IDRE First Annual Kickoff and Poster Session

• Poster Abstracts

Speakers' Presentation Slides:

• Warren Mori
• Chris Anderson
• Bill Labate
• Margo Reveil
• Fran Berman

Press Coverage:

• High-end computation alters the research landscape
  - UCLA Today

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
8:00am to 3:00pm
CNSI Building

The First Annual Kickoff Event and Poster Session for the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) was hosted by IDRE and the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research from 8am-3pm on Tuesday, October 30, in the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI).

Chancellor Gene Block opened the event and the keynote speech was delivered by Francine Berman, the Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).

Along with theory and experiment, computation and visualization are now seen as equal and indispensable contributors to the advance of scientific knowledge, scholarship and engineering. IDRE’s mission is to enhance UCLA’s already significant efforts in this area.

Scheduled to speak:

• UCLA Chancellor, Gene Block.
• Vice Chancellor of Research, Roberto Peccei.
• IDRE Director, Warren Mori.
• SDSC Director, Fran Berman.

• Speaker Biographies

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Keynote

Title: Cyberinfrastructure: Foundation for the Information Age

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Fran Berman
Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Professor and HPC Endowed Chair, UC San Diego

Abstract

The information Age has created a paradigm shift in the practice of research, education, commerce, and modern life. Software, computers, networks, sensors, digital devices, etc. form the "cyber-tools" in the Information Age, and the resulting aggregate "cyber-infrastructure" provides an enabling fabric for a host of new advances and capabilities. Over the last decade, computational and information cyberinfrastructure has fostered a new generation of discoveries, and has enabled greater understanding of systems as large as the universe and smaller than the cell.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is a national leader in the innovation and provision of large-scale Cyberinfrastructure. In this talk, SDSC Director Fran Berman discusses key issues in developing capable, useful, and usable computational and information cyberinfrastructure, and describes the next generation of challenges and opportunities for the data that drives the Information Age.

Francine Berman Biography

Dr. Francine Berman is a pioneer in Grid Computing and an international leader in Cyberinfrastructure. She holds the High Performance Computing Endowed Chair in UCSD's Computer Science and Engineering Department. Since 2001, Dr. Berman has served as Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) where she leads a staff of 400 interdisciplinary scientists, engineers, and technologists in the innovation, development, and provision of computational and information infrastructure. Dr. Berman is one of the two founding Principle Investigators of the National Science Foundation's TeraGrid project (providing national Grid infrastructure), and also directed the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI), a consortium of 41 research groups, institutions, and university partners with the goal of building national infrastructure to support research and education in science and engineering. Dr. Berman is currently co-chairing an international Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access. For her accomplishments, leadership, and vision, Dr. Berman was recognized in 2004 as one of the top women in technology by BusinessWeek, as one of the top technologists by IEEE Spectrum, and most recently as a leader in science and technology by Newsweek.