Today NSF launched its three-day 2012 IGERT Online Video and
Poster Competition, which is live online at http://igert.org/competition2012. One student from each of the
114 IGERT programs is selected to provide a poster as part
of the annual IGERT meeting in Washington, D.C.
Representing Calit2's IGERT this year is second-year Computer Science and Engineering
graduate student Andrew Huynh, who participated in Albert Lin's
expedition to Mongolia and produced a poster on "Defining the Undefined:
Harnessing the Public in the Search for Genghis Khan's Tomb." You can
watch a video and delve into Andrew's great poster at http://posterhall.org/igert2012/posters/252. Also
there: read an abstract, join the discussion, ask questions, and vote directly
on the site and by "Liking" the presentation on Facebook. The
presentation with the most votes ("Likes") as of 12PM EDT on Friday,
May 25 will receive the Public Choice award.
It's a great way to learn about cutting-edge
research being conducted across IGERT programs and a way to learn
from each other and make connections. This year's competition
includes videos as well as posters.
Andrew -- whose interests are in human
computation, machine learning and computer vision -- has three ways to win one
of 25 awards for travel for professional development activities. One is by
winning the Public Choice award. Current faculty, students and alumni involved
in the IGERT program are also eligible to vote for him to receive one of four
Community Choice awards. And ultimately, NSF IGERT PIs at the annual meeting
will vote on 20 recipients of travel awards based purely on the academic merit
of the presentations.
Here at UC San Diego, there are two active
IGERT programs: Calit2's cultural heritage engineering project; and the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography-based IGERT on Global Change, Marine
Ecosystems and Society (represented this year by Micah Gell-Redman). His
topic: "A military approach is required: The political logic of
disease control on a warming planet."
There are a lot of great presentations now
posted on the competition website, but we're especially proud of Andrew’s poster
and video that explore the use of crowdsourcing in exploration. The project was
also highlighted in a recent National Geographic documentary, "Forbidden
Tomb of Genghis Khan."
Be sure to vote at http://posterhall.org/igert2012/posters/252 and
send the link to your friends and social networks. And you can vote for more
than one project! For more about the IGERT TEECH project, visit http://culturalheritage.calit2.net/igert-teech/.
