News Archives
September 29, 2008
Ian Foster: Big Computation, Bigger Knowledge
Ian Foster will participate in the Chicago Humanities Festival on October 11th. His discussion will include descriptions and demonstrations of relevant projects at the University and Argonne, including the world's fastest supercomputer for open science; grid computing for worldwide resource federation and collaboration; and massive data sets from political science, astrophysics, and neuroscience. |read >
September 5, 2008
Call for Participation: MidWest Grid School (MWGS'08)
Please join us for a 3-day hands-on course in large-scale and high-performance grid computing on Sept. 17-19, 2008, at University of Chicago, Chicago IL.
Learn about grid and high throughput computing through an intensive OSG course introducing techniques for science and engineering in the use of large-scale grid computing resources... |read >
August 5, 2008
Computation Institute to Bulk Up Data Analysis Capability with $1.5 Million Grant
The Computation Institute, a joint effort of the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, has received a grant for a computer system that will enable researchers to store, access and analyze massive datasets... |read >
July 29, 2008
W.M. Keck Foundation Grant Funds Reproductive Science Research
The project is being led by Thomas O'Halloran, Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor in Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Teresa K. Woodruff, Thomas J. Watkins Memorial Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine... |read >
July 17, 2008
Ten Research Proposals Awarded Grants Under New Chicago Energy Initiative
The University has funded various awards to researchers at the Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratory under the Chicago Energy Initiative, which President Zimmer launched earlier this year... |read >
July 17, 2008
Eckhardt's $20 million gift an investment in future of science
A major program to build new fields of scientific expertise and expand existing efforts at the University has inspired a $20 million donation to benefit the Physical Sciences Division from Chicago futures trader and alumnus William Eckhardt (S... |read >
June 30, 2008
New TCS Building to Foster Cutting-Edge Research
The Theory and Computing Sciences (TCS) Building now under construction at Argonne. TCS is expected to be occupied in the summer of 2009. |read >
June 23, 2008
Team Led by Argonne Gets Best Paper Award
A team of researchers from 7 different research institutes, lead by Argonne National Laboratory, gets the best paper award. The team, lead by Pavan Balaji, together with Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Ian Foster and Susan Coghlan from Argonne, received the best paper award at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'08) that took place on June 18 - 20... |read >
June 18, 2008
The U.S. Embraces HealthGrid
Organized by Jonathan Silverstein, The University of Chicago hosted HealthGrid 2008 in early June at its downtown Gleacher Center, the first non-European venue for the conference. HealthGrid.US organized the meeting, signaling its readiness to collaborate fully with its European colleagues and begin the process of defining a roadmap. |read >
May 1, 2008
Global Immersive Virtual Anatomy Classrooms
Held by The University of Chicago and broadcast using the AccessGrid the lesson used views of the Virtual Human data set to allow local colleagues to participate in the Anatomy Lecture given by Jonathan Silverstein M... |read >
