Activity

Summary of activities so far.

Research

Contacts with faculty at Stanford University have been developed over several years. Professor Bertil Gustafsson, Uppsala University, has been a regular visitor for a long time and some senior researchers at Uppsala University have collaboration partners at Stanford University. Several Ph.D. graduates from Uppsala have been visiting Stanford as postdocs or assistant professors.

Education

Academic year 2003/2004

The first contacts for collaboration in education was made in January 2004 when professor Bertil Gustafsso was lecturing in Numerical Analysis at Stanford University. In April 2004, Eva Pärt-Enander and Stefan Pålsson visited Stanford University to discuss courses within the new institute ICME, technology resources and experiences of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education at Stanford with SCIL and other centers. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on this occasion.

Academic year 2004/2005

Two pilot courses, planned and developed in fall 2004, were given jointly in winter quarter 2005 in:

• High performance computing.
• Partial differential equations.

A successfull teacher workshop was held at Stanford in March 2005. Plans for further collaborations in both education and research were made.

Academic year 2005/2006

Two joint courses were given in winter and spring 2006:

• High performance computing.
• Computational Consulting.

Besides these courses,  Prof. Bertil Gustafsson was invited to Stanford to give a course in  partial differential equations.

Plans are made continuously on new joint courses.

The project Computational Consulting was started in February 2006 and involves collaboration between graduate students as well as faculty members at both universities.

Academic year 2006/2007

The following courses were given jointly:

• High performance computing.
• Computational Consulting.

Student exchange:

• Two Uppsala students were working with their Master's theses in a research group at Stanford University, fall 2006.
• Three Stanford students were invited to the Summer School on Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Science.

A Stanford course in partial differential equations was given by Bertil Gustafsson during the winter quarter.

Professor Margot Gerritsen has been visiting Uppsala twice during 2006. Professor Gunilla Kreiss, Sverker Holmgren, Martin Berggren, and Eva Pärt-Enander from Uppsala were visiting ICME in December 2-9, 2006. The aims of the visit were:

• to further develop already ongoing courses (especially High performance computing)
• to discuss exchange of Master thesis students
• to discuss further plans in joint research projects and courses at Master's level

Prof. Gunilla Kreiss gave a seminar about the research projects at Uppsala University.

Prof. James Lambers, Stanford, visited Uppsala in June 2007.

Academic year 2007/2008

The following courses are given jointly:

• High performance computing.
• Computational Consulting.

Two Uppsala students are working with their Master's theses in a research group at Stanford University, fall 2006.

A Stanford course in partial differential equations will be given by Gunilla Kreiss during the winter quarter, January-March 2008.

Henrik Löf from Uppsala will give some lectures at Stanford in the joint course High performance computing, March 2008.

Funding

The project has been funded by the following:

• 2003: Rektor of Uppsala University; internationalization of higher education.
• 2003: Swedish Learning Lab.
• 2004: Rektor of Uppsala University; internationalization of higher education.
• 2004: Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University; pedagogical renewal of higher education. Report (in Swedish).
• 2005: Swedish Learning Lab. Report (in Swedish).
• 2005: Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University; pedagogical renewal of higher education.
• 2006: Faculty of Science and Technology, Uppsala University; pedagogical renewal of higher education. (Particularly for "Computational Consulting").

Presentations

Presentations about the project at seminars and conferences:

• May 2006: Presentation at the conference Netlearning2006 in Ronneby, Sweden. Internationalization at home - to build a joint Master education over the internet. Internationalisering på hemmaplan - att bygga en gemensam mastersutbildning via nätet (in Swedish).
   
• March 2005: Seminar at Uppsala Learning Lab given from Stanford via the e-meeting tool Marratech March 16, 2005 at 03.00 a.m. IT as a pedagogical tool in joint courses Uppsala-Stanford. IT som administrativt och pedagogiskt stöd på gemensamma kurser Uppsala-Stanford (in Swedish).