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The Power of Ideas: Spring 2018 Colloquies

Register to hear Assistant Professor Teng Zheng speak on topology design in soft structures by controlling surface wrinkles on April 17 and then on April 25 Professor Timothy Korter speaks on nondestructive and noninvasive identification of historical pigments.

GNU Octave

GNU OctaveSoftware License / Cost:
GNU General Public License / Free

Brief Description:
GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language. Continue Reading

TensorFlow

TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs

Public Policy, Governance, and Data-Driven Research

Audrey DongWhen entering the University’s datacenter, it’s natural to wonder about the seemingly infinite sources of information being computed there. Could these systems be performing cutting-edge thermodynamic modeling?  Or, perhaps are they helping to unravel some of the mysteries of quantum chemistry?  That said, would your curiosity would change if the source of this data were closer to home?  In fact, it’s much closer to home: the US Census Bureau or the Social Security Administration.

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Spring 2017 Research Computing Colloquy Archive

2017 colloquy speakersAbout Research Computing Colloquies

These sessions will explore how computing resources help researchers take on new and greater computational tasks, enhance research productivity, increase the competitiveness of grant submissions, and advance scientific discovery across many disciplines. 

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