{"202971":{"#nid":"202971","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Center for Data Analytics Workshop - April 15","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe new Center for Data Analytics (CDA) at Georgia Tech will offer its first workshop on Big Data Research and Development to exchange information on expertise and activities related to data analytics at Georgia Tech, GTRI, and Emory University. The workshop will take place on Monday, April 15, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. The CDA workshop is designed to strengthen and build the Georgia Tech community of researchers and partners in areas of big data. It is sponsored in part by the Institute for Data and High Performance Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003ERegister here: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/idh.gatech.edu\/content\/cda-workshop-registration\u0022\u003ERegistration Page\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ELocation: Marcus Nanotechnology Research Building\u0026nbsp;(Rooms 1116-1118),\u0026nbsp;345 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, Ga 30332\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProgram Format\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe workshop will consist of several invited talks, a panel, and a poster session.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p4\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWorkshop Schedule\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E8:30 - 8:50 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003EBreakfast\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E8:50 \u2013 9:00 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003EWelcoming Remarks\u003C\/strong\u003E - Richard Fujimoto (Director of the Institute for Data and High Performance Computing),\u0026nbsp;Haesun Park (Director of the Center for Data Analytics), Zvi Galil (Dean of the College of Computing)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E9:00\u0026nbsp;\u2013 10:30 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EInvited Talks, Session Chair: Nina Balcan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E9:00 \u2013 9:15 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EComputational Challenges in the Development of Improved Cancer Diagnostics and Therapies\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EJohn McDonald (Georgia Tech, Biology)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E9:15 \u2013 9:30 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EApplied Data Analytics at GTRI\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EDan Campbell (Georgia Tech Research Institute)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E9:30 \u2013 9:45 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EData and Computational Challenges in Integrative Biomedical Informatics\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EJoel Saltz (Director of the Center for Comprehensive Informatics; Emory University, Biomedical Informatics)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E9:45 \u2013 10:00 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003ESparsity and Rank Constraints in Solving Underdetermined Systems\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EJustin Romberg (Georgia Tech, Electrical and Computer Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E10:00 \u2013 10:15 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EData Analytics for Materials Datasets\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003ESurya Kalidindi (Georgia Tech, Mechanical Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E10:15 \u2013 10:30 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELeveraging Geospatial Technologies in Planning for a Sustainable Future\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESubhro Guhathakurta (Director of the Center for Geographic Information Systems; Georgia Tech, Architecture)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E10:30 \u2013 10:45 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003EBreak\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E10:45\u0026nbsp;\u2013 12:10 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003EInvited Talks, Session Chair: Hongyuan Zha\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E10:45 \u2013 11:00 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EOperational Aspects of Big Data for a Research University\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003ERon Hutchins (Georgia Tech, Office of Information Technology)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E11:00 \u2013 11:15 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EThe Role of Predictive Models in Data Analytics\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EXiaoming Huo (Georgia Tech, Industrial and Systems Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E11:15 \u2013 11:30 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EThe Challenge of Large Data Sets \u2013 Examples from Petascale Simulations of Fluid Turbulence\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EP.K. Yeung (Georgia Tech, Aerospace Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E11:30 \u2013 11:45 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003EBig Data Analytics: Long Tail, Web Analytics, and Social Media\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EJeffrey Hu (Georgia Tech, Business)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E11:45 \u2013 12:00 \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ELearning and Optimizing Information Diffusion\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003ELe Song (Georgia Tech, Computational Science and Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E12:00 \u2013 12:10 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003ERemarks about\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E Data Analytics at Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003ESteve Cross (Georgia Tech, Executive VP of Research)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E12:10 \u2013 1:45 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003ELunch and Poster Session\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1:45 \u2013 2:45 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPanel Discussion\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EPanelists: \u003Cem\u003EJianjun Shi (Industrial Systems \u0026amp; Engineering), John Wise (Physics),\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESuresh Menon (Aerospace Engineering), Mark Braunstein (Associate Director of the Health Systems Institute; Interactive Computing), John Stasko (Interactive Computing)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EChair: Polo Chau (Georgia Tech, Computational Science and Engineering)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E2:45 \u2013 2:50 \u0026nbsp; \u003Cstrong\u003EConcluding Remarks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;-\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003EHaesun Park and Richard Fujimoto\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EList of Posters\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EA Cubic Algorithm for Computing Gaussian Volume\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAuthors:\u003C\/em\u003E Ben Cousins and Santosh Vempala\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccelerating Analysis and Data Reduction in Experimental Combustion Research through High Performance Computing\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAuthors:\u003C\/em\u003E Benjamin Wilde, Christopher Foley, Andrew Marshall, Benjamin Emerson, J. 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