RCC Seminars
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.
Check our Events page for information about upcoming seminars.
View videos from past seminars on RCC's YouTube channel.
RCC general seminars
2024
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 March | Prof. Frank Würthwein | Open Cyberinfrastructure for an Open Society |
2023
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 21 July | Prof. Bronis R. de Supinski | El Capitan: Lessons from Building An Exascale System |
| 31 October | Ian Foster | Embodied agents as scientific assistants |
2020
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 19 February | Prof. Bronis R. de Supinski | The LLNL Near and Long-Term Vision for Large-Scale Systems |
| 13 March | Aviral Kailash Jain and Edward Davis | Machine learning projects at NCSA: A UQ QURPA student perspectiv |
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
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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
In a word, AI is impacting HPC "everywhere"!
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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 |
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 | |
| 8 November | Prof. Ann Nicholson |
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 | |
| 7 August | Prof. Michael L. Norman | |
| 26 October | Assoc. Prof. Yung-Hsiang Lu | |
| 1 December | Dr Niklas Blomberg | ELIXIR: life sciences data across public and private sectors |
| 18 December | Assoc. Prof. Michela Taufer |
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.
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) | |
| 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) | |
| 14 September | Jong Lee (Principal Research Scientist) | |
| 21 September | Donna Cox (Associate Director, Research & Education), AJ Christensen and Colter Wehmeier | Digital Cultural Heritage |
2017
2016
2015
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 |