Tuesday, November 29
Palmer Commons Great Lakes Room (4th floor)
4:30 pm
5:00-7:00 pm
Information fair, poster session, and reception [Great Lakes Room]
We invite you to join this kick-off event that will showcase CI-enabled research at U-M by students, faculty, and staff. The poster session will be judged by faculty, and you can support your colleagues by voting for the “People’s Choice” award!
The information fair includes booths and demos about computational and information resources available at U-M, including:
- Flux, U-M’s high-performance computing cluster
- Data storage options
- XSEDE, a national resource for high-performance computing
- UM3D Lab, offering diverse visualization services
- Lab Information Management
- HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory; http://hastac.org/about), hosting their conference at U-M on December 2-3
Wednesday, November 30
Palmer Commons (4th floor)
8:30-9:00 am
Registration opens and continental breakfast (free of charge, in Atrium)
9:00 am
Welcome and announcement of poster session winners [Great Lakes Room]
9:15 am
What’s new at U-M: A Sampler of Resources and Services [Great Lakes Room]
This welcome panel will feature the latest news of CI resources and services, as well as plans going forward, and a tour of the ORCI website and resources. Presenters include:
- Dan Atkins, Associate VP of Research Cyberinfrastructure, on the CIRRUS Project and “big data” opportunities in the future
- Ken Powell, ORCI’s Faculty Director for Research Services and CIRRUS Director, on the status and trajectory of Flux, U-M’s high-performance computing cluster
- Laura Patterson, CIO, on ORCI in the context of the university’s NextGen programs
10:30 am
Plenary keynote: “nanoHUB.org powered by HUBzero® – A Platform for Collaborative Research and Dissemination with Quantifiable Impact on Research and Education” [Great Lakes Room] by Gerhard Klimeck, Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
12:00 noon
Special Panel Presentation with Lunch (free of charge) [Great Lakes Room]: “The future of CI-enabled discovery and learning from the NSF perspective,” live from NSF headquarters in Arlington, VA and the National Academies’ Keck Center in Washington, DC. The panelists are:
- Alan Blatecky (Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure)
- Joan Ferrini-Mundy (Assistant Director, Directorate for Education & Human Resources)
- Myron P. Gutmann (Assistant Director, Directorate for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences)
- Farnam Jahanian (Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate)
- Tim Killeen (Assistant Director, Directorate for Geosciences)
- Edward Seidel (Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, formerly Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure)
1:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions 1 (90 minutes)
- Intro to Flux: U-M’s High-Performance Computing Cluster – Hands-on Session [Great Lakes North]
- Genomics: Research and Computational Challenges [Great Lakes Central]
- HASTAC and Digital Research Beyond Science and Engineering [Great Lakes South]
- CI-based Collaboration Resources on Campus and How to Optimize Their Use [Forum Hall]
3:00 pm
Networking break [Atrium]
3:30 pm
Concurrent Sessions 2 (90 minutes)
- R and Python – Hands-on Session [Great Lakes Central]
- MATLAB – Hands-on Session [Great Lakes North]
- Intro to Parallel Computing [Forum Hall]
- Facilitating Scientific Discovery with XSEDE [Great Lakes South]
5:00 pm
End for the day
Thursday, December 1
Palmer Commons (4th floor)
8:30-9:00 am
Registration opens and continental breakfast (free of charge, in Atrium)
9:00 am
Plenary keynote: “Understanding the Planetary Life Support System: Next Generation Science in the Ocean Basins” [Forum Hall] by John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography and Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks at the University of Washington
10:30 am
Concurrent Sessions 3 (75 minutes)
- MapReduce – Hands-on Session [Great Lakes Central]
- GPUs – Hands-on Session [Great Lakes North]
- 3DLab and VisIt– First Stop: Exploring Data Visualization and Acquisition Services [Great Lakes South]
- Not Just for Selling Books: Real Cloud Projects from Education to Research [Forum Hall]
12:00 noon
Birds of a Feather Lunch (free of charge) [Great Lakes Rooms – Check topic list at registration desk and outside rooms for specific locations] (60 minutes)
We provide the lunch, you provide the conversation! Based on your input at registration, we will set up tables at lunch for you to “flock” with other people who share your CI-related interests. Proposed topics include Hadoop, Data Mining, Web Data Mining, Social Network Analysis, Text Mining, Agent-Based Modeling, Machine Learning, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Teaching with CI, Practicalities of Global Research, Getting Started in the Cloud.
1:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions 4 (75 minutes)
- MPI and Parallel Compilers – Hands-on Session [Great Lakes North]
- Getting Started with CI: Insights from a Panel of Students [Great Lakes South]
- Informatics and IT to Enable Personalized Medicine and Healthcare: What Is Really Needed? [Great Lakes Central]
- Data Management: Needs and Implications [Forum Hall]
2:30 pm
Networking break [Atrium]
3:00 pm
Plenary keynote: “The Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: A Call to Action” [Forum Hall] by Victoria Stodden, Assistant Professor of Statistics at Columbia University
4:15 pm
Town Hall [Forum Hall]
This session is an opportunity to give feedback, ask questions, and get answers. Join us for a lively discussion of what cyberinfrastructure resources and support would make a difference to your research and teaching.
5:00 pm
End of conference
