Several U-M faculty affiliated with MIDAS will participate in the KDD2018 Conference in London in August. The meeting is held by the Associate for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group in…
Dr. Ivo Dinov, professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Human Behavior, and Biological Science, and associate director of MIDAS, recently published an article on the training and education curricula needs…
The U-M Statistics in the Community (STATCOM) group was recently featured in AMSTATNEWS, the magazine of the American Statistical Association. Read the article at https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2018/04/01/statcom-universities/. STATCOM is supported in part by…
The Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering has awarded its second round of Catalyst Grants, providing between $80,000 and $90,000 each to seven innovative projects in computational science. The…
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July 26 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
This workshop will develop introductory concepts, tools, and techniques to model spatially referenced data observed over a regular or irregular grid. We will cover models such as spatial autoregressive that…
August 6 @ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm
Please join us for the second annual Single-cell Genomic Data Analytics Symposium. The day long symposium will highlight researchers from U-M and around the world whose work is on the…
August 28 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Geostatistics deals with continuous variation over space and emphasizes the idea of spatial correlation via covariance. It is widely used for spatial interpolation. We will use ArcGIS and R to…
September 13 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Data-intensive social science is one of the research focus areas that MIDAS supports with its Challenge Awards. Our long-term goal is to support this research area more broadly, using the…
ARC Highlights
Electricity in India
Many still live in darkness
U-M Assistant Professor of Political Science Brian Min is using the Flux high performance computing cluster to analyze thousands of satellite images showing the output of electric lights in India.
His Nightlights website shows satellite images collected over 20 years from more than 600,000 villages. Min’s research reveals that some local units of government have overstated their progress in electrification, and that political considerations play into which regions get electricity, among other things.
Read the U-M press release for more details.
Sharon Broude Geva re-elected as vice-chair of CASC
Sharon Broude Geva, the Director of Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, has been re-elected vice-chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC).
Founded in 1989, CASC advocates for the use of advanced computing technology to accelerate scientific discovery for national competitiveness, global security, and economic success. The organization’s members represent 84 institutions of higher education and national labs.
ConFlux
Combining Big Data and HPC
A new way of computing could lead to immediate advances in aerodynamics, climate science, cosmology, materials science and cardiovascular research.
The National Science Foundation will provide $2.42 million to develop a unique facility for refining complex, physics-based computer models with big data techniques at the University of Michigan. The university will provide an additional $1.04 million.
See the grant description and press release for more information.
$5 million to widen ‘bottleneck to discovery’
An NSF grant will create a software-defined network between three Michigan universities
Buried in troves of data that scientists have gathered, but not yet analyzed, could be key insights to improving cancer treatment, understanding Alzheimer’s, predicting climate change effects and developing cheaper, clean energy technologies.
Those are just a few of the countless examples of fields where our capacity to gather scientific data now far exceeds our capacity to crunch it—especially when collaborations span the globe. Some research projects are producing the equivalent of 1,000 consumer hard drives a month, for example. Read more.
ARC Symposia and Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days
ARC’s multidisciplinary research institutes, the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) and the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE), hold annual symposia bringing together like-minded researchers from across U-M and beyond.
- MIDAS Symposium 2017
- MICDE Symposium 2017
- MIDAS Symposium 2016
- MICDE Symposium 2016
- MIDAS Symposium 2015
- Joint MICDE/MIDAS Symposium 2014
ARC’s predecessor, the Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure or ORCI held annual Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days events to bring the computational research community together, including prominent speakers and poster competitions:
