The Open Planets Foundation, the University of Chapel Hill's School of Library and Information Science and the United States Library of Congress proudly presents: The OPF Hackathon at UNC Chapel Hill: Tackling Real-World Collection Challenges with Digital Forensics Tools and Methods. Come join world renowned digital preservation experts, collection managers, and coders as we collectively hack through digital preservation problems using a variety of digital forensics methods and approaches. Collection owners: Bring with you disk images of digital data you…
Find out more »Title: CIF21: Special presentation by Alan Blatecky Location: Biltmore conference room Speaker: Alan Blatecky, Acting Director NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure and RENCI Chief Scientist for R&D Initiatives RSVP: via Exchange Calendar Friday, March 04, 2011 10:00 AM-11:00 AM. (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Every discipline of science and engineering is being transformed by the widespread use and deployment of cyberinfrastructure. Data volumes, computing power, software and network capacities are all on exponential growth paths, and research collaborations are expanding…
Find out more »Rheomics, Inc.: Diagnosing cancer using mechanical biology
Speaker: Ricky Speros, vice president of product development, Rheomics, Inc.
Abstract:
For the past decade, UNC Prof. Richard Superfine (physics and astronomy) has been studying the role physics plays in a wide range of diseases, from cancer to blood clotting disorders. His lab's discoveries led to exciting new technology that Rheomics, Inc., a new UNC spinout and participant in the Carolina Launch Pad at RENCI, is working to turn into a next-generation cancer diagnostic. Ricky Speroa, the company's VP of product development and a post doctoral associate in the physics and astronomy department, will discuss the business, the product and how RENCI is helping the company get started.
*Free and open to the public*
RSVP (if you plan to attend at RENCI) to: Karen Green
Find out more »The Microsoft Biology Initiative will hold a two-day workshop on the Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF), an open source Microsoft .NET library and application programming interface for bioinformatics research
Find out more »Title: RENCI Brown Bag Lecture Location: Biltmore Conference Room, RENCI HQ, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 540, Chapel Hill Description: Title: High Throughput Parallel Molecular Dynamics Speaker: Steven Cox, RENCI Cyberinfrastructure Engagement Lead Abstract: High Throughput Computing (HTC) is a mature capability often accompanied by highly scalable workflow management infrastructure. Recent development in the Open Science Grid (OSG) community extends the HTC paradigm with the ability to run small parallel jobs based on the Message Passing Interface (MPI). In the course…
Find out more »In preparation for the upcoming hurricane season, North Carolina Emergency Management and East Carolina University have teamed with representatives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NOAA’s National Weather Service to review the latest tools and trends in forecasting and decision making for storm surge and river floods. Researchers from RENCI at ECU, headed by Director Tom Allen, and ECU’s Center for Natural Hazards Research, led by Director Jamie Kruse, will facilitate the conference. Ken Gallupi and Jessica Proud…
Find out more »How do you most effectively visualize data so that it can be easily understood and readily interpreted? Find out from leaders in the field who will participate in a panel discussion. Panelists will be Christopher G. Healey, North Carolina State University; Sidharth Thakur, RENCI; and Lisa Whitman, SAS. The panel will be moderated by Richard Phelps of Unisys. Presentations will be made using the RENCI visualization display wall. The event is sponsored by TriUPA, the Triangle Usability Professionals Association. Pizza…
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