Brian Blake: Research Methodologies- Involvement in Scholarly Activities, Publishing, and Timelines Dr. M. Brian Blake, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Miami, discussed "Research Methodologies- Involvement in Scholarly Activities, Publishing, and Timelines" in October 2012. The link to his recorded session is at http://bit.ly/ELA_Blake. Read More »
| Bushra Anjum: Doctoral Program Planning & Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your PhD Bushra Anjum, PhD student, discussed Doctoral Program Planning on 3/20/12. Link to recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_Anjum_Barksdale. She also led the session on Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your PhD as part of a panel discussion. Link to this session at http://bit.ly/ELA_panel110911. Read More »
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Christan Grant: How to Write a Powerful Personal Statement Cristan Grant, Doctoral student at the University of Florida and 2010 NSF Graduate research
fellowship awardee, discussed how to write a powerful personal statement and
obtain great letters of recommendation in April 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_CG. Read More »
| Christopher Stewart: How to Write an Effective Personal Statement Dr. Christopher Stewart, Assistant Professor at Ohio
State U., discussed how to write an effective personal statement and obtain great letters of
recommendation in April 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_CS. PDF of ppt used during webinar. Read More »
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Dan Stanzione: Intro to Parallel Programming with MPI Dan Stanzione, deputy director at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) led two hour-long sessions on Parallel Programming with MPI. Recorded sessions: Part I at http://bit.ly/XSEDE_020912 and Part II at http://bit.ly/XSEDE022312. Read More »
| Devika Subramanian: Building Predictive Models Using Statistical Machine Learning
Learn how predictive models are build using statistical machine data in this presentation given by Dr. Devika Subramanian, Rice University, in May 2013. Click here to view the recorded session. Read More »
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Dilma da Silva: Identifying Gaps in Research Dr.
Dilma da Silva, researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center, discussed "Gaps in Research" in April 2012. Her rationale for
discussing this topic is that, "one
very challenging part of graduate school research is to scope the work
appropriately."
Session
url at http://bit.ly/ELA_da_Silva.
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| Dorian Arnold: Research- Personal Stories and Specifics Dr. Dorian Arnold, Assistant Professor at the U. of New Mexico,
discussed "Research: Personal Stories and Specifics About Research" in July
2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_DA. PDF
of ppt used during webinar. Read More »
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Dorian Arnold: Simulating Application Behavior at Extremely Large Scales Dr. Dorian Arnold, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico, describes his research collaboration on developing a simulation-based framework for the accurate performance prediction of resilience mechanisms for HPC systems and applications and show that our simulation approach can be used to simulate unprecedented time and space scales. March 2016. Link available soon. Read More »
| Fay Cobb Payton: Identifying a Dissertation Topic Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, Associate Professor of Information Technology at North Carolina State University discussed Identifying a Dissertation Topic on 1/5/12. Recorded session url at http://bit.ly/AChSTN., Read More »
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Genevera Allen: Modern Statistical Methods for Massive Data Dr. Genevera Allen, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, the Department of Pediatrics-Neurology at Baylor College of Medicine, and the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children's Hospital, discussed developing mathematical tools to understand massive amounts of data in medicine and engineering in November 2012. You can view her session at http://bit.ly/Allen_Narayan. Read More »
| Gerardo Hernandez: Matlab, in serial and parallel Gerardo Hernandez, MathWorks Application Engineer and doctoral student, gave an overview of MATLAB, how it is used in research/industry, and then ran through a few demos of how MATLAB is used in both serial and parallel computations in November 2011. The link to the recorded session is at http://bit.ly/XSP_Gerardo. Read More »
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Grace Silva: The Usefulness of High Performance Computing in Breast Cancer Research Grace Silva, B.S. in bioinformatics & computational biology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 3rd year bioinformatics & computational biology graduate student at the UNC Chapel Hill, who discussed "The Usefulness of High Performance Computing in Breast Cancer Research". The link to her recorded session is: http://bit.ly/XSP_Lindley_Grace (Link is to joint session with Lindley Graham). Read More »
| Henry Neeman: Supercomputing in Plain English Dr. Henry Neeman presented "Supercomputin in Plain English" in May 2013. Link to the recorded session: http://bit.ly/RWEB_HN Read More »
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Jamika Burge: Overcoming Difficulties in Obtaining your PhD Dr. Jamika Burge, Senior Behavioral Computer Scientist at i_SW, an
Information Systems company, led a webinar session in June 2011 and discussed "Overcoming
Difficulties in Obtaining your PhD". Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_JB. PDF of ppt used during webinar. Read More »
| Jeremy Barksdale: Doctoral Program Planning Jeremy Barksdale and Bushra Anjum (both PhD students) discussed "Doctoral Program Planning" on 3/20/12. Link to recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_Anjum_Barksdale. Read More »
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Joycelyn Streator: Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your PhD Dr. Joycelyn Streator, Assistant Professor of Information at Georgia Gwinnett College, discussed Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your PhD as part of a panel discussion. To watch this session at your convenience, go to http://bit.ly/ELA_panel110911. Read More »
| Juan Gilbert: Preparing for the Academic Job Market Dr. Juan Gilbert, Professor and Chair of the Human-Centered Computing
Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University
discussed "Preparing for the Academic Job Market" in June 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_JG. PDF of ppt used during webinar. Read More »
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Juan Meza:The Unwritten Rules of Interviewing for Industrial and Academic Jobs Juan Meza, Dean of Natural Sciences at University of California - Merced, presents some mistakes of basic do's and don'ts on both an academic or industrial job interview. Recorded session from March 2015: http://connectpro34095443.adobeconnect.com/p7d75qideub/ Read More »
| Juan Vargas: Innovation and Cloud Computing Juan Vargas, PhD, Principal Research Manager for Microsoft Research's Extreme Computing Group , discussed "Innovation and Cloud Computing" in November 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_JV. PDF of slides used during webinar. Read More »
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Lindley Graham: Inverse Sensitivity Analysis for Storm Surge Models Lindley Graham, 2nd year Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin, discussed "Inverse Sensitivity Analysis for Storm Surge Models". The link to his recorded session is http://bit.ly/XSP_Lindley_Grace (Link is to joint session with Grace Silva). Read More »
| Luis Melara: Applying to Graduate School and the Interview Process Luis A. Melara, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Shippensburg University. June 2015. This presentation is primarily for undergraduate students wishing to learn more about the application process for graduate studies in the mathematical and physical sciences. Link to recording: http://connectpro34095443.adobeconnect.com/r5aecy6cmny/ Read More »
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Luis Vincente: Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your PhD Dr. Luis Vincente discussed Overcoming the Difficulties in Obtaining Your PhD as part of a panel discussion. To watch this session at your convenience, go to http://bit.ly/ELA_panel110911. Read More »
| Manjari Narayan: Differential Network Testing for Populations of Graphical Models Manjari Narayan, doctoral student at Rice U. in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, presented a session discussing her research: "Differential Network Testing for Populations of Graphical Models". Her advisor, Dr. Genevera Allen also discussed her research during the same session that can be viewed at http://bit.ly/Allen_Narayan. Read More »
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Mary Leung: Thriving in Graduate School and Paying for it Dr. Mary Leung, DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship program manager (and alumna), discussed "Thriving in Graduate School
and Paying for it" in April 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_ML. PDF of ppt used during webinar. Read More »
| Matthew Knepley: What Does a Computational Scientist Do All Day? Matthew Knepley's research focuses on scientific computation, including fast methods, parallel computing, software development, numerical analysis, and multicore architectures. He will speak on his work on the PETSc library, a community effort that he helps lead, which provides scalable parallel linear and nonlinear algebraic solvers. December 2015. Recording link: http://connectpro34095443.adobeconnect.com/p7g1ewihb2p/ Read More »
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Maytal Dahan: Introduction to XSEDE User Portal Maytal Dahan, Research Engineering/Scientist Associate from XSEDE partner, TACC gave a general overview of the XSEDE user portal for new users on 1/19/12. Recorded session at http://bit.ly/XSEDE_011912. Read More »
| Paul Delgado: Qualifying Exams Demystified Doctoral student and NSF Fellow, Paul Delgado discussed "Qualifying Exams Demystified" in September 2012. He used metaphors and illustrations from "Lord of the Rings" as he presented effective strategies to prepare and excel in graduate preliminary, qualifying, and comprehensive exams. You can watch the recorded session at http://bit.ly/Paul_Delgado_ELAwebinar. Read More »
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Pedro Bello-Maldonado: The things I wish I had known when I started in HPC July, 2015. This webinar is intended to help those who are just starting in High Performance Computing (HPC) get acquainted with the basics of HPC allocations as well as job submissions and profiling. Link to recorded session: http://connectpro34095443.adobeconnect.com/p8zc1dr6cy7/ Read More »
| Peter Molnar: Introduction to Student Programming Competition
On June 6, 2013, Dr. Peter Molnar of Clark Atlanta University discussed the Student Programming Competition for XSED Scholars. Link to the recorded session: http://bit.ly/RWEB_PM Read More »
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Raquell Holmes: Building a Functional Relationship with Your Advisor and Committee Dr. Raquell Holmes, director of improvScience and Assistant Research Professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center and Boston University, discussed "Building a Functional Relationship with Your Advisor" on 11/29/12. Recorded session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_Raquell. Read More »
| Renetta Tull: Proposal Writing & The Final Defense Dr. Renetta Tull, Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, Dr. Rubin Landau led two PhD workshops in August 2012: Proposal Writing, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_proposal_writing_Aug2012, and The Final Defense, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_FinalDefense. Read More »
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Ritu Arora: Leveraging Supercomputing Resources for Solving Large Computational and Analytical Challenges
See some of the challenges that are being solved using the High Performance Computing (HPC), High Throughout computing (HTC) and high-end storage resources available at the supercomputing centers. November 2014. Recorded session at http://bit.ly/1DxLNfV Read More »
| Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera: The Graduate School Application Process Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera, PhD student at NC State U. and GEM fellow,
discussed the graduate school application process in April 2011. Session url at: http://bit.ly/ELA_RC. Read More »
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Ron Metoyer: Finding a Good Mentor Dr. Ron Metoyer, Associate Professor at Oregon State U., discussed
"Finding a Good Mentor" in April 2012. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_Metoyer. Read More »
| Rubin Landau: Proposal Writing & The Final Defense Dr. Rubin Landau, Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, and Dr. Renetta Tull led two PhD workshops in August 2012: Proposal Writing, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_proposal_writing_Aug2012, and The Final Defense, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_FinalDefense. Read More »
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Valerie Taylor: Proposal Writing Dr. Valerie Taylor, Department Head and Royce E. Wisenbaker
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University discussed
"Proposal Writing" in May 2011. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_VT. PDF of ppt used during webinar. Read More »
| Vetria Byrd: Intro to Scientific Visualization Using ParaView
In March 2013, Dr. Vetria Byrd discussed Scientific Visualization using ParaView". The recorded session can be viewed here. Read More »
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Wendy Carter-Veale: Proposal Writing & The Final Defense Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, Dr. Rubin Landau, and Dr. Renetta Tull led two PhD workshops in August 2012: Proposal Writing, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_proposal_writing_Aug2012, and The Final Defense, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_FinalDefense. Read More »
| Yolanda Rankin: Publishing and Presenting Your Work Dr. Yolanda Rankin, Research Scientist at IBM Research - Almaden, discussed Conferencing: Publishing and Presenting Your Work in February 2012. Session url at http://bit.ly/ELA_Rankin. Read More »
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