Get Ready for Mind Bytes 2018!

The Research Computing Center (RCC) at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce its fourth annual research computing symposium and exposition, Mind Bytes 2018. This event was held on Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 in Ida Noyes Hall at the University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus.

Mind Bytes is a celebration of scholarship and research computing and a unique event that brings together faculty, staff, and students from every corner of the University who share an interest in high-end computing, data, scientific visualization, and the use of computation and data to advance the state of the art of their fields in new ways. The theme for discussion at this year's event was: Solving Societal Challenges with Artifical Intelligence.

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Lightning Talks

University of Chicago faculty present fast-paced summaries of their research.

Speakers

Distinguished experts, from a range of fields, speak about their experiences, work, and research.

Poster Competition

Four awards was given to the best research posters presented at Mind Bytes.

Resource Fair

Learn how RCC and other resources can transform your research.

Technical Demonstrations

Discover new technologies and concepts to benefit your scholarship.

Networking Opportunities

Meet your peers from across disciplines working on similar problems.

Our Speakers

Tom Blase

Paul Blase

CEO and Co-Founder at Speciate AI
Eric Isaacs

Eric Isaacs

Executive Vice President for Research, Innovation and National Laboratories, The University of Chicago
H. Birali Runesha

H. Birali Runesha

Assistant Vice President for Research Computing, Director of the Research Computing Center (RCC)
Sarah Cobey

Sarah Cobey

Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution

Managing the Evolution of influenza

Aaron Dinner

Aaron Dinner

Professor of Chemistry and Director of the James Franck Institute

Learning Mechanisms of Cellular Dynamics by Combining Simulations and Image Analysis

Elisabeth Moyer

Elisabeth Moyer

Associate Professor, Atmospheric Chemistry

Climate Science in the Era of Large Computing

Benoit Roux

Benoit Roux

Amgen Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Predicting the Conformational Variability of Abl Tyrosine Kinase using Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Markov State Models

Dacheng Xiu

Dacheng Xiu

Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Booth School of Business

Empirical Asset Pricing via Machine Learning

James Evans

Venkatram Vishwanath

Computer Scientist, Data Science Group Lead, Argonne National Laboratory
James Evans

James Evans

Professor, Sociology; Director, Knowledge Lab; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Sciences at the University of Chicago
Francesca Lazzeri

Francesca Lazzeri

Data Scientist at Microsoft
Tom Schenk

Tom Schenk

Chief Data Officer at the City of Chicago
Tom Schenk

Paul Skroch

VP Data Science and Platform Engineering at Benson Hill

We look forward to seeing you next year next year!

Sponsors

LENOVO
Globus
Intel
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
PIER Group