Lucy Nowell of the Department of Energy's Office of Science will open the Department of Computer and Information Sciences distinguished speaker series with a presentation Oct. 2.

CIS lecture series

Computer and Information Sciences speaker series focuses on big data analytics

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8:32 a.m., Sept. 17, 2014--The University of Delaware Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS) has announced a distinguished speaker series featuring experts in big data that will begin at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 2, in the Trabant University Center Theatre on the UD campus in Newark. 

The lectures are free and open to the public and will be followed by an informal question and answer session.

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Lucy Nowell, computer scientist and program manager in the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) division of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, is the opening speaker for the series. She manages a broad spectrum of ASCR-funded computer science research, with a particular emphasis on scientific data management and analysis.

In her lecture, titled “Science at Extreme Scale: Big Data and Big Compute,” Nowell will discuss changes in management, analysis and visualization of extreme-scale data and the challenges these changes will impose on researchers in computer science, mathematics and application science fields. 

Nowell also will describe the technical and scientific drivers and opportunities for data science research funded by the ASCR program.

Remaining lectures in the 2014-15 speaker series include:

Feb. 17, 2015 -- Joel Saltz, Cherith Professor and founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Stony Brook University, “Integrative Multi-scale Analysis in Biomedical Informatics.” In his lecture, Saltz will describe application scenarios involving complementary digital microscopy, radiology and "omic" analyses in cancer research. In these scenarios, Saltz and his group use a coordinated set of image analysis, feature extraction and machine learning methods to predict disease progression and to aid in targeting new therapies. 

April 20, 2015 -- Srinivas Aluru, professor of computational science and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, will discuss “Genomes Galore: Big Data Challenges in the Life Sciences.” Aluru will highlight challenges arising from the developments of next-generation sequencing technologies in the context of microbial communities, agricultural biotechnology and human health. 

The CIS Distinguished Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the department and the University of Delaware National Science Foundation-ADVANCE and the President’s Diversity Initiative STEM initiatives. It is organized in part by the CISters (Women in Computer and Information Sciences) group and the Women in Engineering program.

For additional information, including speaker biographies, click here. 

Article by Jessica Zoch

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