RCC seminars

 

 

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. 

 

 

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. 

 

 

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.

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	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