Monday, October 27, 2014

On Campus Research Computing Symposium

Details and Registration Links November 6th, Rackham Building.

The Flux Staff attends these events so if you come say hello!

The ARC Research Computing Symposium is a twice-yearly conference conference held on-campus that brings together more than 200 U-M researchers who rely on large-scale computational tools and methods for research. Formerly known as Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days, the symposium is an opportunity to learn more about advanced computing technologies that are helping to spur new discoveries and breakthroughs in a wide range of disciplines.

  • 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