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Tuesday, October 1, 2024
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Digital Learning Center Room 136

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The UCF Research Computing Symposium will be held on October 1, 2024, at the UCF Digital Learning Center and is organized and sponsored by the Office of Research. The aim is to bring together researchers in UCF who leverage advanced computing resources to accelerate their research; resources such as UCF’s Stokes and Newton from ARCC, national super-computing facilities from agencies and partners such as DoE, NSF, and NASA (NERSC, ACCESS, HiPerGator), etc. This program features a keynote by Dr. Erik Deumens from University of Florida, lightning talks from UCF researchers, student poster presentations, tour of the UCF ARCC facility and networking opportunities.

Schedule of events

Please view the agenda for the program. This event is in-person with no option for virtual attendance. Breakfast and lunch will be provided, and we will also be hosting a reception during the student poster session at the end of the event.

Registration

This event is free to attend, but registration is required for all attendees. Please note that space is limited. Please complete the registration form by 9/28 5pm. If you are unable to attend for any reason, please let us know so we can free up your seat for those on the waiting list. Preference will be given to those with posters and talks to present.

Student Poster Session

If you are a student participant and interested in presenting your poster, please use the registration form to register for the event and submit your poster title and a 250-word abstract by 9/28 5pm using this form: Poster Submission Form for the 2024 UCF Research Computing Symposium. Poster guidelines can be found here. If you have any questions or issues with poster submission, email Dr. Nandan Tandon (Nandan.Tandon@ucf.edu)

Any other questions related to the event and any accommodation requests can also be directed to Dr. Shafaq Chaudhry (Shafaq.Chaudhry@ucf.edu).

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Agenda

Please kindly note that this agenda is subject to updates

8:30 AM 9:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast

9:00 AM 9:15 AM: Welcome and Opening Remarks – Dr. Winston Schoenfeld, Vice President for Research and Innovation, UCF

9:15 AM 10:15 AM: Keynote Speaker – Dr. Erik Deumens – Director of Research Computing, University of Florida

Research Computing in the 2020s Decade

The decade of 2021-2030 is seeing some significant changes in how academic research will be and has to be conducted: There are transformative innovations caused by the advances in AI and impactful changes caused by legitimate concerns about cybersecurity resulting in new regulations on how research data must be safeguarded and research processes must be documented, audited, and reported on. The technology exists to meet these requirements, but the change in culture will require some time. This talk will discuss the challenges and describe some approaches to navigate them.

10:15 AM 11:30 AM: Faculty Lightning Talks: Session 1

Dr. Duy Le, Leveraging high-performance computing for realistic material simulations

Dr. Carlos Cardoso Borges, Using fast accurate methods for the solution of forward and inverse scattering problems

Dr. Theodora Karalidi, Modeling and characterizing exoatmospheres with UCF’s Stokes and Newton.

Dr. Shengli Zou, Computer Assisted Catalytic Reaction for Renewable Energy

Dr. Patrick Schelling, Large-scale simulation of heat, mass, and electron-transport phenomena

Dr. Liping Yu, Computational Design of New Materials for Next Generation Electronics and Sustainable Energy

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM Lunch

12:15 PM – 1:00 PM Facility Tour: UCF’s Advanced Research Computing Center – Dr. Glenn Martin, Director, Advanced Research Computing Center, UCF

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Faculty Lightning Talks: Session 2

Dr. Gerrit Welper, Conducting Large Numbers of Small Experiments

Dr. Taj Azarian, Meaningful use of pathogen genomic data: Tracking bacterial mobile elements using published sequences

Dr. Like Li, CFD modeling of high-temperature (> 1000 °C) thermochemical reactors for energy storage

Dr. Laura Brattain, High Performance Computing for Biomedical AI

Emmanuel Nsiye, Semiconductor Manufacturing Digital Twins through Micro-discrete Simulation Deployment

2:00 PM – 2:45 PM Audience Participation: Future of Research Computing at UCF

2:45PM – 3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Faculty Lightning Talks: Session 3

Dr. Akihiro Kushima, Computer-aided material design for advancing energy storage technology

Dr. Shafaq Chaudhry

Dr. Veeraraghava Raju Hasti, High-Fidelity Computer Simulations for Characterization of Sustainable Aviation Fuels using HPC

Dr. Dave Austin, The use of high-performance computers in studying chemical reactions and novel structure formation on surfaces

Priyank Pathak, Transformer For Person ReID 

4:00 PM – 4:45 PM Student Poster Session and Reception

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM Closing Remarks

Poster Submission Guidelines

The maximum size of your poster should be: Standard – 48 inches (width) x 48 inches (height). Your poster must correspond to the title and content of the abstract submitted during the registration.

Formatting suggestions: Display your material in large print so it may be read from a distance. Print TITLE and AUTHORS in extra-large print across the top of your display.

The presenter is responsible for printing, printing costs and transporting their poster.

Posters can be printed at:

Easels and poster boards will be provided during the poster session.

On the day of the Symposium

Please visit the Poster Sign-In desk to obtain your assigned board information. Note that the presenter must be listed as one of the authors of the poster and must be a registered attendee. Posters that are not verified at check-in before being posted will be removed from the session. Additionally, the presenter should bring their UCF student ID for verification at check-in.

Set-up your poster during the lunch break from 12:30 P.M. – 1:15 P.M.

Only the Presenter will be able to enter the Poster Hall to hang the poster. The presenter is responsible for printing the poster.

Each presentation will be assigned a board and will be labeled with the number of the poster and the presenting author’s name. The poster boards will accept binder clips which will be available in the room.

Please return the binder clips at the end of your poster session.

For questions or requesting special accommodations please contact:

Nandan.tandon@ucf.edu; Fahad.khan@ucf.edu; Keene@ucf.edu