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Professor Jack Dongarra's seminar
Speakers from overseas, such as American Professor Jack Dongarra, are connected to their Australian audience by advanced videoconferencing facilities.
  • RCC general seminars
  • RCC/MURPA Seminar Series
From 2014–2018, RCC and MURPA (Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad) co-hosted an IT-focused seminar series held annually in the second semester.
 
RCC also hosted seminars outside of the RCC/MURPA Seminar Series throughout the year, and continues to do so. 
 
Please note: In the tables below, click on the seminar topic to find more information about the seminar, including, if available, the presentation slides and video recording. Slides and video are added after the completion of the seminar, and can take about a week to upload. 
 
Subscribe to RCC News for information about upcoming seminars.
 
View videos from past seminars on RCC's YouTube channel.
 
For all other RCC events, please check the Events and Training pages on this website.
 
 

RCC general seminars

2019

Date Speaker Topic
4 April Prof. Peter Sloot Information-Flow Drives Complex Systems Dynamics

15 May

 

23 May 

Dr Kevin Jorissen

 

Prof. Barton P. Miller

Scientific Computing on Amazon Web Services

 

Scaling up to Large (Really Large) Systems

26 July

 

23 August

 

11 October

 

31 October

James Gallagher

 

Prof. Rick Stevens

 

Rob Farber

 

Prof. Dieter Kranzimueller 

Cloud Computing for Research: A Comparison of of Data Storage Services

 

AI for Science

 

In a word, AI is impacting HPC "everywhere"!

 

Environmental Computing on SuperMUC-NG

 

2018

Date Speaker Topic
15 March Dr Chris Butler IMB Research's technology vision and exemplar Australian projects

 

2017

Date Speaker Topic
28 February Prof. Bronis R. de Supinski High Performance Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
5 July Dr Gregory Watson

The Scientific Software Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

12 July

Dr Philip Papadopoulos

Virtual Clusters in Comet — What's Underneath?

 

2016

Date Speaker Topic
11 May Prof. David Abramson Translational Computational Science: From The Lab To Practice
27 May Prof. Francine Berman

Got Data? Building a Sustainable Ecosystem for Data-Driven Research

4 July Dr Tom Peachey

A Simplex-Like Method for Pareto Optimisation of Bi-objective Problems

5 July Dr Tom Peachey

The Nimrod Toolset

8 November Prof. Ann Nicholson

Bayesian networks for decision-making under uncertainty

 

2015

Date Speaker Topic
18 March Dr Bronis R. de Supinski  Programming Future Large Scale Systems
19 March Dr Luiz DeRose

Addressing Performance and Programmability Challenges in Current and Future Supercomputers

4 May Dr Xue Li

Social Media & Social Network Data Analytics

7 August Prof. Michael L. Norman

Experiences with the First Flash-based Supercomputer

26 October Assoc. Prof. Yung-Hsiang Lu

Opportunities and Challenges in Global Network Cameras

1 December Dr Niklas Blomberg

ELIXIR: life sciences data across public and private sectors

18 December

Assoc. Prof. Michela Taufer

In-Situ Data Analysis of Protein-folding Trajectories

 
 

RCC/MURPA Seminar Series

RCC and MURPA (Monash Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad) co-host an IT-focused seminar series in the second semester each year.

Speakers are leaders in their field — from either the academic world, government or industry — and are often based overseas. 
 
Speakers and seminar attendees at UQ and Monash University are connected via the universities' advanced videoconferencing facilities. 
 
In 2018, all talks are from 9am–10am AEST.
 
The UQ location is room 505A, level 5, Axon Building (47), St Lucia Campus. Please address enquiries to Fran Moore at: rcc-admin@uq.edu.au.
 
The Monash University location is Lecture Theatre S3, 16  Rainforest Walk, Clayton Campus. Please address enquiries to Caitlin Slattery at: caitlin.slattery@monash.edu.

 

2018

Special theme: Projects at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). All speakers are NCSA employees. Abstracts to come.

"NCSA has been an innovator in advanced supercomputing since they developed the world’s first Web browser," said RCC Director Prof. David Abramson. "We are extremely privileged to have an entire seminar series devoted to hearing about their current projects, which range from supercomputing to advanced cyber infrastructure. All of the applications discussed in the series will be of direct interest to groups in Australia."

All are welcome to attend the seminar series, including UQ and Monash staff and students, and members of the public.

All talks are from 9am–10am AEST, each Friday from 3 August until 21 September.

An added bonus for UQ and Monash University undergraduate IT and Electrical Engineering honours students is that NCSA is keen to engage MURPA and QURPA (Monash/Queensland Undergraduate Research Projects Abroad) students in summer internships (usually January/February) in any of the project areas discussed in the seminar series. Students with an interest in in-silico crops are initially being targeted, and both UQ and Monash students are being urged to apply. Please contact RCC to express your interest in a NCSA summer internship: rcc-admin@uq.edu.au.

Date Speaker/s Topic
3 August Bill Gropp (NCSA Director)

NCSA overview

10 August Don Petravick (Senior Project Manager, Dark Energy Survey) & Margaret Johnson (Assistant Director for Astronomy)

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) and Dark Energy Survey (DES)

17 August Kenton McHenry (Principal Research Scientist) & Christine Kirkpatrick National Data Service
24 August Melissa Cragin (Midwest Big Data Hub Executive Director) Midwest Big Data Hub

31 August

Amy Marshall-Colon (Assistant Professor, Dept of Plant Biology), Matthew Turk (Assistant Professor, Dept of Information Sciences) & Colleen Heinemann Crops in Silico
7 September Luigi Marini (Lead Research Programmer) & Jong Lee (Principal Research Scientist)

Great Lakes to Gulf and Great Lakes Monitoring

14 September Jong Lee (Principal Research Scientist)

Ergo Hazard Response Framework

21 September Donna Cox (Associate Director, Research & Education), AJ Christensen and Colter Wehmeier Digital Cultural Heritage

 

2017

Date Speaker Topic
28 July Dr Haohuan Fu

Sunway TaihuLight: Designing and Tuning Scientific Applications at the Scale of 10-Million Cores

4 August Dr Taisuke Boku

Cluster-base supercomputers and their performance and applications

25 August Dr Jason H. Haga Information Technologies for Natural Disaster Management
1 September Prof. Habibah Wahab

Structural bioinformatics strategy in the design of antiviral drugs from natural products

8 September Dr Fang-Pang Lin

Cyberinfrastructure for Smart and Connected Communities

 

2016

Date Speaker Topic
29 July

Dr Shonali Krishnaswamy

Stories that Data Tells: Rich Insights from Sparse Data

5 August

Dr Genevieve Bell

The Internet of Living Things: Or, What are the Animals Telling Us?

12 August

Dr Michela Taufer

Who is afraid of I/O?: Exploring I/O Challenges and Opportunities at the Exascale

19 August

Dr Sandra Gesing

Increasing the Efficiency of Workflows: Use Cases in the Life Sciences
26 August

Prof. Ewa Deelman

Scientific Workflows for Science and the Science of Scientific Workflows

2 September

Assoc. Prof. Rommie Amaro  

Multi-scale Dynamics: Molecules to Cells 
9 September

Maxine Brown

Insight Through Images: Visualisation and Collaboration Technologies for Exploring Big Data
16 September

Prof. Liz Jessup

Easing the production and use of high-performance mathematical software

23 September

Dr Ilkay Altintas

Analysing Big Data using Workflows: from fighting wildfires to helping patients
7 October

Tabitha Samuel

Key elements of creating a sustainable infrastructure environment for HPC systems

14 October

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

The Science Gateways Community Institute

21 October

Chelsea Parker

The Response of Tropical Cyclone Characteristics to Projected Climate Change in Northeast Australia through WRF simulations and Pseudo Global Warming Technique

28 October

Kate Keahey

Chameleon: Building an Experimental Instrument for Computer Science as Application of Cloud Computing

4 November Professor Mary Hall

The Role of an Autotuning Compiler in Getting to Exascale

 

2015

Date Speaker Topic
31 July Dr Peter Beckman Waggle: A platform for distributed smart wireless sensors and in-situ parallel computation
7 August Dr Charlie Catlett Open data and instrumenting cities
14 August Prof. Frank Würthwein A Large Hadron Collider case study: Where HPC and big data converge
21 August Dr Merle Giles Economic impact from industrial use of HPC
28 August Prof. Jack Dongarra An overview of HPC and challenges for the future
4 September Dr Chris Johnson Big data visual analysis
11 September Dr Philip Bourne Biomedical research and healthcare: Are we in an era of disruption?
18 September Dr William Gropp Computing in transition: HPC and parallel I/O
25 September Prof. Dan Reed Technical computing: Past, present and future
9 October Dr Mark Miller The CIPRES Science Gateway: A public resource for Phylogenetics
16 October Dr Jelena Pješivac-Grbović Computing in Google Cloud Platform
23 October Dr Sandra Gesing
 Science gateways in the big data era
30 October Dr Robert Sinkovits Improving wildlife tracking via HPC

 

2014

Date Speaker Topic
1 August Prof. Ewa Deelman Managing the execution environment for scientific workflows
8 August Dr Rommie Amaro Enabling chemical discovery through the lens of a computational microscope
15 August Dr David Barnes Beyond the data cliff: Visualisation strategies for understanding large data
22 August Dr Jurgen Schulze Visual analysis of personal health data
29 August Prof. Manish Parashar Exploring clouds as enablers of science
5 September Dr Gerhard Klimeck Elevating nanaHUB to the next level: Vision and status 2014
12 September Prof. Mark Ragan Modelling cancer as a transcriptional landscape
26 September Dr Shonali Krishnaswamy The Tell-Phone: Where mobility meets intelligence
17 October Dr Yifeng Cui Scaled-up physics-based simulations for earthquake system science
24 October Prof. Andrew McCulloch Multi-scale modelling of the failing heart: From mouse to human
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