NCSA headlines
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NCSA Faculty Fellow examines effects of gun violence in Chicago stress study exhibit
With unique, visual representations the exhibit details the women's stories in the wider context of Black inequality and racial trauma. Read more
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NCSA @ Grace Hopper Celebration 2018
Every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration brings together the world's largest gathering of female technologists. As part of NCSA's commitment to diversity, NCSA sponsors a select number of employees and post docs to attend the conference. Read more
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How a zombie fish may one day save your heart
Using the Blue Waters supercomputer, Illinois researcher Mattia Gazzola studies the interaction between musculoskeletal systems and environments. Read more
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Inaugural Ebert Symposium announced for October 1
Featuring astronaut and cinematographer Terry Virts, Ebertfest co-founder Chaz Ebert, NCSA's Donna Cox and many more, this symposium serves as a tribute to Roger Ebert and his commitment to empathy. Read more
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AXIS Capital and NCSA partner to reimagine insurance data
Global (re)insurance provider partners with NCSA to leverage NCSA’s domain expertise, data visualization, and cybersecurity. Read more
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NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer helps map the poles
The REMA project relied entirely on the computational and data resources of Blue Waters to run the SETSM software they developed that automated assembly of overlapping pairs of high-resolution satellite images to create the high-resolution, high-fidelity elevation maps. Read more
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Facilitating FEA: NCSA collaborates with Rolls-Royce, Livermore Software Technology Corporation, and Cray to scale up implicit finite element analysis
Drawing on real-life models from Rolls-Royce and technical consulting from Cray, NCSA and LSTC optimized LS-DYNA to reduce the memory footprint of running high-fidelity models and improve the software's performance and scalability. Read more
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NCSA Student Spotlight: Miguel Holgado
For our latest Student Spotlight, we caught up with Miguel Holgado, a graduate student and member of NCSA’s Gravity Group, who studies compact-object mergers and the gravitational waves that arise out of them. Read more
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NCSA Faculty Fellow part of $25 million software institute to enable discoveries in high-energy physics
A team will research new approaches and systems for data analysis and innovative algorithms that apply machine learning and other approaches to accelerate computation on modern computing architectures. Read more
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NCSA hosting 2018 Data Science Day September 27
Illinois Data Science Initiative (iDSI) promoting data science across the University of Illinois Read more
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Blue Waters professor Kaiyu Guan receives AGU Early Career Award
Kaiyu Guan, a NCSA Blue Waters professor at the University of Illinois, has been recognized by the American Geophysical Union for his work to combine supercomputers and satellite with agriculture and environmental sustainability. Read more
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NCSA Brown Dog project wins Best Technical Paper at PEARC18
NCSA's Brown Dog project received the Best Technical Paper award at July's PEARC conference in Pittsburgh. Read more
