Events Archive
Items appear in reverse chronological order.
July 9th, 2012
Many-Body van der Waals Interactions in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics
Alexandre Tkatchenko
from Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin
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July 11th, 2012
Applications of the SIBFA Polarizable Molecular Mechanics Procedure to Ligand-Macromolecule Complexes and Supramolecular Chemistry. Perspectives of Extension
Nohad Gresh
from Universitè Paris Descartes
(Learn More)
July 10 -13 & August 13 - 17, 2012
Computational Science Summer Workshops at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center invites graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government and industry to gain the skills they need to leverage the power of cutting-edge computational resources by attending summer workshops at the PSC.
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July 30th - August 10th, 2012
Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
The workshop will consist of lecture and hands-on computer exercises to teach participants how to use high-performance computing resources to do quality control, alignment, filtering, variant calling, and annotation of NGS data.
(Learn More)
June 11 - June 15, 2012
Computational Chemistry for Chemistry Educators
The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pa.
Hands-on molecular modeling and other web-based and commercial software for incorporating computational chemistry into the undergraduate curriculum.
No previous experience with molecular modeling is required. (Learn More)
May 10, 2012
"Efficient preconditioning techniques for phase-field models"
Dr. Owe Axelsson
Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences, Ostrava, Czech Republic
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. 1020 Benedum Hall (Learn More)
May 10, 2012
Numerical Methods for Coupled Problems Workshop
Department of Mathematics, 1020 Benedum Hall (Learn More)
March 2, 2012
"Accelerating molecular dynamics: Adaptive kinetic Monte Carlo and κ-dynamics"
Dr. Graeme Henkleman, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Texas, Austin
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. 227 Benedum Hall (Learn More)
January 19, 2012
"UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION IN MULTISCALE DEFORMATION PROCESSES"
Dr. Nicholas Zabaras, Materials Process Design and Control Laboratory, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University
3:00 p.m. 832 Benedum Hall (Learn More)
January 12, 2012
"ENHANCING STOCHASTIC KRIGING METAMODELS FOR COMPUTER SIMULATION"
Xi Chen, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University
3:30 p.m. G31 Benedum Hall (Learn More)
Fall Term 2011
ADV Topics in Operations Research: Conic Programming (Learn More)
Integer Programming Course (Learn More)
November 11, 2011 "FROM SORCERY TO SCIENCE: HOW HOLLYWOOD PHYSICS IMPACTS SCIENCE"
Dr. Eitan Grinspun, Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
3:30 - 4:30 PM
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, ROOM: NSH 1305 (Learn More)
November 10, 2011
"MULTISCALE SIMULATION OF LIQUIDS UNDER CONFINEMENT"
Dr. Narayan Aluru, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology – Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
3:00-4:00 P.M. Room 823 Benedum Hall
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November 3, 2011
"UNCERTAINTY QUANTIFICATION IN SIMULATION OF MICROSYSTEMS"
Dr. Nicholas Zabaras, Dr. Jayathi Y. Murthy, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director PRISM: NNSA Center for Prediction of Reliability, Integrity and Survivability of Microsystems, Purdue University
3:00-4:00 P.M. Room 823 Benedum Hall (Learn More)
June 29, 2011
"Large-scale Green's Function Calculations: The Parallel ADC(2) Method and Its Application for Weakly-Bound and Metastable Anions"
Victor P. Vysotskiy
University of Heidelberg
June 27, 2011
"P-RICDΣ: A highly scalable parallel platform for calculating ionization potential and electron affinities in large quantum systems via Green's Function Method"
Victor P. Vysotskiy
University of Heidelberg
April 28, 2011
"High Performance Solvers for Fluid Flow Simulations"
Dr. Khosro Shahbazi
Brown University
Pittsburgh, PA
April 28, 2011
"Reduced Order Modeling of CFD Systems"
Dr. Mary Ann Clarke
West Virginia University
Pittsburgh, PA
April 14, 2011
"Computational Fluid Dynamics Research for Multidisciplinary Simulations"
Aaron Katz, US Department of Defense
Ames Research Center
Pittsburgh, PA
April 8, 2011
"The Challenge of Natural Algorithms"
Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University
Bayer Distinguished Lecturer Series
Pittsburgh, PA
April 7, 2011
"ProDy: Protein Dynamics Inferred from Theory and Experiments"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
April 5, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "Distributed Multiprocessing"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
April 1-3, 2011
Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation National Conference
Pittsburgh, PA
April 1, 2011
Joint Civil and Environmental Engineering/Center for Simulation and Modeling Seminar
"Modeling Free Surface Flows with GPUSPH, a GPU-Accelerated SPH Code"
Robert A. Dalrymper, William & Lillian Hackerman Professor of Civil Engingeering John Hopkins University
Swanson School of Engineering
Pittsburgh, PA
March 25, 2011
Bayer Distinguished Lecturer Series
"Visual Computing: Making Sense of a Complex World"
Chris Johnson, University of Utah
Pittsburgh, PA
March 18, 2011
Joint Seminar Civil and Evnironmental Engineering/SAM Center
"Unconventional Gas Development from Shale Plays: Myths and Realities"
A.R. Ingraffea, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University
Swanson School of Engineering
Pittsburgh, PA
March 18, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "Shared Memory Multithreading"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
March 1, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "Stupid Compiler Tricks"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
January, 2011
New Course Announcement
Introduction to Linux (ENGR 2403)
Scientific Computing Using Python (ENGR 2404)
February 22, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "Instruction Level Parallelism"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
February 15, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
February 11, 2011
"Design and Optimization of Data Integration Flows for Business Intelligence" Umesh Dayal, HP Labs
Department of Computer Science
Bayer Distinguished Lecturer Series
Pittsburgh, PA
November 11, 2010
Workshop "Making the Most of High Performance Computing Resources at Pitt"
Pittsburgh, PA
November 11, 2010
Workshop "Using the High Performance Computing Resources at Pitt"
Pittsburgh, PA
October 7-8, 2010
Science2010 Transformations
Pittsburgh, PA
August 2-5, 2010
TeraGrid Conference, TG'10
Pittsburgh, PA
June 30-July 1, 2010
BigDFT/ABINIT Training Workshop
Center for Simulation & Modeling
June 28-30, 2010
Symposium on Applications of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in Chemisty and Materials Science
Center for Simulation & Modeling and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
June 15, 2010
Pittsburgh Simulators Meeting
CMU
June 9, 2010, 12:00pm
Markus Eisenbach: Beyond Petascale Computing
PSC Seminar
May 10-14, 2010
"Hands-On" Workshop on Computational Biophysics Using NAMD and VMD
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
May 6, 2010, 2:30pm
Kieron Burke: ABCs of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
CMMS Distinguished Guest
May 5, 2010, 3:30pm
Kieron Burke: Why Density Functional Theory Works
CMMS Distinguished Guest
April 23, 2010
TeraGrid: Free CPU Cycles for your Research!
Center for Simulation & Modeling
March 9-11, 2010
LCI Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing
PSC
March 5, 2010, 11:00am
David Case: Simulating Biomolecules with Implicit Solvent Models
Computational Biology Distinguished Speaker Series
February 16, 2010, 12:00pm
Morgan McGuire : Image Space Photon Mapping
Computer Science Colloquium
February 12, 2010, 2:30pm
Phillip R. Westmoreland: Cyber-Enabling of Engineering & Science
SAM Seminar Series
February 12, 2010, 9:30am
Phillip R. Westmoreland: Applying Molecular Science to Make Modern Biofuels
Chemical Engineering Seminar
January 29, 2010, 9:30am
David Kofke: Big Properties from Small Simulations
SAM Seminar Series
January 11, 2010, 12:00pm
Markus D. Hanwell: Kitware: Cross Platform, Open Source Visualization, Medical Imaging & Software Process
Computer Science Colloquium
December 11, 2009, 2:30pm
William Layton: Numerical Analysis of Turbulent Flows
SAM Seminar Series
December 4 , 2009, 2:30pm
Bob Glass: Complex Adaptive Systems of Systmes Engineering
SAM Seminar Series
November 6 , 2009, 10:30am
Joseph Konstan: Bridging Computer Science & Behavioral Sciences
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer
October 30, 2009, 2:30pm
Karl Johnson: Challenges in Atomistic Modeling
SAM Seminar Series
October 22, 2009, 4:00pm
Andrew McCammon: Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases
Computational Biology Distinguished Speaker
October 15, 2009, 3:00pm
Ivan Sutherland: Fleet, Infinity & Marina
CMU Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
October 5, 2009, 4:30pm
Inagural John A. Pople Lectures in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry
MI Auditorium, Mellon Institute Building
September 25, 2009, 1:00pm
Derek Warner, Cornell: Predicting Fracture in Metals with Atomistic Simulations
921 Benedum Hall
September 8, 2009, 4:30pm
SAM Co-Director Ken Jordan: Rings, Cages, Prisms, Cubes: the Myriad Forms of Water Clusters
Provost's Lecture
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Room 125)
July 30-31, 2009
Enabling Data-Intensive Computing: From Systems to Applications
NSF Funded Workshop
July 17, 2009, 2:30pm
Ipsita Banerjee: Mathematical Modeling of Reaction Networks: Hydrocarbon Combustion to Stem Cell Differentiation
SAM Seminar Series
June 26, 2009, 2:30pm
Jean-Francois Richard: Efficient Filtering in State-Space Representations
SAM Seminar Series
June 9, 2009
2009 Pittsburgh Simulators Meeting
Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
May 15, 2009, 2:30pm
James Faeder: Rule-Based Modeling of Biochemical Networks
SAM Seminar Series
April 24, 2009, 2:30pm
Ivet Bahar: Dynamics of Glutamate Transporters: Insights from Computations
SAM Seminar Series
April 10, 2009, 2:30pm
Ivan Yotov : Mathematical & Computational Modeling of Multiphyscis Energy, Environment & Biomedical Problems
SAM Seminar Series
March 27, 2009, 2:30pm
Peyman Givi: Simulation and Modeling in Transport Phenomena
SAM Seminar Series
March 20, 2009
Dr. J. N. Reddy: Modeling and Simulation of Complex Structures: From Physical to Biological Systems
The 2009 Landis-Epic Lecture
March 19-20, 2009
Workshop: Electronic Structure Calculations
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
March 19, 2009, 4:00pm
Professor van Gunsteren: Methodological Advances in Computer Simulation of Biological Systems
CMMS Distinguished Lecture
March 17, 2009, 2:30pm
Professor van Gunsteren: Thirty Years of (Bio)Molecular Simulation: How Far Have We Come?
CMMS Distinguished Lecture
March 17, 2009, 12:00pm
Professor Angel Rubio: Boron Nitride and Graphene Nanostructures: Properties and Applications
1175 Benedum Hall
March 6, 2009, 2:30pm
Rami Melham: A Computer Science Perspective of Modeling and Simulation
SAM Seminar Series
February 27, 2009, 2:30pm
Albert To: Issues and Challenges in the Development of a Multiscale Microstructure Evolution Simulator
SAM Seminar Series
February 20, 2009, 11:00am
Dr. Anthony Nicholls: Polarization. Obvious to Faraday, Yet Intractable in Force Fields?
The Joint CMU-Pitt PhD in Computational Biology's Seminar Series
February 13, 2009, 2:30pm
Tony Rollett: Computer Simulation of Materials Properties & Processing
SAM Seminar Series
January 30, 2000, 2:30pm
G. Elisabeta Marai : Visualization and Computational Modeling for Science
Simulation & Modeling Seminar Series
January 29, 10:00-4:00
Discover '09
Open House at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
January 16, 2000, 2:30pm
Kenneth D. Jordan: First Principles Modeling of Molecules and Materials
Simulation & Modeling Seminar Series
November 21, 2008, 11:00am
Jeffry Madura: Biomolecular Simulations
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
November 21, 2008, 10:30am
David Maier: Next-Generation Data Stream Services
Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series
October 24, 2008
Read about the Center's Opening Event
Scientific Computing Using Python (ENGR 2404)
February 22, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "Instruction Level Parallelism"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
February 15, 2011
"Supercomputing in Plain English: A High Performance Computing Workshop Series" "The Tyranny of the Storage Hierarchy"
Center for Simulation and Modeling
Pittsburgh, PA
February 11, 2011
"Design and Optimization of Data Integration Flows for Business Intelligence" Umesh Dayal, HP Labs
Department of Computer Science
Bayer Distinguished Lecturer Series
Pittsburgh, PA
November 11, 2010
Workshop "Making the Most of High Performance Computing Resources at Pitt"
Pittsburgh, PA
November 11, 2010
Workshop "Using the High Performance Computing Resources at Pitt"
Pittsburgh, PA
October 7-8, 2010
Science2010 Transformations
Pittsburgh, PA
August 2-5, 2010
TeraGrid Conference, TG'10
Pittsburgh, PA
June 30-July 1, 2010
BigDFT/ABINIT Training Workshop
Center for Simulation & Modeling
June 28-30, 2010
Symposium on Applications of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) in Chemisty and Materials Science
Center for Simulation & Modeling and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
June 15, 2010
Pittsburgh Simulators Meeting
CMU
June 9, 2010, 12:00pm
Markus Eisenbach: Beyond Petascale Computing
PSC Seminar
May 10-14, 2010
"Hands-On" Workshop on Computational Biophysics Using NAMD and VMD
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
May 6, 2010, 2:30pm
Kieron Burke: ABCs of Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory
CMMS Distinguished Guest
May 5, 2010, 3:30pm
Kieron Burke: Why Density Functional Theory Works
CMMS Distinguished Guest
April 23, 2010
TeraGrid: Free CPU Cycles for your Research!
Center for Simulation & Modeling
March 9-11, 2010
LCI Conference on High-Performance Clustered Computing
PSC
March 5, 2010, 11:00am
David Case: Simulating Biomolecules with Implicit Solvent Models
Computational Biology Distinguished Speaker Series
February 16, 2010, 12:00pm
Morgan McGuire : Image Space Photon Mapping
Computer Science Colloquium
February 12, 2010, 2:30pm
Phillip R. Westmoreland: Cyber-Enabling of Engineering & Science
SAM Seminar Series
February 12, 2010, 9:30am
Phillip R. Westmoreland: Applying Molecular Science to Make Modern Biofuels
Chemical Engineering Seminar
January 29, 2010, 9:30am
David Kofke: Big Properties from Small Simulations
SAM Seminar Series
January 11, 2010, 12:00pm
Markus D. Hanwell: Kitware: Cross Platform, Open Source Visualization, Medical Imaging & Software Process
Computer Science Colloquium
December 11, 2009, 2:30pm
William Layton: Numerical Analysis of Turbulent Flows
SAM Seminar Series
December 4 , 2009, 2:30pm
Bob Glass: Complex Adaptive Systems of Systmes Engineering
SAM Seminar Series
November 6 , 2009, 10:30am
Joseph Konstan: Bridging Computer Science & Behavioral Sciences
Computer Science Distinguished Lecturer
October 30, 2009, 2:30pm
Karl Johnson: Challenges in Atomistic Modeling
SAM Seminar Series
October 22, 2009, 4:00pm
Andrew McCammon: Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases
Computational Biology Distinguished Speaker
October 15, 2009, 3:00pm
Ivan Sutherland: Fleet, Infinity & Marina
CMU Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
October 5, 2009, 4:30pm
Inagural John A. Pople Lectures in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry
MI Auditorium, Mellon Institute Building
September 25, 2009, 1:00pm
Derek Warner, Cornell: Predicting Fracture in Metals with Atomistic Simulations
921 Benedum Hall
September 8, 2009, 4:30pm
SAM Co-Director Ken Jordan: Rings, Cages, Prisms, Cubes: the Myriad Forms of Water Clusters
Provost's Lecture
Frick Fine Arts Auditorium (Room 125)
July 30-31, 2009
Enabling Data-Intensive Computing: From Systems to Applications
NSF Funded Workshop
July 17, 2009, 2:30pm
Ipsita Banerjee: Mathematical Modeling of Reaction Networks: Hydrocarbon Combustion to Stem Cell Differentiation
SAM Seminar Series
June 26, 2009, 2:30pm
Jean-Francois Richard: Efficient Filtering in State-Space Representations
SAM Seminar Series
June 9, 2009
2009 Pittsburgh Simulators Meeting
Carnegie Mellon Univeristy
May 15, 2009, 2:30pm
James Faeder: Rule-Based Modeling of Biochemical Networks
SAM Seminar Series
April 24, 2009, 2:30pm
Ivet Bahar: Dynamics of Glutamate Transporters: Insights from Computations
SAM Seminar Series
April 10, 2009, 2:30pm
Ivan Yotov : Mathematical & Computational Modeling of Multiphyscis Energy, Environment & Biomedical Problems
SAM Seminar Series
March 27, 2009, 2:30pm
Peyman Givi: Simulation and Modeling in Transport Phenomena
SAM Seminar Series
March 20, 2009
Dr. J. N. Reddy: Modeling and Simulation of Complex Structures: From Physical to Biological Systems
The 2009 Landis-Epic Lecture
March 19-20, 2009
Workshop: Electronic Structure Calculations
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
March 19, 2009, 4:00pm
Professor van Gunsteren: Methodological Advances in Computer Simulation of Biological Systems
CMMS Distinguished Lecture
March 17, 2009, 2:30pm
Professor van Gunsteren: Thirty Years of (Bio)Molecular Simulation: How Far Have We Come?
CMMS Distinguished Lecture
March 17, 2009, 12:00pm
Professor Angel Rubio: Boron Nitride and Graphene Nanostructures: Properties and Applications
1175 Benedum Hall
March 6, 2009, 2:30pm
Rami Melham: A Computer Science Perspective of Modeling and Simulation
SAM Seminar Series
February 27, 2009, 2:30pm
Albert To: Issues and Challenges in the Development of a Multiscale Microstructure Evolution Simulator
SAM Seminar Series
February 20, 2009, 11:00am
Dr. Anthony Nicholls: Polarization. Obvious to Faraday, Yet Intractable in Force Fields?
The Joint CMU-Pitt PhD in Computational Biology's Seminar Series
February 13, 2009, 2:30pm
Tony Rollett: Computer Simulation of Materials Properties & Processing
SAM Seminar Series
January 30, 2000, 2:30pm
G. Elisabeta Marai : Visualization and Computational Modeling for Science
Simulation & Modeling Seminar Series
January 29, 10:00-4:00
Discover '09
Open House at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
January 16, 2000, 2:30pm
Kenneth D. Jordan: First Principles Modeling of Molecules and Materials
Simulation & Modeling Seminar Series
November 21, 2008, 11:00am
Jeffry Madura: Biomolecular Simulations
Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology
November 21, 2008, 10:30am
David Maier: Next-Generation Data Stream Services
Department of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series
October 24, 2008
Read about the Center's Opening Event