MURPA seminars
Each year our unique MURPA international research seminar series showcases leading international professors and their latest exciting research projects to Monash students and staff.
Seminar Schedule for Semester 2, 2018
The schedule will be published in July and covers the period end July-end October. The 2018 series will comprise of 8 seminars.
Special theme: Projects at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). All speakers are NCSA employees.
The first seminar will be in the first week of semester 2 in Lecture Theatre S3,16 Rainforest Walk at Clayton. Students should regularly check the site with the full schedule for updates, changes etc.
| Speaker | Topic | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| James MacIndoe, Brian Song, Jie Liu, Jonathan Samosir (UCSD), Roy Hyde, Travis Liew (I2R), Ahmed Shifaz (Warwick) | MURPA Project Outcomes | (PDF, 74KB) |
| Speaker | Topic | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gavin Kroeger, Daniel Sun (Warwick), Rui Jie Chow, Tim Telfer, Jared Griffiths (UCSD) | MURPA Project Outcomes | (PDF, 220KB) | |
| Prof Michael Norman, Distinguished Professor of Physics, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center | Application Experiences with Gordon - A Flash-based HPC System Video | (PDF, 76KB) | (PDF, 3.23MB) |
| Dr Sameer Tilak, Assistant Research Scientist, CLEOS | Storage and Analysis of Big Data from Sensor Networks: Challenges and Opportunities | (PDF, 153KB) | (PDF, 2.32MB) |
| Dr Wayne Pfeiffer | Bioinformatics Meets Big Data | (PDF, 82KB) | (PDF, 1.27MB) |
| Prof Geoffrey Fox | Data Science and the Cloud | (PDF, 84KB) | (PDF, 4.93MB) |
| Dr Shonali Krishnaswamy | Big Data Analytics: When Research Meets Reality | (PDF, 82KB) | (PDF, 5.35MB) |
| Prof Jack Dongarra | Emerging Heterogeneous Technologies for High Performance Computing | (PDF, 82KB) | (PDF, 5.47MB) |
| Dr Nancy Wilkins-Diehr | Science in the Digital Age: The Science Gateways Institute and NSF Software Investments | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 2.71MB) |
| Dr Arun Konagurthu | Inference of Protein 3D "Lego Bricks" | (PDF, 82KB) | (PDF, 2.38MB) |
| Dr William Gropp | Algorithms and Software in the Post-Petascale Era | (PDF, 82KB) | (PDF, 1.14MB) |
| Dr Mark Miller | Embedding CIPRES Science Gateway Capabilities in Phylogenetics Software Environments | (PDF, 6KB) | (PDF, 1.36MB) |
| Dr Ilkay Altintas | On Workflow-Driven Science Using Scientific Workflows and Provenance | (PDF, 83KB) | |
| Prof Peter Fox | How Environmental Informatics is Preparing Us for the Big Data Era | (PDF, 86KB) | (PDF, 8.31MB) |
| Speaker | Topic | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liang Ding (NCSA), David Warner (Technion), Thomas Moore, John Bell, Satvik Kumar, Minh Ngoc Nhat Huynh, Victoria Weldon (UCSD) | MURPA Project Outcomes | (PDF, 224KB) | |
| Dr Peter Arzberger (UCSD) | Preparing Students for a Global Science, Engineering, and Education Workforce | (PDF, 85KB) | (PDF, 7MB) |
| Prof Phil Bourne (UCSD) | New modes of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age | (PDF, 7KB) | (PDF, 9MB) |
| Dr Beth Simon (UCSD) | Engaging students in thinking like computer scientists: Peer Instruction | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 4.38MB) |
| Dr Ilkay Altintas (SDSC) | Distributed Workflow-Driven Analysis of Large-Scale Biological Data using bioKepler | (PDF, 76KB) | |
| Dr Robert Sinkovits (SDSC) | Gordon: A novel high performance computing system for data and memory intensive applications | (PDF, 152KB) | (PDF, 13.7MB) |
| Dan Fay (Microsoft) | Advancing Environmental Understanding; the Role of eScience | (PDF, 147KB) | (PDF, 35.7MB) |
| Dr Mark Miller (SDSC) | The CIPRES Science Gateway: Enabling High-Impact Science for Phylogenetics Researchers with Limited Resources | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 3.83MB) |
| Prof Larry Smarr (UCSD) | The coming digital transformation of health | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 6.69MB) |
| Prof Gerhard Klimeck (Purdue) | Mythbusting Scientific Knowledge Transfer with nanoHUB.org | (PDF, 149KB) | (PDF, 34MB) |
| Jay Alameda (NCSA) | Embedding CIPRES Science Gateway Capabilities in Phylogenetics Software Environments | (PDF, 158KB) | (PDF, 3.83MB) |
| Speaker | Topic | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar Kautzner, Jian Zhang, James Wetter, Geoff Pascoe, Lin Wei, Wai Keung Lung MURPA Students 2010-2011 | MURPA Project Outcomes | (PDF, 217KB) | (PDF, 104KB) |
| Prof Bill Kramer, NCSA | Are We Using the Wrong Metrics for Large Scale HPC Systems? | (PDF, 155KB) | (PDF, 99KB) |
| Prof Carole Goble, Univ Manchester | The Long tail Scientist | (PDF, 81KB) | (PDF, 121KB) |
| Prof Vineet Bafna, UCSD | Rapid detection of gene-gene interactions in genome-wide association studies | (PDF, 248KB) | (PDF, 90KB) |
| Dr Ilkay Altintas, SDSC | On Workflow-Driven Science and the Provenance of Related Products | (PDF, 84KB) | (PDF, 91KB) |
| Prof Andrew McCammon, UCSD | Nasty Beasties: Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases. | (PDF, 85KB) | (PDF, 8KB) |
| Dr Jim Myers, RPI | Delivering "Competitiveness" in High Performance Computing | (PDF, 157KB) | (PDF, 89KB) |
| Prof Andrew McCulloch, UCSD | Multi-Scale Modeling of the Heart: from Molecule to Organ | (PDF, 156KB) | (PDF, 89KB) |
| Prof Phil Bourne, UCS | The Path to Open Science with Illustrations from Computational Biology | (PDF, 119B) | (PDF, 106KB) |
| Prof Fran Berman, RPI | Digital Sustainability: Information as a Persistent Resource in the Digital World | (PDF, 154KB) | (PDF, 84KB) |
| Dr Wayne Pfieffer, Distinguished Scientist SDSC | Compute- and Data-Intensive Analyses in Bioinformatics | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 86KB) |
| Prof Mike Norman, SDSC | Cosmological Simulations at the Petascale: Science Results and Operational Challenges | (PDF, 86KB) | (PDF, 96KB) |
| Dr Sameer Tilak, UCSD | Building Large-scale Personalized Mobile Sensing Systems: Challenges and Research Opportunities | (PDF, 83KB) |
| Speaker | Topic | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aisa Naim, Andrew Paterson, Jonathan McClure, Ben Morgan, MURPA Students 2009 | MURPA Project Outcomes | (PDF, 133KB) | (PDF, 104KB) |
| Prof Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, TeraGrid Area Director for Science Gateways San Diego Supercomputer Center | Science Gateways and their tremendous potential for Science and Engineering | (PDF, 143KB) | (PDF, 91KB) |
| Dr Jurgen Schulze, Research Scientist Calit2 and CS Lecturer UCSD | Latest Developments in Virtual Reality at Calit2 | (PDF, 88KB) | (PDF, 83KB) |
| Dr Ania Sher, Research Fellow Oxford University | Mathematical models of cardiac muscle cells: Predicting drug-induced arrhythmias. | (PDF, 141KB) | |
| Dr Robert Konecny, Computing Systems Management, CS Researcher, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD | Multiscale Modeling of Proteins | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 179KB) |
| Dr Phil Papadopolous, Program Director, UC Computing Systems, UCSD | Extending Rocks Clusters into Amazon EC2 Using Condor | (PDF, 83KB) | |
| Dr Wilfred Li, Executive Director National Biomedical Computation Resource UCSD | Workflows for Computer Aided Drug Discovery: New Twitter for the Old Problem | (PDF, 82KB) | (PDF, 97KB) |
| Prof Philip Bourne, Professor of Pharmacology UCSD, Associate Director Protein Data Bank | New Modes of Scholarly Communication | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 106KB) |
| Prof Mike Norman, Director San Diego Supercomputer Centre | Gordon: A New Kind of Supercomputer for Data-Intensive Applications | (PDF, 142KB) | (PDF, 96KB) |
| Prof Larry Smarr, Principal Investigator NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project, CalIT2, UCSD | Global Climatic Disruption and its Impact on Victoria and California | (PDF, 147KB) | (PDF, 104KB) |
| Dr Sameer Tilak, Cyberinfrastructure Laboratory for Environmental Observing Systems (CLEOS),SDSC | Cyberinfrastructure for Large-Scale Environmental Observing Systems | (PDF, 143KB) | (PDF, 100KB) |
| Prof William Gropp,Department of Computer Science and Deputy Directory for Research for the Institute of Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies, University of Illinois | Enabling the Next Generation of Scalable Systems | (PDF, 88KB) | (PDF, 108KB) |
| Dr. Edee Wiziecki, co-Principal Investigator, Institute for Chemistry Literacy Through Computational Science(ICLCS) at NCSA, University of Illinois | Using Virtual Machines to accommodate Computational Chemistry in courses and classrooms. | (PDF, 90KB) | |
| Alan Craig, Associate Director for Human Computer Interaction for the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at NCSA | Augmented Reality | (PDF, 120KB) | |
| Dr. Robert A. Fiedler,Blue Waters Technical Program Manager for Science and Engineering Applications at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) | Applications on the Blue Waters Sustained Petascale System | (PDF, 84KB) | |
| Dr. Radha Nandkumar, Senior Research Scientist & Director, International Affiliations and Campus Relations, NCSA, University of Illinois | Global connections with Child Health Informatics | (PDF, 83KB) | |
| Dr. Brett Bode, Blue Waters Software Development Manager, NCSA, University of Illinois | Software Development in Petascale Computing | (PDF, 182KB) | |
| Dr. Steven Gottlieb, Faculty of Physics, University of Indiana and NCSA Blue Waters Team Member | Lattice QCD: Challenges of Scaling to Peta and Exaflop Speeds | (PDF, 85KB) |
| Speaker | Topic | Abstract | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Arzberger, Chair of the Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) | Benefiting Society through Information Technology: Why Changes in Education are Needed | (PDF, 148KB) | (PDF, 16.1MB) |
| Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center | Harnessing the Data Deluge | (PDF, 85KB) | (PDF, 2.77MB) |
| Ilkay Altintas, Director Scientific Workflow Automation Technologies Lab UCSD | On Basics of Using Workflows for Scientific Exploration and the Kepler System | (PDF, 144KB) | (PDF, 2.43MB) |
| Roy Kerckhoffs, Assistant Project Scientist UCSD Department of Bioengineering | Multi Scale Modelling of the Cardio System | (PDF, 6KB) | (PDF, 9.12MB) |
| Cindy Zheng, Grid Engineer San Diego Supercomputer Center | Introduction to PRAGMA Grid | (PDF, 154KB) | (PDF, 7.45MB) |
| Wilfed Li, Executive Director National Biomedical Computation Resource UCSD | Machine Learning Approaches in Avian Flu Drug Discovery | (PDF, 85KB) | (PDF, 5.33MB) |
| Phil Papadopoulos, Program Director, UC Computing Systems, UCSD | User-defined Clusters - Introduction to the Rocks Cluster Toolkit : Merging Clouds and Clusters | (PDF, 87KB) | (PDF, 2.89MB) |
| Mike Norman, Chief Scientific Officer San Diego Supercomputer Center | Exploring OptIPortals as Petascale Simulation End Stations | (PDF, 106KB) | (PDF, 2.21MB) |
| Larry Smarr, Principal Investigator NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project | Can a Greener Internet Help Us Moderate Climate Change? | (PDF, 68KB) | (PDF, 5.92MB) |
| Jurgen Schulze, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology UCSD | Immersive Virtual Reality Research at Calit2 | (PDF, 83KB) | (PDF, 2.04MB) |
| A/Prof Ashley Buckle, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University | New Approaches to Data-Driven Publication in Biomedical Science - postponed from 21 May | (PDF, 7KB) |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Peter Arzberger | International Research and Education:Opportunities and Challenges |
| Mark Ellisman | Integrating Neuroscience Knowledge: Brain Research in the Digital Age |
| Larry Smarr | The Emerging Global Collaboratory for Microbial Metagenomics Rsearchers |
| Ilkay Altintas | On Accelerating Scientific Discovery using Scientific Workflows and the Kepler System |
| Jurgen Schulze | Immersive Virtual Reality Research at Calit2 |
| Wilfed Li | Cyberinfrastructure for Avian Flu Drug Design: have the cake and eat it too |
| Andrew McCulloch | Multi-Scale Modelling of the Heart |
| Kim Baldridge | Grid Enabled Molecular Science Trough Online Networked Environments |