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Thom Dunning
Director, National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Blue Waters: An Extraordinary Computer to Enable Extraordinary Research
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/
Thom Dunning is the director of the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds an endowed position as Distinguished Chair for Research Excellence in Chemistry and professor in the Department of Chemistry.
As leader of IACAT/NCSA, Dunning leads a staff of approximately 300 technologists and scientists who:
- provide and support high-performance computing, data-intensive computing, and networking resources;
- explore innovative computing architectures and techniques to achieve petascale (and beyond) science;
- develop cyberenvironments tailored to the needs of research communities and software and tools to improve cybersecurity;
- create artful visualizations of scientific phenomena;
- and help prepare the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Dunning previously held leadership positions at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina System, the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He was instrumental in creating DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program, the federal government's first comprehensive program aimed at developing the software infrastructure needed for leadership-class scientific computing.
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science as well as a member of the American Chemical Society. Dunning received DOE's E. O. Lawrence Award in 1997 and its Distinguished Associate Award in 2001.
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John Mattick
ARC Federation Fellow, University of Queensland
Data Challenges in Computational Biology
http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/?page=12238
http://matticklab.com/
http://www.imb.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=11681
John Mattick is the Professor of Molecular Biology and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland. He undertook his undergraduate training at the University of Sydney and his PhD at Monash University. He has subsequently worked at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, the CSIRO Division of Molecular Biology in Sydney, and at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Cologne, Strasbourg and Queensland, where he has been based since 1988. He was the Foundation Director of the Australian Genome Research Facility, the ARC Special Research Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, and the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. He has also served on the advisory councils of a number of research agencies and organizations, including the Human Frontier Science Program and Genome Canada.
Professor Mattick has worked in range of areas in molecular biology, including mitochondrial DNA replication, multifunctional enzymes, recombinant vaccine development, bacterial pathogenesis, and more recently the role of non-coding RNA in the evolution and development of complex organisms. He has published over 180 scientific papers. His work and ideas challenging the accepted dogma of genetics have received coverage in major scientific journals including Science, Nature, and Scientific American, as well as The New York Times, among others.
He has been awarded the Pharmacia-LKB Biotechnology Medal by the Australian Biochemical Society (1989), Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (2002), the Australian Government Centenary Medal (2003), the CSIRO Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science (2006) and the inaugural Gutenberg Professorship at the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg (2008). He was elected as an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2007, and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2008. He was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia in 2001.
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Jürgen P. Schulze
Research Scientist, CalIT2,
University of California at San Diego
Immersive Visualisation in the Cave
http://www.calit2.net/~jschulze/
http://www.calit2.net/~jschulze/projects/
Jürgen P. Schulze is a Research Scientist at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a Lecturer in the computer science department at the University of California San Diego. His research interests include scientific visualization in virtual environments, human-computer interaction, real-time volume rendering, and graphics algorithms on programmable graphics hardware. He holds an M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. After his graduation he spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department at Brown University. |
