Second Annual EPSCoR Workshop: Modeling Advanced Materials, Systems Biology and Alternative Energy Sources

TN-SC EPSCoR RII Track-2 Workshop: “A Desktop to TeraGrid EcoSystem”; Building Capabilities and Collaborations for Cyber-Enabled Discovery   Image courtesy of Stephan Irle

Advanced new materials and understanding biological systems are among grand challenges for cyber science and engineering. Scientific discovery and breakthroughs in these areas require strategies for solutions at the intersection of applied mathematics, computer science and core science areas. Multidisciplinary collaboration among these diverse communities is essential, and these cutting edge strategies often require petascale capabilities, new models and algorithms, and very large-scale data analysis. This conference seeks to bring together experts and computationally oriented scientists interested in solving problems related to modeling advanced materials, new energy sources and systems biology applications.

This second workshop is an activity of the Tennessee and South Carolina NSF EPSCoR jurisdictions who have jointly been awarded an EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure RII "A Desktop to TeraGrid Ecosystem" (NSF EPS-0919436) in collaboration with Tennessee Track I team “TN-SCORE” (NSF EPS-1004083). You can read about the previous workshop at: Desktop to TeraGrid

The partnership between South Carolina (SC) and Tennessee (TN) is based on existing and planned collaborations in advanced materials and systems biology research, and in knowledge domains where computational science is driving new approaches and insights.

Purpose

• To address the difficulties in developing computational methods for scientific challenges modeling advanced materials, systems biology and new sources of energy


• To establish multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams and research collaborations in advanced computational methods to overcome the challenges in scaling up and applying new methods


• To bring together applied mathematicians, computer scientists, computational scientists and engineers


• To ensure that advances in computational methods and algorithms developed in one discipline are disseminated across all disciplines that face problem with similar structure


• To establish best practices for release of science and engineering applications

Conference Highlights

• HPC Training Sessions on Oct 10, 2011:
  
  
  • There will be a Pre-workshop hands-on high performance computing training opportunity utilizing both the world’s fastest academic supercomputer Kraken and RDAV's Nautilus.
  • You can view previous HPC workshop agendas at the NICS event archive or you can visit the NICS Education Outreach and Training pages.

• Poster session on October 11, 2011
  
  

  Poster Submissions are no longer being accepted

  If you have questions regarding your submission you may contact workshop organizers Bhanu Rekepalli or Jacek Jakowski for further assistance.

Conference Speakers              Final Workshop Agenda