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Antony Jameson, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford, will be celebrating his 80th birthday this year. In honor of his 80th birthday, the Boeing Company will be hosting...
This week's category in the Fall 2014 ICME Student Photo Contest is "Social Life." Four fun pictures are finalists, and we need your help selecting the winner of this category.
Go to the ICME Facebook page to view the entries. https://www.facebook.com/ICMEStanford.
The photo with the most “Likes” will receive a prize—voting is open until Friday and we’ll announce the winner on Monday, along...
Announcing the Fall 2014 ICME Student Photo Contest.
This week's category is "Campus Scenes" with three fantastic photographs selected as finalists.
We need your help selecting the winner of this category. Go to the ICME Facebook page to view the entries. https://www.facebook.com/ICMEStanford.
The photo with the most “Likes” will receive a prize—voting is open until Friday and we’ll...
ICME will host our first-ever Xtend event on November 6-8, 2014. A unique opportunity for alumni, students, faculty, and industry partners to network, discuss current trends in our fields, and attend several workshops and short courses, ICME Xtend is a three-day gathering don the Stanford main campus. Thursday, November 6, 2014 - Saturday, November 8, 2014 View the event website at https://icme.stanford.edu/events/icme-xtend. An...
Provost John Etchemendy announced Thursday that nine Stanford faculty members had been named or reappointed Bass University Fellows.
Join us in congratulating the two ICME faculty who are among the honorees: Brad Osgood, professor of Electrical Engineering, and Margot Gerritsen, ICME Director and professor of Energy Resources Engineering.
Established in 2001, the...
Announcing CUDA on Campus Day- October 15, 2014 at Stanford.
Brought to you by NVIDIA and ICME (a NVIDA CUDA Center of Excellence), each year we get together in the Huang Engineering Center for a morning full of tech talks and an afternoon with GPU computing labs.
Register today- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stanford-nvidia-tech-talks-...
Save the date: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 is NVIDIA CUDA on Campus day at Stanford University.
Stanford University, a NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence, and NVIDIA are organizing CUDA on Campus. Stanford faculty and researchers will speak about of how heterogeneous computing with GPUs is important to sustaining and advancing the state of the art in scientific and research...
ICME alumnus Cris Cecka, PhD '11, is featured in the NVIDIA CUDA Spotlight this week for his work on GPU- Accelerated Computational Mathematics. Cris is a lecturer and research scientist at Harvard University's Institute for Applied Computational Science. See the article here: http://www.nvidia.com/...
ICME in the News: Click here to read a recent feature on ICME, which highlights our first decade and what's on the horizon for the Institute: https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/icme-celebrates-its-first-decade-using-%E2%80%98big-math%E2%80%99-tackle-big-questions.
The Mobilize Center, selected from a competitive pool of applications to establish a National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Center, is coming soon to Stanford. The Mobilize Center will unify several modeling approaches to make predictions and gain inference from large, heterogeneous datasets, including statistical learning, mechanistic modeling, and machine learning. The project will assemble some of Stanford’s leading data science and...
Stanford University was recently awarded the National Science Foundation Major Reseach Instrumentation grant, which will be used to bring an "Extreme GPU" HPC cluster to campus. The X-GPU will be comprised of 54 compute nodes using the Cray Hydra technology with FDR Infiniband. Each node has Intel Haswell 12-cores; 8 NVIDIA Kepler cards; 128 GB of DDR4 memory; a 120 GB SSD and two 1 TB hard drives.
Principal Investigators for this award are Todd Martinez, Tom Abel, ...
Jeremy Kozdon, MS '06, PhD '09 and assistant professor of applied mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, is featured in the SIAM News this month for his work on earthquake modeling with Professor Eric Dunham.
Kozdon and Dunham's team studies earthquakes by means of dynamic rupture modeling. Click ...
This summer, ICME will host several short courses. Join us for Introduction to Statistical Data Analysis (August 4-8), Introduction to Scientific Computing in Python (August 4-8), Solving Linear Systems (August 11-15), an Introduction to Modern Machine Learning (August 11-15), and/or Spark (August 13-15). Find details on the courses, along with information on registration, here: https://icme.stanford.edu/courses/...
A hearty congratulations to all of ICME's 2014 graduates! Wishing you all the very best in your next pursuits. Photos from graduation are viewable on our facebook page.
HIVE Xpo
Friday, June 6, 2014 1:00- 4:00pm
Huang Engineering Center, Room 050
Stanford’s new visualization center, the HIVE, opens to the Stanford Community this month.
Join us for an open house any time between 1:00- 4:00pm on Friday, June 6 for the HIVE Xpo. Come see the HIVE in action and learn more about this brand-new collaborative visualization center.
The HANA Immersive Visualization Environment (...
The Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering celebrated our 10 year anniversary as an institute this Spring. To mark the occasion, we invited alumni, faculty, friends, colleagues, current students, staff, and everyone in between to the ICME Xtravaganza on May 30, 2014. The evening was full of laughter, reminiscing, and great music thanks to the ICME band!
View the photo album on our Facebook page, and check out a video of the speeches here: ...
Congratulations to Yinyu Ye, winner of the 2014 SIAM Optimization Prize!
The SIAM (The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Activity Group on Optimization (SIAG/OPT) Prize, established in 1992, is awarded every three years to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper, as determined by the prize committee, on a topic in optimization published in English in a peer-reviewed journal. Yinyu was specifically recognized for his paper "The Simplex and Policy-Iteration Methods...
The Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering will be celebrating our 10 year anniversary as an institute this Spring. We will be celebrating this big milestone with an evening of food, drinks, and music with students, faculty, alumni, and friends at the ICME Xtravaganza.
Registration is now open for the Big Data for Energy and Environment Spring 2014 Conference of Stanford’s Energy and Environment Affiliates Program, Thursday May 15, 2014, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. at Stanford University, with a welcome reception the prior evening. Massive data and sophisticated analytical techniques are leading to new opportunities in fields such as electricity generation and distribution, manufacturing, oil and gas, and sustainability. This...
Above and Beyond
Stanford welcomes you to the world “Above and Beyond” with our third TEDxStanford, Saturday, May 10.
Whether you’ve attended our previous events or are new to TEDxStanford, we are delighted to invite you to TEDxStanford2014: Above and Beyond. Join us for a day of inspirational short talks and performances by scholars that go above and beyond the ordinary.
From a deep dive with extreme creatures of the sea and the new synthetic biology...
ICME congratulates Ph.D. candidate Madeleine Udell, who was just selected as a recipient of a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship.
This fellowship, named in honor of one of Stanford's most distinguished citizens, Provost Emeritus Gerald J. Lieberman, honors the qualities of outstanding scholarship, teaching and university service that his career exemplified.
Join us in congratulating Madeleine on this outstanding honor.
Congratulations to Reza Zadeh, Mahalia Miller, and Lynne Burks for making the news!
This project is a collaboration between Stanford and Twitter to measure earthquake impact in almost real-time.
Click on the links below to learn more about this project:
http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/02/tweets-can-guide-emergency-...
Emmanuel Candès has just been selected to the National Academy of Sciences.
You can find more information about Emmanuel at https://profiles.stanford.edu/emmanuel-candes
Congratulations to Emmanuel!
Please join us on Friday April 11 for the 4th Stanford Conference for Computational Social Science jointly hosted by The Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, directed by Margot Gerritsen; The Center for the Study of Language and Information, directed by Chris Potts; and ...
Announcing a full-day workshop on the high-speed cluster programming framework, Spark. We will discuss Machine Learning and Matrix Computations, along with other projects in the Spark platform such as Shark and MLLib, and new programming tools for big data. The workshop will include introductions to the many Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, future development plans, and hands-on exercises for...
The Math + X Symposium at Stanford University is Monday, March 17, 2014. Details are available here.
Click here to register -- Sign up early as space is limited
The Math+X Program at Stanford University was established in 2012 with funding from...
ICME is pleased to announce that Dr. Michael Levitt will present a special seminar, "Birth and Future of Multi-Scale Modeling of Macromolecules"
The Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the Department of Structural Biology and Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Science, Dr. Michael Levitt was Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 "for the development...
Congratulations to Stephen Boyd on his recent election to the National Academy of Engineering.
Professor Boyd, an ICME faculty member, is the Samsung Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor, by courtesy, of Computer Sciences. He was elected to the Academy for his contributions to engineering design and analysis via convex optimization.
CME and the Stanford Research Computing Center, in conjunction with SAP, to offer a two-session short course in using SAP HANA, SAP's massively parallel, in-memory database and application server platform.
The HANA platform accelerates analytics performance over very large databases. HANA simply makes things possible that weren’t possible...
Alan George, Michael Saunders, and Jim Varah turn 70 during this year. We'll be celebrating their birthdays and accomplishments at Stanford University on Saturday, January 25, 2014 (with a banquet dinner that evening). Students, friends, and colleagues are all welcome to attend. This meeting also marks the 10-year anniversary of the first SVG Meeting,
For addional information and to register please click ...
Congratulations to Nick Henderson who was one of six awardees of "Most Excellent Young Researchers Presentation" at the Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications in Paris, France. There he presented a paper titled: "A CUDA Monte Carlo simulator for radiation therapy dosimetry based on Geant4"
BASCD is an annual one-day meeting focused on fostering interactions and collaborations between researchers in the fields of scientific computing and computational science and engineering from the San Francisco Bay Area. The event provides junior researchers a venue to present their work to the local community, and for the Bay Area scientific and computational science and engineering communities at large to interchange views on today’s multidisciplinary computational challenges...
Registration: https://stanford-gpuworkshop.eventbrite.com
What is the event: Half day scientific computing symposium & half day hands on GPU computing workshop.
Who is it for: Undergraduate, Graduate Students, Postdocs, Researchers, and Professors.
Why you should attend: Hear from fellow researchers focused on best...
Beginning autumn 2014, we will offer a master’s track in Mathematical & Computational Finance. This track supersedes the previous MS program in Financial Mathematics in the School of Humanities and Sciences and has been developed and will be directed by the same faculty leadership.
Compared to the old Financial Mathematics program, the requirements have changed slightly and now contain more classes in data science and computing, essential for modern day...
The ICS Prize is an annual award for best English language paper on the OR/CS interface.
Winner: John Gunnar Carlsson
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