Poster Competition
Poster submission is CLOSED
A major feature of Mind Bytes is the poster session which is designed to enable the exchange of ideas across disciplines and reward researchers’ work. Any students at the University of Chicago are eligible to submit their work.
The posters should represent research projects that leveraged the RCC’s resources and that showcase the application of either high-end computing, data science, or visualization in their research.
Students must be present during the Mind Bytes closing remarks and awards section in order to win.
Posters should be PDF files with the dimensions 48” wide x 35” high (landscape) and with a pixel density of 200 dpi.
Students must be present during the Mind Bytes closing remarks and awards section in order to win.
To view previous years’ posters, browse below:
The RCC will print all posters and display them during the event. Please note the RCC will print only one copy. If you make changes and resubmit a poster you may be responsible for printing the new copy.
Students must be present during the Mind Bytes closing remarks and awards section in order to win.
Poster submission begins: 10/28/2024
Poster submission due date: 4/11/2025 at 12 PM
Computing
The Computing award will be given to a researcher whose poster demonstrates the best implementation and performance of the RCC’s Midway compute cluster. Performance tuning and parallelization of codes are becoming increasingly important in order to effectively use modern hardware and implement complex algorithms. The judges are interested in code that runs on the greatest number of cores, the code that is best tuned to the existing hardware, and/or demonstrates the greatest performance speed-up when scaled.
Data Science
The Data Science award will be given to the research team that shows scientific methods, processes, and systems used in their data-driven research. The judges will evaluate the size and scope of researchers’ data, the novelty of how they extracted knowledge or insights from the data, and the efficiency and innovation with which it was processed on the RCC’s Midway compute resources.
Visualization
The Visualization award will be given to the researcher whose poster offers the most compelling data visualization of scientific research that utilizes the RCC’s resources (such as Midway’s compute resources or consulting with an RCC computational scientist). Contestants will be evaluated on the novelty of the technology that they implement and the level of difficulty of their visualization.
Judges will evaluate each poster with respect to its field and the researcher’s unique ability to use RCC computational resources in novel ways.
Students must be present during the Mind Bytes closing remarks and awards section in order to win.
This year’s prizes for the winning poster in each category is an iPad.
Important Dates
Poster submission begins:
10/28/2024
Poster Submission deadline:
4/11/2025
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