WEP 2010
Inaugural Winter Enrichment Program
Chaired by Professor David Keyes
Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Director , Extreme Computing Research Center Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering ( CEMSE ) Division at KAUST
The inaugural Winter Enrichment Program realized a dream of KAUST ’ s founding faculty to adapt MIT ’ s renowned Independent Activities Period to KAUST ’ s own Pioneering context . The 4-week program invited KAUST ’ s Global Collaborative Research and Academic Excellence Alliance partners to campus for short courses in their specializations . Meanwhile , KAUST faculty contributed lectures and workshops outside of their specializations , to the delight of the co-adventurer inaugural students , setting a precedent for a unified platform for vocational and avocational interests that hasserved WEP ever since . Wolfgang Gentzsch of the Ubercloud directed attention to the global e-infrastructure into which KAUST was born and Turing Awardee Computer Scientist John Hopcroft followed with a vision spanning to KAUST ’ s “ digital pillar ” of ten years later . KAUST ’ s planners described aesthetic and LEED-certified aspects of our architectural heritage and economic innovation aspects of our institutional DNA . The ever-popular “ Finding science in finding Nemo ” presentation by Michael Berumen of the Red Sea Research Center rounded out a rousing launch of WEP .
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