Agenda

Day One: Wednesday, November 7

Rackham Building (4th floor)

 

9:00 am

Registration opens [Assembly Hall]

9:30 – 9:45 am

Opening welcome: Ken Powell [Amphitheatre]

9:45 – 11:00 am

Keynote 1: Chris Johnson on “Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis” (See Abstract and Video) [Amphitheatre]

11:00 – 11:15 am

Break: Mingling + light snacks and beverages [Assembly Hall]

11:15 am – 12:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions 1 (Read Session Descriptions) [Amphitheatre and East + West Conference Rooms]

  • A Brief Introduction to R (Dave Childers) - Closed
  • MLibrary’s Strategic Agenda for Supporting Research (Elaine Westbrooks)
  • Data to Knowledge to Action (Eugene Kolker) - Closed

12:00 – 1:15 pm

Networking Lunch [Assembly Hall] - Closed

1:30 – 2:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions 2 (Read Session Descriptions) [Amphitheatre and East + West Conference Rooms]

  • Flux: The State of the Cluster (Andy Caird) – Closed
  • A Brief Introduction to Parallel Computing (Quentin Stout) - Closed
  • Ensuring Long-Term Access to Research Data in the Social Sciences: Connecting the Dots (Amy Pienta)

2:30 – 3:00 pm

Open Forum (led by Ken Powell) [Amphitheatre]
This session is an opportunity to give feedback, ask questions, and get answers. Join us for a discussion about advanced computing resources and support that would make a difference to your research and teaching.

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Poster Session and Information Fair [Assembly Hall]
This event showcases research at U-M enabled by advanced research computing. The poster session will be judged by faculty, and attendees can vote for the “People’s Choice” award. The information fair includes booths about computational and information resources available at U-M and beyond. Food will be served.

Day Two: Thursday, November 8

Rackham Building (4th floor)

 

9:00 am

Registration opens [Assembly Hall]

9:15 – 10:00 am

Concurrent Sessions 3 (Read Session Descriptions) [Amphitheatre and East + West Conference Rooms]

  • ATLAS Physics, Michigan Cyberinfrastructure and the Search for the Higgs (Bob Ball, Steve Goldfarb, Shawn McKee)
  • Flux, for Research and Other Academic Administrators (Paul Killey) - Closed (Duplicate  session added at 1:30)
  • (Little Known) Campus Resources for Digital Media Creation, Visualization, and Fostering the Creative Spirit (Dan Fessahazion, Ted Hall, Eric Maslowski)

10:00 – 10:15 am

Break: Mingling + light snacks and beverages [Assembly Hall]

10:15 – 11:30 am

Keynote 2: Ian Foster on “Big Process for Big Data” (See Abstract and Video) [Amphitheatre]

11:30 – 11:45 am

Announcement of poster session winners  - Dan Atkins [Amphitheatre]

12:00 – 1:15 pm

Networking lunch [Assembly Hall] – Closed

1:30 – 2:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions 4 (Read Session Descriptions) [Amphitheatre and East + West Conference Rooms]

  • Meet Your Flux Liaison (Charles Antonelli, Jeremy Hallum, Brock Palen, Chris Scheller)
  • How can “big data” improve social research? (Elizabeth Bruch, Jerry Davis, Jason Owen-Smith)
  • Flux, for Research and Other Academic Administrators (Paul Killey) – This session added due to demand  

2:15 – 2:30 pm

Break: Mingling + light snacks and beverages [Assembly Hall]

2:30 – 3:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions 5 (Read Session Descriptions) [Amphitheatre and East + West Conference Rooms]

  • A Brief Introduction to MapReduce (Mike Cafarella)
  • Getting Started with Advanced Research Computing: Insights from a Panel of Students (Jeffrey Cwagenberg, Brandon Erickson, Russell Funk)
  • Advanced Computing on a Shoestring (Brock Palen)

3:15 – 3:30 pm

Break: Mingling + light snacks and beverages [Assembly Hall]

3:30 – 4:15 pm

Keynote 3: Neil Fraistat on “Digital Humanities Centers as Cyberinfrastructure” (See Abstract and Video) [Amphitheatre]
Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with the Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure, LSA, the School of Information, Rackham Graduate School, and MLibrary.

4:15 – 5:00 pm

Open Forum (led by Ken Powell) [Amphitheatre]
This session is an opportunity to give feedback, ask questions, and get answers. Join us for a discussion about advanced computing resources and support that would make a difference to your research and teaching.