February 4, 2010
eScience on Tap on Feb. 8 and monthly thereafter
The eScience Institute will offer “eScience on Tap” at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, at the College Inn Pub, and every second Monday of the month thereafter. For the kickoff, Mary Lidstrom, professor of microbiology and vice provost of research, will speak on What is the eScience Institute?
The eScience Institute was created as a central resource for expertise on high-performance computing, data management and data discovery. The Institute is building a support network and facilitates communication among investigators over issues that arise from the creation of large masses of data.
The institute is meant to address the rapid emergence of a new world of science driven by very large scale data, advances in data acquisition technology, next-generation instruments, sensors, and simulations that has led to a generational shift in research affecting a host of disciplines from engineering to medicine. This “data deluge” requires new solutions in data management, visualization, and data mining, as well as new approaches to provisioning the underlying computational infrastructure.
For more information about “eScience on Tap” or the eScience Institute, e-mail info@escience.washington.edu.
