Nancy featured as an outstanding graduate who exemplifies the spirit of Portland State

Nancy was an undergraduate researcher in the lab for 2 years. She is starting as a PhD student in the University of Washington’s neuroscience program in the fall 2023.

“Nancy MacKenzie, who will be receiving a bachelor’s degree in biomedical physics, had a nonlinear path to Portland State. Despite being an avid learner, a college degree wasn’t originally in the cards for MacKenzie. She dropped out of high school, and no one in her family had a degree. “

Read more at https://www.pdx.edu/news/overcoming-odds-celebrating-tenacious-spirit-class-2023#Nancy%20MacKenzie

Or watch the clip below:

OPENING: Undergraduate REU Site Program Administrator

We are seeking an undergraduate student administrator to help us run a newly funded NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site on “Computational Modeling Serving Portland.”

AS AN REU SITE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR, YOU WILL:

  • Communicate with potential and admitted students via e-mail and phone
  • Coordinate recruiting efforts
  • Design and maintain online application forms
  • Prepare application packages for review
  • Plan and organize meetings and events
  • Analyze and visualize data
  • Prepare flyers, presentations, and advertising materials for the program
  • Maintain the WordPress website
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ISCAS 2023 tutorial on Material and Physical Reservoir Computing for Beyond-CMOS Electronics

Christof Teuscher gave a tutorial on “Material and Physical Reservoir Computing for Beyond-CMOS Electronics” at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

ISCAS is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society and the world’s premiere forum for researchers in the active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems.

Tutorial slides, introductory reading, and a bibliography are available at ISCAS 2023 Tutorial

More info about ISCAS tutorials at https://iscas2023.org/tutorials

 

 

Nancy presents poster on developmental mechanisms to complexify dynamical systems at SIAM meeting

tlab undergraduate researcher Nancy MacKenzie presented a poster at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS23).

The poster was entitled “A Mini-Review of Developmental Mechanisms to Complexify Dynamical Systems.”

The conference was held May 14 – 18, 2023, in Portland, OR.
Download the poster here: nancy_siamposter_2023.pdf

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