Computational Science Speaker Series

"How Global-Scale Personal Lightwaves are Transforming Scientific Research," by Larry Smarr

  • October 15, 2007 at Noon
  • Harrison-Small Auditorium of the University of Virginia Library

On Monday, October 15, the UVa Computational Science Speaker Series will kick off with a lecture by Larry Smarr, a pioneer and widely-quoted authority in information technology and telecommunications. Dr. Smarr is the Harry E. Gruber Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego, and director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He is Principal Investigator on the NSF OptIPuter LambdaGrid project, and Co-PI on the NSF LOOKING ocean observatory prototype.

Prior to his involvement with UCSD, Larry Smarr was the founding director of both the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the National Computational Science Alliance. The first Web browser, Mosaic - the predecessor to Netscape Navigator - originated at NCSA during Smarr's tenure there.

On Monday, October 15, Dr. Smarr will be speaking on "How Global-Scale Personal Lightwaves are Transforming Scientific Research." He will describe how the development of user-configurable LambdaGrid "metacomputer" platforms are opening new frontiers in collaborative work environments, digital cinema, interactive ocean observatories, and marine microbial metagenomics. The lecture will take place at noon, in the Harrison-Small Auditorium, and will be followed by a reception. All members of the University community are invited to attend.

The Computational Science Speaker Series is co-sponsored by James Hilton, UVa Vice President and Chief Information Officer; the College of Arts & Sciences; and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

For more information, contact Tim Tolson, ITC Research Computing Support Manager, at tft8g@virginia.edu / 434-243-6592.

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