Asia focus for RCC/MURPA seminar series 2017

28 Jul 2017
Speakers in the 2017 RCC/MURPA seminar series. Top L-R: Prof. Habibah Wahab, Dr Jason Haga, Dr Fang-Pang Lin. Bottom L-R: Dr Haohuan Fu and Dr Taisuke Boku.

Speakers from some of the best institutions in Asia will speak as part of this year’s RCC/MURPA (Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad) IT-focused seminar series.

Dr Haohuan Fu from Tsinghua University, China, kicked off the seminar series on Friday, 28 July, with a talk about the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, which is currently ranked as the world's fastest HPC. 

Dr Taisuke Boku from Japan's Center for Computational Sciences will follow Dr Fu's talk on Friday, 4 August with a seminar about Japan's supercomputers, including its current fastest one, Oakforest-PACS.

Also from Japan, Dr Jason Haga from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology will speak about Information Technologies for Natural Disaster Management on Friday, 25 August.

On Friday, 1 September, Prof. Habibah Wahab, from the University of Science, Malaysia, will present her seminar titled: 'Structural bioinformatics strategy in the design of antiviral drugs from natural products'.

Dr Fang-Pang Lin from Taiwan's National Center for High-Performing Computing will deliver a seminar on Friday, 8 September. The topic and title of his seminar has yet to be announced.

Videos of each seminar will be uploaded to RCC's YouTube channel in the week following the seminar. 

Please visit the RCC seminars webpage for more information about the series. 

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