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AMCS/PICS Colloquium

Thursday, October 10, 2013 - 9:00am

Various external and internal speakers

see abstract

Location

University of Pennsylvania

Wu and Chen Auditorium, Levine Hall

please register at http://www.seas.upenn.edu/research/pics/rsvp/

Elizabeth Holm, Carnegie Mellon University: Unraveling rare events in the microstructural network: Abnormal grain growth
Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University: Simulations of real complex systems: computational science comes of age
Vijay Pande, Stanford University: Folding-at-home: Using the world’s idle computer time to fight Alzheimer’s Disease and Cancer
Michael Shelley, Courant Institute, New York University: Swimming, sliding, centering: Simulating active microscopic flows

Penn speakers:

Mark Liberman: Computational Science in Speech and Language Research
Jeremy Magland: Online computing and web-based visualization, analysis, and sharing of medical imaging data
Ravi Radhakrishnan: Modeling Cell Membrane Remodeling
Andrew Rappe: Multiscale Computational Strategies for the Design of Energy Conversion Materials
Celia Reina: Multiscale modeling and simulation of rapid crystallization of amorphous Ge
Vivek Shenoy: Modeling graphene growth
Sarah Tishkoff: African Evolutionary Genomics: Implications for human origins and disease