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.

Summer Workshop 2012

• Workshop Info/Application
• Faculty and Staff Participants 2012
• Workshop Schedule 2012
• Lecture Notes 2012
• Summer Workshop Photos 2012
• Final Projects 2012

Press from 2009 Workshop

• WNY's Blossoming Young Scientists Visit UB Supercomputer [PDF ]

• Students try their hands at targeting tumors with potent computing power [PDF ]