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NCSA Colloquia typically take place in the NCSA Auditorium at 11am on Friday mornings during the semester. A light reception is held in the NCSA atrium right before the colloquium.
The official web page for the NCSA Colloquia is on the main NCSA web pages, and includes speaker bios, talk abstracts, and after the colloquia a video copy of the talk. This page collects information on future colloquia speakers for planning purposes before we have the complete set of information for the main web pages.
For logistical questions about the colloquia series please contact Amanda Lombardo at alombar@illinois.edu.
"Designing Culture, Creating Multidisciplinary Collaboration""Interdisciplinarity in a Highly Technical Context: Uncovering Strategies and Structures of Collaboration""50 Years of Supercomputing: From colliding black holes to dynamic microbiomes to the exascale"
| Date | Name | Institution | Cohosts | Title/Subject | Slides | Video | Streaming Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29th August 2014 | Bernard Schutz, Director of Data Innovation Institute and Professor, Physics and Astronomy | Cardiff University | Data Science from a European Perspective | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 12th September 2014 | Bertram Ludäscher, Professor, GSLIS | UIUC, GSLIS | From Data to Knowledge with Workflows and Provenance | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 19th September 2014 | Jerry Fiddler, Ping Fu, Brand Fortner, Austin Lin | Alumni | eDREAM | Distinguished Alumni Panel: Entrepreneurship and Transformative Thinking | MP4 | streaming | |
| 17th October 2014 | Brygg Ullmer, Effie C. and Donald M. Hardy Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | LSU | Tangible Visualization: Paths toward Physically-entangled Interactive Computational STEAM | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 21st October 2014 | William Tang, Chief Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | Princeton | NPRE | Progress & Challenges in Fusion Energy Simulations at Extreme Scale | |||
| 31st October 2014 | Dieter Kranzlmüller, Professor, Mathematics, Information and Statistics | LMU, Germany | Energy Efficiency and Extreme Scaling at LRZ | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 14th November 2014 | David Tarboton, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering | Utah State | CyberGIS | Hydroshare: Advancing Collaboration through Hydrologic Data Sharing and Model Sharing | MP4 | streaming | |
| 5th December 2014 | Victoria Stodden, Associate Professor, GSLIS | UIUC, GSLIS | Toward Reliable and Reproducible Inference in Big Data | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 6th February 2015 | Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Swanlund Chair Professor of Chemistry | UIUC, Chemistry | Blue Waters | Computer Simulations of Chemical and Biological Processes | MP4 | streaming | |
| 13th February 2015 | Tandy Warnow, Founder Professor of Bioengineering and Computer Science | UIUC, CS/IGB | Grand Challenges in Constructing Large Evolutionary Trees | MP4 | |||
| 20th February 2015 | Donna Cox, Michael Aiken Chair | UIUC | The Centrality of Advanced Digitally-Enabled Science: Visualization Case Studies | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 27th February 2015 | Abani Patra, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | University at Buffalo | CSE | Computing, Data and Volcanic Hazard Risk Analysis | MP4 | streaming | |
| 6th March 2015 | Tom Cwik, Manager, Space Technology Program | Caltech/JPL | Towards the Application of Large-scale Computation in Space Exploration | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 13th March 2015 | Brian O'Shea, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy | Michigan State University | Astronomy, Blue Waters | The Universe in a box: simulating galaxy formation with Blue Waters | MP4 | streaming | |
| 20th March 2015 | Jason Leigh, Professor of Information & Computer Sciences | University of Hawaii | Advanced Visualization Instrumentation | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 3rd April 2015 | Shantenu Jha, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering | Rutgers University | Expeditions in Applied High-Performance Distributed Computing | ||||
| 10th April 2015 | Madhu Viswanathan, Diane and Steven N. Miller Professor in Business | UIUC | A Bottom-Up Approach to Understanding and Designing Solutions for Subsistence Marketplaces | MP4 | streaming | ||
| 17th April 2015 | Bill Howe, Associate Director and Senior Data Science Fellow, UW eScience Institute; Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science & Engineering | University of Washington | Democratizing Data-Intensive Science | ||||
| 23rd April 2015 | Manuela Campanelli, Director of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and Professor of Mathematical Sciences | Rochester Institute of Technology | Blue Waters | Revealing the Hidden Universe: Black Hole Mergers | MP4 | streaming | |
| 1st May 2015 | C. Titus Brown, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Computer Science and Engineering | Michigan State University | IGB | A Wager for 2016: How Software Will Beat Hardware in Biological Data Analysis | |||
| 21st May 2015 | Cees de Laat, Professor and Chair of the System and Network Engineering (SNE) Laboratory in the Informatics Institute of the Faculty of Science | University of Amsterdam | Smart Cyber Infrastructure for Big Data Processing | Slides | MP4 | streaming | |
| 11th September 2015 | Ed Seidel | NCSA | |||||
| 18th September 2015 | Larry Smaar | University of California at San Diego | NCSA, Blue Waters | The Pacific Research Platform: a Science-Driven Big-Data System | Slides | ||
| 25th September 2015 | Sergei Maslov, Professor, Department of Bioengineering; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology | UIUC | Models of Genome Evolution and Ecosystem Dynamics: Kill-the-Winner, Kill-the-Loser, and Kill-the-King | ||||
| 2nd October 2015 | Michael Strauss, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences; Associate Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences | Princeton University | The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST): Status and Science Opportunities | ||||
| 6th November 2015 | Katy Huff | Berkeley | A Computational Future for Science Education | ||||
| 19th February 2016 | Karl Fogel | Open Tech Strategies | Computing and Data | "Steps for Stifling a New Open Source Project" | |||
| 26th February 2016 | John Towns | NCSA | "Year of Cyberinfrastructure" | ||||
| 4th March 2016 | Miguel Alcubierre | National Autonomous University of Mexico | Physics and Astronomy | "History of Black Hole Collisions" | |||
| 11th March 2016 | Anita Chan | UIUC, Dept. of Media and Cinema Studies | Culture and Society | "Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures, Digital Memory, and the Myth of Digital Universalism" | |||
1st April 2016 | Gustavo Stolovitzky | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; IBM | Bioinformatics and Health Sciences Theme | "DREAM Challenges: Seeking the Wisdom of Crowds in Computational Systems Biology" | |||
| 22nd April 2016 | Anne Balsamo | The New School | Culture and Society | ||||
| 29th April 2016 | William Barley | UIUC, Dept. of Communication | Culture and Society | ||||
| 16th September 2016 | Larry Smarr; NCSA 30th Anniversary Director's Distinguished Lecture | California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology | |||||
| 23rd September 2016 | Greg Wilson | Software Carpentry | Computing and Data | "Not on the Shelves: What Nonexistent Books, Tools, and Courses Can Tell Us About Ourselves" | |||
| 14 October 2016 | Margaret Hedstrom | University of Michigan | Computing and Data | "Archiving Capacity and Data Infrastructure: Holes, Goals, Roles and Responsibility" | |||
| 28th October 2016 | Forrest Masters | University of Florida | Earth and Environment | "The Role of Emerging Technology in Reducing Windstorm Impacts" | |||
| 4 November 2016 | Chris Johnson | University of Utah | Culture and Society; Computing and Data; Bio and Health; ESI | "Big Data Visual Analysis" | |||
| 9th December 2016 | Jeff Carver | University of Alabama | Computing and Data | "What We Have Learned About Using Software Engineering Practices in Scientific Software" | |||
| 10 February 2017 | Antoinette Burton | UIUC; IPRH | Culture and Society | "The Work of the Humanities in a STEM-STEM World" | |||
| 3 March 2017 | Lucy Suchman | Lancaster University | Culture and Society | "Relocating Innovation: Places and Material Practices of Future Making" | |||
| 10 March 2017 | Melissa Cragin | NCSA | Computing and Data | "Midwest Big Data Hub: Accelerating the Big Data Innovation Ecosystem" | |||
| 14 April 2017 | Ryan Baker | University of Pennsylvania | Culture and Society | "Towards Massive Replication of Scientific Findings in Massive Online Open Courses" | |||
| 22 September 2017 | Wendy Chun | Brown University | Culture and Society | "Proxy Politics: From Global Climate Change to Racial Profiling" | |||
| 29 September 2017 | Padhu Seshaiyer | Computational Mathematics, NSF | Computing and Data | "Research and Education Using STEM-based Approaches for Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Biological, Bio-inspired and Engineering Systems" | |||
| 6 October 2017 | Charlie Catlett | University of Chicago | Computing and Data, Earth and Environment | "New Opportunities for Understanding and Improving Cities" | |||
27 October 2017 | Nishant Shah (Joint Colloquium with Design Dialogues series) | Dutch Art Institute | Culture and Society | "Of Pagans, Pirates and Perverts: An arbitrary history of the computed" | |||
| 3 November 2017 | Gabriella Gonzalez | Louisiana State University | Physics and Astronomy | "Searching for - and finding! gravitational waves" | |||
| 1 December 2017 | Patricia Kovatch | HPC NY | Computing and Data | TBD |
We occasionally host other speakers and events through the NCSA Colloquia series, these include
| Date | Name | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 7th October 2014 | Tom Lange, Proctor & Gamble | CSE/NCSA Seminar |
| 13th October 2014 | Joan Masso, UIB, Spain | NCSA Seminar |
| 28th October 2014 | Paul Baniewicz, Alcante/Lucent | CSE/NCSA Seminar |
| 3rd June 2016 | Terry Griffin, Kansas State | CyberGIS/NCSA Seminar |
| 25th July 2016 | Arfon Smith, Github | NCSA Software Seminar |
| 4th August 2016 | Luciano Rezzolla, Institute of Theoretical Physics (Frankfurt) | NCSA Director's Colloquia |
| 8th August 2016 | Aditya Parameswaran, UIUC | NCSA Software Seminar |