The MICDE seminar series showcases ground-breaking research by the world’s leading computational scientists, in applications across the spectrum of science and engineering.
The Fall 2021 term seminar series will be held virtually. The Winter 2022 term seminar series will be held in a hybrid format, both in-person and broadcasted virtually.
| Date | Speaker (click on name for bio and abstract) |
|---|---|
| May 6, 2021 | Computing our way out of a pandemic: modeling in the face of COVID-19, Symposium co-organized with SPH |
| March 19 2021 | Webinar: Daniel Lecoanet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University |
| March 18, 2021 | Webinar: Udo von Toussaint, Group Leader of the Plasma-Material Modeling and Foundations (PMMF) group, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics |
| March 11, 2021 | Webinar: Warren Mori, Professor, Physics & Astronomy, and Electrical Engineering, University of California- Los Angeles |
| March 1, 2021 | Webinar: Santo Fortunato, Professor, Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University |
| February 16, 2021 | Webinar: Emma Lejeune, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Boston University |
| February 9, 2021 | Webinar: Celia Reina, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania |
| February 4, 2021 | Webinar: Ivo Dinov, Professor, Nursing and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan |
| January 26, 2021 | Webinar: Tianle Yuan, Associate Research Scientist, JCET- University of Maryland, Baltimore County, GSFC- NASA |
| January 19, 2021 | Webinar: Yang Liu, Research Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| December 3, 2020 | Webinar: Salar Fattahi, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Operations Engineering, University of Michigan |
| November 20, 2020 | Webinar: Baole Wen, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Michigan |
| November 12, 2020 | Webinar: Denise Kirschner, Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School |
| October 20, 2020 | Webinar: Grace Gu, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Webinar recording available upon request, click here to request. |
| October 20, 2020 | Webinar: Marissa Renardy, Research Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan
Webinar recording coming soon! |
| Â October 9, 2020 | Webinar: Terri McAllister, Community Resilience Group Leader and Program Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Webinar recording coming soon. |
| September 20, 2020 | Webinar: Sophia Haussener, Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne |
| June 2, 2020 | Webinar: Gabriel Ehrlich, Director, Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics; Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. |
| 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)Â |
| 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 |
| Â 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, 2015Â | 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, 2014Â | 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 |
| Date | Speaker (click on name for bio and abstract) |
|---|---|
| March 25, 2021 | Webinar: Chanese Forté, Graduate Student, Environmental Health Science & Scientific Computing |
| March 25, 2021 | Webinar: Hyeon Joo, Graduate Student, Department of Learning Health Sciences (DLHS) & Scientific Computing |
| March 18, 2021 | Webinar: Vishwas Goel, Graduate Student, Materials Science and Engineering & Scientific Computing |
| March 18, 2021 | Webinar: Benjamin Yang, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering & Scientific Computing |
| March 11, 2021 | Webinar: Anna Redgrave, Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Scientific Computing |
| March 11, 2021 | Webinar: Agnit Mukhopadhyay, Graduate Student, Climate and Space Sciences & Scientific Computing |
| March 4, 2021 | Webinar: Karthik Ganesan, Graduate Student, Psychology & Scientific Computing |
| March 4, 2021 | Webinar: Ryan Sandberg, Graduate Student, Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics & Scientific Computing |
| February 25, 2021 | Webinar: Jiale Tan, Graduate Student, Epidemiology & Scientific Computing |
| February 25, 2021 | Webinar: Anil Yildirim, Graduate Student, Aerospace Engineering & Scientific Computing |
| February 18, 2021 | Webinar: Yi Zhu, Graduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Scientific Computing |
| February 18, 2021 | Webinar: Matthew Duschenes, Graduate Student, Applied Physics & Scientific Computing |
| February 11, 2o21 | Webinar: Saibal De, Graduate Student, Math & Scientific Computing |
| January 28, 2021 | Webinar: Jacqueline Larouche, Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering & Scientific Computing, University of Michigan |
| January 28, 2021 | Webinar: Timothy Jugovic, Graduate Student, Chemistry & Scientific Computing, University of Michigan |
