Today, virtually every important breakthrough in science depends on computing resources, which have become the "third leg" of scientific discovery along with theory and experimentation. Scientists from across Massachusetts will join together on May 25th, 2017 to celebrate and showcase the power of high performance computing across the sciences.

The conference will feature a special poster session with awards for students and an HPC education session. Poster abstracts can be submitted during registration.

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Schedule (without abstracts)

• 8:00am - 9:00am: Breakfast
• 9:00am - 9:45am: Sushil Prasad (National Science Foundation), Developing IEEE TCPP Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum and NSF Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Learning and Workforce Development Programs
• 10:00am - 10:25am: Arghavan Louhghalam (U. Mass Dartmouth), Quantitative Engineering Sustainability: Integration of Mechanics-based Models in Lifecycle Footprint
• 10:25am - 10:50am: Ofer Cohen (U. Mass Lowell), Computational Plasma Physics in the Solar System and Beyond
• 10:50am - 11:15am: Giovanni Widmer (Tufts), Visualizing complex bacterial populations in animal models
• 11:15am - 11:40am: Min Hyung Cho (U. Mass Lowell), Fast computational method for wave scattering
• 11:40am - 12:40pm: Lunch and posters
• 12:40pm - 1:05pm: Marinos Vouvakis (U. Mass Amherst), High-Performance Electromagnetic Computations: The Domain Decomposition Paradigm
• 1:05pm - 1:30pm: Paul Whitford (Northeastern), How HPC is transforming the study of biological machines
• 1:30pm - 1:55pm: Randy Paffenroth (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Musings on Exabyte Scale Principal Component Analysis
• 1:55pm - 2:20pm: Samuel Isaacson (Boston University), Jump Process Approximation of Particle-Based Stochastic Reaction-Diffusion Models
• 2:20pm - 3:10pm: Education Roundtable: "New Voices: Perspectives on Joining the HPC Community from students and members of non-traditional disciplines."
• 3:10pm - 3:45pm: Break
• 3:45pm - 4:10pm: Ryan McKinnon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cosmological Simulations of Galaxy Formation
• 4:10pm - 4:35pm: Alfa Heryudono (U. Mass Dartmouth), Polygonal Brain, Conformal Transplant, and Alzheimer’s Disease
• 4:35pm - 5:00pm: Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern), What is stopping us from getting to exascale computing and what should we do about it?
• 5:00pm - 5:45pm: Luke Kelley (Harvard), Predictions of future Gravitational Wave Observations using Simulations of the Universe
• 5:45pm - 6:00pm: Closing Remarks and Student Prizes

• Luke Kelley (Harvard)
• Sushil Prasad (National Science Foundation)

• Min Hyung Cho (U. Mass Lowell)
• Ofer Cohen (U. Mass Lowell)
• Alfa Heryudono (U. Mass Dartmouth)
• Samuel Isaacson (Boston University)
• Arghavan Louhghalam (U. Mass Dartmouth)
• Ryan McKinnon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Randy Paffenroth (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
• Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern)
• Marinos Vouvakis (U. Mass Amherst)
• Paul Whitford (Northeastern)
• Giovanni Widmer (Tufts)

Please join us!

The conference will take place at the Woodland Commons building. Please click campus map in png which has the building circled. To get to campus, set your GPS to 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA. Please park in Lot 10 (which is closest to the venue) or on Ring Road.

IEEE HPEC is a great way to get this work into an IEEE peer-reviewed venue that is published via IEEE Xplore. The submission deadline is May 19.

There is a special issue of the IEEE / AIP journal Computing in Science & Engineering currently being planned. The special issue is titled ”Supercomputing-Enabled Advances in Science & Engineering” and we’re interested in papers that report on impactful advances enabled by large-scale computing in any area of science / engineering. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed. The submission deadline is November 1, 2017. You can find out more about the special issue here.

• Breakfast, lunch, breaks, and book, hardware and software prizes are made possible by generous donations from
  
  
  
  

Kavitha Chandra (UMassL), Qian-Yong Chen (UMassA), Min Hyung Cho (UMassL), Sigal Gottlieb (UMassD), Chris Hill (MIT), Sam Isaacson (BU), David Kaeli (Northeastern), Gaurav Khanna (UMassD), Misha Kilmer (Tufts) Julia Mullen (Lincoln Lab), Eric Polizzi (UMassA), Homer Walker (WPI), Karen Willcox (MIT), and Ralph Zottola (UMassPO).

Hosted by the Center for Scientific Computing and Visualization Research at UMass Dartmouth.