Please join us tomorrow for the Second Annual Symposium on the Future of Computation in Science and Engineering. The symposium schedule is below and online. SYMPOSIUM TITLE: "Computing @ Exascale" LOCATION: Maxwell Dworkin G-115 (33 Oxford St.) TIME: 9:30 am-5 pm, Jan. 25 PROGRAM DETAILS: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/exascale-symposium-program We plan a day of lively conversation about the sweeping advances in knowledge and technology that might be enabled by extremely fast supercomputers, which could operate very differently from today's fastest machines. Industry and academic leaders will debate the hardware, software and education strategies necessary to enable the next big leap in computation. The symposium is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Please share this notice with anyone who might be interested. Continental breakfast will be available at 9 am. PROGRAM 9:30 AM Welcome and Introduction; presentation of prizes for the Student Computational Challenge Cherry A. Murray Dean, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Stephen S. Pawlowski Intel Senior Fellow; GM, IAG & DCSG Pathfinding; CTO, Datacenter & Connected Systems Group Efthimios Kaxiras John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics Director, Institute for Applied Computational Science 10:00 AM Keynote Address: Molecular Simulation and the Future of Biology David E. Shaw Chief Scientist, D. E. Shaw Research; Senior Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University 10:30 AM Session: Computational science and engineering at the exascale frontier "The Promise of Urban Informatics" Steven E. Koonin Director, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University "If Exascale is the Answer, What Is the Question?" Sadasivan Shankar Program Leader for Materials Design, Intel "Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis" Chris Johnson Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah 12:00 PM Lunch break 2:00 PM Session: The path to exascale computing "Science in the Cloud" Joseph L. Hellerstein Manager, Computational Discovery for Science, Google Inc. "Computational Science, Innovation, and International Competitiveness" David Turek IBM Vice President, Exascale Systems 3:00 PM Break 3:30 PM "Transforming Scientific Discovery with Commodity Technologies" Stephen Keckler Senior Director of Architecture Research, NVIDIA, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin "Race to Exascale: Opportunities and Challenges" Stephen S. Pawlowski Intel Senior Fellow; CTO, Intel Architecture Group; and General Manager for Cross-IAG Architecture and Pathfinding, Intel Corporation 4:30 PM Discussion 5:00 PM Closing Remarks Efthimios Kaxiras IACS is grateful to Intel Corp. for corporate sponsorship of this year's event, which concludes ComputeFest (http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu), nine days of workshops, symposia and student events for skill- and knowledge-building in computational science during Harvard's winter break. _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events