2021 High School Workshop CANCELLED

High School Workshop.

Students tour the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI)

Published March 23, 2021

UPDATE March 23, 2021:  Due to continued closures at the University at Buffalo and around the WNY area, we regretfully must cancel The Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science for the 2021 summer.

The Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science

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“The summer workshop is a great way for students to learn about computational science ”
Tom Furlani, Former Director
CCR

This two-week workshop is held annually in honor of Eric Pitman, who was a freshman at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute when he passed away on February 27, 2007 after a brief illness. A Science Olympiad participant at St. Gregory the Great Elementary School, Eric was an avid reader, a young man who enjoyed learning new things and challenging his thinking about the world and his place within it.

One of his teachers spoke of Eric by saying: "It seemed that he always did the right thing, and always stood by what he knew was morally and ethically correct. He was a tremendous leader, a silent leader who led by example and not by talk."

It is with Eric's sense of wonderment and inquisitiveness in mind that the workshop strives to introduce students into the application of computer modeling and simulation to solve important problems in science and engineering.  The current workshop focuses on Bioinformatics and research in the life sciences.  In the past, workshop topics have included computational chemistry and visualization.

Check back in early 2022 for summer 2022 details and application.  For more information please visit our website.