based supercomputer which became the predominant architecture for all major supercomputers in the world.