MURPA 2011
MURPA 2011
MURPA has progressed steadily since commencing in 2008 and the 2011 program again offers great research project opportunities abroad, backed by a high quality seminar series. Conditions of Entry to the program are generally similar to previous years.
Student Guide to MURPA
General information document for students
Seminar Program
A program of seminars to be conducted by high definition video link has been developed for semester 2. A lead up to this series was a seminar 18 March where recent MURPA students reported on their overseas MURPA experience:
| 18 March 2011, 9-11am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Edgar Kautzner, Jian Zhang, James Wetter, Geoff Pascoe, Lin Wei, Wai Keung Lung MURPA Students 2010-2011 | MURPA Project Outcomes | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 29 July 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Prof Bill Kramer, NCSA | Are We Using the Wrong Metrics for Large Scale HPC Systems? | Abstract | Video | Slides&Audio |
| 3 August 2011, 5-6pm, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Prof Carole Goble, Univ Manchester | The Long tail Scientist | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 5 August 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Prof Vineet Bafna, UCSD | Rapid detection of gene-gene interactions in genome-wide association studies | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 12 August 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Dr Ilkay Altintas, SDSC | On Workflow-Driven Science and the Provenance of Related Products | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 19 August 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Professor Andrew McCammon, UCSD | Nasty Beasties: Computer-aided Drug Discovery for Infectious Diseases. | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 26 August 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Dr Jim Myers, RPI | Delivering "Competitiveness" in High Performance Computing | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 2 September 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Professor Andrew McCulloch, UCSD | Multi-Scale Modeling of the Heart: from Molecule to Organ | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 9 September 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Professor Phil Bourne, UCSD | The Path to Open Science with Illustrations from Computational Biology | Abstract | 2010Video | 2011Slides |
| 16 September 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Professor Fran Berman, RPI | Digital Sustainability: Information as a Persistent Resource in the Digital World | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 23 September 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Dr Wayne Pfieffer, Distinguished Scientist SDSC | Compute- and Data-Intensive Analyses in Bioinformatics | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 07 October 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Professor Mike Norman, SDSC | Cosmological Simulations at the Petascale: Science Results and Operational Challenges | Abstract | Video | Slides |
| 14 October 2011, 9-10am, Rm 135/Bldg 26 Clayton | Dr Sameer Tilak, UCSD | Building Large-scale Personalized Mobile Sensing Systems: Challenges and Research Opportunities | Abstract | Video | Slides |

