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Speaker: Dr. Edward Seidel
Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure
U.S. National Science Foundation
Date: Friday, May 15, 2009
Time: 3:30 to 5:00 pm, U.S. Central Daylight Time (UTC -5 hours) Location: ACES 2.302 (Avaya Auditorium, UT Austin main campus)
Reception: 3:00 to 3:30 pm, ACES Connector Lobby
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Abstract:
Modern cyberinfrastructure - the comprehensive set of deployable hardware, software, and algorithmic tools and environments supporting research, education, and increasingly collaboration across disciplines - is transforming not only science and engineering, but all disciplines and society itself. Motivating with examples ranging from astrophysics to emergency forecasting to applications in humanities and social sciences, Dr. Seidel will describe the need, the potential, and the transformative impact of cyberinfrastructure. He will also discuss current and planned future efforts at the U.S. National Science Foundation to address them.
Speaker Biography:
Seidel became director of the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure in September 2008 and oversees advances in supercomputing, high-speed networking, data storage and software development on a national level. He retains his faculty positions and his affiliation with the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University. Prior to these posts, Seidel was a professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, or AEI) in Germany. There, he founded and led AEI's numerical relativity and e-science groups, which became leading forces worldwide in solving Einstein's equations using large-scale computers and in distributed and grid computing. He also served as a senior research scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and as an associate professor in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, Seidel is presently the chief scientist for the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative.
