Events
Spring 2008 Events
The Research Computing Lab is proud to offer the following speaking and/or professional development events this semester. Stay tuned for events in future semesters:
“HPC and Challenges for the Future” with Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra
University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tennessee and Distinguished Research Staff member at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Monday, February 11, 3:30 p.m.
In the Harrison-Small Auditorium
This presentation, entitled “An Overview of High Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future,” will discuss how an examination of high performance computing reveals many changes in the last 10 years; what does a look toward the future reveal in terms of trends? These changes have had, and will continue to have, a major impact on our software. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms are needed for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic, distributed and parallel environments.
This talk is part of the Computational Science Speaker Series (CSSS), which is designed to foster the development of computational science at UVa by promoting engagement with leaders and visionaries in the field. The series is co-sponsored by James Hilton, UVa Vice President and Chief Information Officer; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
“Scholarly Communications” with Madelyn Wessel
Madelyn Wessel
Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Council, University of Virginia
Wednesday, February 13, at 1:00 p.m.
In the Scholars’ Lab
This talk, entitled “Copyright 201: Scholarly Communications,” will cover how to protect your rights in negotiating with publishers, Creative Commons and Open Source licenses, and guidelines for posting the work of others on the Web.
This talk is part of the Research Computing Lab / Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series.
“Project Implicit” with Brian Nosek
Brian Nosek
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Thursday, February 14, at 3:00 p.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library, Main Room
The full title of this talk is: “Project Implicit: Building a Virtual Laboratory for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.”
This talk is part of the Research Computing Lab / Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series.
“Towards Quantum Computing with Graphs and Light” with Olivier Pfister
Olivier Pfister
Department of Physics, University of Virginia
Thursday, February 14, at 4:00 p.m.
In Kerchof Hall, Room 317
The full title of this talk is: “Towards Quantum Computing with Graphs and Light.”
This talk is part of the Seminar on Applications of Mathematics (SAM).
“Discovery & Innovation via Cyberinfrastructure” with Russ Miller
Russ Miller
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at SUNY-Buffalo, senior scientist at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and adjunct professor in the departments of Structural Biology and Electrical Engineering at SUNY-Buffalo
Monday, March 17, at 10:00 a.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library, West Wing
In this talk, Russ Miller will discuss the Cyberinfrastructure Lab as an example framework that can be used to guide cyber-related activities in order to 1) accelerate discovery and comprehension, 2) create links between enabling technologists and disciplinary users, 3) create new techniques, algorithms, and interactions that improve efficiency of knowledge-driven applications in myriad disciplines, 4) enhance virtual organizations, 5) provide increased education, outreach, and training, and 6) enhance and expand relationships between academia and the corporate world.
This talk is part of the Research Computing Lab / Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series.
“Parallel Computing with Matlab and R” with Interactive Supercomputing
Interactive Supercomputing
Thursday, March 20, at 3:00 p.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library, Electronic Classroom (Room 133)
Interactive Supercomputing representatives will lead a webex seminar and demonstration of their “Star-P” software products for parallel application development using the Matlab and R programming languages. Information about parallel programming using Star-P can be found at the following URL: http://www.interactivesupercomputing.com/ .
“Technosonics: MICE Kit” with Matthew Burtner
Matthew Burtner
McIntire Department of Music, University of Virginia
Friday, March 21, at 3:30 p.m.
Clark Hall, Room 107
TTI Fellow Matthew Burtner will discuss the challenges he’s faced incorporating digital sound and interactive media into a large academic course. He’ll also provide a preview of the first-ever laptop orchestra performance, which debuts next month.
“SAS for Operations Research” with Kathy Gerber
Kathy Gerber
ITC Research Computing Support Group
Tuesday, March 25, at 12:30 p.m.
Ollson Hall, Room 002
As part of the INFORMS seminar series, Kathy Gerber will discuss the popular statistical software SAS. SAS is often used when large datasets need to be manipulated, such as in the industries of healthcare and financial services. Procedures and add-on components that have application in Operations Research will be the primary focus of this talk. A brief introduction to the product will also be included along with a broad comparison with other software. All are welcome to attend.
This talk is part of the INFORMS seminar series.
“Copyright and Authors’ Rights” with Madelyn Wessel
Madelyn Wessel
Madelyn Wessel is Special Advisor to the University Librarian and Liaison to the Office of the General Counsel at UVA. She is also an adjunct professor in the Curry School of Education, and lectures and advises on legal matters related to the scholarly endeavor.
Wednesday, March 26, at 12:00 p.m.
In the Scholars’ Lab
In this talk, entitled “COPYRIGHT 301: Copyright and Authors’ Rights, What Graduate Students Need to Know,” Madelyn Wessel will offer the next round of essentials in her popular series on intellectual property — this time geared particularly toward dissertators, thesis writers, and early-career scholars.
“Why the Sciences Need Art” with Jonah Lehrer
Jonah Lehrer
Editor-at-Large for Seed Magazine , contributing editor to NPR’s Radio Lab, and former Rhodes Scholar. The book from which his talk is drawn, Proust Was a Neuroscientist , was published in 2007. He also writes the acclaimed blog The Frontal Cortex at scienceblogs.com and has contributed to Nature, New Scientist, and MIT’s Technology Review.
Thursday, March 27th, at 3:30 p.m.
Rodman Room, 2nd Floor of Thornton Hall (next to A205 Thornton Hall)
The full title of this talk is: “Why the Sciences Need Art; Or, What a 19th Century French Chef Can Teach Us About the Brain.” August Escoffier was a late 19th century chef who helped invent modern French cuisine. His celebrated recipes also anticipated some recent discoveries concerning the neuroscience of taste. This talk will use Escoffier’s story as an occasion to investigate the use of art as a means to investigate the mind. Neuroscience rightfully adheres to a strict reductionist methodology-seeking to understand the brain in terms of its most basic parts-but this method could benefit from an additional set of inputs. (As the novelist Richard Powers wrote, “If we knew the world only through synapses, how could we know the synapse?”) This is where art comes in. Artists, on one definition, study the world of experience. They describe the mind from the inside, expressing our first-person perspective in prose, poetry, paint and yes, even cookbook recipes. While a work of art is not a substitute for a scientific experiment, the artist can help neuroscientists better understand what, exactly, they are trying to reduce in the first place. Before one breaks something apart, it helps to know how that thing hangs together. In this sense, the arts offer a rich data set, providing not just neuroscience but all manner of experimental inquiry with a glimpse of its blind spots.
This talk is part of the Science, Technology, and Society Colloquium in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
“People and Technology Interacting with the Atmosphere” with Kelvin Droegemeier
Kelvin Droegemeier
Professor, University of Oklahoma, Director of the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), and is serving a term on the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation.
Friday, March 28, at 3:30 p.m.
In the Mechanical Engineering Building (MEC), Room 205
This presentation, entitled “Transforming the Sensing and Numerical Prediction of High Impact Local Weather Through Dynamic Adaptation: People and Technologies Interacting with the Atmosphere,” describes a major paradigm shift now underway in the field of meteorology…away from today’s environment in which remote sensing systems, atmospheric prediction models, and hazardous weather detection systems operate in fixed configurations, and on fixed schedules largely independent of weather…to one in which they can change their configuration dynamically in response to the evolving weather. This transformation involves the creation of adaptive radars, Grid-enabled analysis and forecast systems, and associated cyberinfrastructure that operate automatically on demand. In addition to describing the research and technology development being performed to establish this capability within a service oriented architecture, the associated economic and societal implications of dynamically adaptive weather sensing, analysis and prediction systems will be discussed.
This talk is part of the Computational Science Speaker Series (CSSS), which is designed to foster the development of computational science at UVa by promoting engagement with leaders and visionaries in the field. The series is co-sponsored by James Hilton, UVa Vice President and Chief Information Officer; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
“Introduction to Maple” Webinar
Maplesoft
Tuesday, April 8, 2008, at 2:00 p.m.
Online Webinar
In this one-hour demonstration and Q & A forum, you will learn about Maple’s smart-document user interface, enhanced mathematical power, and powerful connectivity to other tools - all of which will dramatically improve your mathematical and technical problem-solving projects.
This webinar is part of the Maplesoft e-Symposium series.
“Developing a Visualization Viewpoint” with Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Theresa-Marie Rhyne
Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute ’s Engagement Facility and Center for Visualization and Analytics , North Carolina State University
Wednesday, April 9, at 3:00 p.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library, West Wing
After a solid education in Visual Thinking at Stanford University and upon receiving Edward R. Tufte’s 1983 groundbreaking book on “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” for her birthday in 1984, she decided to enter the emerging field of visualization. As a trained engineer and practicing artist, it appeared that visualization would allow her to merge two primary professional interests.
The talk will cover her journey to develop her own visualization viewpoint. She will highlight: 1) exploring early Macintosh and other emerging computer graphics techniques in the late 1980’s; 2) becoming the founding visualization expert at the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Visualization Center in the early and mid 1990’s; 3) serving as a Director-at-Large for ACM SIGGRAPH and lead co-chair of the IEEE Visualization 1998 Conference in the late 1990’s; 4) developing as the Editor of the Visualization Viewpoints Department for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications Magazine in the early 2000’s; and 5) setting up the Center for Visualization and Analytics and the Renaissance Computing Institute’s Engagement Facility at North Carolina State University in the mid 2000’s.
This talk is part of the Research Computing Lab / Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series.
“Clickable Engineering Math” Webinar
Maplesoft
Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at 2:00 p.m.
Online Webinar
In Part 2 of this two-part Webinar, Dr. Robert Lopez explores exact and approximate solutions of a damped oscillator driven by a saw-tooth input; convolution; the Lagrange multiplier technique; temperatures in the exterior wall of a house; and the root locus. He will show how the discursive treatments of these calculations taken from his Advanced Engineering Mathematics ebook can be adapted to the new interface tools in Maple.
This webinar is part of the Maplesoft e-Symposium series.
“Game Genre and Game Interaction” with Andrew Plotkin
Andrew Plotkin
Award-winning interactive fiction author and game designer
Tuesday, April 22, at 12:00 p.m.
In the Scholars’ Lab
This talk is part of the Research Computing Lab / Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series.
“Parallel Computing Toolbox” Webex Seminar
MathWorks
Thursday, April 24, 2008, at 3:30 p.m.
In the Brown Science and Engineering Library, Electronic Classroom (Room 133)
Representatives from the MathWorks will present a webex seminar and demonstration of their Parallel Computing Toolbox for parallel application development using the Matlab. Information about the Parallel Computing Toolbox, which UVA licenses, can be found at the following URLs:
http://www.mathworks.com/products/distribtb/
http://itc.virginia.edu/research/matlab/
“Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery” with Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. Received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001.
Friday, April 25, 2008, at 4:00 p.m.
Thornton Hall, E303
Interactive information visualization tools provide researchers with remarkable capabilities to support discovery. By combining powerful data mining methods with user-controlled interfaces, users are beginning to benefit from these potent telescopes for high-dimensional data. They can begin with an overview, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted items, and then click for details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic queries approach to data exploration can provide 100msec updates even for million-record databases.
This talk will start by reviewing the growing commercial success stories such as www.spotfire.com, www.smartmoney.com/marketmap and www.hivegroup.com. Then it will cover recent research progress for visual exploration of large time series data applied to financial, medical, and genomic data (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher ).
Our next step was to combine these key ideas to produce the Hierarchical Clustering Explorer 3.0 that now includes the rank-by-feature framework (www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hce). By judiciously choosing from appropriate ranking criteria for low-dimensional axis-parallel projections, users can locate desired features of higher dimensional spaces. Finally, these strategies of unifying statistics with visualization are applied to network data. Demonstrations will be shown.
This talk is part of the Computer Science Department Colloquium Series.
“Maple Connectivity Tools for Simulink/MATLAB” Webinar
Maplesoft
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 2:00 p.m.
This Webinar will introduce you to the power of the Maple product line for rapidly developing solutions and deriving highly efficient engineering system models for easy implementation in your simulation tool-chain. Within an hour, you will learn how to reduce project time “from weeks to days” by making advanced engineering math work for you, generate optimal design parameters using automated optimization tools, and import Simulink models into Maple for analysis and simplification.
This webinar is part of the Maplesoft e-Symposium series.
“e-Guru: Toward a Mashup Culture in Engineering Education” with Ed Berger and Silvia Blemker
Ed Berger and Silvia Blemker
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 3:00 p.m.
In the Newcomb Hall South Meeting Room
Web 2.0 technologies have become a pervasive part of everyday life, especially for today’s college students. Translation of these ideas and tools into engineering education practice has the potential to greatly enhance student learning and performance. This TTI fellowship has supported development of the Engineering Guru , a software framework merging blogs, wikis, and multimedia management and tagging tools into a portal to download, upload, and mashup engineering content. E-Guru is organized by engineering concept, not by engineering course; this promotes cross-course collaboration and resource sharing. Moreover, student-generated content, including the authoring of wiki pages or creation of mashed-up audio and videos, extends the reach of e-Guru by promoting a users-as-authors model. This presentation will first briefly describe the pedagogical underpinning of this highly collaborative, student-focused approach to teaching and learning. Next, e-Guru itself will be demonstrated using content authored by both faculty and students. Finally, a roadmap for e-Guru development will be described.
Preregistration is encouraged though not required: http://itg.web.virginia.edu/register/
This talk is part of the Teaching + Technology Initiative Series.
“Interactive Storytelling” with Curtis Wong
Curtis Wong
Microsoft’s Next Media Research Group
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, at 4:00 p.m.
In the Harrison-Small Auditorium
This talk is co-sponsored with IATH, Media Studies, ITC and several other groups on Grounds.
“Developing Measurement and Analysis Systems Using MATLAB” Workshop
MathWorks
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Hilton McClean-Tysons Corner, McClean, Virginia
This seminar will demonstrate how to use MATLAB to acquire, analyze, and visualize application-specific data in MATLAB, control hardware, automate measurement and analysis, and generate reports. MathWorks and Agilent engineers will demonstrate tools and techniques for gaining faster insight into designs.
View the agenda and register for this event at www.mathworks.com/seminars/analysis
This workshop is part of the MathWorks Seminars .
New Horizons in Teaching and Research - Open House
“New Horizons in Teaching and Research”
A faculty conference at the University of Virginia.
Open House: Monday, May 19, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Stop by for open house events at a variety of labs and centers, including the Research Computing Lab and Scholars’ Lab, on the opening day of “New Horizons.”
“Computational Information Design” with Ben Fry (Cancelled)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Plenary Lecture featuring Ben Fry on Wednesday 5/20 has been cancelled. All of the other New Horizons events will still be happening, though, so check out what else is going on at the New Horizons online program .
Ben Fry
Plenary speaker at “New Horizons in Teaching and Research” , Artist, information designer , creator of Processing and author of Processing and Visualizing Data
Wednesday, May 21, at 4:00 p.m.
In the Harrison-Small Auditorium
Watch for other exciting New Horizons events to be announced soon, including a talk by Zotero creator Dan Cohen of George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (”Scholarly Tools and Resources for the Digital Ecosystem”), and a panel presentation on the Google Books project, to include TAPoR project director Geoffrey Rockwell.
This talk is part of the New Horizons faculty conference, to be held May 19-22, and is co-sponsored by the Research Computing Lab / Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series.
“Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies” with Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme
As part of the workshops and technology demos segment of New Horizons , Bob DuCharme will give a workshop on semantic web technologies RDF and OWL .
The semantic web is expected by some to revolutionize scientific publishing, allowing for real-time publishing and sharing of experimental data over the internet. A more global view was expressed by Tim Berners-Lee: “I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘ intelligent agents ’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.”
Thursday, May 22, 10 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
In the Byrd Room, Harrison-Small Building
This talk is part of the New Horizons faculty conference, to be held May 19-22, and is co-sponsored by IATH .
“Computational Physics and Parallel Environments” Workshop
Supercomputing Education
June 1 - June 7, 2008
At Kean University, Union, NJ
This workshop focuses on Physics education augmented with the resources of high performance computing (HPC). Primary workshop content draws from the traditional parallel computing curriculum, but additional focus is placed on the use of creating curricular content that demonstrates the use of high performance computing hardware to solve modern-day HPC problems.
This workshop is part of the Summer 2008 Supercomputing Workshop series .
“Rapid Prototyping Of Advanced Mechatronic Systems” Webinar
Maplesoft
Tuesday, June 17, 2008, at 1:00 p.m.
The ‘traditional’ definition of rapid prototyping is the automatic construction of physical objects using solid freeform fabrication. The concept of rapid prototyping however need not be limited to the physical realm. This seminar will expand on the concept of rapid prototyping further to include the rapid development of complex dynamical equations, rapid development of simulations and the rapid implementation of realtime control systems. An engineer can now take a design from concept to production using a variety of CAD tools that all fit under the umbrella of rapid mechatronic prototyping. Dr. Jacob Apkarian will describe Quanser’s methodical approach to the development of mechatronic system from concept to production using rapid prototyping technology. CAD tools used to develop a mechatronic system such as Solidworks, Maple, Simulink and QuaRC will be described in the context of developing a novel remote handwriting reproduction system and how it was possible to go from concept to production in only six weeks. The presentation will then explore the future of rapid mechatronic prototyping and how these tools could be seamlessly integrated to further streamline the process.
This webinar is part of the Maplesoft e-Symposium series.
“Now That Machines Do Math, What Do Math Teachers Teach?” Webinar
Maplesoft
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, at 3:00 p.m.
More and more the manipulation in mathematics is done by a machine and users are forced into using their energy in design and interpretation vs. past energy that was spent on “working the problem” How does that change teaching? You have to create grey box experiences that prepare students to work in a black box world. For example in finance, students need to construct and see loan payments in action (a grey box experience) to better understand the black box results of PMT keys. In Science, playing with the recursive derivations of solutions (a grey box experience) best instills understanding estimates and prepares one for a career built upon using the “SOLVE” key. Faculty mistakenly think that the laborious derivation of formulas (a white box experience) prepares one for a computer based world. The heart of this seminar is defining grey box experiences. Dr. John Kenelly, Alumni Distinguished Professor at Clemson University and Treasurer of the Mathematical Association of America, argues that classroom grey box experiences are the new challenge.
This webinar is part of the Maplesoft e-Symposium series.
Advanced Mathematica Summer School
Wolfram Research
July 6-18, 2008
Wolfram Research Headquarters / Homewood Suites in Champaign, Illinois
The Advanced Mathematica Summer School provides a unique opportunity for selected applicants to advance their projects using Mathematica and other Wolfram technologies, working directly with the same senior developers and managers at Wolfram Research who create Mathematica itself. The two-week program includes lectures and workshops covering Mathematica capabilities, methods, and design principles. The core of the program is project work, with attendees working intensively on their own Mathematica projects. Each attendee is assigned a senior advisor from Wolfram Research’s core development team. Together with their senior advisor, attendees each map out a project strategy, then implement it with a mentor over the course of the two-week program. The program ends with a special one-day final event involving Stephen Wolfram, where attendees present their project results.
Apply by April 15, 2008
“Unix Introductory Session” with Sherry Lake
Unix Introductory Session
July 23-24, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Brown Science and Engineering Library Electronic Classroom (Room 133)
Introductory Unix concepts will be covered, bringing all participants up to a comfortable level and understanding of the Unix environment. Some attention will be given to the ITC Unix systems.
To register, please provide your contact information and describe your interest using our web form .
“High Performance Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences” Workshop
Supercomputing Education
July 27 - August 2, 2008
At University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
This workshop, Computational Methods: Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, aims to give HASS faculty, researchers and students intensive hands on experience for improving the quality of their work through access to advanced computing infrastructures and applications such as those provided by Grid, data analytic and visualization technologies. In general, the workshop will consist of a core set of presentations and hands-on sessions in computational HASS domain-dependent activities that will frame the resources within specific HASS domain research areas.
This workshop is part of the Summer 2008 Supercomputing Workshop series .
“High-Performance Computing Bootcamp” with UVA & VT
Jointly run by University of Virginia and Virginia Tech
July 28 - August 2, 2008
At Virginia Tech
Free workshop for our faculty, graduate students, and research professionals with computational science and engineering problems that need high performance and those who want their programs to run faster, complete sooner, or tackle problems previously thought too computationally difficult.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of the Bootcamp is to introduce the attendee to the basics of high-performance parallel computing and the national cyber-infrastructure. Targeted at graduate students, staff, and faculty with computational science and engineering problems that demand high performance. When
successfully completed, the attendee will know how to:
- Optimize sequential applications
- Exploit high throughput computing opportunities
- Use queuing systems such as PBS
- Use existing high-end resources at U.Va., Va. Tech, and San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC)
- Write basic MPI and OpenMP applications
- Understand the opportunities and challenges of data visualization tools and display technologies
Format: Morning lectures and afternoon hands-on computer exercises with multiple support staff present to assist participants.
For more details and to register, visit this website .
“RDF and OWL, the Semantic Web, and Linked Data” with Bob DuCharme
Bob DuCharme
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008, at 1:00pm
Newcomb Hall, Room 168
While some may roll their eyes when they hear about the Semantic Web , usually because of unfair associations with the pie-in-the-sky failed promises of Artificial Intelligence, many developers are already building some very cool applications. In this presentation, we’ll look at technologies that build on the simplicity of the RDF data model to enable these applications. We’ll also see how RDF/ OWL enables the coding of useful semantics, and how the Linked Data movement is building on many Semantic Web principles to make increasing amounts of valuable data available to your applications.
“Microsoft High-Performance Computing” with Brian Hammond
Brian Hammond
HPC Solution Specialist, Microsoft Corporation
Thursday, August 7, 2008, at 10:00 a.m.
Minor Hall, Room 125
High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly by linking fully-integrated systems on powerful computing clusters over high speed networks. Microsoft is taking HPC to the next level by providing scalable performance, enhanced provisioning, and improved management.
The agenda is as follows:
- Introductions feedback from audience on interests
- What is Microsoft doing in HPC
- Who is using Windows for scientific computing
- Usage models at universities
- Development and software environment
- Future plans
- Discussion
This presentation is part of the Local Support Partner (LSP) Summer Skills Series.
“A Technical Overview of Mathematica” Webinar
Wolfram
Tuesday, August 12, 2008, from 6:00-7:00 p.m.
Seminar Objective: To give a broad overview of Mathematica, including information on getting started; numerical, symbolic, and graphic capabilities; programming; dynamic interactivity; and new features, using example-driven material.
Topics include: basic computations, numerical computation, symbolic computation, graphics and visualization, programming, data handling, connection technologies, education, and computational tasks.
For more information, and to register for this online seminar, please visit: http://www.wolfram.com/services/education/seminars/s10.html
This webinar is part of the Wolfram Education Group’s ongoing series of training classes .
“Introduction to Visualization with Mathematica 6″ Webinar
The Wolfram
Tuesday, August 20, 2008 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Seminar Objective
To give an introduction of the new visualization options in Mathematica 6, including how-to basics to generate high-quality plots.
Presenter
The seminar is presented by a senior member of the Mathematica kernel developer group.
Topics
Adaptive refinement
Mesh and MeshShading functions
RegionFunction
Exclusions and ExclusionsStyle options
Manipulate and improved rendering time
Delivery Type
The seminar is delivered live over the internet using Adobe Acrobat Connect. Use any one of the supported web browsers on your computer with Flash Player installed. Once you have registered for a session, you will receive a confirmation email with a seminar login link. To see and hear the presentation, click the link at the scheduled time, then simply log in to the online seminar.
Adobe Connect natively supports streaming audio and video. A telephone audio conference is also available, should you prefer to join via phone; a toll-free number is provided for callers in the U.S. and Canada.
Additional information about online courses and seminars is available.
Materials
A Mathematica notebook from the seminar will be made available at the end of the presentation.
Prerequisites
No background or previous experience with Mathematica is required to attend this seminar.
To sign up, see the online seminars registration and calendar page.
“Getting Started Using Optimization with Matlab” Webinar
The Mathworks
Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:00pm
Engineers and scientists across all major industries use optimization to find better solutions to their problems. In this webinar, we’ll highlight optimization products offered by The MathWorks, including MATLAB, Optimization Toolbox, and Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search Toolbox. We’ll summarize the capabilities of each product and discuss the benefits of running your optimizations from the MATLAB environment. Product demonstrations will show how you can use our tools to find solutions to real-world optimization problems, and new and experienced users will learn best practices for using MATLAB optimization products through a “tips and tricks” format.
This is an introductory webinar and requires no previous knowledge of MATLAB.
A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
For more information, click here .
This webinar is part of The Mathworks’ ongoing series of webinars .
(NB: All of the toolboxes used in this seminar are available as part of UVa’s site license .)
“Computational Statistics Using Matlab Products” Webinar
The Mathworks
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Scientists in biotech and pharmaceutical research face a variety of challenges when analyzing data. Time and cost constraints often limit the amount of data that can be acquired. In many cases, the quality of the data makes it difficult to extract trends or estimate uncertainty. Sometimes there is too much data and identifying the most significant explanatory variables can be troublesome. Specifying which model best describes the data often requires a choice between competing models that initially appear to have similar goodness-of-fit measures.
Computational statistics provides a variety of applied quantitative methods that help solve these challenges including:
• Bootstrap – compensates for small sample sizes
• Partial Least Squares – transforms poor quality data into a useable form
• Feature Selection - identifies which variables have the most impact on a model
• Cross Validation - improves model evaluation and selection
This webinar highlights how the interactive analysis tools in MATLAB®, Statistics Toolbox™, and Curve Fitting Toolbox™ support computational statistics.
Previous knowledge of MATLAB is not required for this webinar.
A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
For more information, click here .
This webinar is part of The Mathworks’ ongoing series of webinars .
(NB: The Statistics and the Curve Fitting Toolboxes used in this seminar are both available as part of UVa’s site license .)