UCLA IDRE Newsletter

Volume 2, No. 3, October 21, 2008

 

In the News

Leaders of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, announced a major joint initiative for multi-core chip design and architecture.

A team of Princeton University computer scientists working in collaboration with archaeologists in Greece has developed a new technology that has the potential to change the way people conduct archaeological research.

 

Upcoming Events and Classes

• Oct. 21, 2 – 4 p.m., Class: Special topics of Parallel Computing Location: 5628 Math Science
• Oct. 22, 10 a.m. – Noon, Class:What's New in SAS 9.2? Location: 5628 Math Science
• Oct. 22, 2008, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., CENS 6th Annual Research Review, Secrecy is Dead - Long Live Privacy: Technical and legal strategies for reviving privacy in our transparent age, Daniel Weitzner. Location: Tom Bradley International Center, UCLA Campus.
• Oct. 28, 2 – 4 p.m., Class: Open Source HPC Tools and Libraries Location: 5628 Math Science
• Nov. 3, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., IPAM Lecture, The Internets We Did Not Build, David Clark, MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Lab, Reception to follow lecture. Location: Room 39 - Haines Hall.
• Nov. 5, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m., Live Webcast, Distinguished Lecture Series on Petascale Simulation: Roadrunner: Science, Cell, and a Petaflop/s, Dr. Andy White, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Theory, Simulation and Computation, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Nov. 5 and Dec. 1, 2 – 5 p.m., Mellon Seminar 2008-2009: What Is(n’t) Digital Humanities? Location: Humanities Building, 193/199

 

Funding and Resource Opportunities

Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklin’s x-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science created the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge to encourage communicating through visualization.

IDRE Call for Proposals, due October 22: The Institute for Digital Research and Education is soliciting internal proposals for focused research projects in the area of high-performance computing. The purpose of this annual solicitation is to help faculty and research groups identify and solve their “challenges” in high-performance computing.

 

Submission Procedure

To submit entries to the newsletter, please send an email to info@idre.ucla.edu by Friday 3PM of each week at the latest.

Warren Mori, Director, IDRE
info@idre.ucla.edu
www.idre.ucla.edu