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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Materials Genome Initiative
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Ian Robertson
The Materials Genome Initiative, announced by President Obama in June 2011, recognizes the importance of materials science to the well-being and advancement of society and seeks to integrate all components in the materials continuum, including materials discovery, development, property...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: N-body Algorithms for Multiscale Simulations
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): George Biros
N-body algorithms are the computational cornerstone for many problems in mathematical physics. In this talk, I will present (1) a brief history of N-body algorithms and their application to multiscale problems with an emphasis to fluid dynamics simulations; (2) give a brief overview of the most...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Parallel Stochastic Particle Methods for Atmospheric Aerosol Modeling
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Jeffrey Curtis
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Modeling Energetic Light From Our Neighboring Galaxy
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Gary Foreman
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Robert Lang
From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of OrigamiThe last decade of this past century has been witness to a revolution in the development and application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. The techniques used in...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: A Scalable Method for Cellular Blood Flow and Other N-body Systems
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Natalie Beams
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Machine Learning and Cosmology: New Approaches to Constraining the Dark Universe
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Matias Carrasco Kind
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Determining Materials Properties from Non-Equilibrium Dynamics and Stress Measurements in Polymer Solutions and Colloidal Suspensions
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Folarin Latinwo
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Modeling the Earth's Climate System From Petascale to Exascale
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Donald Wuebbles
Scientific evidence strongly indicates that human activities are playing a significant role in bringing about major changes in our climate system, particularly in the last five decades. Significant changes in climate as a result of these human activities are projected for the rest of the 21st...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Making Sense of Unstructured Data
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Dan Roth
Recent studies have shown that over 85% of the information people and organizations deal with is unstructured – the vast majority of which is text in different forms. A multitude of techniques has to be used in order to enable intelligent access to this information and support transforming it to...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Generating Rich Event Data on Civil Strife: A Progressive Supervised-Learning Approach Part 1
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Scott Althaus
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities that "big data" poses to scholars advancing research frontiers in the social sciences. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of machine-based and human-centric approaches to information extraction and argues for use of a hybrid approach, one...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Generating Rich Event Data on Civil Strife: A Progressive Supervised-Learning Approach Part 2
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Scott Althaus
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities that "big data" poses to scholars advancing research frontiers in the social sciences. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of machine-based and human-centric approaches to information extraction and argues for use of a hybrid approach, one...
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[Illinois] CSE 2013: Data Curation for Cross-Disciplinary Value and Fit
Online Presentations | 02 Jun 2013 | Contributor(s): Carole Palmer
Digital data are now widely recognized as valuable assets―research resources that have tremendous potential for reuse in new and innovative ways. As recognized by Jim Gray over a decade ago, and the natural history community decades earlier, realizing this potential will require ready access to...