Faculty to Share Experience of ‘Transformational Projects’ in IDI Showcase Events

Faculty from CSE and other departments are invited to attend one of the three showcase events organized by the Integrated Digital Infrastructure (IDI) program on May 6 and 7 at different locations around campus. The IDI was conceived a year ago to provide a campus-wide approach to applying advanced IT services to support the wide variety of disciplines that increasingly depend on digital data.

 

“This will be real celebration of a wide range of pioneering projects,” says IDI Director and CSE Prof. Larry Smarr (at right, viewing quantitative health data), also founding director of Calit2. “We hope the entire campus community will attend these inaugural Showcases to learn how IDI can help lead them to similar successes.”

 

To ensure that faculty members recognize the value of IDI, most of the speakers at each forum will be faculty who are already receiving IDI mini-grants for the 2014-'15 academic year. They will share how they interacted with IDI to enhance the cyberinfrastructure that supports their research or instruction. In addition to viewing those successes, attendees will also learn how to apply for next year’s support for their own Transformational Projects.

 

Wednesday, May 6, 10am - noon, Learning Center Room 143, Education and Telemedicine Building, School of Medicine

• Ilkay Altintas: WiFire UCSD GIS effort
• Jurgen Schulze and Trey Ideker: Creating greatly expanded, scalable visualization capability for graphing gene and cellular networks
• Rommie Amaro: Rational drug design
• Falko Kuester: Prototype lab for student access to drones
• Lucila Ohno-Machado: Establish scalable Health Sciences HIPAA cloud for human-generated data

Wednesday, May 6, 2pm - 4pm, 4500 Hubbs Hall, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

• Frank Wuerthwein: Large Hadron Collider/CMS Data Tier Two site
• Brenda Bloodgood: Neuronal computation changes in response to interactions with the environment
• Greg Hidley: SDSC's High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network
• Jules Jaffe: Underwater imaging of plankton/phytoplankton
• Mark Ellisman: Crack the living cell nucleus

Thursday, May 7, 10am - noon, 15th Floor Meeting Rooms, The Village at Torrey Pines, West Campus

• Kim Albizati: Undergraduate instruction in upper-division Chemistry
• Thomas Levy: Evolution of societies in the southern Levant from the Neolithic to Islamic periods
• Mehrdad Yazdani: Twitter Big Data study measuring happiness of metropolitan areas
• Allison Marsden: Graduate instruction on computational fluid dynamics
• Rob Knight: Radically advance UCSD's capabilities in multi-omic integration of the human microbiome

Speakers affiliated with the CSE department will include instructor Jurgen Schulze and SDSC's Ilkay Altintas at the first session, while pediatrics professor Rob Knight, who has a partial appointment in CSE, will speak at the Thursday meeting. At each event, faculty speakers will describe their research and how IDI supported that work. Registration information, the full agenda for speakers and location maps are available at IDI’s website. 

 

IDI is coordinating with the Library, SDSC, Qualcomm Institute, ACT, ACMS, and IT professionals in the schools to develop leading-edge integrated solutions that meet the needs of faculty, staff, and students.

 

IDI co-program managers Valerie Polichar and Thomas DeFanti note that the Showcase projects demonstrate how advanced IT tools can transform research and instructional activities. IDI, they say, provides a host of valuable resources for faculty members, researchers, and students, including:

Register to attend one of the IDI Showcase events.