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Trip report by Jie Bao


http://iamcs.tamu.edu/event_details.php?id=22#

IAMCS ("I am CS") Spring Symposium

May 28-29, 2009

Texas A&M University

Hilton Hotel and Conference Center

College Station, Texas


Contents

Thursday, May 28th

MORNING

8:00 Registration

8:30 Opening Session. by Ammar Al-Nahwi, James Calvin, Raymond Carroll (Chair)

  • introducation to KAUST and IAMCS

9:00 Can one hear the heat of a body? Mathematics of thermoacoustic tomography. (Peter Kuchment)

9:45 Break

10:15 An Overview of a Prototype for Detecting Defective Pills During Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Using Petascale Computing (Craig Douglas)

10:45 Earth and Environmental Science and Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (Victor Calo)

11:15 Impacts of Volcanic Aerosol Forcing on the ENSO cycle (Georgiy Stenchikov)

12:00 Buffet Lunch (meet Kun Gou, TAMU; Nathaniel Collier, UT Austin; Peter Kuchment)

Jie's micro-comments (some are tweets)

  • listen to the grand plan of KAUST - King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, interesting. http://turl.ca/jebvy
  • Seems most at IAMCS Sym. are math-minded. See a lot of integral formulae. my wiki poster absolutely stands out as a strange minority :)
  • Jeff Vitter(TAMU provost) was to give opening talk at IAMCS sym, but was called to DC for presidential consulting. BTW,his bro is US Senator

AFTERNOON

Jay Walton , Chair

1:15 STAPL: An Environment for Programming Parallel Applications (Lawrence Rauchberger)

1:45 Some classical inverse problems: even the simplest versions can have amazing complexity (William Rundell)

2:15 Break

2:45 Stimulating Research at OCCAM (John Ockendon,Jon Chapman -Oxford)

3:15 Nanoscale Ionic Materials: Science and Technology (Emmanuel Giannelis, Cornell)

3:45 Break

4:00 Parallel Adaptive Mesh Methods on Petascale Computers, with Applications to Geophysical Problems (Omar Ghattas)

4:30 Combining Data For Prediction: A Convolution/Deconvolution Approach (Raymond Carroll)

Tweets

  • Listen to talk on STAPL: Standard Template Adaptive Parallel Library http://parasol.tamu.edu/stapl/ by Lawrence Rauchwerger
  • STAPL supports Map-Reduce, makes me thinking shall we try a parallel C++ version of DL reasoner
  • There are Kaust centers at oxford, cornell..this is really a gaint research plan. Material, energy, computation...all coordinated.
  • (In a talk on green energy) Do they really "green"? How's the energy cost in making the needed materials? & environmental impact? e.g. solar
  • Learn a word: Petascale computers. http://turl.ca/qdcv and http://turl.ca/qxqdvm
  • Listen to Omar Ghattas http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~omar/, Chair in Computational Geosciences, UT Austin

EVENING

5:00 Poster Session

  • My own poster: Semantic Wiki Based Collaborative Scientific Modeling Infrastructure
    • My story line is that semantic wikis can be used as a light-weight semantic database for managing scientific data - it allows extra ability (e.g. inference), as well as simplifies the complexity of semantic technologies.
  • Most of the posters are on mathematic analysis in the domain of physics, engineering, biology, etc.

7:00 Dinner,Keynote (David Keyes)

  • The introduction to KAUST, its current status. Some interesting photos.
  • Many "scientific toys" were shown e.g., the Shaheen supercomputer
  • Key numbers: open in Sept 2009; initially 57 faculty, 500 students; at maturity, 2000 students; $10b initial funding; The university city will have 20k population
    • of the 57 faculty, only 2 are from SA, most of them are from US/EU
  • "Caltech-size university with Yale-size endowment"
  • KAUST will be a largely isolated "island" from the other part of SA, and it will maintain a Western-style life and research culture. Its network directly links to the West, not via SA national network
  • I would say the main purpose of the talk is to attract potential hirees. I was approached by a few senior scientists and was encouraged to apply.
  • Contacts: James Calvin (TAMU, IAMCS director); Josue Martinez (TAMU)

Friday May 29

MORNING

Yalchin Efendiev,Chair

8:30 Feature Based Modeling: A Transfinite Interpolation Approach (Alyn Rockwood)

  • An interesting visualization of modeling (e.g. a car and a cowboy)

9:15 Break

9:30 Accurate and Efficient High-dimensional Nearest Neighbor Search (Panos Kalnis)

10:00 Data Assimilation into Large Dimensional Nonlinear Systems (Ibrahim Hoteit)

10:30 Break

10:45 Interactive Techniques for Multi-Field Volume Visualization (Charles Hansen, Univ of Utah)

  • that talk is particular sweet to me, as I have worked on image processing and volume visualization in my Master years.

11:15 Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification in Petroleum Reservoir Characterization (Akhil Datta-Gupta)

11:45 The Random Search for a Needle in a Haystack: Dynamic Strategies for Target-Site Localization by Gene Regulatory Proteins (Andrew Spakowitz)

12:15 Buffet Lunch (talk with Christine Ehlig-Economides (chair of Petroleum Engineering), Xingfu Wu (research scientist, CS, on parallel computing, DBLP), Faming Liang, all TAMU)

AFTERNOON

Marv Adams , Chair

1:15 Constrained Mixture Models of Vascular Disease Progression (Jay Humphrey)

1:45 Earthquake Simulation: Efficient Implementation on Multicore Systems (Valerie Taylor, CS department Head, TAMU)

2:15 Break

2:30 Bayesian uncertainty quantification (UQ) for subsurface inversion using multiscale hierarchical models (Bani Mallick)

3:00 Preconditioners for Thermal Radiation Transport (Jim Morel)

3:30 Multiscale simulation techniques for flows in heterogeneous media (Yalchin Efendiev)

4:00 Panel Discussions (David Keyes Moderator)

  • Identifying theme, collaboration
  • (from me) Selling W3C working style as a collaborative technology; interactive workshops.

5:30 Adjourn

Additional Notes

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