Argonne National Laboratory is partnering with Illinois Tech for a new joint seminar series that will promote research collaborations between two organizations in computing fields including high performance computing, AI/ML, edge computing, data science, and more.

For Spring 2022, the first series will include a kickoff seminar, followed by four theme seminars. More follow-on series will be arranged in the near future. For the first series, all the seminars will be held on Wednesdays 4-5pm (CT) on a weekly basis between March 2nd and April 6th.

For each seminar, there will be four speakers (two from Argonne and two from Illinois Tech). Each speaker is expected to give an elevator pitch of his/her research in 10-15min (lightning talk).

All the seminars (including the kickoff seminar) will be held virtually via Zoom. The schedule of the first series is listed below. Please join us in discussing future possibilities.

March 2, 4-5pm: Kickoff Seminar

• Illinois Tech College of Computing Dean Lance Fortnow
• Argonne MCS and ALCF Directors Valerie Taylor and Mike Papka

March 9, 4-5pm: AI/ML Theme

Illinois Tech presenters:

• Mustafa Bilgic (Active Learning with Rationales)
• Yan Yan (Multi-modal Machine Learning)

Argonne presenters:

• Prasanna Balaprakash (Automated Machine Learning at Scale)
• Venkat Vishwanath (Overview of ALCF AI Testbed)

March 16 [Spring Break Week]

• No seminar

March 23, 4-5pm: HPC Theme

Argonne presenters:

• Yanfei Guo (Message Passing Interface)
• Katherine Riley (Introduction to Argonne Leadership Computing Facility)

Illinois Tech presenters:

• Stefan Muller (Programming Languages and Analyses for HPC)
• Rujia Wang (High-Performance Computing with Emerging Memory Architectures)

March 30, 4-5pm: Edge Computing Theme

Argonne presenters:

• Nicola Ferrier (Artificial Intelligence at the Edge)
• Tekin Bicer (Scientific Workflows)

Illinois Tech presenters:

• Nik Sultana (Edge Computing for Big Science)
• Kyle Hale (Virtualization at the Edge)

April 6, 4-5pm: Data Sciences Theme

Illinois Tech presenters:

• Lulu Kang (Energetic Variational Inference)
• Maggie Cheng (Machine Learning on Graphs)

Argonne presenters:

• Julie Bessac (Multidimensional Statistics and Data Science)
• Ryan Chard (Federated HPC for on-demand Data Science)

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