The Fall 2014 Research Computing Symposium will feature leaders in research computing, as well as preeminent University of Michigan scientists engaged in computationally intensive research.

The symposium is the continuation of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days, which has been held at U-M since 2010.

Lunch will be provided; registration is highly recommended (seating is limited). Please register at http://myumi.ch/J9AEJ

The event will also include a poster session, with a $500 first-place prize and two $250 honorable mention prizes, as voted on by attendees. Poster session participants must submit poster title, abstract, and authors when they register to attend the symposium.

Scheduled speakers:

* Edward Seidel, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Talk title: The Data-Enabled Revolution in Science and Society: A Need for National Data Services and Policy
* Marc Snir, Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
Talk title: High Performance Computing: Exascale and Beyond
* Leslie Greengard, Director, Simons Center for Data Analysis, Simons Foundation; Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Talk title: Fast, Accurate Tools for Physical Modeling in Complex Geometry
* Gonçalo Abecasis, Chair of the Biostatistics Department and Felix E. Moore Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, U-M
Talk title: Biostatistics: Bringing Big Data to Genetics, Biology and Medicine
* Sharon Glotzer, Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering; Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Physics, U-M
Talk title: Discovery and Design of Digital Matter
* Scott Page, Leonid Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Complex Systems and Political Science; Professor of Economics; and Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, U-M.
Talk title: Diversity + Ability