Events

  • Jonathan Freund

    MICDE Seminar: Jonathan Freund, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Boeing Auditorium - 1109 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building 1320 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Bio: Jonathan Freund is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Mechanical Science & Engineering and Aerospace at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and a winner of the 2008 Frenkiel Prize from its Division of Fluid Dynamics where he currently serves as the division secretary/treasurer.  He is an associate editor […]

    Gary King, PhD, Harvard, Institute for Quantitative Social Science – MIDAS Seminar Series

    Gerald Ford Library 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Gary King, PhD Harvard University 'Big Data is Not About the Data!' Abstract: The spectacular progress the media describes as "big data" has little to do with the data.  Data, after all, is becoming commoditized, less expensive, and an automatic byproduct of other changes in organizations and society. More data alone doesn't generate insights; it often […]

    [SC2] High Performance Computing resources available to U-M students

    1003 EECS 1301 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, United States

    Did you know that U-M has a high capacity, secure research storage and a free data science cluster? Did you know that XSEDE is a free scientific discovery infrastructure funded by NSF and available to anyone that needs it? In our next SC2 meeting Brock Palen, Associate Director of Advanced Research Computing-Technology Services, will join us to […]

    Anthony Wachs

    MICDE Seminar: Anthony Wachs, University of British Columbia

    1084 East Hall 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Bio: Anthony Wachs is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the departments of Mathematics and of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He received his B. Sc. and M. Sc. from the University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg and his PhD from the Institut National Polytechnique of Grenoble in 2000. Right after, […]

    [SC2] DEMO: Visualizations on remote resources

    340 West Hall 1085 South University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Results of adaptive simulations of a three-dimensional wing undergoing flapping motion in viscous flow. K. Fidkowski (U-M Aerospace) One of the advantages of scientific computing research is the ability to use powerful supercomputers from the convenience of your home computer, laptop, tablet, or even phone! In the next SC2 meeting club members will be demonstrating how you can […]

    Andrea Lodi

    MICDE Seminar: Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montréal

    Boeing Auditorium - 1109 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building 1320 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Bio:  Andrea Lodi received a PhD in System Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2000 and he was a Herman Goldstine Fellow at the IBM Mathematical Sciences Department, NY from 2005–2006. He was a full professor of Operations Research at DEI, University of Bologna between 2007 and 2015. Since 2015 he has been the Canada Excellence Research […]

    Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality and Accessibility of Financial Data

    Unnamed Venue Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    The Office of Financial Research and the University of Michigan will host a joint conference, “Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality, and Accessibility of Financial Data” in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  The conference will bring together a wide range of scholars, regulators, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how Big Data can be used to enhance financial […]

  • Info Session: Data Services at U-M

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Representatives of Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) and the U-M Library (UML) will give an overview of services that are now available to support data-intensive research on campus.  As part of the U-M Data Science Initiative, CSCAR and UML are expanding their scopes and adding capacity to support a wide range of […]

    MICDE 2016 Catalyst Grants Informational Session

    Michigan League, Room D 911 N. University , Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering (MICDE) seeks proposals for innovative research projects in computational science that combine elements of mathematics, computer science, and cyberinfrastructure. Of interest is computational science research in any emerging area, including but not limited to (a) applications such as neuroscience, ecology, environmental science, evolutionary biology, human-made complex systems, […]

  • Levent Gürel

    MICDE/RadLab/IEEE Seminar: Levent Gürel, ABAKUS Computing Technologies

    3427 EECS 1301 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Bio: Prof. Levent Gürel (Fellow of IEEE, ACES, and EMA) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1988 and 1991, respectively, in electrical and computer engineering. He worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1991-94. During his 20 years with […]