Yearly Archives: 2010

Mathematicians to tackle climate change issues through new NSF-funded virtual organization

Mathematics and Climate Change Network to be led by UNC Chapel Hill and supported by RENCI.

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RENCI's UNC Charlotte partners team up to win NSF land use grant

National Science Foundation funds Forest Persistence Project at UNC Charlotte

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RENCI issues call for NC State visualization projects

RENCI at North Carolina State University seeks NC State faculty members and researchers to participate in the center’s inaugural Program in Applied Scientific and Information Visualization.

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Molecules to Materials

RALEIGH, NC – Take some long, skinny molecules that are bunched together like a bowl of spaghetti. Now, try spinning them into a yarn that can conduct electricity. Or perhaps weave them, along with carbon nanotubes, into a next-generation bullet-proof vest. Sound challenging? It is—but it’s just the kind of challenge Melissa Pasquinelli likes.

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Image analysis project aims to classify characteristics of skin cancers

CHAPEL HILL, NC–Melanoma—the most serious form of skin cancer—varies in size, shape and severity, and although pathologists and researchers often intuitively differentiate between types of melanomas, the variations have never been formally quantified and documented.

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2011 NC GIS Conference

Title: 2011 NC GIS ConferenceLink out: Click hereDescription: The 2011 NC GIS Conference will be held in Raleigh, NC on February 16-19. This year’s theme is “Thinking Spatially, Connecting Globally” and the program promises to be radically different than the first NC GIS Conference in 1987. Start Date: 2011-02-16End Date: 2011-02-19

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TR-10-03 Effects of Multi-core Memory Concurrency Limits on Multi-threaded Applications

Anirban Mandal, Min Yeol Lim, Allan Portereld, Rob Fowler. Effects of Multi-core Memory Concurrency Limits on Multi-threaded Applications, Technical Report TR-10-03, RENCI, North Carolina, September 2010.

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An eye on Earl

RENCI models the path of a hurricane as it heads towards the East Coast

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CI Days at NCSU

Title: CI Days at NCSU Location: Talley Student Center Link out: Click here Description: “CI Days” will be held at Talley Center on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 7 and 8. During the day Tuesday will be a Campus CI Information Fair, and that night will be a free, public keynote address in Stewart Theater by […]

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Hurricane Katrina five years later: A humanities focused observance

Explore the human impact of the storm through workshops, storytelling, photography, singing and songwriting

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