[Imsa-hpc-list] WEBCAST: ICES/TACC Distinguished Lecture Series on Petascale Simulation

[Steve Stevenson]

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    Subject: [SIAM-CSE] WEBCAST: ICES/TACC Distinguished Lecture  
Series on
    Petascale Simulation
      - Dr. Ed Seidel (NSF), May 15, 2009
    WEBCAST:
    Distinguished Lecture Series on Petascale Simulation
    Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)
    Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Title: Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Science for Research  
and
    Education
    Speaker: Dr. Edward Seidel
    Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure
    U.S. National Science Foundation
    Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
    Seminar: 3:30 to 5:00 pm, U.S. Central Daylight Time (UTC -5 hours)


    Location: ACES 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium, UT Austin main campus)
    Reception: 3:00 to 3:30 pm, ACES Connector Lobby

    Live Webcast: http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/petascale

    Note: viewing the webcast requires installing a browser plug-in,  
which
    can be found on the website above.

    Abstract:
    Modern cyberinfrastructure---the comprehensive set of deployable
    hardware, software, and algorithmic tools and environments  
supporting
    research, education, and increasingly collaboration across
    disciplines---is transforming not only science and engineering, but
    all disciplines and society itself.  Motivating with examples  
ranging
    from astrophysics to emergency forecasting to applications in
    humanities and social sciences, I will describe the need, the
    potential, and the transformative impact of cyberinfrastructure. I
    will also discuss current and planned future efforts at the U.S.
    National Science Foundation to address them.

    Speaker Biography:
    Edward Seidel became director of the NSF Office of  
Cyberinfrastructure
    in September 2008 and oversees advances in supercomputing, high- 
speed
    networking, data storage and software development on a national  
level.
    He retains his faculty positions and his affiliation with the Center
    for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University.  
Prior to
    these posts, Seidel was a professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for
    Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, or AEI) in  
Potsdam,
    Germany. There, he founded and led AEI's numerical relativity and
    e-science groups, which became leading forces worldwide in solving
    Einstein's equations using large-scale computers and in distributed
    and grid computing. He also served as a senior research scientist at
    the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and as an
    associate professor in physics at the University of Illinois at
    Urbana-Champaign. In addition, he is presently the chief scientist  
for
    the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative. Seidel earned his Ph.D.  
from
    Yale University in relativistic astrophysics. His awards include the
    2006 IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award for innovative work in
    high-performance computing, the 2001 Gordon Bell Prize, and the 1998
    Heinz Billing Prize of the Max Planck Society. He has been named to
    the Internet 2 Board of Trustees and is a Fellow of the American
    Physical Society.

steve
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple,  
and wrong. H. L. Mencken.