The MICDE seminar series showcases ground-breaking research by the world’s leading computational scientists, in applications across the spectrum of science and engineering.
COVID-19 update: In keeping with the University of Michigan’s statement requiring the suspension of gatherings larger than 100 persons, the MICDE Winter 2020 seminar series has been cancelled.
| Date | Speaker (click on name for bio and abstract) |
|---|---|
| June 2, 2020 | Webinar: Gabriel Ehrlich, Director, Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics; Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. Link to video coming soon… |
| April 17, 2020 | Webinar: Marisa Eisenberg, Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Complex Systems, and Mathematics, University of Michigan |
| April 9, 2020 | Webinar: 2020 MICDE Catalyst Grants Showcase Session II |
| April 9, 2020 | Webinar: 2020 MICDE Catalyst Grants Showcase Session I |
| February 28, 2020 | Sarah D. Olson, Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| February 21, 2020 | Osman Basaran, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University |
| January 31, 2020 | Amir Salaree, Postdoctoral Fellow, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan |
| January 24, 2020 | Andrew Wetzel, Assistant Professor, Physics, University of California, Davis |
| January 15, 2020 | Allen Sanderson, Research Scientist, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute |
| December 9, 2019 | Bo Zhu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Dartmouth College |
| December 6, 2019 | Anna Vainchtein, Professor, Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh |
| November 15, 2019 | Irene Beyerlein, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| November 6, 2019 | Pablo Zavattieri, Professor, Civil Engineering, Purdue University |
| November 1, 2019 | Sanjay Govindjee, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley |
| October 17, 2019 | Janet Scheel, Associate Professor, Physics, Occidental College |
| October 10, 2019 | Ali Yilmaz, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin |
| September 30, 2019 |
Jason MacLean, Associate Professor, Neurobiology, University of Chicago |
| September 25, 2019 |
H. Metin Aktulga, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University |
| September 12, 2019 | Ramanathan Vishnampet, Senior Research Engineer, Exxon Mobil Upstream Integrated Solutions |
| April 18, 2019 | Guy A. E. Vandenbosch, Professor, Electrical Engineering, KU Leuven |
| April 10, 2019 | The 2019 MICDE Symposium: Classical Origins, New Frontiers |
| April 4, 2019 | Prith Banarjee, Chief Technology Officer, ANSYS, Inc. |
| March 14, 2019 | Narayana Aluru, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| February 18, 2019 | James Haxby, Professor, Cognitive Sciences, Dartmouth University |
| February 15, 2019 | Rhonda Dzakpasu, Associate Professor, Physics, Georgetown University |
| February 8, 2019 | David Nordsletten, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Cardiac Surgery, U-M |
| February 1, 2019 | Amir Ali Ahmadi, Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University [recording] |
| January 18, 2019 | Mattia Gazzola, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC |
| January 11, 2019 | Yuri Bazilevs, Professor of Engineering, Brown University |
| December 12, 2018 | Aaron Frank, Assistant Professor, Chemistry, University of Michigan |
| December 3, 2018 | Youssef Marzouk, Associate Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT [SLIDES] |
| October 24, 2018 | Juan Pablo Vielma, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| October 22, 2018 | Padmini Rangamani, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego |
| October 15-16, 2018 | Center for Network and Storage Enabled Collaborative Computational Science 2018 Symposium |
| October 9, 2018 | Nandini Ananth, Associate Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University |
| October 5, 2018 | Pavel Bochev, Computational Mathematician, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories |
| October 1, 2018 | Sanjay Padhi, lead of AWS Research, Adjoint Professor of Physics, Brown University |
| September 13, 2018 | Murat Eren, Assistant Professor, department of Medicine and Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Chicago |
| April 16, 2018 | Vladimir Druskin, Scientific Advisor, Schlumberger Doll Research |
| April 10, 2018 | Raul Radovitzky, Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| April 6, 2018 | Khachik Sargsyan, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories |
| April 6, 2018 | Christopher Börgers, Department of Mathematics, Tufts University |
| April 2, 2018 | Amanda Randles, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University |
| March 30, 2018 | Michael Falk, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University |
| March 22, 2018 | The 2018 MICDE Symposium. Computation: a Pillar of Science and a Lens to the Future |
| March 9, 2018 | Michael Shelley, Courant Institute (NYU) and Flatiron Institute (Simons Foundation) |
| February 20, 2018 | Heather Mayes, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan |
| February 8, 2018 | Dominika Zgid, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan |
| January 24, 2018 | Jesse Capecelatro, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan |
| January 16, 2018 | Theresa Windus, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University |
| December 5, 2017 | Tarek Zohdi, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley |
| November 21, 2017 | Edward Maginn, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame |
| November 10, 2017 | Chris Rycroft, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University |
| November 8, 2017 | Giulia Galli, Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago |
| November 2, 2017 | Thomas Devereaux, Photon Science, Stanford University |
| October 25, 2017 | Irina Tezaur, Sandia National Laboratories (slides) |
| October 19, 2017 | Panos Papadopoulos, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley |
| October 3, 2017 | Margaret Cheung, Physics, University of Houston |
| July 11-13, 2017 | Symposium on Turbulence Modeling |
| May 18-19, 2017 | Symposium – Center for Network and Storage-Enabled Collaborative Computational Science |
| April 18, 2017 | MICDE Symposium – the New Era of Data-Enabled Computational Science |
| March 17, 2017 | Yongjie Jessica Zhang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University |
| March 8, 2017 | Eric Jankowski, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University (Joint with SC2) |
| March 7, 2017 | Michael Eldred, Distinguished member, Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Department, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories |
| February 14, 2017 | Steve White, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine |
| February 3, 2017 | Anna Krylov, Gabilan Distinguished Professor in Science and Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry, University of Southern California |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Vipin Kumar, Regents Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota |
| Dec 9, 2016 | Ann Almgren, Staff Scientist at the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories |
| Dec. 2, 2016 | Levent Gürel, ABAKUS Computing Technologies |
| October 26, 2016 | Andrea Lodi, Professor of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal |
| October 14, 2016 | Anthony Wachs, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| October 6, 2016 | Jonathan Freund, Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering and of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| September 29, 2016 | Jeremy Lichstein, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Florida |
| September 22, 2016 | Rob Gardner, Senior Scientist at the Computation Institute, University of Chicago (slides) |
| September 13, 2016 | Nathan Kutz, Profesor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington |
| April 7, 2016 | MICDE Annual Symposium |
| March 28, 2016 | James Stewart, Manager of the Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification Department, Sandia National Laboratories. (Video link) |
| March 15, 2016 | Jaroslaw Knap, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Grounds |
| March 7, 2016 | Bonnie Hurwitz, Assistant Professor of Biosystems Engineering, University of Arizona |
| Feb. 26, 2016 | Charbel Farhat, Chair of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Feb. 18, 2016 | Weng Cho Chew, Prof. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Feb. 5, 2016 | Jim Belak, Senior Scientist, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Cancelled, Jan. 28, 2016 | James M. Stone, Prof. of Astrophysical Sciences and Applied and Computational Mathematics, Associate Director, Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering, Princeton University |
| Dec. 2, 2015 | Tom Hughes, Director of the ICES Computational Mechanics Group, Prof. of Aerospace Eng. and Eng. Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin |
| Nov. 9, 2015 | Jeffrey Hittinger, Computational Scientist and Group Leader for the Scientific Computing Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Nov. 3, 2015 | Marc Bonnet, Research Director / Senior Scientist, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France. Adjunct Professor of Civil Eng., University of Minnesota |
| Nov. 2, 2015 | Peter Haas, Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center |
| Oct. 30, 2015 | Jim Chelikowsky, Director of the ICES Center for Computational Materials, Prof. of Physics, Chemical Eng., and Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin |
| Oct. 21, 2015 | Craig Stewart, Associate Dean, Research Technologies; Executive Director of the Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University |
| Sept. 22, 2015 | Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Assoc. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University |
| Sept. 22, 2015 | Computational Discovery in Complex Systems Biology Symposium |
| Sept. 21, 2015 | David Ceperley, Prof. of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| May 4, 2015 | Mariana Carrasco-Teja, University of Michigan Department of Chemical Engineering |
| April 8, 2015 | Balasubramaniam Shanker, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University |
| March 30, 2015 | Hossam Metwally, Principal Engineer, ANSYS Inc. |
| March 26, 2015 | Henry Neeman, Assistant Vice President, Information Technology – Research Strategy; Advisor Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER); Associate Professor, College of Engineering; Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science; The University of Oklahoma |
| March 23, 2015 | Charles Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| March 19, 2015 | David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science; Director, Extreme Computing Research Center; King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Feb. 16, 2015 | Mario Juric, Professor of Astronomy; Senior Data Science Fellow, eScience Institute; Data Management Project Scientist, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope; University of Washington |
| Feb. 5, 2015 | David Randall, Professor of Atmospheric Science; Director, Center for Multiscale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes; Colorado State University |
| Nov. 14, 2014 | Andrew Siegel, Computational Scientist & Project Lead – Nuclear Simulation, Argonne National Lab |
| Nov. 6, 2014 | Research Computing Symposium |
| Nov. 3, 2014 | Wolfgang Bangerth, Professor of Mathematics, Texas A&M University |
| Oct. 15, 2014 | Nikolaos V. Sahinidis, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Oct. 10, 2014 | Sokrates Pantelides, Professor of Physics, Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University |
| Sept. 25, 2014 | Vladimir Rokhlin, Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics, Yale University |
| April 30, 2014 | Vijay Pande, Professor of Chemistry, Structural Biology, and Computer Science, Stanford University |
| April 7, 2014 | “The Theory and Practice of Biomechanical Imaging,” Assad Oberai, Associate Director, Scientific Computing Research Center; Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| April 3, 2014 | “Transforming K-12 Computer Science: The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC)” by Dan Garcia, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California-Berkeley |
| March 19, 2014 | “Scalability, Performance, Stability, and Portability of Many-core Computing Algorithms,” Wen-mei Hwu, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| March 11, 2014 | “Scalable Algorithms for the Evaluation of Volume Potentials,” George Biros, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and leader of the ICES Parallel Algorithms for Data Analysis and Simulation Group, University of Texas-Austin |
| Feb. 28, 2014 | “Toward Bayesian Inversion for Large-Scale Antarctic Ice Sheet Flow,” Omar Ghattas, Chair in Computational Geosciences, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin |
| Feb. 14, 2014 | “Recent Advances in Biofilm Modeling,” Cristian Picioreanu, Associate Professor of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology |
| Jan. 31, 2014 | “Reactive Molecular Dynamics: Algorithms, Software, and Applications,” Ananth Grama, Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University |
| Sept. 16 – 17, 2013 | “Parallel and Distributed Application Paradigms” and “Building and Linking Local, Regional and National Cyberinfrastructure to Advance Science,” Daniel Katz, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, National Science Foundation |
