Posted January 30, 2007
Last modified September 17, 2021
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
11:00 am 338 Johnston Hall
Thomas J.R. Hughes, The University Of Texas At Austin
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Computational Geometry And Computational Mechanics
Posted January 30, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Thomas J.R. Hughes, The University Of Texas At Austin
Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Variational Multiscale Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics
The talk is a part of the CCT Colloquium Series.
Posted January 25, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
10:00 am 338 Johnston Hall
Hae-Won Choi, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Scientific Computing Division
Scientific Computing Technologies Devising High-Order Methods
Posted February 12, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
11:00 am 338 Johnston Hall
Fengyan Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sound and Sense; Beyond SenSurround
Posted February 12, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Isiah M. Warner, Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University
Boyd Professor, Louisiana State University
Models for Creating and Sustaining Diversity among Undergraduate Students in Science
Posted March 13, 2007
Last modified May 20, 2021
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11:00 am 338 Johnston Hall
Pavel Bochev, Sandia National Laboratories
Mimetic Discretizations And What They Can Do For You
Recent advances in compatible discretizations enabled impressive gains in
computational science and affirmed the key role of homological principles
in numerical PDEs. Thanks to homological ideas and tools, we now have a
much better understanding of why some discretization methods work so well
and why other methods fail spectacularly. More importantly, homological
ideas can be used to develop stable and physically consistent
discretizations, such as mimetic methods, which replace PDEs by algebraic
equations that inherit their fundamental structural properties.
We provide a common framework for mimetic methods using algebraic topology
to guide our analysis. The key concept in our approach is the natural
inner product on co-chains. This inner product is sufficient to generate a
combinatorial Hodge theory on co-chains but avoids complications attendant
in the construction of robust discrete Hodge-star operators. In
particular, using a reduction and a reconstruction maps between
differential forms and co-chains we define mutually consistent sets of
natural and derived discrete operations that preserve the invariants of
the De Rham homology groups and obey a discrete Stokes theorem. By
choosing a specific reconstruction operator we obtain well-known mixed FE,
mimetic FD and covolume methods and explain when they are equivalent.
The second half of the talk will discuss several applications of the
mimetic framework. We will start with a new interpretation of a certain
class of compatible least-squares methods, as discrete realizations of a
Hodge-star operator, obtained from weakly enforced material laws. Among
other things, we will show that least-squares, Galerkin and mixed Galerkin
methods, for a class of second order elliptic problems, can be derived
from a common constrained optimization problem. Our second example will
use the mimetic framework to reformulate the discrete Maxwell's equations
into a system that is dominated by discrete Hodge-Laplace operators. As a
result, the reformulated system can be solved by standard “black-box” AMG
solvers for the Poisson equation. Time permitting, we will conclude with
an example that explains how mimetic discretizations can be used to remap
divergence free fields without advection algorithms.
This talk is based on joint work with M. Gunzburger (CSIT, Florida State
University), M. Shashkov and M. Hyman (Theoretical Division, Los Alamos
National Laboratory).
Posted March 13, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
David Skinner, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
Integrated Performance Monitoring: HPC Workload Characterization
Posted March 13, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Chokchai "Box" Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University
Associate Professor in Computer Science and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Information Technology (CEnIT).
Reliability-aware runtime system research for HPC
Posted March 13, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Guan Qin, Texas A&M University
Institute for Scientific Computation
Mathematical Challenges and Hot Topics in Oil Reservoir Simulation
Posted April 9, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:30 pm Life Sciences Building Annex A101 Auditorium
Alfred Z. Spector, Independent Consultant
Former CTO and Vice President of Strategy & Technology for IBM's Software Group
Towards a Software Science of Design
Reception starting at 3:00 p.m. in lobby.
Posted April 9, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Bruce N. Walker, Georgia Institute of Technology
Sonification Lab
Anditory Displays, Anditory Graphs, and Sonifications: Research and Design
Posted April 25, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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9:00 am 338 Johnston Hall
Larry Bergman, California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Manager of the Mission Computing and Autonomous Systems Research Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
The Role of Information Technology in Robotic Space Exploration
Posted April 25, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
H. J. Siegel, Colorado State Univ., Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Engr. and Dept. of Comp. Sci.
An Intro to Research Issues in Heterogeneous Parallel & Distributed Computing
Posted April 25, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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4:10 pm 338 Johnston Hall
H. J. Siegel, Colorado State Univ., Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Engr. and Dept. of Comp. Sci.
Colorado State's Information Science & Technology Center (ISTeC)
Posted April 25, 2007
Last modified September 17, 2021
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1:30 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Mary Fanett Wheller, University of Texas at Austin
Center for Subsurface Modeling, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Multiscale Discretizations for Flow, Transport and Mechanics in Porous Media.
There will be a reception at 1:00.
Posted April 26, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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12:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Luisa T. Buchman, Univeristy of Texas at Austin
Research Fellow
Improved outer boundary conditions for Einstein's field equations
Posted April 26, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm A101 Life Sciences Building AnnexEnterprise Transformation and the Future of Higher Education
During the 130 years between 1860 and 1990 higher education was transformed, evolving from a limited province fo the cultural elite to a great instrument of state material and martial strength.
Posted April 26, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Q. Jim Chen, Louisiana State University
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Multi-scale modeling of storm surges and water waves
More than 50% of the U.S. population lives within 50 miles of the shoreline and the coastal population continues to grow.
Posted May 3, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
11:00 am 218 Johnston Hall
Joel de Guzman, Boost Consulting
A cookbook approach to parsing and output generation with Spirit2
Spirit2 will debut at the Boost conference. It will be a complete parsing and output generation system that attempts to cover the whole spectrum from lexing to output generation.
Posted May 3, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm Design Building Room Auditorium
Turner Whitted, Microsoft Research
Pioneer in three-dimensional computer graphics
Procedural Graphics
The re-introduction of programmability into graphics hardware has produced a tremendously flexible imaging platform.
Posted May 9, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Robert Moorhead, Mississippi State University
Director of Visualizarion Analysis and Imaging Lab
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Associate Director of GeoResources Institute
The High Performance Computing Collaboratory at MSU
The High Performance Computing Collaboratory (HPC2) at Mississippi State University is a federation of 5 entities, all focused on HPC applications.
Posted May 9, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:30 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Song Zhang, Mississippi State University
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Tensor Visualization For Finding Structures in Brain and Nematic Liquid Crystal
Matrix-valued datasets (so-called tensor field) have become more common in various disciplines of science. Compared to scalar dataset or vector field, tensor field incorporates more information at any one data point.
Posted May 22, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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1:30 pm 152 Coates Hall
James Demmel, University of California - Berkeley
Richard Carl Dehmel Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics
The Future of High Performance Linear Algebra
Linear algebra is at the core of much scientific and engineering computing problem, so faster and more accurate algorithms and software are always welcome. We survey three areas of recent progress.
Posted May 25, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 145 Coates Hall
Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Professor of Library and Information Science
Scientific Data Libraries: Changing Research
Reception at 2:30 p.m. in 145 Coates Hall. Abstract: The traditional paradigm of scientific research is being changed by our ability to gather enormous quantities of data with sensors and store them online.
Posted August 17, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
3:00 pm A101 Auditorium Life Sciences Building Annex
Tinsley Oden, University of Texas at Austin
Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Adaptive Multiscale Modeling of Large-Scale Molecular Systems
Frontiers of Scientific Computing Lecture Series There will be a reception at 4:00 pm. More info
Posted September 11, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Philip Maechling, University of Southern California
Information Technology Architect, Southern California Earthquake Center
Seismic Hazard Modeling using Heterogeneous Scientific Workflows
As a part of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) program of seismic hazard research, we are using scientific workflow technologies to run large-scale high performance and high throughput scientific applications.
Posted September 13, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Poojitha Yapa, Clarkson University
Porfessor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Modeling Oil and Gas Discharges from Deepwater Blowouts
A computer model (CDOG) developed to simulate the behavior of oil and gas accidentally released from deepwater is presented. Deepwater is considered to be water depths in excess of 800 m.
Posted September 13, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Brygg Ullmer, Louisiana State University
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Center for Computation and Technology
Tangible Interfaces for Visualization, Collaboration, and Education
Over the last decade, there has been rapidly growing interest in bridging human interaction between the physical and digital worlds.
Posted September 13, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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1:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck-Austria
Institute of Computer Science
Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Institute of Computer Science
ASKALON: An Application Development and Runtime Environment for the Grid
In this presentation we describe the ASKALON Grid application development and computing environment whose ultimate goal is to provide an invisible Grid to the application developer.
Posted September 24, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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11:00 am 338 Johnston Hall
Ravi Vadapalli, Texas Tech University
Research Scientist, High Performance Computing Center, Applicant for CCT's CyD IT Analyst Position
Deploying Regional Cyberinfrastructure for Strategic Appl. Development & Support
Grid Computing is an emerging collaborative computing paradigm to extend institutional/organization specific high performance computing capabilities greatly beyond local resources.
Posted September 24, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Barbara Chapman, University of Houston
Department of Computer Science
OpenMP In The Multicore Era
Dual-core machines are actively marketed for destop and home computing. Sysems with a larger number of cores are deployed in the server market. Some cores are capable of executing multiple threads.
Posted September 19, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
3:00 pm Johnston Hall 338
Doug Arnold, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Minneapolis
Director
Finite Element Exterior Calculus: A New Approach To The Stability Of Finite Elements
Posted October 30, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Valerie Taylor, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University
Department Head and Royce E. Weisenbaker Professorship II
Performance Analysis and Optimization of Large-scale Scientific Applications
The current trend in high performance computing systems is shifting towards cluster systems with CMPs (chip multiprocessors).
Posted October 10, 2007
Last modified November 4, 2007
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm 338, Johnston Hall
Qiang Du, Department of Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
Phase Field Models and Simulations of Some Interface Problems
Part of the Frontiers of Scientific Computing Lecture Series
Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Du will report some recent works on the phase field modeling and simulation of interface problems in materials science and biology.
Posted October 30, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm 338 Johnston HallQuantum Technologies --- The Second Quantum Revolution!
We are currently in the midst of a second quantum revolution. The first quantum revolution gave us new rules that govern physical reality. The second quantum revolution will take these rules and use them to develop new technologies.
Posted November 26, 2007
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:00 pm Life Sciences Building Annex Room A101 Auditorium
Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell University
Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science and Business
Computational Soc. Sci.: Large-Scale Studies of Wikis, Blogs, Soc. Networking Sites
Many social interactions that are ephemeral in the physical world are recorded and accessible in the online world.
Posted January 7, 2008
Last modified March 2, 2021
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11:30 am
Sangtae "Sang" Kim, Purdue University
Donald W. Feddersen Distingusihed Professor Of Mechanical Engineering And Distinguished Professor Of Chemical Engineering
Fluidic Self Assembly And The Network Of Things
Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) is now a microhydrodynamic, particulate process for the integration of Electrical, optical and mechanical devices.
Posted February 6, 2008
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
10:40 am – 11:30 am Johnston Hall 338
David E. Keyes, Columbia University And Lawrence Livermore National Lab
A Nonlinearly Implicit Manifesto
Frontiers of Scientific Computing Lecture Series. More info.
Posted February 25, 2008
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:30 pm 155 Coates Hall
Randal E. Bryant, Carnegie Mellon University
Dean, School of Computer Science
Data-Intensive Super Comp.: Taking Google-Style Comp. Beyond Web Search
Web Search engines have become fixtures in our society, but few people realize that they are actually publicly accessible supercomputing systems, where a single query can unleach the power of several hundred processors operating on a date set of over 200 terabytes.
Posted February 25, 2008
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Roman Beck, Institute of Information, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
E-Finance and Services Science Chair
A Cost-based Multi-Unit Resource Auction for Service-oriented Grid Computing
The Application of Grid technology is finally spreading from engineering and natural science related industrial sectors to other industries with a high demand for computing applications. However, the diffusion of Grid technology within these sectors is often hindered by a lack of the incentive to share the computational reserches across departments or branches even within the same enterprise.
Posted February 25, 2008
Last modified March 2, 2021
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11:30 am 338 Johnston Hall
Rudolf Eigenmann, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
High Performance Computing Going Mainstream
HPC (High Performance Computing) has progressed far beyond the niche technology it was in the 1980s and 1990s.
Posted April 3, 2008
Last modified March 2, 2021
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11:30 am 338 Johnston Hall
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Duke University
RENCI Renaissance Computing Institute at UNC Chapel Hill and D-Grid Initiative
Building and Operating Grid Infrastructures for e-Science
After almost a decade of research and development in the field of grid technology, it is still challenging to design, build, and operate large-scale grid infrastructures for science and industry.
Posted April 3, 2008
Last modified March 2, 2021
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1:00 pm 143 Coates Hall
Anita K. Jones, University of Virginia
University Professor and Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science
CyberSecurity - Serving Society Badly
During the latter half of the 20th century the world created a new infrastructure, the cyber, or information, infrastructure. It underpins many of the processes and activities of society. Usefulness of the cyber infrastructure depends on many aspects, and notable among them is security. Fundementally, today\'s perimeter defense model on which most cyber security relies does not work.
Posted November 24, 2008
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Robert M. Kirby, University of Utah
Building Symbiotic Relationships Between Formal Verification And High Performance Computing
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/437
Posted October 19, 2008
Last modified January 13, 2009
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2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Coates Hall 145
Linda Petzold, UC Santa Barbara
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Multiscale Simulation Of Biochemical Systems
rescheduled from September 5, 2008
In microscopic systems formed by living cells, the small numbers of some reactant molecules can result in dynamical behavior that is discrete and stochastic rather than continuous and deterministic. An analysis tool that respects these dynamical characteristics is the stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA). Despite recent improvements, as a procedure that simulates every reaction event, the SSA is necessarily inefficient for most realistic problems. There are two main reasons for this, both arising from the multiscale nature of the underlying problem: (1) the presence of multiple timescales (both fast and slow reactions); and (2) the need to include in the simulation both chemical species that are present in relatively small quantities and should be modeled by a discrete stochastic process, and species that are present in larger quantities and are more efficiently modeled by a deterministic differential equation. We will describe several recently developed techniques for multiscale simulation of biochemical systems, and outline some of the future challenges.
Complete details can be found at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/448
Posted January 13, 2009
Last modified March 2, 2021
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2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Coates Hall 145
Margaret Wright, New York University
Member, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering
What Can Be More Important Than "Faster" And "Bigger"?
For decades, the high-end computing community has come to expect continuing gains in the speed of computation and the size of data storage, and these expectations have consistently been fulfilled in remarkable ways. But \"faster\" and \"bigger\" are not the only things that count. We\'ll show how other factors, such as advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, are just as important, leading to the obvious conclusion that an optimal strategy needs to be \"faster, bigger, and smarter.\"
Complete details can be found at http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/talks/450
Posted October 22, 2009
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
1:00 pm 338 Johnston HallCCT Colloquim Series
Presented by: Arun Bansil, Northeastern University \"Modeling Highly Resolved Spectroscopies of Complex Materials: from Qualitative to Quantitative\" For more information please see cct events. http://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/events.php
Posted December 1, 2009
Last modified March 2, 2021
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1:00 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Collin Wick, Louisiana Tech University
Using Computers to Discover Strange Behavior at Water
Posted March 26, 2010
CCT Lecture Events organized by the LSU Center for Computation and Technology
1:45 pm – 1:45 pm 218 Johnston
Xiaoliang Wan, Louisiana State University
Spectral hp element method and Nektar, Part I
Posted September 30, 2010
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:30 pm 338 Johnston Hall (Access Grid Viewing)
Diola Bagayoko, Southern University
Southern University Distinguished Professor of Physics, Adjunct Professor of Science and Mathematics Education and Director of the Timbuktu Academy.
A Mathematical Solution to the Theoretical Underestimation of Energy and Band Gaps and Applications to the Search of Novel Materials
Live presentation is at 218 J.B. Moore Hall at Southern University.
Posted March 5, 2012
Last modified March 2, 2021
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3:30 pm 338 Johnston Hall
Haijun Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chebyshev Sparse Grid Mehod for High-dimensional PDEs