Final Agenda (last updated 19 June 2017)
Monday, June 19:
8:30 – 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast provided! |
538 Davey Lab | Orientation to the Week (Palma) |
9:00 – 10:30 am | A Brief History of Computing in Science (Li) | |
10:30 – 10:45 am | Break (break times are approximate and may vary) | |
10:45 am – 12:00 noon | The Frontier of Computational Cosmology: The Growth of Structure in the Universe (Li) | |
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own | |
1:30 – 3:00 pm | Hardware Architectures for Modern Scientific Computing (Kandemir) | |
3:00 – 3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30 – 4:45 pm | Deep Learning: The Next Workload for High-Performance Computing? (Kandemir) | |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Discussion and Daily Evaluation (Palma) | |
9:30 – 11:00 pm | Rooftop Observing (weather dependent) (Palma) |
Tuesday, June 20:
9:00 – 10:30 am | 538 Davey Lab | PHeT Investigation on Gravity & Orbits (Palma) |
10:30 – 10:45 am | Break (break times are approximate and may vary) | |
10:45 am – 12:00 noon | Gravity and Orbits (Williams) | |
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own | |
1:30 – 3:00 pm | Orbit Applications and Journey to the Moon (Williams) | |
3:00 – 3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30 – 4:45 pm | Universe Sandbox (Palma & Williams) | |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Discussion and Daily Evaluation (Palma) | |
9:30 – 11:00 pm | Rooftop Observing (if necessary) (Palma) |
Wednesday, June 21:
9:00 – 10:30 am | 538 Davey Lab | N-body Simulations in Astronomy (Jackson) |
10:30 – 10:45 am | Break (break times are approximate and may vary) | |
10:45 am – 12:00 noon | Introduction to Fractals (He, Hemler, & Li) | |
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own | |
1:30 – 3:00 pm | Hands-on Fractal Calculation & Visualization (He, Hemler, & Li) | |
3:00 – 3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30 – 4:45 pm | Hands-on Fractal Calculation & Visualization (He, Hemler, & Li) | |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Discussion and Daily Evaluation (Palma) | |
9:30 – 11:00 pm | Rooftop Observing (if necessary) (Palma) |
Thursday, June 22:
9:00 – 10:30 am | 538 Davey Lab | R: Statistics in the Classroom (Feigelson) |
10:30 – 10:45 am | Break (break times are approximate and may vary) | |
10:45 am – 12:00 noon | R: Statistics in the Classroom (Feigelson) | |
12:00 noon – 1:30 pm | Lunch on your own | |
1:30 – 3:00 pm | Zoom Presentation – Big Data from the APOGEE Experiment (Beaton) | |
3:00 – 3:30 pm | Break | |
3:30 – 4:45 pm | Analyzing SDSS Stellar Spectra with Voyages (Palma) | |
4:45 – 5:00 pm | Discussion and Daily Evaluation (Palma) | |
6:00 – 8:30 pm | Banquet — Atherton Hotel followed by Exoplanet Surprises (Dawson) |
Friday, June 23:
9:00 – 10:15 am | 538 Davey Lab | How Video Gamers Advance Neutrino Astrophysics (Cowen) |
10:15 – 10:30 am | Break | |
10:30 – 11:30 am | Atomistic-scale simulations with reactive force fields: a computational tool to visualize and understand complex chemistry (van Duin) | |
11:45 am (approx) | adjournment |