Event Archives
Frontiers of CyberScience Lecture Series
Monday, May 2, 2011
4:00pm – 5:00pm in 220 Hammond Building
Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Combustion Research Facility Sandia National Laboratories will be presenting a lecture on "Towards Exascale Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Combustion".
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Monday, November 8, 2010
2:00pm – 3:00pm in 333 IST Building
Dr. Kamesh Madduri, Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will be presenting a lecture on "High-Performance Graph Analytics".
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Friday, October 22, 2010
11:00am – 12:00pm in 113 IST Building (Cybertorium)
Dr. Marcel Salathé, Assistant Professor of Biology, CIDD - Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics The Pennsylvania State University will be presenting a lecture on "Social Networks and Disease Dynamics". More Information (PDF)
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
4:30pm – 5:30pm in 333 IST Building
Mr. Bernie Ács, Database Architect & Informatics System Analyst, National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign will be presenting a lecture entitled "Meandre through Data–Intensive Computing in the Cloud and on the Grid with Conduits". More Information (PDF)
Thursday, August 26, 2010
4:00pm – 5:30pm in 113 IST Building (Cybertorium)
The Institute for CyberScience will be hosting Dr. Robert Wilhelmson – Chief Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign on August 26 – 27, 2010. More Information (PDF)
Dr. Wilhelmson will provide an overview of the Blue Waters project and its purposes along with some of the challenges that must be overcome to enable applications to efficiently make use of the more than 200,000 cores that will be available.
Seminar – Wednesday, August 18, 2010
9:00am – 10:00am in 203 Sackett Building
Dr. Matthew Ferringer, Engineering Specialist at The Aerospace Corporation will be presenting a seminar entitled "Genetic Resources for Innovation and Problem Solving (GRIPS): A History, Benchmark Achievements, and Future Endeavors". This seminar will provide a brief history of GRIPS and highlight several key achievements in the air and space domain.
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Cyberinfrastructure Day
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
8:00 am – 5:00 pm in the Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center
Penn State CI Day is one of several CI Day events being held at leading research universities with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) via a consortium of higher education associations led by Internet2. The purpose of the CI Days program is to advance understanding, planning, implementation and utilization of cyberinfrastructure systems and services at the host institutions and within the national community.
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Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering 2010
The Institute for CyberScience and Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure (RCC, a division of ITS), partnered to successfully host two, week–long Summer School training programs in Computational Science and Engineering as part of Penn State’s partnership in the Blue Waters Petascale Computing Project and its Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE). VSCSE helps graduate students, post–docs and young professionals from all disciplines and institutions across the country gain the skills they need to use advanced computational resources to advance their research.
The first course on "Petascale Programming Environments and Tools" had 51 participants with 41 from Penn State, most of whom were students; including 22 from Engineering, 7 from the Eberly College of Science and a fair representation across all colleges. This course introduced students to the challenges, opportunities, techniques, and resources for scaling computational science codes to perform on petascale computing systems.
The second course on "Big Data for Science" had 41 participants with 35 from Penn State representing most colleges, with the largest numbers from Engineering (14) and Earth and Mineral Sciences (9). As the computing landscape becomes increasingly data–centric, computational scientists will employ new tools based on new models of computation. In a data–intensive world where the sheer volume of data demands new approaches and techniques, the inclination is to move the computation to the data, a basic theme underlying this course. Called the "fourth paradigm" (after theory, experiment, and computation), data–intensive computing is poised to transform scientific research.
Distinguished Lecture Series 2009
In light of the growing interest and importance of network science and network research to the Penn State Research community, the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research is sponsoring this series. Prominent national experts are scheduled to present talks on campus throughout the academic year. The goal is to clarify the underlying principles in this intrinsically interdisciplinary research area and to bring the diverse community of Penn State researchers together around common themes to explore how their research might benefit from intellectual cross–fertilization.
Dr. Mark Newman - January 14, 2009
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Dr. James Moody - February 24, 2009
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Dr. Duncan Watts - March 16, 2009
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Dr. Ignacio Rodriguez–Iturbe - March 31, 2009
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Dr. Benedetto Piccoli - April 7, 2009
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ICS Day 2009
On Friday, February 20, 2009, the Institute for CyberScience hosted "ICS Day", a workshop geared toward community building, information exchange, and networking. The event began with opening remarks from Dr. Eva J. Pell, Sr. Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School. The three plenary speakers were Dr. Douglass Post, Chief Scientist, Department of Defense High Performance Computing/and Modernization Office; Dr. Thomas Russell, Program Director, National Science Foundation Applied Mathematics and Computational Mathematics Division of Mathematical Sciences; and Dr. Jennifer Couch, Chief of the Structural Biology and Molecular Applications Branch at the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Biology. The remainder of the afternoon consisted of lunch and a poster/networking session where attendees could show their research and interact with each other and the speakers.
Dr. Douglass Post’s Presentation (PDF)
Dr. Thomas Russell’s Presentation (PDF)
Dr. Jennifer Couch’s Presentation (PDF)
ICS Day Photos (PDF)
ICS Day Flyer (PDF)
ICS Day Agenda (PDF)
ICS Day List of Attendees (PDF)
9th Symposium on Overset Composite Grid and Solution Technology
October 14–16, 2008 in State College, PA
This international symposium provides an open communication forum for mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from academia, industry, and government. The technical organization is informal, and only oral presentations are required. For more information, please visit www.oversetsymposium.org.
A Conversation With Abhay Ashtekar, Physics
Physics Beyond Einstein: Contemplating Time's Beginning and End
Abhay Ashtekar kicks off Research Unplugged with a Bang. (Includes Research Unplugged podcast.)
Challenges in Large–Scale Multiphysics Simulations
Spring 2008 Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lectures
Michael T. Heath University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Wednesday, February 20
4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Talk, 113 IST, The Cybertorium
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Reception, IST West Atrium
Computational simulation of multicomponent systems poses many critical challenges in science and engineering. We overview several algorithmic and software issues in developing high–performance simulation tools for such systems, based on our experience in developing a large–scale, fully–coupled code for detailed simulation of solid propellant rockets.
We briefly sketch our solutions to some of these issues, present results from our coupled simulation code, and outline some remaining roadblocks to advancing the state of the art in high–fidelity, high–performance multicomponent simulations.
Professor Michael T. Heath is Interim Head and Fulton Watson Copp Chair in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he is also Director of both the Computational Science and Engineering Program and the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. His research interests are in numerical analysis—particularly numerical linear algebra and optimization—and in parallel computing. He is an ACM Fellow and a member of the European Academy of Sciences.
Cyber–Enabled Discovery and Innovation Workshop
CDI Workshop Presentation (PDF)
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Heritage Hall, HUB–Robeson Center
Workshop Flyer (PDF)
List of atendees (PDF)