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Over the past weekend I took part in a few exciting events.  It started off with a 6 person ride around Fort Collins hitting up the local breweries on Friday.  Adam, Eric (networking post-doc), Doug, Kate, Jesh, and myself took part.  We started off by stopping by New Belgium but it was a bit too busy for our tastes.  We skipped out there and headed straight to Odell’s.  We had a few interesting conversations over a few beers (Nukes!) and then headed off to Fort Collins Brewery.  Again, as is usual with our group, interesting conversations ensued.  We ended the touring at Coopersmith’s with food and more beer.  The night wound down at Adam’s by playing a telephone-like game that uses small drawings/descriptions on post-it notes.  Adam’s crazy (but cool) neighbor stopped by and played some songs on guitar for us.  It was a good start to what turned out to be a great weekend.

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Quick update concerning SiParCS: At the FRACTAL Spring 2009 conference I ran into two engineers/scientists who work at NCAR: Ben Mayer and Nathan Hearn. It turns out that they are two members of the group Kate Ericson and I will be working with (under John Dennis) for the SiParCS 2009 internship this summer. We chatted at lunch for about 30 minutes about some interesting topics. It was nice to meet a few of the people I will probably be interacting with for at least two months this summer. It was also interesting that I ran into them at the conference: small world!

I received word around noon today that I was accepted to the SiParCS 2009 summer internship program at NCAR in Boulder, CO for this summer.  The intenship runs for 10 weeks (from June 1st to August 7th).  I will be working on a project with John Dennis (a CU Boulder alumni) that is related to my thesis work with irregular computations.  More details as I learn more and also updates as the project progresses.