In preparation for the upcoming hurricane season, North Carolina Emergency Management and East Carolina University have teamed with representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NOAA’s National Weather Service to review the latest tools and trends in forecasting and decision making for storm surge and river floods. Researchers from RENCI at ECU, headed by Director Tom Allen, and ECU’s Center for Natural Hazards Research, led by Director Jamie Kruse, will facilitate the conference. Ken Gallupi and Jessica Proud…
Find out more »How do you most effectively visualize data so that it can be easily understood and readily interpreted? Find out from leaders in the field who will participate in a panel discussion. Panelists will be Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University; Sidharth Thakur, RENCI; and Lisa Whitman, SAS. The panel will be moderated by Richard Phelps of Unisys. Presentations will be made using the RENCI visualization display wall. The event is sponsored by TriUPA, the Triangle Usability Professionals Association. Pizza…
Find out more »Note: This event will also be offered at the RENCI@Duke University Collaboration Center on Thursday, Aug. 25, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. Abstract Discover how scientists and IT professionals are working together to build a framework for high speed ingest, through scripted annotation and registration, to final distribution of immutable data in a cloud-based cluster, allowing for global collaboration in life sciences, digital libraries and more About the speaker Dave Fellinger has more than 30 years of experience in engineering,…
Find out more »Title: Informatics around medical genomics Presenter: Charles Schmitt, director of informatics Description: This talk will review ongoing work by RENCI and its collaborators to develop informatics capabilities for high throughput sequencing of human genomes. The scientific and clinical motivators for developing such informatics will be described. The talk will also include a review of the informatics challenges facing genomics researchers and a discussion of possible solutions.
Find out more »Speaker: Saman Amarasinghe, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT Title: (How) Can Programmers Conquer the Multicore Menace? Host School: NCSU Details Lecture Series Website
Find out more »Speaker: Ravi Sandhu, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio Title: The Data and Application Security and Privacy (DASPY) Challenge Host School: NCSU Details Lecture Series Website
Find out more »Presenter: Jeff Heard, RENCI Senior Research Software Developer When: noon – 1 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 15 Where: RENCI’s Biltmore Conference Room, 100 Europa Drive, 5th Floor, East RSVP: jeff@renci.org Note: Seating is limited and attendees will be accepted on a first-come, first served basis. A remote location at ITS Manning has been reserved in case of high demand. An Introduction to Apps will be the first tutorial presented by the RENCI App Lab. In it, Jeff Heard will discuss what…
Find out more »Title: Overview and Results of RENCI @ NCSU Faculty Engagement Visual Analytics Projects Abstract: The presenters will provide an overview of ongoing efforts at RENCI's Engagement Center at North Carolina State University. The projects are part of RENCI@NCSU Faculty Engagement Program in Applied Scientific and Information Visualization initiated in January 2011. The work encompasses applications of visualization to diverse domains that involve molecular systems such as bio-engineered proteins and polymers and geomorphology of coastal North Carolina. Presenters: Hong Yi and…
Find out more »Title: Improving Radiotherapy by Visualizing Prior Patient Plans Abstract: Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is the most common type of radiation therapy, and in the U.S. it is most frequently used to treat prostate cancer. Given the prevalence of prostate cancer, improving prostate IMRT is a topic of great clinical significance. The research team, led by Joseph Lo, of the radiology department at Duke University School of Medicine and Shiva Das, radiation oncologist at the Duke School of Medicine, has…
Find out more »Title: Provisioning cloud infrastructure for scientific workflows Presenters: Ilia Baldine, director, networking research group; Anirban Mandal, senior research software developer; Paul Ruth, senior distributed systems researcher; Yufeng Xin, senior network research engineer Abstract: The research team will demonstrate how the Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA) can be used to create and provision infrastructure on demand—including bandwidth and computational resources at fixed sites and in multiple clouds—to execute a scientific workflow. ORCA will be used to provision resources from different research…
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