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CASC 20th Anniversary Celebration
Hotel "W"
Washington, DC
September 22-23, 200920th Anniversary Symposium
Tuesday, September 22 6:30 pm Reception & Dinner
- Hotel “W”
- 515 15th Street, Washington, DC
Wednesday, September 23 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
AAAS building - 2nd floor foyer
1200 New York Avenue, NW8:30 am Welcome AAAS building - 2nd floor auditorium
- Stanley Ahalt, Chair, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
8:45 am Keynote address - "What's Wanting to Happen - of Demons and Mules"
- Joe Thompson, William G. Giles Distinguished Professor, Mississippi State University (retired)
9:30 am
Panel – "Changing Science & Engineering: the Impact of HPC "
Moderator - Amy Apon, Vice Chair, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
Panelists:
- Ed Seidel, Director, National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure
- John Connolly, Director, University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences
- Chris Greer, Senior Program Analyst, U.S. Office of Science and Technology
- Ralph Roskies, Scientific Director, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Steven Orszag, Percey F. Smith Professor of Mathematics, Yale University
11:00 am Break
11:30 am Panel –"View from University Leaders - Past and Present"
Moderator - Marjory Blumenthal, Associate Provost, Georgetown UniversityPanelists:
- Richard Herman, Chancellor, University of Illinois
- Jerry Komisar, Former President, University of Alaska
- Garry Walters, Executive Director, South Carolina Commission on Higher Education
12:15 pm Buffet Lunch AAAS Building
– Lobby & Adjoining Rooms]
1:15 pm Panel –"MegaFlops to ExaFlops"
Moderator - Suzy Tichenor, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Industrial Partnership ProgramPanelists:
- Dave Turek, Vice President for Deep Computing, IBM
- Tom Lange, Director, Modeling and Simulation,Corporate R&D, Procter & Gamble
- Peter Ungaro, CEO and President, Cray Inc.
- Edward Tinoco, Technical Fellow, Enabling Technology & Research, Boeing
2:30 pm Panel –"HPC: The Next 20 years"
Moderator - Beverly Clayton, Former Executive Director, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Panelists:
- Steven Wallach, Chief Scientist and Co-founder, Convex
- Greg Pfister, Retired Distinguished Engineer, IBM
- Reza Rooholamini, Director of Enterprise Solutions, Dell
- William Gropp, Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois
3:45 pm Perspectives from the CASC Chair
- Stanley Ahalt, Chair, Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation
4:00 pm Adjourn