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SUMMARY:Accessibility Testing Training
DESCRIPTION:In this live hour-long webinar\, the UCLA Disabilities and Computing Program will introduce the basics of accessibility testing. The ability to identify accessibility errors is the first step in making your content accessible. This class will focus on HTML accessibility and Document accessibility testing. \nAny questions about this workshop can be emailed to tlee@oarc.ucla.edu. \nRegister here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqbYJaXvDlJJ2BigBuD4ro3Eyaiblw2I3d8howZBY5635oyw/viewform
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/accessibility-testing-training-3
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201120
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SUMMARY:UC GIS Week
DESCRIPTION:Register now for the first UC GIS Week conference from Nov. 17th – 19th!  \n \nThe UC GIS Week committee is proud to announce the first UC-wide GIS Week. Join us for a 3-day virtual conference which celebrates the GIS work of the University of California faculty\, staff\, students\, and alumni. The University of California system is holding an inaugural UC GIS Week on November 17th – 19th\, 2020 through Zoom. \nWe will celebrate all things mapping and geospatial. In light of the challenging times\, we are coming together virtually to share our work with our community. Researchers\, students\, industry partners\, alumni\, and community mappers\, will share their accomplishments and inspire others through their mapping. \nThis is an opportunity for you to learn and engage with experts and mapping projects across the UC system and beyond! Ask questions during the thematic mapping panels\, engage with GIS industry professionals\, interact with posters presenters\, and connect during social events. \n  \nAll talks are free and open to the public! \n  \nYour registration entitles you attend any or all of the tentatively scheduled events below: \nTuesday – 11/17 \n11am – 12pm: Opening plenary – Collaboration Across the UCs \n1pm – 2pm: Historical GIS | Policy Poster Session \n3pm – 4pm: Afternoon Historical GIS Workshop | Career Panel #1 \n  \nWednesday – 11/18 \n11am – 12pm: Remote Sensing | Mapping for Equality \n1pm – 2pm: Public Health | Career Panel #2 \n3pm – 4pm: Policy and Mapping – Lightning Talks | Environmental Science and Public Health Poster Session \n  \nThursday – 11/19 \n11am – 12pm: Environmental Science and Mapping – Lightning Talks \n1pm – 2pm: Regional and Urban GIS \n3pm – 4pm: Afternoon Risk Assessments Workshop \n  \nRegister now to stay informed and get early access to the 1st UC GIS Week digital swag bag! \nFor more info visit the UC GIS Week page. Would you like to contribute digital swag or have questions? Email: ucgisweek@gmail.com
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/uc-gis-week
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Humanitarian Mapathon with USC and UCLA
DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN\, RSVP HERE! \n\n\n\nWednesday October 28th\, 10am (PDT): \n\nWelcome message and humanitarian map training\n\nThursday October 29th: \n\nContinue mapping and a day of workshops9am Open Street Map with Python\n\n11am Open Data and Tableau\n1pm GIS with R\n3pm Introduction to QGIS\n\n\n\nFriday October 30th\, 10am (PDT): \n\nWrap-up and closing Keynote with Ben Welsh from the Los Angeles Times\nBen Welsh (LA Times Data Journalist)\n\nLocation: Zoom\nGo to website for more details \n\nOnce again\, UCLA and USC are hosting a special 3 day humanitarian mapathon. Last year we had nearly 150 mappers collectively map 17\,126 building outlines for projects around the world that were impacted by climate change. Our event was one of the single largest mapathons in the world that day! This year we will highlight mapping projects impacted by COVID-19 as well as other urgent projects that need our attention. \nOur goal is to map more than 20\,000 buildings. We can only do this if we work together. \nThis year’s event begins on Wednesday with a welcome from your organizers and a day of virtual training on how to use OSM. The next day you can continue mapping and also join us for a diverse set of GIS/mapping workshops. Finally on Friday we will announce how many buildings we have mapped\, give out prizes to the top mappers from each school\, and have a discussion with our closing keynote speaker\, Ben Welsh\, from the Los Angeles Times. \nShare this with friends\, students\, faculty — anyone who might be interested. This year continues to be challenging on so many fronts. We want this event to be a space where we can come together from USC\, UCLA\, and all across Los Angeles to make a difference in people’s lives. \nFor more information visit our website. Once you register we will keep you updated as the event gets closer with pre-event training opportunities and materials. \nHope to see you soon\, \nUCLA+USC organizing committee for the 2020 Humanitarian Mapathon \nFor questions or inquiries: \nUSC – Andy Rutkowski arutkows@usc.edu\nUCLA – Yoh Kawano yohman@gmail.com
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/4th-annual-humanitarian-mapathon-with-usc-and-ucla
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Running Applications on the Hoffman2 Cluster: Introduction
DESCRIPTION:The Hoffman2 cluster is a powerful computational resource for the UCLA research community. This workshop is part of a three-seminar series designed to introduce users to the Hoffman2 cluster environment and to clarify the process of porting applications or using applications already available on the cluster. It also addresses how to port your workflow to the Hoffman2 and how to submit batch and run interactive applications. \nThis introductory workshop addresses the specifics of the Hoffman2 cluster set-up\, it provides a survival guide on how to use the existing documentation\, how to navigate the unix command prompt and how to submit a variety of tasks for interactive or batch execution.  It provides in class demonstrations on how to connect to the cluster via the traditional unix shell and how to run jupyter notebooks on the Hoffman2 cluster. It introduces users to the environmental modules application set-up and how to find/install/run needed applications. \nPlease register here. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nIf you have any further questions regarding the workshop\, please contact instructor Raffaella D’Auria
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/running-applications-on-the-hoffman2-cluster-introduction-4
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20200520T201957Z
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SUMMARY:Epidemic Model Guided Machine Learning for COVID-19 Forecasts
DESCRIPTION:Time:  12:00 PM – 1:00 PM\nDate: June 05\, 2020\nLocation:  Zoom (you will receive an email after your rsvp) \nRSVP HERE \nLink to the presentation’s recording and slides \n\n\nAbstract: The novel coronavirus (COVID-19)\, which causes an acute respiratory disease in humans\, has emerged as a global pandemic\, and caused an over 250\,000 death toll in the world. Our lab recently launched a project (https://covid19.uclaml.org) to use machine learning to better understand the spread of COVID-19 and further facilitate the decision making of the government agencies. In this talk\, I will focus on an epidemic model-guided machine learning approach for the confirmed case and death forecasts for COVID-19\, and peak date projection in both state and national level. In specific\, we found that standard epidemic models such as SIR and SEIR are insufficient for modeling the spread of COVID-19. We therefore propose a variant of the SEIR model that takes into account the untested/unreported cases of COVID-19\, and then use a machine learning algorithm to train this model. Validation based on a week ahead prediction indicates that our model is more accurate than many other models including the model proposed by IHME at the University of Washington. \nAbout Speaker: Dr. Quanquan Gu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. His current research is in the area of artificial intelligence and machine learning\, with a focus on developing and analyzing nonconvex optimization algorithms for machine learning and building the theoretical foundations of deep learning. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014. He is a recipient of the Yahoo! Academic Career Enhancement Award\, NSF CAREER Award\, Simons Berkeley Research Fellowship\, Adobe Data Science Research Award\, Salesforce Deep Learning Research Award and AWS Machine Learning Research Award.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/covid-19-forecasts
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T120000
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SUMMARY:IDRE-Early Career Researchers Group Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Time:  12:00 PM – 1:00 PM\nDate: April 22\, 2020\nLocation:  Zoom (the meeting link will be sent to you once you rsvp below) \nRSVP HERE \nIDRE is happy to reschedule the first lunch meeting for the IDRE Early Career Research Group to April 22\, 2020. Although this first meeting is going to be virtual\, through zoom\, our goal remains the same\, i.e.\, to establish a series of meetings\, where you will have an opportunity to share ideas\, ask questions\, find opportunities for collaboration\, and socialize with your peers. \nAt this first meeting\, we will have a 30-minute presentation on “Knowledge Graphs\, Natural Language Processing\, and Standards for Unifying Unstructured Biomedical Data” by J. Harry Caufield. \nThe agenda of the meeting is as follows: \n\n12:00 PM – 12:10 PM: Welcome and Introduction\n12:10 PM – 12:40 PM: Presentation* – Knowledge Graphs\, Natural Language Processing\, and Standards for Unifying Unstructured Biomedical Data by J. Harry Caufield\n12:40 PM – 1:00 PM Q&A\n\n* Presentation: Knowledge Graphs\, Natural Language Processing\, and Standards for Unifying Unstructured Biomedical Data \nSpeaker:\nJ. Harry Caufield\, Ph.D.\,\nIDRE Scholar\,\nUCLA Data Science in Cardiovascular Medicine \n\n\n\nAbstract: \nComputational analysis of clinical events is a promising strategy for developing a comprehensive understanding of highly variable disease presentations. The development and validation of new methods appropriate for this general task are increasingly limited by the availability of carefully annotated\, open\, and diverse datasets of biomedical text. I will discuss our group’s recent efforts to enforce consistent structures and standards on the data within text documents written in the biomedical language. The standards support consistent data models and structures (i.e.\, knowledge graphs) for unifying heterogeneous observations and relationships as well as machine learning approaches for isolating biologically and clinically-relevant insights. I will also introduce our newly produced text datasets\, each of which is richly annotated and freely available. \nAbout Speaker:\nJ. Harry Caufield is a postdoctoral fellow in the NIH HeartBD2K Center of Excellence at UCLA\, where he works with Prof. Peipei Ping of UCLA’s departments of Physiology\, Medicine\, and Bioinformatics. Before joining UCLA\, Dr. Caufield earned his PhD in Integrative Life Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University\, where he studied microbial protein interactions and developed intuitive methods for working with large protein interaction networks. He continues to have an active interest in learning about biological relationships hidden within disparate data sources\, particularly those with a direct impact on human health and disease.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/ecr-meet-presentation-april2020
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191120T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20191010T190428Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T003659Z
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SUMMARY:IDRE Early Career Research Day
DESCRIPTION:Venue: Sequoia Room\, UCLA Faculty Center\, 480 Charles E. Young Drive East\, Los Angeles\nRegistration: RSVP link\nContact: T.V.Singh \nThe Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is pleased to announce the upcoming IDRE Early Career Research Day. This event is aimed to highlight the diverse research activities in computational science\, data science\, information science\, and digital scholarship at UCLA carried out by rising faculty and researchers\, post-docs\, and graduate and undergraduate students. It will also be an opportunity for early career researchers to network with their colleagues across campus. This event is part of IDRE activities in support of the IDRE Early Career Researcher’s (ECR) Group which aims to bring together scholars in the early phase of their careers engaged in developing and/or using digitally enabled innovative research methodologies. \nEarly Career Research Day:\nThe Early Career Research Day will be held on Wednesday\, November 20\, and will consist of buffet lunch followed by the poster session. The event is also open to members of the UCLA community who are interested in learning about the research activities of peer groups on campus. Please register at the RSVP link. \nCall for Poster Presentations– Deadline: November 4\, 2019:\nPoster presentations are welcome from IDRE early career researchers\, including assistant professors\, postdocs\, and graduate students from all disciplines and departments who are involved in digitally enabled research. Special recognition will be awarded for the top three posters including being part of feature stories in IDRE’s monthly newsletters. \nSubmission Guidelines:\nPlease submit a poster presentation abstract of no more than a page length with single spacing and 12-point font.  The maximum poster size will be 3.5 ft (1.1 m) wide by 4 ft (1.2 m) tall. \nDeadline: November 4\, 2019\nPlease send submissions by email to Tajendra Singh (tvsingh@ucla.edu) with “ECR poster session 2019” in the subject line. \nFor more information about IDRE ECR\, visit: https://idre.ucla.edu/early-career-researchers-group
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/idre-ecr-day-2019
LOCATION:Sequoia Room\, UCLA Faculty Center\, 480 Charles E Young Dr S\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Meetings,Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191108T160000
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SUMMARY:Advanced Computing and Data Analytics using Comet
DESCRIPTION:UCLA-IDRE and San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) are happy to announce the workshop “Advanced Computing and Data Analytics using Comet” as per the following details: \nVenue: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg.\nRSVP: Link to the registration form (*lunch is provided)\nRequirements: Bring your laptop for hands-on exercises.\nQuestions: Contact T.V.Singh \nLink to the presentation slides: https://github.com/sdsc-scicomp/2019-11-08-comet-workshop-ucla \nAgenda: \n\n9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Welcome\n9:10 AM – 10:10 AM: Introduction to SDSC Resources – Current and Future\n\nComet\, hardware overview\nSoftware\, stack\, queues\, etc\nOverview of upcoming Expanse system\n\n\n10:10 AM – 10:20 AM: Short break\n10:20 AM -12:00 PM: Python for High Performance Computing (HPC)\n\nUse of Jupyter notebooks on Comet\nScaling using IPython parallel\nUsing Numba to run pure python codes on GPUs\nDistributed parallel computing using Dask\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch (provided)\n1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Introduction to Machine Learning and Deep Learning on Comet\n\nOverview of machine learning / deep learning tools available on Comet.\nExamples using R\, Python\, and Keras with TensorFlow.\n\n\n2:30 PM – 2:40 PM: Short break\n2:40 PM – 4:00 PM: Containers for Scientific and High Performance Computing (HPC)\n\nIntroduction to Containers – advantages and limitations\nOverview of containers on HPC systems\nSingularity Essentials\nHands-on examples showing usage of containers – CPU\, GPU\, and MPI cases\nHands-on example showing the import of Docker container\nInfo on building images\n\n\n4:00 PM: Adjourn
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/idre-sdsc-2019
LOCATION:IDRE Visualization Portal\, Math Sciences Building 5628\, 520 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191101T170000
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SUMMARY:Addressing the Vaccine Crisis: The Digital World\, Big Data\, and Public Health
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n\nVenue: James Bridges Theater\, UCLA Melnitz Hall\, 235 Charles E Young Dr.\, Los Angeles\, CA – 90095\nRegister: RSVP link\nQuestions: Contact T.V. Singh\nOrganizers: \nVwani Roychowdhury\nTimothy R. Tangherlini\nBeth Glenn\nCatherine Crespi\nRoshan Bastani\n\n\n\nAddressing the Vaccine Crisis: The Digital World\, Big Data\, and Public Health\n \nThe World Health Organization has identified vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health. This one-day symposium\, hosted by UCLA faculty from Engineering\, Humanities and Public Health\, comes amid the growing attention to this potential crisis. We bring together experts from across public health\, data science\, culture analytics\, sociology\, and law to address the most pressing questions about vaccination resistance and chart a course for future action. This symposium is sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Digital Research & Education (IDRE). \nAgenda: Nov 1\, 2019 (9:00 AM – 5:00 PM) \n\n\n\n9:00 – 9:15\nVice Provost Timothy Brewer and Warren Mori (UCLA) \nOpening remarks\n\n\n9:15-9:40\nRoshan Bastani (UCLA) \nIntroductions and Overview of Vaccine Crisis\n\n\n9:40-10:15\nJames Cherry (UCLA Medical School) \nThe Benefits of Routine Immunization\n\n\n10:15-10-45\nAndrea Kitta (East Carolina University) \nVaccination: Legend\, Rumor\, and Alternative Facts\n\n\n10:45-11:00\nBreak\n\n\n11:00-11:40\nDavid Broniatowski (George Washington University) \nHidden Agendas for Online Vaccination: Trolls\, Bots & Misinformation\n\n\n11:40-12:15\nJennifer Reich (University of Colorado Denver) \nVaccine Refusal and the Culture of Individualist Parenting\n\n\n12:15-12:30\nQ/A\n\n\n12:30-1:45\nLunch\n\n\n1:45-2:20\nKate Starbird (University of Washington) \nConceptualizing disinformation campaigns as collaborative work in online communities\n\n\n2:20-2:55\nSheila Murphy and collaborators (USC) \nDoes Mommy Really Know Best? Testing Source and Narrative Format Efficacy to Combat Childhood Vaccine Misinformation\n\n\n2:55-3:15\nVwani Roychowdhury (UCLA) \nThe theory\, practicality and ethics of Online Campaigns for Vaccine Awareness\n\n\n3:15-3:30\nCoffee Break\n\n\n3:30-4:05\nEmilio Ferrara (USC) \nOnline manipulation and public health: challenges and approaches\n\n\n4:05-4:40\nDorit Rubinstein Reiss (UC Hastings College of law) \nLegal Remedies to the Vaccine Crisis: What we can\, and what we should do \n\n\n4:40-4:55\nQ/A\n\n\n5:00\nWrap up\n\n\n\nVaccination: Legend\, Rumor\, and Alternative Facts  \nAndrea Kitta\nEast Carolina University \nAbstract: In spite of the success of the childhood inoculation movement\, the public has increasingly asked questions about the safety and efficacy of vaccines. Recent research and media coverage also shows that parents are increasingly choosing to not vaccinate their children. Factors isolated by researchers include: a lack of understanding of how the vaccine works\, religious or philosophical objections\, fear of government control in areas of personal choice\, concern about safety and/or efficacy\, beliefs that vaccine-preventable diseases do not pose a serious health risk\, certainty that alternative treatments are superior\, concerns that vaccines are promoted for the sake of financial gain\, and belief that vaccines are not “natural.” \nThis presentation explores vernacular beliefs and practices that surround decisions to not vaccinate with the primary aim of providing concrete recommendations for improving inoculation promotion programs. The rationale of this work is consistent with a number of studies that apply vernacular health belief research to health education and health promotion policy. These studies use as their central premise the notion that health education must be based on community understandings of risk\, and that such understandings require ethnographic investigation. Ideally\, health education programs are community-based; involve collaborative partnerships between communities\, researchers\, and service providers; and make use of local concerns. Understanding health choices is dependent on exploring the variety of cultural concerns and influences that constitute risk for the communities and individuals in question. Risk categories and risk perception are multifaceted\, culture-bound\, personal\, and political. \nMy research draws on ethnography\, media\, Internet\, and narrative analyses to explore the vernacular explanatory models used in inoculation decision-making. The majority of knowledge\, belief\, and behavior studies on inoculation decision-making are based on survey-style self-report. As has been shown consistently with health risks\, risk perception is not easily accessed through survey methods\, but requires the greater ethnographic and qualitative study that a folklorist can provide. In order to even begin to understand this language\, ethnographic research skills are necessary as vaccination narratives are presented and communicated in a variety of ways through the use of traditional narratives and beliefs. The most common genres used in vaccination discourse are contemporary legends\, rumor\, and personal experience narratives\, or in some cases\, a combination of the three. \n  \nHidden Agendas for Online Vaccination: Trolls\, Bots & Misinformation \nDavid Broniatowski\nGeorge Washington University \nAbstract: This talk will cover the ways in which state-sponsored and profit-seeking entities use health communication about vaccines on social media to accomplish a variety of malicious tasks\, including promoting discord\, spreading malware\, and spamming. We will cover the different types of malicious actors on Twitter and the specific ways these are used to achieve the goals identified above\, and some promising theoretical approaches to combating them. \n  \nVaccine Refusal and the Culture of Individualist Parenting \nJennifer A. Reich\nUniversity of Colorado Denver \nAbstract: Parents who reject some or all vaccines are often described as ignorant\, anti-science\, selfish\, or even delusional about the seriousness of vaccine-preventable diseases. Yet these popular views may not capture the more complex processes that lead some parents to opt out of vaccines for their children. Using data from in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation with parents who refuse some or all vaccines\, I argue that vaccine refusal is in many ways a logical response to cultural pressures that expect parents to actively manage consumption decisions and curate opportunities for their children\, which include intense efforts to evaluate risk and benefit to children’s health. I conclude by suggesting some paths forward to support a parenting culture of shared responsibility that in turn could increase participation in public health interventions like childhood vaccination. \n  \nConceptualizing disinformation campaigns as collaborative work in online communities  \nKate Starbird\nUniversity of Washington \nAbstract: The pervasive spread of mis- and disinformation in online spaces is a critical concern for society. Broadly\, these dynamics function to reduce trust in democratic institutions\, including government\, media\, and science. They also have more specific and direct effects. For example\, the spread of misinformation about vaccines is now having measurable (negative) impacts on public health. In this talk\, I will situate the vaccine “debate” (or anti-vaccine movement) within a broader online ecosystem of mis- and disinformation. Using case studies of political disinformation\, I will describe how online activist communities (generally) can become targets and vectors of political disinformation—and how they integrate diverse actors with diverse motivations (from ideological to political to financial) into seemingly organic action. I will also show how anti-vaccine activism and discourse intersects with other disinformation campaigns\, including political disinformation with ties to specific state actors. \n  \nDoes Mommy Really Know Best? Testing Source and Narrative Format Efficacy to Combat Childhood Vaccine Misinformation \nSheila T. Murphy and Ashley L. Phelps\,\nUniversity of Southern California (USC) \nAbstract: Pro-vaccine messages correcting misinformation about vaccines by highlighting the risks of illness are ineffective in changing vaccine hesitant attitudes. Rather attitudes about childhood vaccinations are heavily influenced by injunctive (what one should do) and descriptive (what others are doing) norms. A 2×2 experiment tests the relative efficacy of a similar (mommy vlogger) versus an expert source (female pediatrician) and information format (narrative testimonial versus nonnarrative tutorial) using an increasingly popular format for health information\, YouTube. \n  \nOnline manipulation and public health: challenges and approaches  \nEmilio Ferrara\nUniversity of Southern California (USC) \nAbstract: Online misinformation is endemic of social media\, and bots and trolls have been exacerbating the spread of inaccurate information. Their influence has been shown in domains from politics to finance\, and public health is no exception: conspiracy theories\, anti-science and unscientific content about vaccines\, epidemic outbreaks\, tobacco\, and other health-related rumors can have adverse effects and contribute toward public health crises. I will illustrate the problem of public health misinformation with use cases that include an early study of the Ebola 2014 outbreak\, recent vaccine debates on various platforms\, the role of bots in the tobacco-related product promotion\, and finally provide computational tools to combat online misinformation\, detect bots and trolls\, and characterize their activity\, behavior\, and strategies. \n  \nLegal Remedies to the Vaccine Crisis: What we can\, and what we should do \nDorit Rubinstein Reiss\nUC Hastings College of law \nAbstract: This presentation will address the range of legal options facing states\, starting from the basic position that states have extensive leeway to regulate to increase childhood vaccines. It will address potential legal limits posed by the First Amendment\, states rights to education\, and parental rights\, suggest a continuum of option\, and end with several considerations to guide the appropriate legislative choices. \n 
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/addressing-the-vaccine-crisis
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Conferences and Seminars,Education and Training,Meetings,Presentations,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190819T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190823T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20190425T234500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190509T215547Z
UID:13012-1566201600-1566572400@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Petascale Computing Institute
DESCRIPTION:UCLA-IDRE\, in partnership with Blue Waters\, is pleased to virtually host 2019 Petascale Computing Institute at UCLA: \nWhen: August 19-23\, 2019 (8 AM-3 PM PDT each day)\nWhere: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg.\nContact: T.V. Singh \nThe goal of the institute is to enable computational and data-enabled discovery in all fields of study by teaching the participants to scale their computational codes to leadership-class computing systems. The institute will be beneficial to researchers who are preparing to scale their codes to petascale-class resources\, people who are working on parallel codes\, or have a need to scale up computational codes and/or data analysis programs. Individuals who are current or pending users of large-scale HPC systems will benefit the most from this institute. \nParticipants will receive training accounts\, on-site mentoring\, and the ability to ask questions of the presenters orally. \nFor detailed information\, visit Petscale Computing Institute website. \nClick Here For Registration\n  \nAgenda (all times are in PDT):\n\n\n\nDay\nMonday\, August 19\nTuesday\, August 20\nWednesday\, August 21\nThursday\, August 22\nFriday\, August 23\n\n\n\n\n8:00\nKeynote – Gordon Bell\n\nMPI\nOpenACC\nPython (in HPC)\nSoftware Engineering Best Practices\n\n\n9:00\nComputing Paradigms\nMPI\nCUDA\nPython (in HPC)\nContainers\n\n\n10:00\nWorking Lunch \nLunch \nLunch \nLunch \nLunch \n\n\n11:00\nResources at ANL\nResources at NCSA\nResources at NERSC\nResources at ORNL\nResources at PSC\n\n\n11:10\nOpenMP\nHybrid (MPI + OpenMP)\nCUDA\nDebugging\, Profiling\, Optimization\nResources at SciNet\nResources at TACC\n\n\n12:00\nOpenMP\nSurvey of Libraries\nCUDA\nDebugging\, Profiling\, Optimization\nSurvey of Visualization Resources;\n\n\n13:00\nBreak \nBreak \nBreak \nBreak \nWrap-up and Adjourn \n\n\n13:30\nMPI\nOpenACC\nCUDA and OpenACC; practical linear algebra optimization exercise\nParallel I/O Best Practices\n\n\n\n15:00\nAdjourn\nAdjorn\nAdjourn\nAdjorn\n\n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/petascale-2019
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180604T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180607T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20180516T190049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180531T164323Z
UID:10690-1528099200-1528380000@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:XSEDE HPC Workshop: Summer Boot Camp 6/4-6/7
DESCRIPTION:UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce the following four day Summer Boot Camp on High Performance Computing: \nEvent: XSEDE HPC Workshop – Summer Boot Camp\nWhen: June 4-7\, 2018\, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day\nWhere: 5628 Math Sciences Building\, UCLA\nFor details and registration: https://www.psc.edu/hpc-workshop-series/summer-bootcamp-2018 \nThis 4-day event will include MPI\, OpenMP\, OpenACC and accelerators. It will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom(WAC) training platform and will conclude with a special hybrid exercise contest that will challenge the students to apply their skills over the following 3 weeks and be awarded the Fifth Annual XSEDE Summer Boot Camp Championship Trophy. In addition\, an XSEDE Badge will be available to those who complete the Challenge. \n\n\n\n\nTentative agenda (Timing in PST):\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday June 4\n\n\n\n08:00\nWelcome\n\n\n08:15\nComputing Environment\n\n\n08:45\nIntro to Parallel Computing\n\n\n09:30\nIntro to OpenMP\n\n\n10:30\nLunch break\n\n\n11:30\nExercise 1     (zip folder of all exercises) \n\n\n12:15\nMore OpenMP\n\n\n1:30\nExercise 2\n\n\n2:00\nAdjourn\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday June 5\n\n\n\n08:00\nIntro to OpenACC\n\n\n09:00\nExercise 1\n\n\n09:30\nIntroduction to OpenACC (cont.)\n\n\n10:00\nLunch break\n\n\n11:00\nExercise 2\n\n\n11:45\nIntroduction to OpenACC (cont.)\n\n\n12:00\nUsing OpenACC with CUDA Libraries\n\n\n12:30\nAdvanced OpenACC\n\n\n01:00\nOpenMP 4.0 Sneak Peek\n\n\n02:00\nAdjourn\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday June 6\n\n\n\n08:00\nIntroduction to MPI\n\n\n10:00\nLunch break\n\n\n11:00\nIntro exercises\n\n\n12:10\nIntro exercises review\n\n\n12:15\nScalable Programming: Laplace code\n\n\n12:45\nLaplace Exercise\n\n\n2:00\nAdjourn\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday June 7\n\n\n\n08:00\nLaplace Exercise (Cont)\n\n\n09:30\nLaplace Solution\n\n\n10:00\nLunch break\n\n\n11:00\nAdvanced MPI\n\n\n12:00\nOutro to Parallel Computing\n\n\n01:00\nParallel Tools\n\n\n01:20\nHybrid Computing\n\n\n01:40\nHybrid Competition\n\n\n02:00\nAdjourn
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/xsede-hpc-workshop-summer-boot-camp
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,UCLA event
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180515T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20180425T183906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180515T183611Z
UID:10341-1526374800-1526400000@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with SDSC\,  IDRE is happy to announce the workshop “HPC and Big Data Analytics using Comet” as per the following details: \nVenue: 5628 Math Sciences Bldg.\nRSVP: link to the registration form (*lunch will be provided)\nRequirements: Participants need to bring their own laptops for hands-on exercises. \nAgenda: \n\n9:00 AM – 9:10 AM: Welcome\n9:10 AM – 10:10 AM: Introduction to SDSC Resources\n\nComet\, hardware overview\nSoftware\, stack\, queues\, etc\n\n\n10:10 AM – 10:20 AM: Short break\n10:20 AM -12:00 PM: Data Analysis using Python and Jupyter notebooks\n\nUse of Jupyter notebooks on Comet\nUsing python for data preparation on\, and explore pandas (the Python data analysis toolkit)\n\n\n12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch\n1:00 PM – 2:30 PM: Introduction to Machine Learning and Deep Learning on Comet\n\nOverview of machine learning / deep learning tools available on Comet.\nExamples using R\, Python\, and Keras with TensorFlow.\n\n\n2:30 PM – 2:40 PM: Short break\n2:40 PM – 4:00 PM: Introduction to containerization using Singularity on Comet\n\nOverview and background info for the need to do containerization\nBasic commands for using singularity images\nHands-on examples showing usage of containers\nHands-on example showing import of Docker container\nInfo on building images\n\n\n4:00 PM: Adjourn\n\nLink to the presentation slides: https://github.com/mahidhar/UCLA2018
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hpc-and-big-data-analytics-using-comet2018
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,UCLA event
ORGANIZER;CN="T V Singh":MAILTO:tvsingh@ucla.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180504T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20180423T222051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180503T012532Z
UID:10255-1525343400-1525449600@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:High-performance programming: back to the hardware
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with UCLA-ECE\, IDRE  invites you to the workshop “High-Performance programming: back to hardware” with the following details: \nOutline: \n\nArchitecture of modern CPUs – brief overview\nHow to efficiently use CPU computing resources\nMemory and cache architecture\nHow to use the memory system efficiently\nUsing multiple CPUs efficiently through concurrency\nMemory model\, locking\, memory barriers\n\nInstructor:\nFedor G Pikus\, Ph.D.\,\nChief Engineering Scientist\,\nDesign to Silicon division\,\nMentor Graphics Corp (Siemens business). \nTiming: 10:30 AM – 4 PM on 5/3/2018 (Thursday)\, and 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM on 5/4/2018 (Friday) \nRequirements: Please bring your own laptop for handson exercises. \n\nRSVP – registration link (*lunch will be provided) \n\n\nAbstract: The great “free lunch” of programming is over. Until recently\, the programs just got faster by themselves as the time went by and the CPUs got upgraded. This does not happen anymore. The clock frequency of the new processors has peaked and even decreased slightly from the maximum. New architectures provide small improvements for existing programs\, but only small improvements. The processors do get larger\, more complex\, and more powerful\, but most of this new power goes into the increased number of processing cores and other “extra” computing units. To write efficient software\, one now has to make good use of the available computing resources. \nIt used to be that to write any half-decent program\, you had to know your hardware. Then\, the hardware became hidden\, abstracted behind higher-level languages; that was a good thing as the programmers could focus on writing programs in the way that expressed what they wanted to do\, not how it had to be done. Now we find ourselves reaching for the old arcane knowledge of hardware again: from ones and zeros we came\, to ones and zeros we return\, from now and until the next level of abstractions and high-level languages are invented. Still\, evolution is a spiral not a circle\, and we do not need to discard what we learned about good programming practices simply because we need to write efficient programs again. To put it another way\, just because our programs have to be as effective at getting every last bit of hardware performance as they were twenty years ago\, does not mean they have to be as difficult to read and debug. \nIn pursuit of performance\, we have at our disposal an amazing\, powerful\, and bewildering array of choices: concurrency (programming with multiple threads and multiple processes)\, atomic operations and lock-free programming\, special CPU instructions and special accelerator hardware\, memory and cache management\, shared memory. \nWe will learn what really happens when your program is executed\, what subtle details make a program slow or fast\, and how to make the best use of the available computing resources. We will talk about which performance considerations should be considered early in the design stage\, and which can be taken care of during implementation\, or\, even later\, optimization\, and what tools are available to measure the performance of your programs and their components. Most importantly\, I want to show you how to learn more about writing efficient programs and discover new knowledge as you need it. \n\n\n\n\nBio: Fedor G Pikus is a Chief Engineering Scientist in the Design to Silicon division of Mentor Graphics Corp (Siemens business). His earlier positions included a Senior Software Engineer at Google and a Chief Software Architect for Calibre PERC\, LVS\, DFM at Mentor Graphics. He joined Mentor Graphics in 1998 when he made a switch from academic research in computational physics to software industry. His responsibilities as a Chief Scientist include planning long-term technical direction of Calibre products\, directing and training the engineers who work on these products\, design and architecture of the software\, and research in new design and software technologies. Fedor has over 25 patents and over 100 papers and conference presentations on physics\, EDA\, software design\, and C++ language. \n 
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/high-performance-programming-back-to-the-hardware
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,UCLA event
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:20260423T121633
CREATED:20161005T205330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161108T002215Z
UID:6612-1478691900-1478696400@idre.ucla.edu
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:20160809T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160810T150000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20160713T172511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160713T172833Z
UID:6207-1470729600-1470841200@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Workflows Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project\, UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE) is happy to host the following workshop on workflows. \nFree Workflows Workshop: \nRegistration is now open for a free Workflows Workshop to be held August 9-10\, 2016 at multiple institutions across the country including UCLA-IDRE. Sponsored by the Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project\, this workshop will provide an overview of workflows and how they can enhance research productivity. \nA general session on the value of workflows will be followed by presentations and hands-on sessions with six different workflows. The objective is to assist the community in understanding the capabilities of these various workflows and to get people started with their usage. These include: \n\nGeneral overview of workflows; Why use them?\, presented by Scott Callaghan\, University of Southern California\nCopernicus\, presented by Peter Kasson\, University of Virginia\nGalaxy\, presented by Dave Clements\, Johns Hopkins University\nMakeflow/WorkQueue\, presented by Nicholas Hazekamp\, University of Notre Dame\nPegasus\, presented by Karan Vahi and Mats Rynge\, Information Sciences Institute\nRADICAL Cybertools\, presented by Shantenu Jha\, Rutgers University\nSwift\, presented by Mike Wilde\, Argonne National Laboratory\n\nThe presentations will be followed by a question and answer period to address questions from the community. Additional information on the workshop is available at https://sites.google.com/a/illinois.edu/workflows-workshop/home \nThe sites hosting this workshop include: \n\nUCLA-IDRE\nGeorgia State University\nNCSA – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\nMichigan State University\nOklahoma State University\nPurdue University\nStanford University\nTexas Tech University\nUniversity of Kentucky\nUniversity of Houston\nUniversity of Utah\nUniversity of Wyoming\n\nYou may register for this workshop through the XSEDE User Portal at: https://portal.xsede.org/course-calendar by August 2\, 2016. There is a registration button for each site\, be sure you select UCLA site in order to attend at UCLA-IDRE. \nThe Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing project is supported by the National Science Foundation (awards OCI-0725070 and ACI-1238993) and the state of Illinois. Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/workflows-workshop
LOCATION:Kerckhoff –  Charles E. Young Grand Salon\, 308 Westwood Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Classes and Workshops,Education and Training,UCLA event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160328T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160328T130000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20160303T231149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160308T183920Z
UID:6069-1459166400-1459170000@idre.ucla.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151214T060000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20151023T165337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20151023T195019Z
UID:5725-1450072800-1450202400@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:Hoffman2 Cluster and Data Center Winter Maintenance\, December 14-15\, 2015
DESCRIPTION:Dear Hoffman2 Users\, \nThe Hoffman2 Cluster will be unavailable from 6:00AM on Monday\, December 14\, 2015 through 6:00PM on Tuesday\, December 15\, 2015 for scheduled upgrades and maintenance. \nDuring this time\, we will be installing a new OS image with the latest Centos 6.6 release\, performing upgrades on storage equipment\, and doing a major upgrade of the Infiniband fabric. \nThe primary focus of the maintenance window will be the upgrade of the Infiniband infrastructure in the POD data center. \nWe will be replacing the existing QDR Infiniband core switch in the POD with a new\, modern FDR core switch. We will also be replacing many of the QDR leaf switches with FDR leaf switches and replacing and upgrading cabling. These upgrades should greatly increase the throughput and reliability of our IB fabric. \nDue to the major changes involved in this upgrade\, we will be closely monitoring the performance of parallel jobs running on the Infiniband fabric following the upgrade. \nYou will not be able to log in\, run jobs or transfer files during the maintenance window. Starting Monday\, December 1st\, we will hourly reduce the maximum run time in order to completely drain the cluster’s running jobs by December 14. If your job requests more than this maximum time\, it will not start. All jobs (queued or running) at the time of this outage will be killed; affected users will have to resubmit their jobs after the outage. Please plan your runs accordingly. \nIf you have any questions regarding this maintenance\, please submit a ticket to our support site at: \nhttps://support.idre.ucla.edu/helpdesk \nThank you\,\nHoffman2 Team\nIDRE Research Technology Group
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hoffman2-cluster-and-data-center-winter-maintenance-december-14-15-2015
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150615T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150617T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150502T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20141103T183551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141103T183551Z
UID:4062-1430596800-1430596800@idre.ucla.edu
SUMMARY:John Zorn Marathon: In Three Parts
DESCRIPTION:In one marathon day we bring pioneering composer and saxophonist John Zorn to Los Angeles for his first performance here in 25 years. In a sweeping program curated and masterminded by Zorn\, he brings together a cadre of disciples to traverse the city\, underscore the world of visual art and celebrate the massive scope of his undiluted and often unorthodox artistic vision. \n\nPart 1: Zorn at LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art – 11am Over the course of six hours\, Zorn will present 12 sets of compositions and improvisations in selected galleries. Navigating the museum\, vocal trios\, string quartets\, percussionists\, solo cellists\, improvisational duos and more will perform brief works every half hour amid a vast array of art and architecture.\nPart 2: Royce Triple Threat (Abraxas\, Secret Chiefs 3 & Bladerunner) Royce Hall – 8pm This power-packed triple-bill rock show is not for the faint of heart. Three different bands will take the stage in succession performing critical parts of Zorn’s stunningly vast output. NYC based Abraxas will perform “Psychomagia” a new chapter in Zorn’s mystic series; Bay Area experimentalists Secret Chiefs 3 will perform selections from “Masada Book Two” a small portion of Zorn’s extensive songbook of radical Jewish music; and powerhouse trio Bladerunner (John Zorn\, Bill Laswell & Dave Lombardo) will close out this portion of the evening with the raw intensity and experimentation for which they have become known.\nPart 3: The Hermetic Organ – solo organ improvisations Royce Hall – midnight There is a tradition of midnight organ recitals on college campuses equipped with a hall to perform them. We’re diving into that tradition and blasting it apart with a performer who will push the legendary Royce Hall Skinner Organ to glorious new heights. Zorn takes on our home base a riveting midnight performance that reveals the composer’s mind at work in all its bizarre and dramatic permutations—huge blocks of sound\, chords\, clusters\, counterpoint\, drones\, ostinatos\, lyrical melodies and more—often simultaneously.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/john-zorn-marathon-three-parts
LOCATION:Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA\, 340 Royce Dr b100 \, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150421T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150831T170000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20150421T230701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150421T230933Z
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SUMMARY:Code for the Mission App Competition
DESCRIPTION:The Office of Intellectual Property and the Office of Information Technology announce the Second Annual UCLA “Code for the Mission” App Competition. The goal of the competition is to encourage the UCLA community (Faculty\, Staff and Students) to develop mobile apps (both native and web-based) that further UCLA’s mission of Research\, Education and Service. Each year we will have three contest categories that will match our three tiered mission. \nLearn more: https://codeforthemission.ucla.edu/mission/ \nThe 2015 Categories\nEducation: Games that Enhance Learning\nInnovative approaches to learning such as games\, simulations and earning badges are evolving and complimenting traditional methods of teaching. \nResearch: Promoting a Culture of Sustainability\nIn conjunction with UCLA’s premier Grand Challenge Opens\, help us reach our goal of achieving 100% sustainability in energy\, water and biodiversity by 2050. \nService: Focusing on Wellness in the Community\nMany new efforts to promote wellness are abounding with the new found capabilities to manage personal health using smart phones. \nPrizes\nFor the Winners of: \n\nTrack 1: Games that Enhance Learning – a cash prize of $5\,000 will be awarded.\nTrack 2: Promoting a Culture of Sustainability – a cash prize of $5\,000 will be awarded.\nTrack 3: Focusing on Wellness in the Community – a cash prize of $5\,000 will be awarded.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/code-for-the-mission-app-competition
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20141107T225818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141107T225818Z
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SUMMARY:Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Book launch for the most recent work of Professor Todd Presner\, the director of the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies\, entitled Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. He\, along with his co-authors\, David Shepard (UCLA\, CDH) and Yoh Kawano (UCLA\, IDRE) will present and excerpt and conclude with a roundtable type discussion and Q&A session. \nFree and open to the public; pre-registration is required. Please RSVP by calling (310)267-5327 or by emailing cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hypercities-thick-mapping-digital-humanities
LOCATION:Young Research Library\, West Classroom\, 280 Charles E Young Dr N\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141025T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20141007T180007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141010T184200Z
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SUMMARY:Geoffrey Robinson & Jill Forshee: Perspectives on Timor-Leste
DESCRIPTION:The island of Timor is divided into an independent sovereign state of Timor-Leste and West Timor\, which is part of Indonesia. Timor-Leste’s complex history includes a period of Indonesian occupation from 1975 to 1999. \nIn this two-part program\, UCLA professor of history Geoffrey Robinson discusses the recent political history of Timor-Leste and its efforts to achieve justice and reconciliation since independence. \nFollowing Robinson’s talk\, independent scholar and contributor to the Textiles of Timor exhibition catalogue Jill Forshee delves into the political stories of the Timorese weavers’ experiences during the occupation and into current times—highlighting their textiles as personal registers of life histories. \nThe program is introduced by the Fowler’s senior curator of Asian and Pacific collections and Textiles of Timor exhibition co-curator Roy Hamilton.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/geoffrey-robinson-jill-forshee-perspectives-timor-leste-2
LOCATION:Fowler Museum at UCLA
CATEGORIES:Education and Training,UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141015T023000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141015T183000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20141007T175657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141007T175657Z
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SUMMARY:Farmers Market at UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the market in Bruin Plaza to support local and responsible farmers in the most delicious and healthy way possible! \nExpect to see some delicious seasonal produce\, nut products and dried fruits\, as well as some student performers! E3 will also be serving free Fair Trade coffee\, selling reusable bags for $2\, and collecting e-waste for recycling. \nDon’t forget to bring cash! \nContact\n952-406-0909\ne3.info@gmail.com
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/farmers-market-ucla
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141009T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141009T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20140905T185815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141017T211650Z
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SUMMARY:Hunting for Killer Asteroids: The Past\, Present and Future of Near-Earth Asteroid Surveys
DESCRIPTION:EPSS invites a distinguished alumnus back to campus once a year to give a lecture. The lecture is open to the public; the reception beforehand is restricted to departmental guests.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/hunting-killer-asteroids-past-present-future-near-earth-asteroid-surveys
LOCATION:Young Hall – Room CS76
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140918T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140918T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20140905T173831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141017T211924Z
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SUMMARY:Immigration Reform: Political and Humanitarian Concerns
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are required and available at the Box Office one hour before each program. Early arrival is recommended. Tickets are available one per person on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nAdditional Information\nExperts address the recent surge in unaccompanied children crossing the border from humanitarian and political perspectives. \nElizabeth Kennedy\, a Fulbright Fellow working in El Salvador with returned youth\, illuminates the violence that the children are attempting to escape. \nAntonio Gonzalez\, the president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project\, makes a case for immigration reform from the Democratic perspective\, followed by Republican Hector Barreto\, former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration under George W. Bush and current chairman of the Latino Coalition. \nHammer Forum This ongoing series of timely\, thought-provoking events addresses current social and political issues. Hammer Forum is moderated by Ian Masters\, journalist\, author\, screenwriter\, documentary filmmaker\, and host of the radio programs Background Briefing\, Sundays at 11AM\, and The Daily Briefing\, Monday through Thursday at 5PM\, on KPFK 90.7 FM.
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/immigration-reform-political-humanitarian-concerns
LOCATION:Hammer Museum
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140917T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140917T124500
DTSTAMP:20260423T121633
CREATED:20140905T174802Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141017T211702Z
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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Art Talk: N. Dash
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime Art Talks take place every Wednesday at 12:30pm. The Hammer’s curatorial department leads free and insightful 15-minute discussions about works of art currently on view or from museum collections. \nThis talk will be led by Emily Gonzalez\, curatorial associate. N. Dash Hammer Project 2014
URL:https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/lunchtime-art-talk-n-dash
CATEGORIES:UCLA event
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