RCDay2016

Fall 2016 Research Computing Day

Date: September 14, 2016

Venue: Hill Student Center Ballroom C & D

Open to all UAB faculty, staff, and students. Registration is free but please register here to attend.

Agenda

8:30 AM – 8:45 AM	Welcome
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM	Molly Rector, Chief Marketing Officer, DDN
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM	The Promise and Limitations of Deep Learning as a Tool for Analyzing Brain Images Dr. Frank Skidmore, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Brain plasticity after loss of central vision: understanding brain networks using high performance computing networks Dr. Kristina Visscher, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology Co-Director, Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM	Break
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM	Computational Physics: From gaming computers to large clusters Dr. Ryoichi Kawai, Professor, Department of Physics
11:15 AM – 11:45 AM	Molecular insight for protein interactions underlying death receptor-mediated DISC for apoptosis Dr. Yuhua Song, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM	Lunch Dell HPC Strategy and Technologies Brian Marquis, HPC Solutions Architect, Dell
12:45 PM – 1:15 PM	Serving the UAB Research and Clinical Communities High Throughput Sequencing Big Data Analyses using UAB’s High Performance Cluster, Cheaha Dr. David Crossman, Bioinformatics Director, Heflin Center for Genomic Science
1:15 PM – 1:45 PM	Big data omics at SOPH Dr. Hemant Tiwari, William “Student” Sealy Gosset Professor, Department of Biostatistics
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM	Wrap-up