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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T114500
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SUMMARY:Current and future requirements for Advanced Research Cyberinfrastructure - Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Institute for Digital Research and Education is pleased to announce a panel discussion on current and future requirements for Advanced Research Cyberinfrastructure (ARC). The discussion will be led by the following early career researchers from various disciplines across the UCLA campus. \n\nBao Wang – Mathematics\nAlan Farahani – Cotsen Institute of Archaeology\nKarthik Sarma – Medical Imaging Informatics\nRichard Sportsman – Chemistry and Biochemistry\nIris Chang – Material Science and Engineering\nFrancesca Albrezzi – World Arts and Cultures\n\nDate: Oct 25\, 2017\nTime: 11:45 AM-1 PM (lunch provided*)\nPlace: 5628 Math Sciences Building \nRSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/panel-on-arc-oct2017 \nAbout: Decades ago\, it was hard to imagine the scale at which Advanced Research Cyberinfrastructure (ARC) at any university would drive the innovation and enhance its research capabilities. Today\, ARC is playing increasingly important role in research involving data\, computation\, communication\, and information sharing. By providing cutting-edge opportunities to researchers\, it enhances faculty competitiveness among peer organizations.  Due to the fast pace of ever-changing technology\, however\, envisaging the future requirements of the ARC  is a daunting exercise. Infrastructure planning requires inputs from various segments across the university especially from the early career researchers who are at the forefront of the use of technology in research. This panel discussion on “Current and future requirements for Advanced Research Cyberinfrastructure” is part of the exercise to get the feedback from the diverse community of early career researchers from the UCLA campus. \n*Since we need the count for lunch\, please make sure to RSVP if you plan to attend the fruitful discussion.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/panel-on-arc-oct2017
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Meetings,Presentations
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
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SUMMARY:Resurrecting Historical Monuments: 3D Models\, Metadata\, and the Case of the Lady Chapel at Saint-Germain-des-Prés
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nSpeaker: Kristine Tanton\, Ph.D.\,\nIDRE Scholar\,\nDepartment of Art History\,\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles \n  \nTime: 11:45 A.M. – 1 P.M. (Lunch will be served*)\nDate: May 10\, 2017\nLocation: 5628\, Math Sciences Building\nRSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/resurrecting-historical-monuments#rsvp \n  \nAbstract: How do art and architectural historians study monuments that have been lost to time? Our understanding of these monuments relies mainly on fragmentary evidence such as textual descriptions\, drawings\, or lithic fragments scattered throughout various warehouses\, archives\, and museums. Advances in CAD-based software has made it possible to bring these disparate sources together to reconstruct digitally these monumental specters. A current challenge for scholars is how do we annotate our 3D models and share them across various platforms and native software.\n \nThe digital humanities project\, Paris Past and Present at UCLA (Prof. Meredith Cohen\, PI)\, aims to reconstruct digitally in 3D the lost monuments of Gothic Paris (ca. 1000~1500) with archaeological precision. By integrating the fragmented evidence remaining from these buildings into coherent virtual models\, we can expand the limited corpus of extant monuments and reshape our knowledge of medieval architecture. A significant component of our work has been developing a method of reconstruction and display that clarifies the difference between original evidence\, extrapolations based on the evidence\, and sheer hypothesis. To this end we are integrating existing architectural practices (e.g.\, OpenBIM)\, which allow us to attach data to our models.\n \nIn this paper\, I will discuss how we are developing standards for attaching\, viewing\, and sharing data for 3D models. Using our reconstruction of the thirteenth-century Lady Chapel of Saint-Germain-des-Prés as a case study\, I will discuss how our annotation process integrates existing OpenBIM technology to document all data and project workflow for our 3D models\, while also addressing the unique needs for historical reconstructions to the scholarly community. \nAbout speaker: Kristine Tanton is an IDRE postdoctoral fellow and project manager for the collaborative project at UCLA\, Paris Past and Present. Working with Prof. Meredith Cohen (PI\, Department of Art History) and a team of graduate and undergraduate students\, she manages project workflow and serves as a modeler for the project. To date\, the team has completed 3D models for about a dozen buildings that were first constructed during the reign of Louis IX (Saint Louis). \nDr. Tanton received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California in 2013. She integrates traditional and emerging methods to study the dynamic relationship among sculpture\, architecture\, and ritual activity in the Middle Ages. She is especially interested in how new media and information technology can transform research and pedagogy in the field of pre-modern art and architectural history. Using digital tools such as 3D reconstructions\, animations to track ritual movements through architectural space\, and databases to formally and quantitatively analyze large datasets\, she has been able to reevaluate long-held assumptions about canonical sites to gain insights into medieval architectural design and construction methods. \n  \n*Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP by May 8\, 2017.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/resurrecting-historical-monuments
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Conferences and Seminars,Presentations
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170404T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170404T163000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20170315T190127Z
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SUMMARY:HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet
DESCRIPTION:UCLA-IDRE and SDSC are organizing the workshop “HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet” in order to introduce the Comet supercomputer and its usage to the researchers at UCLA. \nComet\, a petascale supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)\, is one of the key resources within the NSF’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) program. It provides “free” computer time via XSEDE portal to the researchers across USA. The participants will be able to get hands-on experience on Comet during the workshop’s different sessions. \nThe RSVP link and the agenda for the workshop are as follows: \nRSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hpc-big-data-analytics-using-comet#rsvp \nAgenda:  \n(Link to slides: https://github.com/sdsc-scicomp/2017-04-04-comet-workshop-ucla) \n9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Introduction & Welcome \n9:10 AM – 10:00 AM: Comet – SDSC’s 2 PetaFLOPS HPC Resource \n\nArchitecture\, queue/partition info\, software stack\nExamples for compute\, shared\, gpu\, and gpu-shared partitions\nHands-on on Comet to help prep for next sessions which will use Comet\n\n10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Science Gateways \n10:30 AM – 10:40 AM: Short break \n10:40 AM- 12:00 PM:  Introduction to Hadoop on Comet \n\nOverview of running Hadoop within scheduler frameworks (using myHadoop)\nDemonstration/Hands on of Hadoop cluster spin up\, interactive usage\nNew technologies/approaches like RDMA-Hadoop and hands on with RDMA-Hadoop\n\n12 PM – 1 PM: Lunch (provided by IDRE)\n \n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Data Analytics and Data Mining  \n\nR and parallel execution of R\nData mining/machine learning\n\n2:00 PM- 3:00 PM: Python for Scientific Computing \n\nHow to run Jupyter notebook on Comet\nUse IPython Parallel for distributed computation\nEasy multithreading and distributed computing with dask\n\n3:00 PM-3:10 PM: Short break \n3:05 PM – 4:30 PM: Spark for Scientific Computing \n\nOverview of the capabilities of Spark and how they can be leveraged to solve problems in Scientific Computing\nHands-on introduction to Spark\, from batch and interactive usage on Comet to running a sample map/reduce example in Python\nTwo key libraries in the Spark ecosystem: Spark SQL\, a general purpose query engine that can interface to SQL databases or JSON files and Spark MLlib\, a scalable Machine Learning library\n\n4:30 PM: Wrap up
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hpc-big-data-analytics-using-comet
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,Presentations
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20170206T211937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170303T215336Z
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SUMMARY:Polycrystalline crystal plasticity with grain boundary evolution
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \nSpeaker: Nikhil Chandra Admal\, Ph.D.\,\nIDRE Scholar\,\nDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering\,\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles \n  \nTime:  11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*)\nDate: March 8\, 2017\nLocation:  5628\, Math Sciences Building \nRSVP:  https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/polycrystalline-…undary-evolution#rsvp \n\n\n\nAbstract: Dynamic recrystallization can be defined as a spontaneous change in the mi- crostructure of a material during deformation at an elevated temperature due to the growth of defect-free grains through the motion of high angle grain boundaries. One of the most important uses of recrystallization is in metal processing\, where recrystallized grains increase the ductility\, resulting in better control of the grain structure. On the other hand\, it is undesirable from a design perspective\, since recrystallization alters the microstructure resulting in a change in the material’s macroscopic properties. In this talk\, I will describe our ongoing work on modeling grain growth during recrystallization in the presence of external loads. \nDynamic recrystallization is a uniquely challenging phenomenon to model since the microstructure and the material deformation evolve at the same time scale. Grain boundary motion in the absence of deformation is commonly modeled using phase field models\, while the deformation of a material with a fixed grain boundary structure is commonly modeled using crystal plasticity. In this work\, we develop a thermodynamically consistent model which models deformation and grain growth simultaneously\, thus enabling us to understand dynamic recrystalliza- tion. The highlight of this model is it is a non-classical gradient elastic model that can simulate various interesting phenomena observed in dynamic recrystallization\, where a grain rotates to increase/decrease its misorientation as its grain boundary evolves. \nAbout Speaker: Dr. Nikhil  Chandra Admal is postdoctoral research scholar working with Prof. Jaime Marian in the Materials Science and Engineering department at UCLA. He is broadly interested in the multiscale modeling of materials at various length and times scales ranging from the atomic scale to the continuum scale. Currently\, the focus of his research is on the study of recrystallization in refractory materials to increase their operating temperature\, and development of first-principles strain gradient elastic models to include non-local effects relevant in micromechanical systems\, and systems with defects. \nPrior to joining UCLA\, Dr. Admal obtained his PhD from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. \n*Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP by March 05\, 2017.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/polycrystalline-crystal-plasticity-grain-boundary-evolution
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Meetings,Presentations
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20170118T200050Z
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SUMMARY:Data as Infrastructure: CDS\, Astronomy and beyond
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nSpeaker: Dr. Françoise Genova\,\nAstronomer\, Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg \nTime:  12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*)\nDate: Feb 15\, 2017\nLocation:  5628\, Math Sciences Building \nRegistration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/data-as-infrastructure#rsvp ‎ \n  \nAbstract: Science data sharing is currently high in the political agenda\, but some disciplines began to share their data long ago. Astronomy has been at the forefront\, and now data is one of the discipline research infrastructures widely used by astronomers in their daily research work. The pioneering work of Strasbourg astronomical data centre CDS\, which was founded in 1972\, will be described\, as well as the astronomical data network and its global interoperability layer\, the Virtual Observatory. Many other disciplines are establishing structures to share their data\, which vary considerably by their culture and history. A few French examples (humanities\, earth sciences) will be described. Finally\, the way the Research Data Alliance (RDA) tackles the general question of enabling research data sharing will be briefly discussed. \nSpeaker: Françoise Genova was the director of the Strasbourg astronomical data centre CDS from 1995 to 2015\, and one of the founding parents of the astronomical Virtual Observatory project. She has coordinated several projects dealing with the European Virtual Observatory. She currently leads the “Data Access\, Discovery and Interoperability” Work Package of the European ASTERICS astronomy Cluster\, which aims to optimize the usage of data from large astronomical projects through the Virtual Observatory. She was a member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data of the European Commission\, which wrote the “Riding the wave” report (2010) and the subsequent “Data Harvest” report. She is co-chair of the RDA Technical Advisory Board\, and an active member to several RDA Europe projects. She is a current member of the Data Seal of Approval Board\, and a past member of the WDS Scientific Committee (2009-2015) and of CODATA Executive Committee (2010-2012). \n*Lunch will be served at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP by Feb. 10\, 2017.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/data-as-infrastructure
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Meetings,Presentations
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20161005T205330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161108T002215Z
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SUMMARY:The Hacker Web Project: Exploring the Dark Side of the Web
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \nSpeaker: Hsinchun Chen\, Ph.D.;\nArizona Regents’ Professor\,\nThomas R. Brown Chair Professor in Management and Technology\, University of Arizona;\nDirector\, Artificial Intelligence Lab; Fellow\, ACM\, IEEE\, AAAS \nTime:  12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*)\nLocation:  Kerckhoff Hall – Charles E. Young Grand Salon\nRegistration: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hacker-web-project#rsvp\nAbstract: \nIn this talk I will review our highly-acclaimed NSF-funded Hacker Web research\, which develops advanced data\, text and web mining techniques to explore the international underground hacker community. Selected research in identifying key hackers\, important hacker assets\, and emerging threats in the carding community will be presented. Via collaboration with the intelligence community and the industry\, we have also developed tools and datasets for assisting the law enforcement and security analytics community. \nFor more project information\, see: https://ai.arizona.edu/research/cyber\nFor recent NSF press information\, see: https://nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=136513&org=NSF \nAbout Speaker: \nDr. Hsinchun Chen graduated with BS at the National Chiao-Tong University (Taiwan)\,  MBA at SUNY Buffalo\, and MS and Ph.D. at New York University. He is the University of Arizona Regents’ Professor and Thomas R. Brown Chair Professor in Management and Technology. He is also a Fellow of ACM\, IEEE and AAAS. Dr. Chen recently served as the lead Program Director (expert) of the Smart and Connected (SCH) Program at the NSF (2014-2015)\, a multi-year multi-agency health IT research program of USA. He is author/editor of 20 books\, 280 SCI journal articles\, and 150 refereed conference articles covering digital library\, data/text/web mining\, business analytics\, security informatics\, and health informatics. His overall h-index is 91 (25\,000 citations for 900 papers according to Google Scholar)\, among the highest in management information systems and top 50 in computer science. Dr. Chen founded the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona in 1989\, which has received more than $40M in research funding from NSF\, NIH\, NLM\, DOD\, DOJ\, CIA\, DHS\, and other agencies (90 grants\, 40 from NSF). He has served as Editor-in-Chief of major ACM/IEEE\, and Springer journals and conference/program chair of major ACM/IEEE/MIS conferences in digital library\, information systems\, security informatics\, and health informatics. He is also a successful IT entrepreneur. His COPLINK/i2 system for security analytics was commercialized in 2000 and acquired by IBM as its leading government analytics product in 2011. Dr. Chen has served as an advisor to major federal research programs and was a Scientific Counselor of the National Library of Medicine (USA)\, National Library of China\, and Academia Sinica (Taiwan). He is a visiting chair professor at several major universities in China (Tsinghua University) and Taiwan (National Taiwan University). He is internationally renowned for leading the research and development in the health analytics (data and text mining; health big data; DiabeticLink and SilverLink) and security informatics (counter terrorism and cyber security analytics; security big data; COPLINK\, Dark Web and Hacker Web) communities. See: http://ai.arizona.edu/hchen. \n*Lunch will be ready at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP by Nov. 3\, 2016. \n 
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hacker-web-project
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Education and Training,Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160523T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20160509T234030Z
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SUMMARY:Computing Fluid Flows on Multi-GPU Cluster using Lattice Boltzmann Method
DESCRIPTION: IDRE Seminar- GPU/Many cores program\nComputing Fluid Flows on Multi-GPU Cluster using Lattice Boltzmann Method\nChao-An Lin \nDepartment of Power Mechanical Engineering\, \nNational Tsing Hua University\, Hsinchu 30013 Taiwan \nDate and Time: May 23\, 2016 at 12:00 PM (Lunch will be served*)\nLocation: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg.\nRSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3531&SecID=3518 \nAbstract:\nDue to its enhanced computational capability\, the graphic processing unit has drawn attention for non-graphic applications. The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) as an explicit numerical scheme requiring only neighboring operations\, is very suitable for parallel or GPU computations. Thus\, GPU has been successfully used for lattice Bolztmann computations\, which demonstrated that the computational power of GPU far exceeds that of PC-based CPU. There are several strategies to further improve the GPU performance\, such as reducing the data transaction between host and device\, and using efficient memory management. Utilizing shared memory was shown to increase the performance of GPU. Another way to increase the performance is adopting different streaming strategy to optimize the data transfer between the GPU global memory and shared memory. On the other hand\, multi-GPU computation can certainly elevate the performance. This can be achieved by using multi GPUs on a single node through OpenMP. Alternatively\, for cross node GPU computations\, Message Passing Interface (MPI) on cluster of GPUs can be employed. Here\, issues\, such as the memory management and the latency during multi-GPU computations are addressed to seek possible enhancement of the computational efficiency. Numerical examples investigated are turbulent duct and channel flows and two phase flows of colliding liquid droplets. \nSpeaker’s Bio:\nProfessor Chao-An Lin received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from National Chiao Tung University\, Taiwan and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)\, UK in 1986 and 1991. After one year postdoctoral work at UMIST\, in 1991 Dr. Lin joined the faculty of the department of Power Mechanical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan\, where he also served as the deputy chair (2007-2009) and department chair (2009 -2015).  He is also the honorary visiting professor at University of Liverpool\, UK (2015-2019).\nProfessor Lin’s research interests include flow physics and turbulence modeling\, bio-medical fluid dynamics and development of efficient numerical methods and in particular the development of immersed boundary method\, lattice Boltzmann method and simulations using multi-GPU cluster. Professor Lin is the associate fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and is also members of the executive committees of Taiwan society of mechanical engineer and Taiwan society of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  Dr. Lin was the recipient of Shila Mo memorial prize of UMIST (UK) in 1991\, and was awarded the distinguished teacher award from ministry of education of Taiwan in 2008. He also serves in different committees of international conferences (Parallel CFD\, Turbulent Shear Flow Phenomenon\, ERCOFTAC Symposium on Engineering Turbulence Modeling and Measurements\, Asian Symposium on Computational Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow\, Asia CFD). He edited special issues in Computers and Fluids\, and Computers and Mathematics with Applications\, and Energies. Prof. Lin is in the advisory board of Journal of Computational Mechanics and serves as associate editor of Journal of mechanics. \n*Lunch will be ready at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP ONLINE by May 18\, 2016.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/computing-fluid-flows-multi-gpu-cluster-using-lattice-boltzmann-method
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Education and Training,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20160415T191444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160415T191444Z
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SUMMARY:IDRE Seminar: Computational challenges and solutions in an analysis of large-scale whole genome sequencing data
DESCRIPTION:IDRE Seminar – Computation and Storage\, Data Informatics\nComputational challenges and solutions in an analysis of large-scale whole genome sequencing data\n\nSpeakers: \nEleazar Eskin1\, Giovanni Goppola2\, and Jae Hoon Sul2 \n1Professor\, Computer Science – Human Genetics\n2Professor\, Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles \nDate and Time: May 5th\, 2016 at 12:00 PM(Lunch will be served*)\nLocation: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg.\nRSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3503&SecID=3491 \nAbstract:\nWhole-genome sequencing (WGS) technologies have emerged as a powerful approach to interrogate complete genome sequences. As the cost of next-generation sequencing decreases at a rate faster than that described by Moore’s law\, an increasing number of genomics studies are utilizing WGS to identify genetic variants that influence one’s susceptibility to diseases. Identifying those genetic variants is very important because they aid studies to identify the genetic basis of diseases and eventually to develop a personalized treatments for individuals based on their genome sequences\, which is a major goal of precision medicine. UCLA has already performed WGS of thousands of individuals and has plans to sequence a greater number of individuals. However\, analyzing large genomic data sets is computationally challenging and requires a vast amount of computational resources. \n*Lunch will be ready at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP ONLINE by April 30\, 2016.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/idre-seminar-computational-challenges-solutions-analysis-large-scale-whole-genome-sequencing-data
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Conferences and Seminars,Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160328T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160328T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20160303T231149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T183920Z
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SUMMARY:IDRE Seminar: Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
DESCRIPTION:IDRE Seminar: Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds\nSpeaker: Maurizio Mazzocco\,\nAssociate Professor\,\nDepartment of Economics\, UCLA \n  \nDate and time: March 28th\, 2016 at 12 PM (Lunch will be served*)\nLocation: 5628 Math Sciences Building\nRSVP: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3502&SecID=3490 \n  \nAbstract:\nIt is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so\, whether alternative electoral rules can help reduce these costs. In this paper\, we address both of these questions by modeling and estimating politicians’ decisions to allocate public funds. We use data from Brazil’s federal legislature\, which grants each federal legislator a budget to fund public projects in his state. We find that 26 percent of the public funds are distorted relative to a social planner’s allocation. We then use the model to simulate several potential policies reforms to the electoral system\, including adopting approval voting and implementing term limits. We find that an approval voting system reduces the distortions by 7.5 percent. Term limits also reduce distortions\, but come at the cost of more corruption\, which makes it a welfare-reducing policy. \nSpeaker’s Bio:\nMaurizio Mazzocco is an applied microeconomist whose research focuses on three areas of economics: family intertemporal decisions; heterogeneity in risk preferences and decisions under uncertainty; political economy and development economics. He received his Ph.D. from the economics department at the University of Chicago. In his research\, Mazzocco makes use of the available data to uncover empirical patterns that can be used to understand the decisions of individuals in developing and developed countries. These patterns are used as the basis for developing theoretical models of individual decisions. The models are then employed to evaluate the potential effects of policies aimed at improving the individual welfare. Maurizio’s research involves substantial usage of High Performance Computing. He is one of the power users of UCLA’s main computing resource\, i.e.\, Hoffman2 cluster\, from Economics Department. \n*Lunch will be ready at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP ONLINE by March 24th\, 2016.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/idre-seminar-allocation-public-funds
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160301T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20160114T200500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160114T200500Z
UID:5904-1456794000-1456840800@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:National Leadership Class Computing Resources and Opportunities for UCLA Researchers
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Energy\, National Science Foundation\, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is obtained through an application process that is based on the merit of the research objectives\, and demonstration of the efficacy and parallel scalability of the software. \nThe aim of this presentation is to explain the capabilities of various leadership class computing facilities. It will also introduce the opportunities available to UCLA researchers in terms of the knowledge base\, allocation process as well as in terms of the optimization of their software. \nRSVP online: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3492&SecID=3480
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/national-leadership-class-computing-resources-and-opportunities-for-ucla-researchers-3
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education and Training,Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160211T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20160203T185832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160203T185832Z
UID:5981-1455192000-1455195600@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IDRE Seminar: Geometric Graph-based Methods for High Dimensional Data
DESCRIPTION:IDRE Seminar: Geometric Graph-based Methods for High Dimensional Data\n \nSpeaker: Andrea L. Bertozzi\nProfessor\, Department of Mathematics\, UCLA\nBetsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity \n  \nTime:  12 p.m. to 1 p.m. (Lunch will be served*)\nLocation:  5628 Math Sciences \nRSVP**: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3498&SecID=3486 \n  \nAbstract:\nWe present new methods for segmentation of large datasets with graph based structure. The method combines ideas from classical nonlinear PDE-based image segmentation with fast and accessible linear algebra methods for computing information about the spectrum of the graph Laplacian. The goal of the algorithms is to solve semi-supervised and unsupervised graph cut optimization problems. I will present results for image processing applications such as image labeling and hyperspectral video segmentation\, and results from machine learning and community detection in social networks\, including modularity optimization posed as a graph total variation minimization problem. \nSpeaker’s Bio:\nAndrea Bertozzi is an applied mathematician with expertise in nonlinear partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. She also works in the areas of geometric methods for image processing\, crime modeling and analysis\, and swarming/cooperative dynamics. Bertozzi completed all her degrees in Mathematics at Princeton. She was an L. E. Dickson Instructor and NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1991-1995. She was the Maria Geoppert-Mayer Distinguished Scholar at Argonne National Laboratory from 1995-6. She was on the faculty at Duke University from 1995-2004 first as Associate Professor of Mathematics and then as Professor of Mathematics and Physics. She has served as the Director of the Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems while at Duke. Bertozzi moved to UCLA in 2003 as a Professor of Mathematics. Since 2005 she has served as Director of Applied Mathematics\, overseeing the graduate and undergraduate research training programs at UCLA. In 2012 she was appointed the Betsy Wood Knapp Chair for Innovation and Creativity. Bertozzi’s honors include the Sloan Research Fellowship in 1995\, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1996\, and SIAM’s Kovalevsky Prize in 2009. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010 and to the Fellows of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2010. She became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013. \n*Lunch will be ready at 11:45 AM.\n**To ensure you have a space at the seminar\, please RSVP ONLINE by Feb 8th\, 2016.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/idre-seminar-geometric-graph-based-methods-for-high-dimensional-data
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Education and Training,Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151112T163000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20151022T222614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151105T191051Z
UID:5721-1447318800-1447345800@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet - SDSC’s latest Computing Resource through XSEDE
DESCRIPTION:Comet\, a new petascale supercomputer at San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)\, is one of the latest key resources within the NSF’s XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) program\, which comprises the most advanced collection of integrated digital resources and services in the world. Researchers may apply for “free” computer time on Comet via XSEDE. \nUCLA-IDRE and SDSC are organizing this workshop in order to introduce the Comet system and its usage for HPC and Big Data Analytics to UCLA researchers. The participants will be able to get hands-on experience on Comet system during workshop’s different sessions. \nThe detailed agenda is as follows: \nRSVP@ http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3479&SecID=3467 \nAgenda: \n9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Introduction & Welcome \n9:10 AM – 10:25 AM: Comet – SDSC’s New HPC Resource \n\nArchitecture\, queue/partition info\, software stack\nExamples for compute\, shared\, gpu\, and gpu-shared partitions\nHands-on on Comet to help prep for next sessions which will use Comet\n\n10:25 AM – 10:35 AM: Short break \n10:35 AM- 12:00 PM:  Introduction to Hadoop on Comet and Gordon \n\nOverview of running Hadoop within scheduler frameworks (using myHadoop)\nDemonstration/Hands on of Hadoop cluster spin up\, interactive usage\nNew technologies/approaches like RDMA-Hadoop and hands on with RDMA-Hadoop\n\n12 PM – 1 PM: Lunch\n \n1:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Data Analytics and Data Mining  \n\nR and parallel execution of R\nData mining/machine learning\n\n2:00 PM- 3:00 PM: Python for Scientific Computing \n\nHow to run Jupyter notebook on Comet\nUse IPython Parallel for distributed computation\nDistributed numpy-like arrays with distarray\n\n3:00 PM-3:10 PM: Short break \n3:05 PM – 4:30 PM: Spark for Scientific Computing \n\nOverview of the capabilities of Spark and how they can be leveraged to solve problems in Scientific Computing\nHands-on introduction to Spark\, from batch and interactive usage on Comet to running a sample map/reduce example in Python\nTwo key libraries in the Spark ecosystem: Spark SQL\, a general purpose query engine that can interface to SQL databases or JSON files and Spark MLlib\, a scalable Machine Learning library
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hpc-and-big-data-analytics-using-comet-sdscs-latest-computing-resource-through-xsede
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151028T130000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20151019T195746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151019T195746Z
UID:5714-1446031800-1446037200@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Understanding the dynamics of killer electrons in Earth's radiation belts: a synthesis of high-performance computing\, data assimilation\, and physics-based modeling
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:\nDr. Adam C. Kellerman\, Researcher\,\nEarth\, Planetary\, and Space Sciences\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles \nAbstract:\nThe Van Allen radiation belts are torii-shaped regions of trapped energetic particles\, that in recent years\, have become a principle focus for satellite operators and engineers. During geomagnetic storms\, electrons can be accelerated up to relativistic energies\, where they can penetrate spacecraft shielding and damage electrical systems\, causing permanent damage or loss of spacecraft. In addition\, the high-energy particles can be dangerous for humans in space. Observations from spacecraft in the solar wind and in Earth orbit\, together with physics-based models can provide a means to mitigate the risk by combining the observations and model together to better understand how particles are effected globally\, leading to better space weather prediction. A sophisticated way of obtaining accurate nowcasts is to use data assimilation to combine the observations with a model in an optimal way\, so that one can reconstruct the global structure of the radiation belts at any given time. The Space Environment Modeling Group (SEMG) http://rbm.epss.ucla.edu at UCLA has constructed a data-assimilative version of the state-of-the-art Versatile Electron Radiation Belt (VERB) code\, which can reproduce global particle dynamics in the radiation belts. In this presentation it is demonstrated how a synthesis of high-performance computing and physics research has supported cutting edge research to develop a model\, which has already been used to rediscover the nature of past geomagnetic superstorms. Further\, the group has developed a framework which is used to make real-time forecasts of the Earth’s radiation belts\, which may be used for mitigation of risks to current spacecraft operators and humans in space. \nPlease RSVP @ http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3476&SecID=3465 \n 
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/understanding-the-dynamics-of-killer-electrons-in-earths-radiation-belts-a-synthesis-of-high-performance-computing-data-assimilation-and-physics-based-modeling
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151022T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151022T150000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20150917T215646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151014T220720Z
UID:5548-1445522400-1445526000@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:National Leadership Class Computing Resources and Opportunities for UCLA Researchers
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Energy\, National Science Foundation\, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is obtained through an application process that is based on the merit of the research objectives\, and demonstration of the efficacy and parallel scalability of the software. \nThe aim of this presentation is to explain the capabilities of various leadership class computing facilities. It will also introduce the opportunities available to UCLA researchers in terms of the knowledge base\, allocation process as well as in terms of the optimization of their software. \nRSVP Online: http://cfapps.ats.ucla.edu/cfapps/events/rsvp/RSVPNow.cfm?EveID=3472&SecID=3461
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/national-leadership-class-computing-resources-and-opportunities-for-ucla-researchers-2
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,Presentations
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150615T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150617T170000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20141113T193406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141113T193450Z
UID:4231-1434355200-1434560400@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Radcor 2015 and LoopFest XIV
DESCRIPTION:Radcor 2015 and LoopFest XIV: This symposium combines the 12th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Radcor 2015) with LoopFest XIV (Radiative Corrections for the LHC and Future Colliders). \nThis workshop provides a forum to coordinate activities focused on the theoretical challenges from the LHC and future colliders. \nMultiple locations. \nContact\nPhysics & Astronomy\n(310) 825-4649\ndmconf@physics.ucla.edu \nWebsite\nhttps://hepconf.physics.ucla.edu/radcor-loopfest/ \nAdmission\nRegistration: $125
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/radcor-2015-loopfest-xiv
LOCATION:Physics and Astronomy Bldg. – Room 1425
CATEGORIES:Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150505T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150505T110000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20150421T184625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150424T000558Z
UID:5185-1430820000-1430823600@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:National Leadership Class Computing Resources and Opportunities for UCLA Researchers
DESCRIPTION:UCLA-IDRE has an impressive Hoffman2 computing infrastructure. It has grown from an initial 256 cores to the current 12\,000+ cores in a short span of time. It serves a large number of research scientists and enables them to achieve new heights within their computing research. However\, there are limitations. It may fall short of ever increasing computing needs that require extremely large parallel scaling\, jumbo size memory on a single node\, or considerable number of systems for analysis using high throughput computing approach. \nThe Department of Energy\, National Science Foundation\, and the National Aeronautical Space Agency support an ecosystem of “leadership class” computing facilities housing some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources. These facilities provide “free” computing cycles and storage to researchers from academia. Access to these resources is obtained through an application process that is based on the merit of the research objectives\, and demonstration of the efficacy and parallel scalability of the software to utilize such computing resources. \nThe aim of this presentation is to explain the capabilities of various “leadership class” computing facilities in the US. It will also cover the IDRE Pipeline program which helps transition UCLA researchers from local resources to take advantage of these “free” magnificent computing facilities. \nTo attend this class\, please sign up at this link
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/national-leadership-class-computing-resources-and-opportunities-for-ucla-researchers
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141203T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141203T160000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20141119T230629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141119T230629Z
UID:4544-1417615200-1417622400@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:IDRE Tech Talk: Building and Linking Local Regional and National Cyberinfrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Louisiana researchers and universities have been involved in a concentrated\, collaborative effort to advance state-wide cyberinfrastructure: computing systems\, data storage systems\, advanced instruments and data repositories\, visualization environments\, and people\, all linked together by software and high performance networks. This effort led to a set of interlinked projects that started making a significant difference to the state and created an environment that encouraged increased collaboration. Part of this environment included participation in the US National TeraGrid infrastructure\, and US National networks. This talk describes the overall effort\, the new projects and environment\, the results\, and the lessons learned. RSVP here.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/idre-tech-talk-building-linking-local-regional-national-cyberinfrastructure
CATEGORIES:Conferences and Seminars,Presentations
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141021T120000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20141015T182620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141015T182620Z
UID:3703-1413885600-1413892800@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:GPU and Hybrid Architectures – Today and into the Future
DESCRIPTION:Design constraints in current processor product lines\nProcessor Market segmentation\nNVIDIA investments in new architectures and advanced tools\nCompare CPU design to GPU design\, differences\, inherently parallel vs a historically sequential\nThe Complex Ecosystem in which Architectures live in \, sandwiched between the SW stack and HW on other side.\nSW role in architecture
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/gpu-hybrid-architectures-today-future
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Presentations
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140717T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140717T140000
DTSTAMP:20260514T062537
CREATED:20140904T215316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141006T185007Z
UID:2646-1405555200-1405605600@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Improving the Energy Efficiency of Modern Computing Platforms Using High-Resolution Real-Time Energy Measurements
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Digvijay Singh will speak. Abstract: Rising energy requirements in a broad range of computing platforms from mobile devices to server systems combined with the proliferation of these high-performance computing platforms has lead to an exigent need for improvement in platform energy efficiency. This requires infrastructure for monitoring of platform energy consumption and methods to reduce the energy costs. In this talk\, we present an energy measurement infrastructure that provides high-resolution real-time energy measurements for a commodity computing platform. The measurement infrastructure is integrated at the platform level and provides measurements for the complete platform along with components such as the CPU\, memory modules and others.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/improving-energy-efficiency-modern-computing-platforms-using-high-resolution-real-time-energy-measurements
LOCATION:53-125 Engineering IV\, UCLA
CATEGORIES:Presentations
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