Robert J. Brunner
Applying Deep Learning on Time Series Astronomical Data
(bacy)May 2016 - Aug 2017
Modeling Galaxy Formation using Robust Machine Learning Techniques
(gj8)May 2015 - May 2016
High-Performance Hybrid Computation Platform for Astronomy Data Classification
(jtv)May 2015 - Jan 2016
Extreme Scale Astronomical Image Composition and Analysis
(jos)May 2013 - Sep 2014
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Sushma Adari: Deep Learning Applications on Stock Market Data
Illinois Undergraduate Week Research Symposium, Apr 27, 2017
Machine learning could solve riddles of galaxy formation
Nov 11, 2015
A new machine-learning simulation system developed at the University of Illinois promises cosmologists an expanded suite of galaxy models – a necessary first step to developing more accurate and relevant insights into the formation of the universe. The feasibility of this method has been laid out in two recent papers written by astronomy, physics and statistics professor Robert Brunner, his undergraduate student Harshil Kamdar and National Center for Supercomputing Applications research scientist Matthew Turk.
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17 campus teams to accelerate their research with Blue Waters
Jun 10, 2015
Seventeen U of I research teams from a wide range of disciplines have been awarded computational and data resources on the sustained-petascale Blue Waters supercomputer at NCSA. “These diverse projects highlight the breadth of computational research at the University of Illinois,” said Athol Kemball, associate professor of Astronomy and chair of the Illinois allocation review committee. “Illinois has a tremendous pool of talented researchers in fields from political science to chemistry to engineering who can harness the power of Blue Waters to discover and innovate.”
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NCSA welcomes new interns!
Jun 3, 2015
31 undergraduate students are starting (or continuing) internships at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) this summer. They are pursuing research and development projects with NCSA staff and affiliated U of I faculty members.
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22 students selected for Blue Waters Student Internship Program
May 4, 2015
Shodor and the Blue Waters project have selected 19 undergraduate students and three graduate students from across the country to participate in the Blue Waters Student Internship Program for 2015-2016. Interns will learn to apply high-performance computing to problems in science, mathematics, and engineering through the year-long program. Their experience will begin later this month with a two-week Petascale Institute at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
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(Cloud + super) computing = results
Oct 29, 2014
Can cloud computing replace supercomputers like Blue Waters in the future? No, says Vijay Pande, director of the biophysics program at Stanford University. He says both are critical to his study of serious diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer. Pande's lab uses cloud computing through Folding@home and Google Exacycle to run many detailed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein folding independent of one another. "A lot of what we do is run the raw trajectories on Folding@home, or Google Exacycle, analyze it on Blue Waters, and spit it back out to Folding@home," says Pande.
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- http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/cloud_super_computing_results
- http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/cloud_and_supercomputing_cooperate_in_molecular_dynamics_research
26 Illinois undergrads selected for internships with NCSA
Oct 15, 2014
Twenty-six University of Illinois undergraduate students have been selected for 2014-2015 internships at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). These talented undergraduates were selected through NCSA's SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) program. They will pursue research and development projects—from developing an app to display crystal structure data to enhancing the experience of dance, theater and music performances—with mentors from NCSA and related University programs.
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Really big problems
Feb 17, 2014
“We’re driven by solving really big problems,” says Greg Voth, the Haig P. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. His research team uses multiscale computational simulation to study complex biomolecular, condensed phase, and novel materials systems. But these systems and processes are so complex that they are beyond the reach of molecular dynamics simulations that model every atom—even the largest simulations, containing tens of millions of atoms, can show only a fraction of a process in a living cell, for example. To simulate processes over greater time and length scales would require a new method.
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22 Illinois projects receive time on Blue Waters
Jun 11, 2013
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has awarded access to the Blue Waters supercomputer—which is capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and of working with quadrillions of bytes of data—to 22 campus research teams from a wide range of disciplines. The computing and data capabilities of Blue Waters, which is operated by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), will assist researchers in their work on understanding DNA, developing biofuels, simulating climate, and more.
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