OFFICE OF RESEARCH AFFAIRS: AAAS CONFERENCE 2010
Promoting Climate Literacy through Informal Science
8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Scripps Seaside Forum at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
http://www.project2061.org/events/meetings/climate2010/index.php/pages/agenda
Contact Barbara Goldstein, 202-326-6628, bgoldste@aaas.org.
KPBS “These Days”
10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
89.5 FM
http://www.kpbs.org/news/these-days/
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and AAAS President Peter Agre will talk about the importance of science in society and discuss the relevance of science, technology, and engineering as well as scientific literacy to the well-being of society. They will also talk about the theme of the 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting — "Bridging Science and Society"— which calls on scientists and engineers to make their work both beneficial and understandable, and invites society to rediscover the excitement and hope that research and its findings offer.
Contact: Rex Graham, 858-534-5952, cell 858-232-2706, ragraham@ucsd.edu
Four Pre-conference Laboratory Tours for Working Journalists
3-5:30 p.m.
UC San Diego
Visualizing Science at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2
Contact: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
-Demonstrations of advanced scientific visualization technologies: Calit2 Director Larry Smarr, the 360-degree StarCAVE virtual reality environment, the 105-million-pixel Varrier autostereoscopic 3D system (3D viewing without 3D glasses), NexCAVE prototype of a potential home-based surround-3D system, and the HIPerSpace system (287 million pixels) and HIPerTouch surface-display system. Contact: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
-Visual Analytics 2.0 for Science: Prof. Falko Kuester, Calit2 Professor of Visualization and Virtual Reality, will talk about the revolution in collaborative analytical tools that are transforming research in a wide range of data-intensive fields. Contact: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
-Project GreenLight: Prof. Tom DeFanti, Calit2 Research Scientist and Principal Investigator on the $2.6 million NSF GreenLight grant, will talk about UCSD's effort to build a controlled environment to test and ultimately improve the energy efficiency of IT, which has a similar carbon "footprint" as the airline industry. Contact: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
-Computational Astrophysics Data Center (CADAC): Prof. Mike Norman, Interim Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, will talk about CADAC, a free service for the astrophysics community that hosts a public data collection of large astrophysical simulations and provides data-analysis resources to researchers worldwide. Contact: Warren Froelich, 858-822-3622, wfroelich@ucsd.edu
Simulating Seismic Events in Large-Scale Shake-Table Tests: P. Benson Shing, professor of Structural Engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, will describe the performance of several large-scale masonry and concrete structures during tests on the Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table at UC San Diego. Contact: Andrea Siedsma, (760) 840-0494(cell), asiedsma@soe.ucsd.edu
The Human Brain Library at The Brain Observatory
The Brain Observatory is dedicated to modeling the structural design of the human brain at multiple levels of resolution and to elucidating the processes that underlie neuro-cognitive disease. Director Jacopo Annese and colleagues employ neuroimaging and visualization techniques to build a virtual neuroanatomical library that aims at representing the wide range of human brain phenotypes. The Human Brain Library will be freely accessible via the web and will include the brains of famed neurological cases such as the amnesiac patient "H.M." Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Chemical Fingerprints in the Atmosphere, Physics and Art at Urey Hall, Division of Physical Sciences
Contact: Kim McDonald, 858-534-7572, kmcdonald@ucsd.edu
- Newest Hazards from Air Pollution: Identifying particulates from wildfires and ship smoke– Prather lab tour (http://atofms.ucsd.edu/ ). Chemistry Professor Kimberly Prather has developed real-time particulate analyzers from which she and her colleagues have found new and surprising hazards within the supposedly pristine California coastal air we breathe. (http://luminance.ucsd.edu/AlteredAtmosphere/ )
- Chemical Fingerprinting of the Solar System and Earth's Atmosphere – Thiemens lab. Chemistry Professor Mark Thiemens, Dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, has developed a technique that allows him to probe meteorites and other space and terrestrial rocks for information about our ancient atmosphere and those of other planets, such as Mars. He’s also been involved in monitoring ship smoke off the California coast.
- Physics and Art - A Gateway to the Sciences – Jose Onuchic, co-director Center for Theoretical Biological Physics. Physics Professor Jose Onuchic and his colleagues at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics are applying the mathematical tools of physics to understand the complex behavior of biological systems, such as why bacterial colonies grow in a way that often make them look like modern art paintings.
4. Robotics and the Future of Climate Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography Contact: Rob Monroe, 858-822-4487, rmonroe@ucsd.edu
V. Ramanathan and Russ Davis have made possible large-scale observations that had been prohibitively expensive before. The world-renowned climate science pioneers will show visitors some of the autonomous devices that have transformed how nature is observed.
-Russ Davis’ design breakthroughs led to Argo, a global network of ocean floats that provide simultaneous data collection worldwide. Now his team is working on a new generation of floats.
-V. Ramanathan has flown multiple unmanned aircraft in formation through clouds to create multi-dimensional profiles of atmospheric phenomena.
Promoting Climate Literacy through Informal Science
7:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
San Diego Convention Center
http://www.project2061.org/events/meetings/climate2010/index.php/pages/agenda
Contact Barbara Goldstein, 202-326-6628, bgoldste@aaas.org
Special Focus Meeting of Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education
8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Room 10 (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1990.html
Graduate students involved in the UC San Diego Socrates program that places graduate students as teachers, will be involved in this day-long session. AAAS and the Graduate STEM Teaching Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12) Program at the National Science Foundation are sponsoring a special meeting for funded projects and interested members of the STEM community. GK-12 projects will present information on topics related to the core goals of the program including: developing effective partnerships with K-12 teachers, students, and schools; communicating science to the public; and integrating STEM research into the K-12 classroom. The special meeting will culminate in a poster session on Friday afternoon that highlights the work of the GK-12 projects and offers information about the GK-12 program to interested Annual Meeting participants. For more information, contact AAAS Education and Human Resources, (202) 326-6629.
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox Welcome, with AAAS President Peter Agre
Opening Ceremony and AAAS President's Address
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Room 6AB (San Diego Convention Center)
Contact: Rex Graham, 858-534-5952, cell 858-232-2706, ragraham@ucsd.edu
Physics and Art
UC San Diego’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 11B (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1631.html
The art within science can be an invaluable tool for engaging and transforming how the general public views science. A classic example is the multitude of genetically engineered florescent proteins that are expressed in bacteria and whose colonies have been used to create some amazing Petri plate art. The art in science, which captures the viewer’s eye, beacons the viewer to ask the inevitable questions: How did they do that? How do they know that?
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/09-08BiologicalPhysics.asp
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/12-09BacteriaDecision.asp
Contact: Kim McDonald, 858-534-7572, kmcdonald@ucsd.edu
Lewis M. Branscomb
Science, Democracy, and the Enlightenment: Who Left Out the Voters?
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Room 7B (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1392.html
Our Founding Fathers intended that voters would confirm the legitimacy of those who govern them by judging the transparency, accountability, and rationality of those political leaders. Thus for democracy to be sustainable, the public must be able to judge the performance of the politicians whom they elect. How can they do that when the biggest challenges facing the nation are deeply dependent on technical knowledge and understanding that few members of the lay public possess?
Contact: Rex Graham, 858-534-5952, cell 858-232-2706, ragraham@ucsd.edu
Kc Claffy
Why We Understand the Net Less and Less Even as We Depend on It More and More
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Room 10 (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1990.html
Contact: Warren Froelich, 858-822-3622, wfroelich@ucsd.edu
Here Come the Science Festivals!
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Room 5B (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session2165.html
Key individuals from the San Diego Science Festival will participate in this workshop. With the recent success of the Cambridge Science Festival, San Diego Science Festival, St. Louis Science Festival, and World Science Festival, it is clear that science festivals have truly arrived in the United States. What makes a science festival successful? How do you go about hosting one in your city? Join this discussion about how science festivals can extend the reach of informal science communication in your community. National and international speakers from successful and emerging festivals will present their models for success and challenge you to join in this growing movement. Learn how your organization can partner with science festivals, or how you can take the lead in organizing a festival. Find out how the new Science Festival Alliance can help. Contact: Judy Piercey, 858-534-6128, or cell 858-449-1833, jpiercey@ucsd.edu
Larry Smarr
Advancing the Metagenomics Revolution
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Room 10 (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2199.html
The vast majority of life on earth is microbial. Virtually all ecologies rely on the intricate biochemistry of microbial life to sustain themselves. Historically most research on microbes depended on laboratory cultures, but since 99% of microbes cannot be cultured, it is only recently that modern genetic sequencing techniques have allowed determination of the hundreds to thousands of microbial species present at a specific environmental location. The amount of data specifying the “metagenomics” of these microbial ecologies is explosively growing as researchers everywhere are acquiring next generation sequencing devices.
Contact: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
Steffanie Strathdee
Topical Lecture: Infectious Diseases Have No Passport: Battling HIV, TB, and STDs on the Mexico-U.S. Border
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Room 6E (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session2102.html
Strathdee, an infectious disease epidemiologist, has spent the last two decades focusing on HIV prevention in underserved, marginalized populations in developed and developing countries. Since 1994, she has published more than 325 peer-reviewed publications on HIV prevention and the natural history of HIV and related infections. She is engaged in several research projects on HIV prevention in international settings including Mexico, Brazil, Canada, and Afghanistan. She also leads three NIH-funded studies of HIV risk behaviors among drug users and sex workers on the Mexico-U.S. border as well as a Fogarty-funded Global Health Program Frameworks grant. Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Jeffrey Bada
The 1953 Miller Experiment and the Beginnings of Prebiotic Chemistry
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 10 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1091.html
On May 15, 1953, Stanley Miller published a short paper in SCIENCE describing the spark discharge induced synthesis of glycine, alanine and other amino acids from a mixture of reducing gases thought to represent the atmosphere of early Earth. This study legitimized the field of prebiotic chemistry and demonstrated that the basic molecules of life could, with relative ease, be synthesized from simple inorganic molecules. Darwin's “warm little pond” was no longer a hypothetical concept but a feasible scenario. One criticism of the original Miller experiment has been that the reducing gas mixture he used was not a realistic representation of the primitive atmosphere, now thought to have been dominated by CO2 and N2 which when used in the spark experiment yielded low levels of amino acids. However, recent studies of some of Miller's original extracts from another apparatus configuration, termed the “volcanic” apparatus, suggests that localized prebiotic synthesis could have been effective even if the overall atmosphere was not reducing in composition. Contact: Rob Monroe, 858-822-4487, rmonroe@ucsd.edu
James Brewer andMichael Rafii
Expert for the Defense
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 2 (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1812.html
Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Mark Hildebrand
Marine Diatoms and Their Role in the Ecosystem
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 6D (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1743.html
Diatoms are unicellular eukaryotic microalgae that play important ecological roles on a global scale. Diatoms are responsible for 20% of global carbon fixation and 40% of marine primary productivity. Thus they are major contributors to climate change processes, and form a substantial basis of the marine food web. At the cellular level, diatoms are characterized by having cell walls made of silica, and as the largest class of silicifying organisms on the planet, also are major contributors to biogeochemical processes. Diatoms are subject to varying environmental conditions from which they cannot readily escape, and so they must deal with environmental changes by altering cellular metabolism. Although measurement of environmental variables is relatively straightforward, the response of the organism is the critical determinant of the outcome of an environmental change. Contact: Rob Monroe, 858-822-4487, rmonroe@ucsd.edu
Richard D. Kolodner
Pathways that Prevent Genome Instability: From Model Organisms to Human Cancer
8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Room 17A (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2254.html
Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
The development of cancer is associated with increased genome instability. To understand the control of genome instability, we have developed genetic assays for measuring the rate of accumulating genome rearrangements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and for characterizing the structure of the genome rearrangements. We have identified more than 100 genes and multiple pathways that prevent the accumulation of genome rearrangements. Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Bernhard O. Palsson
Network Reconstructions Allow Us to Unravel the Complexity of Life
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 5A (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2138.html
Ever since Gregor Mendel discovered discrete quanta of information that determine form and function of organism passed from one generation to the next, the genotype-phenotype relationship (GPR) has been of fundamental importance in the life sciences. For monogeneic traits the GPR can be readily understood. However, for most phenotypic traits involve multiple gene products making the GPR a challenge to construct and understand. With the publication of the first full genome sequences in the mid-1990's it became possible, in principle, to identify all the gene products involved in complex biological processes in a single organism. Contact: Daniel Kane, 858-534-3262, dbkane@ucsd.edu
Michael Rafii
Expert for the State
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 2 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2421.html Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Melissa Garren
Pollution on Coral Reefs
1 p.m.
Exhibit Hall B1 (San Diego Convention Center)
Melissa Garren, a Ph.D. student in marine biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, isinterested in understanding the effects of coastal pollution on the function of coral reef ecosystems. She focuses on the role microbes play in maintaining the stability and health of coral reefs, and how these partnerships are disturbed by excess nutrients that come from fish farms and sewage outfalls. Contact: Mario Aguilera, 858-534-3624, scrippsnews@ucsd.edu
Meet the Scientists at AAAS Family Science Days!
Noon – 4 p.m.
San Diego Convention Center Exhibit Hall B1
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010/program/fsd/
The San Diego Science Festival is an Exhibitor, with an information booth open all day on Saturday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21 during the Family Days weekend. The San Diego Science Festival will demonstrate the Rubik's Cube classroom kits, and have informational materials about the Festival Week and Expo Day available. Helping to staff the booth are UC San Diego Sixth College students who are taking the Service Learning (CAT 124) serving as interns for the San Diego Science Festival efforts. The students – including those majoring in management, economics, bioengineering, even theatre and anthropology – get practical experience as they assist with public relations, website content, logistics, social networks and other efforts involved with the 2010 Festival. Contact: Judy Piercey, 858-534-6128, or cell 858-449-1833, jpiercey@ucsd.edu
Joseph M. Vinetz
Molecular Targets of Blocking Malaria Transmission: Translational Approaches
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Room 6E (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2263.html Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Philip Bourne
Telling Research Stories through SciVee
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 9 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2059.html
SciVee (www.scivee.tv) is a resource for the better dissemination and comprehension of all areas of science for a wide audience, but with a focus on professional scientists. The resource leverages the unique opportunities afforded by video and podcasts over printed media to provide an enhanced learning experience. Key to the resource is unique technology for integrating papers, posters, and other academic output with video and podcast presentations describing that traditional content.
Contact: Warren Froelich, 858-822-3622, wfroelich@ucsd.edu
Sean Drummond
Relationship between Changes in Sleep and Memory in Older Adults
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 2 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1805.html Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
James Fowler
The Spread of Poor Sleep Behavior Influences Drug Use in Adolescent Social Networks
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 2 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper2488.html
Troubled sleep is a commonly cited consequence of adolescent drug use, but it has rarely been studied as a cause. Nor have there been any studies of the extent to which sleep behavior can spread in social networks from person to person to person. Here we map the social networks of 8,349 adolescents in order to study how sleep behavior spreads, how drug use behavior spreads, and how a friend’s sleep behavior influences one’s own drug use. We find clusters of poor sleep behavior and drug use extend up to four degrees of separation (to one’s friends’ friends’ friends’ friends) in the social network. Contact: Inga Kiderra, 858-822-0661, ikiderra@ucsd.edu
Sara C. Mednick
Domains of Learning and Memory that Are Enhanced with Sleep in Adults
8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Room 2 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1795.html
Memory is not unified. Instead there are different domains for learning how to ride a bike, memorize a phone number, or visually spot tumors in a radiological scan. These domains are behaviorally, anatomically and mechanistically distinct. Mednick will examine differences between these memory domains through the investigation of an underlying process that facilitates the formation of memory: sleep. Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
Spawning Aggregations and Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of California
8:30 a.m. 10 a.m.
Room 6D (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1981.html
Once described by Jacques Cousteau as the "world's aquarium," the marine ecosystems of the Gulf of California are under threat. Destructive new fishing methods are depleting the sea¹s habitats, creating areas that are ghosts of their former existences. But, as Octavio Aburto-Oropeza will describe, habitat conservation can revitalize once-depleted marine ecosystems. Aburto-Oropeza¹s findings on reversing ecosystem damage are part of a series of research studies headed by the newly launched Gulf of California Program based at Scripps Institution Oceanography. Contact: Mario Aguilera, 858-534-3624, scrippsnews@ucsd.edu
Lawrence S. B. Goldstein
Topical Lecture: The Future of Stem Cell Research
12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Room 6D (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session2096.html
Goldstein is passionate about the promise of research with human embryonic stem cells — pliable, generic cells from the early embryo that scientists can convert into the body’s specialized cells to study basic biological processes, disease, and organ regeneration. Funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the state of California, his research may help to identify the cause of Alzheimer’s disease and to better understand cancer and Huntington’s disease. He also has had an active role in national science policy. Contact: Debra Kain, 619-543-6202 or 619-543-6163, ddkain@ucsd.edu
Meet the Scientists at AAAS Family Science Days!
12:30 – 4:30 p.m.
San Diego Convention Center Exhibit Hall B1
http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010/program/fsd/
The San Diego Science Festival is an Exhibitor, with an information booth open all day on Saturday, February 20 and Sunday, February 21 during the Family Days weekend. The San Diego Science Festival will demonstrate the Rubik's Cube classroom kits, and have informational materials about the Festival Week and Expo Day available. Helping to staff the booth are UC San Diego Sixth College students who are taking the Service Learning (CAT 124) serving as interns for the San Diego Science Festival efforts. The students – including those majoring in management, economics, bioengineering, even theatre and anthropology – get practical experience as they assist with public relations, website content, logistics, social networks and other efforts involved with the 2010 Festival. Contact: Judy Piercey, 858-534-6128, or cell 858-449-1833, jpiercey@ucsd.edu
Keith Pezzoli
Knowledge-Action Collaboratives for Research Translation and Science Communication
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Room 9 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1854.html Contact: Inga Kiderra, 858-822-0661, ikiderra@ucsd.edu
Hiram Sarabia
Superfund Research Program: Lessons Learned Working with Vulnerable Communities
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Room 9 (San Diego Convention Center) http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Paper1866.html Contact: Inga Kiderra, 858-822-0661, ikiderra@ucsd.edu
Keith Pezzoli, Hiram Sarabia, and Shannon Bradley
Video Presentation and Discussion: UCSD-TV’s “Los Laureles Canyon: Research in Action”
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Room 9 (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1589.html
This UCSD-TV documentary follows researchers from Mexico and the United States as they collaborate to address the environmental challenges in Los Laureles, a canyon that is home to 65,000 people in Tijuana and spills into the sensitive wetlands of the Tijuana Estuary in California. Contact: Inga Kiderra, 858-822-0661, ikiderra@ucsd.edu
Larry Smarr
How Computational Science Is Tackling the Grand Challenges Facing Science and Society
9:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Room 11B (San Diego Convention Center)
http://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2010/webprogram/Session1610.html
On February 25, 1985, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched a new partnership with four of the nation’s leading universities to invest in the creation of supercomputer centers to help solve some of the nation’s most pressing “grand challenges.” The NSF supercomputer center program was established 25 years ago as a critical cornerstone to promote discovery, harness innovation, push our knowledge, and help the next generation fulfill its promise. The centers were designed to help U.S. researchers retain their global lead in scientific computation, acquired after World War II through federal investments. They also were meant to broaden access to advanced computing facilities for researchers unable to tap into supercomputer networks under the aegis of other federal agencies.
Contact: Doug Ramsey, 858-822-5825, dramsey@ucsd.edu
Tour of the San Diego Supercomputer Center
We’re Awash in Data: Now What?
1 p.m. – 5 p.m.
San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego
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SDSC commemorates its 25th anniversary as one of the original four national centers launched in 1985 by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Visitors from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting are invited to tour SDSC’s new “green” data center and learn about advances and cutting-edge research made possible by new data-intensive, high-performance computing resources. Invited speakers include:
The tour will include a visit to SDSC’s data center, and a demo of remote supercomputing using SDSC’s paneled display wall or “OptiPortal.”
Contact: Warren Froelich, 858-822-3622, wfroelich@ucsd.edu