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Faculty fellow to be featured in bioengineering seminarDr. Jian Ma, assistant professor in bioengineering and a 2009-2010 Faculty Fellow, will give a talk titled "Unraveling the Ancestral Mammalian Genome Yields Insights into the Human Genome from noon to 1 p.m. in 2240 Digital Computer Lab as part of a bioengineering seminar series.
Published Date: September 1, 2009 Former fellow Don Wuebbles to give talk on climate changeDonald Wuebbles, the Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and a former NCSA fellow, will give a talk on "Confronting Human-Driven Climate Change in the United States: The Need for New Energy Policy" at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6 in the Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana. Published Date: August 20, 2009
Faculty Fellows presentation: Cyber ConnoisseurshipFaculty Fellow Anne D. Hedeman discusses 'Tools to Aid Understanding of the Medieval French Book Trade.' Watch the video of her presentation. Published Date: July 13, 2009
Petascale Distributed Computing for Terascale PhysicsPhysics professors Mark Neubauer describes his NCSA Faculty Fellows project, Petascale Distributed Computing for Terascale Physics, including the physics goals of the ATLAS experiment, the tiered computing model designed to achieve these goals, and efforts to deploy a Tier-3 cluster with Grid Services system at Illinois. Watch the video. Published Date: July 13, 2009 NCSA awards fellowships to Illinois researchersNCSA has awarded fellowships to seven Illinois researchers to help with collaborative projects in diverse fields. The fellows will work closely with NCSA expert staff and make use of NCSA resources to pursue projects. For a list of the new fellows and their projects, visit http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/09/0616NCSAawards.html Published Date: June 17, 2009 Applying high-performance computing to businessIllinois business professor Michael Shaw describes how the use of high-performance computing can change the range of capabilities available for enterprise-wide decision support systems by empowering businesses to perform tasks in real-time and on a level of complexity not achievable before. Watch the video. Published Date: March 17, 2009 IEEE honors NCSA fellow Jiawei HanFormer NCSA faculty fellow Jiawei Han, an Illinois professor of computer science, was honored recently by the IEEE Computer Society, which named him a fellow in recognition of his contributions to data mining and knowledge discovery.
Published Date: December 18, 2008 NCSA teams up with U.S. Army to devise smart Web crawling systemIllinois computer science professor Kevin Chang, a former NCSA Faculty Fellow, aided NCSA staffers Alan Craig and Andrew Wadsworth in the development of a more focused, faster way to search the web for the U.S. Army. Published Date: December 5, 2008 Reflecting chemical intuitionIllinois researcher and faculty fellow Todd Martinez partners with NCSA to speed chemistry simulations and improve the way the results are stored and studied. Published Date: October 7, 2008 Challenges in the Simulation of Chemical DynamicsChemistry researcher Todd Martinez discusses his NCSA Faculty Fellowship and how using different types of processors may dramatically speed up his simulations. Published Date: June 10, 2008 NCSA selects research fellows for collaborative projectsFour researchers from institutions across the country, nine from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and one from abroad have been awarded fellowships enabling them to pursue diverse collaborative projects with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Published Date: June 2, 2008 Observing and understanding the EarthIllinois researcher and NCSA fellow Praveen Kumar discusses the challenges of understanding the complex Earth system—its weather, climate, oceans, atmosphere, water, land, natural resources, ecosystems, and natural and human-induced hazards—and how he is collaborating with NCSA to develop tools to aid and enhance that critical understanding. Published Date: May 21, 2008 NCSA fellow studies embryonic stem cellsEmbryonic stem cells have great potential to treat diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and diabetes. Using NCSA's computing resources, Illinois professor Sheng Zhong researches the transcriptional control that is thought to be key to these stem cells maintaining their undifferentiated state. Published Date: April 23, 2008 Combining high tech with the ancient worldIllinois religion professor Wayne Pitard describes the Inscriptifact project, which allows users to access high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean worlds. As an NCSA Faculty Fellow, Pitard collaborated with staff from the Illinois Institute for Computing in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Science (I-CHASS). Published Date: April 16, 2008 Understanding social networksLibrary and information science researcher Caroline Haythornthwaite analyzes communal conversation, such as email, listservs, chat, and blogs. In collaboration with NCSA, Haythornthwaite is developing an environment to help researchers find meaningful patterns and networks in this enormous volume of text. Published Date: March 26, 2008 The Development of Point-to-Zone Pattern Learning for Groundwater RechargeIn this video, Illinois State Water Survey researcher Yu-Feng Lin describes the collaborative project he undertook with NCSA's Image Spatial Data Analysis Group as part of his recent faculty fellowship.
Published Date: January 22, 2008 Power to the peopleCSE-Online opens the door to high-performance computing for chemistry researchers, educators, and students.
Published Date: November 8, 2007 From stars to stormsUniversity of Minnesota's Paul Woodward and NCSA's Chief Science Officer Bob Wilhelmson are working to adapt Woodward's code to simulate severe thunderstorms.
Published Date: November 8, 2007 In the knowDocumenting and re-creating top-level decision making processes is the focus of government historians.
Published Date: August 24, 2007 Swirling strengthsMariano Cantero and Marcelo Garcia at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with S. Balachandar from the University of Florida, conducted extensive research on gravity flows utilizing Cobalt, NCSA's SGI Altix system.
Published Date: August 24, 2007 War through the pagesNCSA aids a collaborative effort to preserve and digitize Spanish Civil War history.
Published Date: August 24, 2007 NCSA embarks on diverse projects with 17 fellowsEleven researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and six scholars for other institutions across the country will receive fellowships enabling them to work closely with the expert staff at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Published Date: May 21, 2007 NCSA aids collaborative effort to preserve, digitize Spanish Civil War historyJordana Mendelson, a 2006-07 faculty fellow with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and a team encompassing several units of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have collaborated to launch an interactive website that allows museum-goers and Web users to browse a collection of 30 digitalized Spanish Civil War magazines.
Published Date: April 9, 2007 Broadening access to computational chemistryNCSA helps CSE-Online become TeraGrid Science Gateway
Published Date: March 26, 2007 Exhibition of Spanish Civil War-era print culture is first of its kindNCSA aided faculty fellow Jordana Mendelson with the curation of a major project aimed at making historical documents of the Spanish Civil War era more accessible to the public as well as to scholars worldwide.
Published Date: March 14, 2007 |
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