Published Date:September 1, 2009
Dr. 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.
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September 1, 2009
Published Date:August 20, 2009
Donald 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

Published Date:July 13, 2009
Faculty 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

Published Date:July 13, 2009
Physics 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.
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July 13, 2009
Published Date:June 17, 2009
NCSA 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
Published Date:March 17, 2009
Illinois 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.
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March 17, 2009
Published Date:December 18, 2008
Former 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
Author:
Erika Strebel, NCSA
Published Date:December 5, 2008
Illinois 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.
Author:
Erika Strebel, NCSA
Published Date:
December 5, 2008
Published Date:October 7, 2008
Illinois researcher and faculty fellow Todd Martinez partners with NCSA to speed chemistry simulations and improve the way the results are stored and studied.
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October 7, 2008
Published Date:June 10, 2008
Chemistry 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
Published Date:June 2, 2008
Four 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).
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June 2, 2008
Published Date:May 21, 2008
Illinois 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
Published Date:April 23, 2008
Embryonic 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.
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April 23, 2008
Published Date:April 16, 2008
Illinois 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).
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April 16, 2008
Published Date:March 26, 2008
Library 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.
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March 26, 2008
Published Date:January 22, 2008
In 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.
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January 22, 2008
Published Date:November 8, 2007
CSE-Online opens the door to high-performance computing for chemistry researchers, educators, and students.
Published Date:
November 8, 2007
Published Date:November 8, 2007
University 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
Author:
Barbara Jewett
Published Date:August 24, 2007
Documenting and re-creating top-level decision making processes is the focus of government historians.
Author:
Barbara Jewett
Published Date:
August 24, 2007
Published Date:August 24, 2007
Mariano 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
Author:
Tracy Culumber
Published Date:August 24, 2007
NCSA aids a collaborative effort to preserve and digitize Spanish Civil War history.
Author:
Tracy Culumber
Published Date:
August 24, 2007
Published Date:May 21, 2007
Eleven 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
Author:
Tracy Culumber
Published Date:April 9, 2007
Jordana 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.
Author:
Tracy Culumber
Published Date:
April 9, 2007
Published Date:March 26, 2007
NCSA helps CSE-Online become TeraGrid Science Gateway
Published Date:
March 26, 2007
Author:
University of Illinois News Bureau
Published Date:March 14, 2007
NCSA 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.
Author:
University of Illinois News Bureau
Published Date:
March 14, 2007