Nov. 2, 2009
The University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie has been chosen to mentor a future academic leader, one who one day may lead a college or university in the United States.
UW-Stout senior administrators are host to Chandra N. Sekharan, an American Council on Education Fellow and chair in the department of computer science at Loyola University of Chicago.
The ACE Fellow program is a leadership development project that prepares senior leaders to advance their careers in higher education. Fellows typically attend high-level, decision-making meetings on both their host and home campuses to study leadership in action. Fellows contribute to their host institutions by providing an “informed outsider’s” perspective on challenges confronting the host institution, working on short- and long-term projects, and gathering information and data as needed.
Sekharan will participate in and contribute ideas toward UW-Stout’s institutional challenges during the fall and spring semesters.
As part of the program, Sekharan will present “Programming models for many-core computers” at 12:20 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 3, in room 409 of Harvey Hall.
Sekharan’s talk presents a survey of programming models available today on many-core machines. After a general overview of parallel architectures, the talk will cover some of the programming models and languages that are in use today and some applications. Two models that will be featured are the Threads and OpenMP models.
For more information, contact Sekharan at sekharanc@uwstout.edu or visit http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/FellowsProgram/ for information on the ACE Fellow program.
