The Pervasive Technology Institute welcomes:
Tony Hey
Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division
Microsoft Research
Inaugural Speaker for the Digital Science Center Seminar Series
When: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 2:00-3:00 pm
Where: IU Innovation Center, 2719 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, IN
Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery; the Fourth Paradigm
There is a sea change happening in academic research -- a transformation caused by a data deluge that is affecting all disciplines. Modern science increasingly relies on integrated information technologies and computation to collect, process, and analyze complex data. It was Ken Wilson, Nobel Prize winner in physics, who coined the phrase “Third Paradigm” to refer to computational science and the need for computational researchers to know about algorithms, numerical methods, and parallel architectures. However, the skills needed for manipulating, visualizing, managing, and, finally, conserving and archiving scientific data are very different.
“The Fourth Paradigm” is about data and the computational systems needed to manipulate, visualize, and manage large amounts of scientific data. A wide variety of scientists – biologists, chemists, physicists, astronomers, engineers – require tools, technologies, and platforms that seamlessly integrate into standard scientific methodologies and processes.
This talk will illustrate the far-reaching changes that this new paradigm will have on scientific discovery.
Live URL:
http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/live_sl.cgi?filename=pti_digital_sc...
Archive URL:
http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launch_sl.cgi?folder=vic&filename=p...
For more information, please visit:
http://pti.iu.edu/event/tonyhey
Indiana University Cyberinfrastructure News
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June 21-25, 2010 Chicago, Illinois, USA
The purpose of this workshop is to provide the opportunity for researchers, scientists, engineers, and students to discuss and share the latest research in parallel and distributed high performance systems applied to Life Science problems. It aims to offer an interactive environment for investigators working on novel “computational thinking” for (Systems) Biology, Bioinformatics, Biocomplexity and Cheminformatics, so that future activities and collaborations will be initiated, as well as fostering discussions about the utilization of HPDC systems in their respective research initiatives.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.
Program Chairs
Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA
Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
Important Dates
Papers Submission Due: March 1, 2010
Author Notifications: March 30, 2010
Final manuscripts: April 23, 2010
For a list of topics of interest and other information, please visit:
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Submission Deadline: March 1, 2010
Indiana University invites position papers for the NSF-sponsored workshop, Campus Bridging Technologies, to be held April 7-8, 2010 at University Place Conference Center (UPCC) on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis.
This workshop will explore networking and data-centric issues that currently challenge U.S. researchers and generate a set of recommendations for the identification and implementation of processes, tools, and solicitations to achieve better coordination of cyberinfrastructure. Improved coordination of cyberinfrastructure will serve to optimize innovation and discovery by the U.S. science and engineering communities.
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Hosted by the Pervasive Technology Institute’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research at Indiana University (CACR), the Summit will offer a variety of sessions on security and privacy topics of interest to practitioners.
Keynote speaker: Renowned security guru Bruce Schneier (www.schneier.com) and bestselling author of Applied Cryptography
When: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Where: University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN
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The Data to Insight Center of the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University is now accepting applications for Postdoctoral Fellows.
Interested applicants should have a PhD as well as expertise in one or more of the following:
* Sustainability, environment, and climate
* Scientific data preservation
* Large-scale data
Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women andminorities are encouraged to apply.
For a complete job description, please see:
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The Center for Statistical and Mathematical Computing (Stat/Math Center) of the Research Technologies division of UITS, has a two-fold mission of software licensing and support. The center licenses over 30 software packages that help the IU research and teaching community with statistics, mathematics, and geographic information systems (GIS). These packages include widely-used programs such as SAS, SPSS, Maple, Matlab, and ArcGIS (remote sensing software). More specialized programs are supported based on user needs. The software distribution program through the Stat/Math Center results in millions of dollars in cost avoidance annually for Indiana University System.
In support of the IndianaMap Project, the center maintains enterprise geodatabase and map publishing services for Indiana University and the general public. The center also coordinates annual UITS User Satisfaction Surveys for IUB, IUPUI, and IU regional campuses and publishes findings.
Support at the Stat/Math Center takes many forms including:
-- Advice on how to implement various statistical tests and methods.
-- Technical support for installation and upgrading packages.
-- Applying numerical analysis to speed up complex calculations.
-- Providing access to Indiana’s massively large geospatial datasets
-- Support for geospatial technology research, instruction and administration.
-- Providing statistical software workshops (SAS and SPSS)
-- Online documentation, KB items, tutorials, archived GIS data.
-- Large group discounts on software licensing.
-- Collaboration with research faculty.
You can contact the Stat Math Center by sending an email to:
The following sites provide more information on the various services and programs made available by the Stat/Math Center.
Stat/Math Home Page
http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/
General information on who can lease the software provide by the Stat/Math Center http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/sales/index.html
General licensing information and installation information http://www.indiana.edu/~statmath/sales/licensing.html
Indiana Spatial Data Portal and GIS Resources (GIS Day Event)
http://gis.iu.edu
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Robert Ping, Project Manager for TeraGrid at IU has established a new Google calendar to help TeraGrid and the greater HPC community track events, conferences and upcoming deadlines related to conference registration, hotels, and calls for participation.
Each calendar entry includes the date of the event, the URL, the objective and the host city. The calendar also provides separate entries for registration, hotel and paper/poster/tutorial submission opening dates and deadlines to facilitate tracking of key dates related to each event.
The calendar is available at:
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=teragrideot%40gmail.com&ctz=Ame...
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Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing
The goal of the Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing (InWIC) conference is to provide a low cost, regionally-tailored, small conference for women in computing who do not have the opportunity to attend major conferences such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
The theme of the conference is INterconnection.Keynote speaker: Kay Connelly, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and Senior Associate Director of Pervasive Technology Institute's Center for Advanced Cybersecurity Research.
When: Friday, February 5, 2010 - Saturday, February 6, 2010
Where: Canyon Inn, McCormick's Creek State Park, Spencer, Indiana
For more information, please see:
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Networks and Complex Systems Series (http://vw.slis.indiana.edu/netscitalks/)
Where: Herman B Wells Library Rm 001 (IUB)
Bibliomics, Literature Mining, and Knowledge Discovery
by Mathew Palakal & Jake Chen, School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI
When: Monday, February 8, 2010, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Age Dynamics in Scientific Creativity
by Bruce Weinberg, Department of Economics, OSU
When: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The limited utility of communication for simple organisms
by Matthias Scheutz, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Informatics, IUB
When: Monday, February 15, 2010, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure
by David Hachen, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
When: Monday, February 22, 2010, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
The Networks and Complex Systems Series, sponsored by the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center and the School of Library and Information Science, is open to all Indiana University faculty and students interested in network analysis, modeling, visualization, and complex systems research.
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The maintenance window for Big Red and Quarry is the first Tuesday of each month, 7am - 7pm EDT.
The maintenance window for the Mass Store and Research File System is every Sunday 7-10AM.
Outage reports are available online at:
* http://racinfo.indiana.edu/hps/research/bigred/outages.shtml
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If you have questions pertaining to IU's cyberinfrastructure, or
you are encountering some difficulty, there are several ways to
obtain help.
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