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Day of the Beagle Symposium
"Scientific Discovery on the Computation Institute/BSD Cray “Beagle” Supercomputer"

DATE: April 23, 2012
TIME: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION: Searle 240, University of Chicago

Description:
For Charles Darwin, the HMS Beagle was the ship for the historic voyage in 1831 that inspired his later work on the origin of species. For the University of Chicago, "Beagle" is an 18,000-core Cray XE6 supercomputer that is one of the most powerful supercomputers dedicated to biomedical research. Since its launch in early 2011, Beagle has supported over 80 research projects, more than 300 users and has resulted in over 30 publications. On April 23rd, a "Day of the Beagle" symposium will discuss the innovative research made possible to date by Beagle, with speakers representing the fields of genomics, neurobiology, molecular biology and medicine.

8:30 – 9:00 Continental breakfast

9:00 – 9:30 Ian Foster & Conrad Gilliam
Overview of the Cray Beagle and Diversity of Science on Beagle

9:30 – 10:15 Kazutaka Takahashi & Nicholas Hatsopoulos (PI)
Computation and analysis of time varying large-scale networks of spiking neurons in primary motor cortex using massively-parallel supercomputers

10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:15 Yves Lussier (PI) & Haiquan Li
Intergenic DNA’s role in complex disease unveiled by supercomputer-obligated analyses of BIG data

11:15 – 12:00 Greg Tietjen & Ka Yee Lee (PI)
Elucidating the molecular details of phosphatidylserine membrane recognition in immune response

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

12:45 – 13:00 Esmael Jafari Haddadian
Using Beagle in an actual undergraduate biology course

13:00 – 13:45 Benoit Roux (PI)
Theoretical studies of biomolecular systems on Beagle: highly-scalable computational strategies

13:45 – 14:30 Edwin Munro (PI), TaeYoon Kim
Using agent-based models and supercomputing to probe self-organized contractility and stress dissipation in active cytoskeletal networks

14:30 – 14:45 Coffee Break

14:45 – 15:30 Jason J. Pitt, Chai Bandlamudi & Kevin White (PI)
Genome sequence analysis workflows

15:30 – 16:15 Elizabeth McNally (PI), Megan Puckelwartz & Lorenzo Pesce
Supercomputing for the parallelization of whole genome sequence analysis

16:15 – 16:45 Carlos Sosa (Cray)
Cray Supercomputers – Life Sciences

16:45 – 17:00 Ian Foster – Closing Remarks / Future Directions

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