This summer in Austin, 10 undergraduates majoring in science and engineering disciplines will be immersed in training at The University of Texas at Austin to be the next generation of ‘game changers’. Participants will explore grand challenges such as climate...
Registration is now open for a five-day workshop on advanced parallel programming sponsored by ARC. Time/Date: 10 – 5 p.m., August 10-14, 2015 Location: Room 2615, School of Public Health I, 109 S. Observatory Instructors: Dr. Charles J. Antonelli, Advocacy and...
LSA IT and the Clark Library are offering a series of workshops covering a broad range of GIS and data topics, from introductory to the advanced level. These workshops are open to all members of the University of Michigan community. A list of workshops and...
The U-M Transportation Research Institute is hosting a day-long symposium on transportation safety research. Panel discussion topics include advanced human modeling and big data. The keynote speaker is Dr. Grant Baldwin, Ph.D., MPH, Director, Division of Unintentional...
This year, the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studes (ICOS) and ARC are again offering a one-week “big data summer camp” for doctoral students in the social sciences interested in organizational research, with a combination of detailed examples from...
The U-M School of Social Work is offering a four-part lunch series on “Data Science Essentials.” For complete information and to register, see the event web site. Sessions will be held in Room 8870 of the School of Social Work, from noon to 1 p.m., and are...
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) has been allocated 3.5 million node hours (equivalent to approximately 50 million core hours) annually as part of the Blue Waters project. This allocation provides the GLCPC member institutions with an...
The SC15 conference in Austin, Texas, in November is taking applications for student volunteers. The deadline to apply is June 1. Conference organizers say they are accepting an increased number of students from the U.S. and internationally. Student volunteers can...
University of Michigan researchers and staff took part in demonstrations, talks and a “Parallel Computing 101” tutorial as part of the University’s presence at the Supercomputing 15 conference Nov. 15-20 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin,...