UD Computational Science Day 2006

Trabant University Center
Multipurpose Room A
February 14, 2006


Agenda

8:30 Welcoming Remarks
   Dr. Dan Rich, Provost
    [Audio, MP3, 5Mb ]    
8:45 Trends in Computational Science and High End Computing: Who's Driving?
   Dr. Jill Matzke, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    [Presentation, PDF, 2Mb ]     [Audio, MP3, 20Mb]
9:30 High-performance Visualization - A Powerful Tool for the Life Sciences
   Dr. Karl V. Steiner
    [Presentation, PDF, 42Mb]     [Audio, MP3, 12Mb]
10:00 Deep Transcriptional Profiling Using Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing (MPSS)
   Dr. Blake C. Meyers
    [Presentation, PPT, 2Mb]     [Audio, MP3, 13Mb]
10:30 Break
11:00 The Emerging Field of Multiscale Simulation in the Chemical and Biological Sciences
   Dr. Dion Vlachos
    [Presentation, PPT, 7Mb]     [Audio, MP3, 13Mb]
11:30 High-performance Computing for Atomic Physics Calculations
   Dr. Marianna S. Safronova
    [Presentation, PPT, 6Mb]
12:00 Poster Session and Vendor Displays
Lunch Buffet
1:30 Distributed Computing Comes of Age: From the Grid to PlanetLab (and BOINC (Back) Again)
   Dr. Martin Swany
    [Presentation, PPT, 1Mb]     [Audio, MP3, 14Mb]
2:00 An Integrated Approach to Improving Communication Performance in Clusters
   Dr. Lori L. Pollock
    [Presentation, PPT, 6Mb]     [Audio, MP3, 11Mb]
2:30 Break
2:45 Parallelization of High Spatial Order Vortex Methods for 2D Fluid Flows
   Dr. Louis F. Rossi
    [Presentation, PDF, 2Mb]     [Audio, MP3, 12Mb]
    [Animations, ZIP, 3Mb]
3:15 Petascale Computing: How Do We Get There?
   Dr. Brian Hammond, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
    [Presentation (after 3/15)]     [Audio (after 3/15)]
3:45 Poster Session and Vendor Displays
4:30 Poster Awards: Kara Maki and Tobin Driscoll and Luo Wang and Antony N. Beris