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New Frontiers Initiative Webinar and Training Series


The New Frontiers Initiative in cooperation with the Blue Waters Project at the University of Illinois offers a variety of webinars and training sessions throughout the year to assist our partners in learning about the range of research, software development, and workforce development activities among our partners and the University of Illinois.

There is NO COST to attend these events.

All future and past events are now posted on the New Frontiers website under the "News and Events" header.

The past events follow:

Date Title Slides Video
October 25, 2022
(re-scheduled)
Realistic Modeling of the Human Visual System for Artificial Intelligence Applications
by Rachel Heaton, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
September 13, 2022 Leafing Phenology and Insect Seasonality in an Ever-wet Tropical Forest
by Dale Forrister, School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah
Slides
Video
Being re-scheduled Geospatial Intelligence for Food Security, Water Security, and Environmental Sustainability
by Dr. Kaiyu Guan, Founding Director of Agroecosystem Sustainability Center,
University of Illinois
Slides
Video
May 17, 2022 What Keeps Computer Architects Awake at Night
by Josep Torrellas, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
May 10, 2022 On Modeling Information Flow and Belief Dynamics
by Tarek Abdelzaher, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
April 26, 2022 Computer Vision: Learning Shading and Lighting without Ground Truth
by David Forsyth, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
April 19, 2022 Design of a Computer System for Scalable Deep Learning: How to Make it Usable
by Volodymyr Kindratenko, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
March 15, 2022 TorchGeo: Deep Learning with Geospatial Data
by Adam Stewart, New Frontiers Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
March 8, 2022 High-Resolution Hydrography
A lesson in creating flexible scientific algorithms to handle
both todays and tomorrows remote sensing data
by Kimberly McCormack, Geodetic Earth Scientist, Office of Geomatics,
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Slides
Video
December 7, 2021 Towards Lifelong Learning from Images and Text
by Svetlana Lazebnik, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
November 30, 2021 Conducting GEOINT Intelligence at Scale!
by Dr. William Kramer, Dr. Greg Bauer, and Dr. Aaron Saxton,
NFI and Blue Waters, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
October 26, 2021 Information Lattices for Interpretable Knowledge Discovery and Nearest-Neighbor Classification
by Lav R Varshney, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
October 19, 2021 Python-GPU Training
by Maxim Belkin, Roland Hass, and Ryan Mokos, NCSA, University of Illinois
Materials
Video
October 12, 2021 Computer Vision-Based Vehicle Classification Framework
by Ramez Hajj, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
September 28, 2021 Temporal Logic for Automated (Geospatial) Intelligence Analysis
by Melkior Ornik, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois
Slides
Video
September 14, 2021 Curation, Analysis, and Provisioning of Extreme-Scale Textual Data
by Scott Althaus, Merriam Professor of Political Science, Professor of Communication, and
Director of the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research, University of Illinois
Slides
upon request
Video
upon request
June 7-18, 2021 Introduction to Parallel Programming with CUDA
by Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA, University of Illinois
Materials posted
with agenda

Video posted
with agenda
June 1, 2021 Using Performance Analysis Tools to Speed Up Your Codes and Workflows
by John Stone (Beckman Institute) and Galen Arnold (NCSA), University of Illinois
Slides
Sample lorenz code
Performance Analysis
Python Profiling
Tool Examples
RESCHEDULED
May 25, 2021
RESCHEDULED
A Deep Dive Into Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Their Applications to Satellite Imagery
by Aaron Saxton, Blue Waters, NCSA, University of Illinois
Slides Video
May 4, 2021 Introduction to Accelerated Computing
by Galen Arnold, NCSA, University of Illinois
Slides Video
April 27, 2021 Hands-on Introduction to Deep Learning and Computer Vision
by Asad Khan, University of Illinois
Information
Website
Part 1 Video
Part 2 Video
Part 3 Video
March 16, 2021 Python in an HPC Environment
by Ryan Mokos, Roland Haas, and Maxim Belkin, University of Illinois
Slides Video
March 2, 2021 Introduction to HPC and Blue Waters
by Bill Kramer, Brett Bode, and Greg Bauer, University of Illinois
Slides Video
January 19, 2021 HDF technologies and Resources for Geospatial Data
by The HDF Group
Slides Video
December 15, 2020 The 50 cm Quest for the Land Carbon Sink
by Compton Tucker, NASA/GSFC; Martin Brandt, University of Copenhagen;
Ankit Kariryaa, University of Bremen; and 21 other coauthors
Slides video to be
posted after the
findings are
published
December 1, 2020 CyberGISX for Reproducible and Scalable Geospatial Research and Education
by Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois
Slides Video
November 17, 2020 Advancing Crop Monitoring and Modeling From Field to Regional Scales

to Assess Agroecosystem Productivity, Sustainability, and Climate Adaptations
by Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois

upon request* upon request*
November 10, 2020 Open Source Scientific Gateways for Geospatial Data
by Luigi Marini, University of Illinois
Slides Video
October 6, 2020 The Geometry of Data: Tackling the Challenges of Machine Learning at Scale
by Aaron Saxton, Blue Waters, University of Illinois
Slides Video

Please register for the webinars to receive the connection information.

* To make requests, offer suggestions or leave comments, please send email to bw-eot@ncsa.illinois.edu