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FSC and UCF collaborate on weekly seminar series
Faculty members hold informal discussions on computer science 

LAKELAND, Fla. (June 3, 2003) - Florida Southern College and the University of Central Florida will host an informal weekly seminar series on modeling and simulation fundamentals. The summer seminar meets Wednesdays at 10 a.m. beginning June 4 at UCF's Institute for Simulation and Training (IST) building in the Central Florida Research Park, Orlando. 

The first seminar, led by Mr. Keith Garfield, research associate at IST, will include a discussion of the Petty and Weisel paper, "A Formal Basis for a Theory of Semantic Composability." 

On June 11, Dr. Gwen Walton, FSC computer science professor, will lead discussions on a variety of issues, including methods for extracting models from data, model reusability, and model abstraction and composition. 

The seminars are free and open to the public. Further information and directions to the IST building may be found at http://www.ist.ucf.edu/seminars/lectures.htm. Those interested in participating in these seminars may contact Dr. Tom Clarke at (407)882-1327 or tclarke@ist.ucf.edu. 

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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