2008 Workshops

This workshop will begin with an emphasis on parallel and cluster computing in an educational setting as well as teaching issues in Grids and Parallel Environments. Examples suitable for classroom use will be presented, including both simple codes that can be made available for student modification and more complex examples that use state of the art open source community codes.

In addition, participants will have the opportunity to be introduced to computational biology and computational chemistry tools and resources. Participants will be introduced to dynamic modeling, bioinformatics, simulation, molecular modeling, mathematical software and visualization viz-a-viz distributed environments and tools.

For persons interested in an in-depth introduction to dynamic modeling and bioinformatics, with a focus on their use in the biology classroom. This workshop will cover educational tools and resources designed to facilitate the training of undergraduate students in the rigorous quantitative and computational skills needed for productive careers in the contemporary life sciences.

Participants new to computational science or those who have attended an interdisciplinary workshop are encouraged to attend. Also, prior participants are encouraged to apply.

This workshop will cover various ways that computers can be used to enhance and expand the educational experience of students enrolled in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Discussions and hands-on laboratory exercises on visualization, simulation, molecular modeling, and mathematical software will be presented.

This workshop focuses on Physics education augmented with the resources of high performance computing (HPC). Primary workshop content draws from the traditional parallel computing curriculum, but additional focus is placed on the use of creating curricular content that demonstrates the use of high performance computing hardware to solve modern-day HPC problems.

This workshop, Computational Methods: Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, aims to give HASS faculty, researchers and students intensive hands on experience for improving the quality of their work through access to advanced computing infrastructures and applications such as those provided by Grid, data analytic and visualization technologies. In general, the workshop will consist of a core set of presentations and hands-on sessions in computational HASS domain-dependent activities that will frame the resources within specific HASS domain research areas.

The purpose of the proposed Workshop is to expose and inspire participants with new techniques, new curriculum and new applications to further Computational Science education.

These workshops further efforts in advancing the computational sciences throughout the undergraduate curriculum and to bring faculty from different disciplines together so that they can learn how to bring computational research into their undergraduate classroom.

This workshop series is designed for faculty from a broad range of disciplines: science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), and humanities, arts, and social sciences (HASS). The material covers a broad range of modeling and simulation techniques, e.g. cellular automota, dynamic systems, agents, and Monte Carlo methods. An introduction to using large-scale computational resources will be provided along with credentials and support for continued use of the computational resources after the workshop.

This workshop leverages high performance computing resources and social networks to strengthen nano sciences research and education. Participants in the workshop will be provided with theoretical and practical experiences at the interface of these domains to improve their scholarly work and further their disciplines.

The SC Conference is the premier international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. SC08 marks the 20th anniversary of the first SC Conference, then called Supercomputing, was held in Orlando, Florida in 1988.

When SC08 opens November 15, 2008 in Austin, Texas, the conference will feature the latest scientific and technical innovations from around the world. Bringing together scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and managers, SC08 will be the forum for demonstrating how these developments are driving new ideas, new discoveries and new industries.

The Education Program runs Nov. 15 through Tuesday, Nov. 19.