NCSA Video on Demand archive, page 2

Modeling silicon nanobiodevices
Oleksii Aksimentiev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: May 13, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

University of Illinois researcher Oleksii Aksimentiev describes his work simulating silicon nanobiodevices, such as a nanopore capacitor that could be used to sequence DNA more quickly and affordably.

Running time: 28:59
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~237 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Towards a Unified Computational Framework for Prostate Pathology
Rohit Bhargava, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Posted: April 17, 2008
Talk given: October 24, 2007

University of Illinois bioengineering researcher Rohit Bhargava describes how he collaborated with NCSA to explore new techniques for cancer diagnosis. Bhargava worked with NCSA through the center's Faculty Fellows program.

Running time: 1:08:46
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~343 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Essential cyber-resources
Angela Wilson, University of North Texas
Posted: April 1, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

Angela Wilson, a chemistry researcher from the University of North Texas, explains how essential supercomputing resources at NCSA and other National Science Foundatino centers have been to her research and to persuading her institution to invest in research computing.

Running time: 24:34
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~196 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Simulations take aim at HIV
Carlos Simmerling, State University of New York Stony Brook
Posted: March 18, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

Carlos Simmerling of the State University of New York Stony Brook details his group's work using high-performance computing to investigate dynamic aspects of biomolecular structure and function, with particular focus on their research into HIV protease.

Running time: 28:43
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~233 MB)
Full-size Flash video

Biomolecular Simulation Toward the Petascale
Thomas E. Cheatham III, University of Utah
Posted: March 4, 2008
Talk given: August 22, 2007

University of Utah computational researcher Thomas E. Cheatham III looks at both positive and negative trends on the national supercomputing scene during a talk recorded at the fall meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Running time: 26:53
Full-length Quicktime .mov (~224 MB)
Full-size Flash video