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CI NEWSLETTER

Volume 2 Issue 1

In the September 2008 newsletter, we highlight the work of Paul Fischer in a project report on Oceanic Gravity Currents and draw our attention to the new Petascale Active Data Store [PADS] project that will provide data storage and analysis facilty for our community.

Additional articles this month feature the Uncertainty 2008 workshop and a Q&A with CI Senior Fellow Andrey Rzhetsky. [newsletter]

 
>> EVENTS

October 8, 2008
Petascale Active Data Store Seminar Series
"TBA"
SPEAKER: Mark Hereld, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
TIME: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
LOCATION: Research Institute, rm. 405, University of Chicago
[more info]

October 10, 2008
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
"A Scalable View-Based Collective I/O Optimization for Large-Scale Parallel Applications"
SPEAKER: Francisco Javier Garcia Blas, Carlos III University of Madrid
TIME: 2:00 pm
LOCATION: Building 221 Conference Room A216, Argonne National Laboratory
[more info]

October 16, 2008
Institute for Genomics & Systems Biology Seminar Series
"Seminar: David Gifford"
SPEAKER: David Gifford, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TIME: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
LOCATION: Gordon Center for Integrative Science W301, The University of Chicago
[more info]

October 22, 2008
Computation Institute and the National Center for Data Mining at UIC
"CCA: Cloud Computing and Its Applications"
TIME: all day event
LOCATION: Unversity of Chicago, Downtown Chicago
[more info]

October 29, 2008
LANS Informal Seminar
"tba"
SPEAKER: Francis X. Giraldo, Naval Postgraduate School
TIME: 3pm
LOCATION: Building 221 Conference Room A261, Argonne National Laboratory
[more info]

>> HIGHLIGHT

September 29, 2008

Ian Foster: Big Computation, Bigger Knowledge

Ian Foster will participate in the Chicago Humanities Festival on October 11th. His discussion will include descriptions and demonstrations of relevant projects at the University and Argonne, including the world's fastest supercomputer for open science; grid computing for worldwide resource federation and collaboration; and massive data sets from political science, astrophysics, and neuroscience. |read >

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