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The Universe in a Box -- Simulating Galaxy Formation with Blue Waters -- Brian O'Shea

Galaxies are complicated beasts - many physical processes operate simultaneously, and over a huge range of scales in space and time. As a result, accurately modeling the formation and evolution of…

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Data Science from a European Perspective -- Bernard F. Schutz

Physics and astronomy have led the way in handling and exploiting massive amounts of data, but the explosion of "Big Data" in other research areas raises the question of whether the physics…

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Grand Challenges in Constructing Large Evolutionary Trees -- Tandy Warnow

Constructing the Tree of Life requires statistical estimation methods that have high accuracy on genome-scale data. These estimations are challenging, since nearly all statistical estimation methods…

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Subsistence Marketplaces -- Madhu Viswanathan

The Subsistence Marketplaces Initiative at the University of Illinois and has pioneered the area of enquiry and practice entitled subsistence marketplaces which adopts a unique bottom-up approach to…

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From Data to Knowledge with Workflows and Provenance

Bertram Ludascher Scientific workflow automation can provide significant benefits for compute-intensive and data-intensive scientific applications. The vision and promise of scientific workflows…

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HydroShare: Advancing Collaboration through Hydrologic Data and Model Sharing -- David Tarboton

HydroShare is an online, collaborative system being developed for open sharing of hydrologic data and models. The goal of HydroShare is to enable scientists to easily discover and access hydrologic…

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Advanced Visualization Instrumentation -- Jason Leigh

Increasingly, the nation’s computational science and engineering research communities work with international collaborators to tackle complex global problems. Just as cyberinfrastructure…

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Toward Reliable and Reproducible Inference in Big Data -- Victoria Stodden

The 21st century is surely the century of data. New technologies now permit the collection of data by virtually all scientific, educational, governmental, societal and commercial enterprises, leading…

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Energy Efficiency and Extreme Scaling at LRZ

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) is offering IT services to the universities of Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe and beyond. At the top-level, LRZ hosts SuperMUC, a world-class powerful…

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Simulating Chemical and Biological Processes -- Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Many chemical and biological processes require the breaking and forming of chemical bonds and other quantum mechanical effects. Such processes cannot be simulated with standard classical molecular…

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Paths toward Physically-entangled Interactive Computational STEAM -- Brygg Ullmer

Scientific and information visualization have long offered powerful approaches for helping people graphically represent, explore, and understand our universe. Our group investigates tangible…

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Expeditions in Distributed Scientific Computing -- Shantenu Jha

In the first part of the talk we will discuss how we are laying the foundations for the design and architecture of the next-generation of distributed cyberinfrastructure. In the second part of the…

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Towards the Application of Large-scale Computation in Space Exploration -- Tom Cwik

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is chartered to conceive and execute robotic spacecraft that explore other worlds. These craft are sent to the planets to orbit and sense their atmospheres,…

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Computing, Data and Volcanic Hazard Risk Analysis -- Abani Patra

We present in this talk approaches to integrating modeling and simulation of complex physics at scale, use of large data based inference and novel uncertainty quantification methods applied to the…

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Visualization Case Studies (The Centrality of Advanced Digitally-Enabled Science) -- Donna Cox

The Centrality of Advanced Digitally ENabled Science (CADENS) is a new National Science Foundation project to develop a series of science documentaries that highlight computational scientific…

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Entrepreneurship and Transforming the University

Panelists Jerry Fiddler, the principal of Zygote Ventures; Ping Fu, VP and chief entrepreneur officer of 3D Systems; Brand Fortner, executive director of the iRODS Consortium at the University of…

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