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REMINDER: MICDE Symposium speakers include Ed Seidel, Leslie Greengard and Marc Snir — Nov. 6
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November 6, 2014 @ 12:00 am
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering Fall 2014 Research Computing Symposium will feature leaders in research computing, as well as preeminent University of Michigan scientists engaged in computationally intensive research. Scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 6, in the Rackham Building, the symposium is the continuation of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days, which has been held at U-M since 2010. Scheduled speakers are:
- Edward Seidel, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The Data-Enabled Revolution in Science and Society: A Need for National Data Services and Policy
- Marc Snir, Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory High Performance Computing: Exascale and Beyond
- Leslie Greengard, Director, Simons Center for Data Analysis, Simons Foundation; Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University Fast, Accurate Tools for Physical Modeling in Complex Geometry
- Gonçalo Abecasis, Chair of the Biostatistics Department and Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, U-M Biostatistics: Bringing Big Data to Genetics, Biology and Medicine
- Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Physics, U-M Discovery and Design of Digital Matter
- Scott Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems and Political Science; Professor of Economics; and Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, U-M. Diversity + Ability
Lunch will be provided; registration is highly recommended (seating is limited). The event will also include a poster session, with a $500 first-place prize and two $250 honorable mention prizes, as voted on by attendees. Participants must sign up when they register for the symposium. Printing costs at Groundworks in the Duderstadt Center will be covered by MICDE. Details will be emailed to poster presenters. Posters from previous conferences can also be used. Schedule:
| 8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration |
| 9 – 9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks, Eric Michielssen, Associate Vice President – Advanced Research Computing |
| 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. | Edward Seidell, Director of NCSA The Data-Enabled Revolution in Science and Society: A Need for National Data Services and Policy |
| 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Marc Snir, Argonne National Laboratory High Performance Computing: Exascale and Beyond |
| 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 1 – 2:15 p.m. | TEDx-style talks by leading U-M researchers: Gonçalo Abecasis, Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor; Chair of the Biostatistics Department, School of Public Health Biostatistics: Bringing Big Data to Genetics, Biology and MedicineSharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Material Science & Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Physics Discovery and Design of Digital MatterScott Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems and Political Science, professor of Economics, and Director of the Center for the Study of Complex Systems Diversity + Ability |
| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Leslie Greengard, Simons Center for Data Analysis and NYU Fast, Accurate Tools for Physical Modeling in Complex Geometry |
| 3:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks and Announcement of Poster Winners, Krishna Garikipati, Associate Director for Research, MICDE; Professor of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering |
For more details, visit the Research Computing Symposium page.
