[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] Mark your calendar: ComputeFest 2012 is January 13-20

Dear friends, As 2011 comes to a close, IACS is preparing a packed week of January workshops, seminars and other activities to launch the new year and prepare students for spring courses. All events are free and open to the public and will take place in Maxwell Dworkin. We hope you'll join us during ComputeFest! A full and updated ComputeFest calendar is online at https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events/computational-science-ventures, with links to registration pages. (Advance registration is necessary for some events.) On our website you can sign up for: -- THE FUTURE OF COMPUTATION IN SCIENCE: A MINI-SYMPOSIUM. Experts from IBM, Google, NVIDIA, Intel and AstraZeneca will offer perspectives on the future of computational science. The Jan. 13 panel discussion will be hosted by SEAS Dean Cherry A. Murray and moderated by IACS Director Efthimios Kaxiras. -- COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS WORKSHOPS. Each morning, Jan. 17-20, explore Matlab, Mathematica, R or Python in workshops offered by MathWorks, Wolfram Research, SEAS faculty and SEAS Academic Computing. (Registration for Matlab sessions will be through MathWorks.) -- NETWORKING/PEER-HELP SESSIONS. After each morning session, sign up for a hands-on "Birds of a Feather" session to explore tools with others who share your interest. Bring your laptop and enjoy a light lunch. -- COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE VENTURES (https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/events/computational-science-ventures) will be a special afternoon seminar series featuring entrepreneurs who have merged science and computing to create new products and services. Organized and moderated by Alexander Wissner-Gross. Among the speakers will be Dean Kamen and Stephen Wolfram. Special student activities during this year's ComputeFest include the IACS Computational Challenge (https://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/student-activities/iacs-challenge-2012), a team competition in which students will try to optimize delivery of vital services after a natural disaster. Interested students should sign up *before* the winter recess. ******** Other opportunities to burnish your computational skills at Harvard in January include these offerings for students: -- "Programming Statistical Models with Zelig 4," a short course offered by IQSS, afternoons Jan. 17-20. See http://www.iq.harvard.edu/events/node/2710 -- "Spatial Thinking and Analysis with GIS," a workshop offered by CGA, Jan. 17-20. CGA also offers a Winter GIS Institute Jan. 3-13. See http://gis.harvard.edu ******** Seminars will resume in February. Best wishes for the new year from IACS! ----------------- Rosalind Reid Assistant Dean for External Programs Executive Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Pierce Hall, 29 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/people rreid(a)seas.harvard.edu | 617-384-9091 _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events