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Welcome to the Texas Learning & Computation Center.
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The Texas Learning & Computation Center (TLC2) fosters interdisciplinary research, education, and training by providing core services for centers, laboratories, and faculty initiatives. TLC2 offers state-of-the-art computation, visualization, and educational facilities for research in the computational, engineering, and life sciences along with a growing presence in the humanities. In addition to high performance computing, TLC2 provides grants management, communications and media services, event and outreach coordination, and applications and web solutions.
Featured News & Events
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Ethics in Science Course Announcement
HOUSTON, April 12, 2012 — Register now for IDNS 4391/6391, an interdisciplinary course taught by Dr. Ioanna Semendeferi. Ethics in Science is a rare combination of historical and philosophical perspectives coupled with hands-on
experiences. It aims to teach students how to deal effectively with issues pertaining to human/animal experiments, peer review, paper authorship, conflict of interest, and social responsibility. The course is supported by the National Science Foundation and the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. See the Ethics in Science website for more information. |
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Monarch Madness
TLC2 provides outreach support to Aransas Wildlife Refuge for this event. Student groups will converge on the refuge for a day-long blowout featuring fun activities and presentations to help them develop a better appreciation of biodiversity, conservation and the sciences. Aransas NWR is comprised of over 115,000 acres, including the Blackjack Peninsula (Aransas proper), Matagorda Island, Myrtle Foester Whitmire, Tatton, and Lamar units. These areas provide vital resting, feeding, wintering, and nesting grounds for migratory birds and many other species of native Texas wildlife. For more information, see the Aransas Wildlife Refuge website.
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2012 VisVidFest
The 4th annual festival is a forum for aspiring student filmmakers in Southeast Texas. VisVidFest welcomes any form of moving images, but especially encourages productions in stereoscopic 3D and HD. Submissions are divided into narrative and non-narrative and will be judged by experts in the field. This unique festival unites arts and humanities with science and technology to demonstrate the spectrum of work that can be achieved in video and visualization at the University of Houston. Vis Vid Fest entries will be screened in the state-of-the-art TLC2 Visualization Theater from May 9-11 with an awards ceremony on May 11. For more information, contact TLC2 Program Director Michael Brims at michael@tlc2.uh.edu or see the VisVidFest web page. |
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PLS Conference
Bauer College of Business, the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics (TIMES), and the Texas Learning & Computation Center (TLC2) are proud to present the 7th International Conference on Partial Least Squares and Related Methods May 19-22, 2012. This will be the first time the conference is hosted in the United States. The theme, "Advancing the Theoretical and Applied Frontiers," is concerned with theory and exemplars in disciplines as diverse as business, engineering, and the life sciences. Register now to receive a UH faculty and staff 10% discount and a steeply discounted student rate. For registration and more information, see the event flyer or go to www.plsconference.com.
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