Supercomputing 2007 10-16 November 2007, Reno, USA The Texas Learning and Computation Center will attend SC07, along with other members of the Gulf Coast Academic Supercomputing (GCAS). UH faculty members will deliver brief presentation in the booth on their novel approaches and benefits of their research. Pumps & Pipes 1 12 November 2007, TLC2 Room 232 Introducing a unique collaborative initiative between Houston's largest industries, the healthcare and petrochemical industries, designed to explore potential crossover ideas and technologies. Much like moving oil through a pipeline, the heart must pump blood through vessels. The aim of this one-day conference is to stimulate discussion, spark ideas, and explore synergies between these industries that face similar challenges in imaging, navigation, metallurgy, fluid dynamics, robotics and remote monitoring. TLC2 Innovation Seminar Series 9 November 2007, TLC2 Room 232 The Texas Learning and Computation Center invites you to attend the Second Friday Research Seminar Series, held on the second Friday of each month this fall. Dr. Yuriy Fofanov, Director of the UH Bioinformatics Lab, will present an overview of his research. Come meet active, dynamic and cutting-edge UH faculty members from across campus. The featured speaker(s) for this seminar will be announced. Ploneability Higher Education Conference 08 November 2007, Rockwell Pavilion, M.D. Anderson Library This one-day conference will provide a forum for college and university Web content managers, developers and site administrators to connect and share Plone success stories. Plone is a content management framework used to manage websites. TLC2 is an advocate of open-source software and pleased to help support this free conference. UH-Department of Defense Annual Conference 1-2 November 2007, UH Hilton Find out how to tap into the more than $10 billion that the Defense Department invests in research annually and what opportunities exist within the department’s various arms. Benjamin P. Riley III, director of the DOD Rapid Reaction Technology Office, will be the keynote speaker. XIVth International Workshop on Quantum Atomic and Molecular Tunneling in Solids and other Condensed Phases 28 October - 01 November 2007, UH Hilton Hotel The hallmark of this workshop has been its highly cross-disciplinary nature, which includes work on tunneling of protons and heavier species in condensed phases in general, including biological systems, chemical reactions, transport phenomena in solids, etc. Experimental and theoretical aspects of the role of quantum atomic and molecular tunneling phenomena will form the main theme of the workshop. Fennessey Ranch 26 October 2007, Bayside, USA TLC2 and UH are proud sponsors of Fennessey Ranch, a living laboratory where young students learn about nature and science first hand. On October 26, student groups will converge on the Ranch for a one-day blowout featuring fun activities and presentations to help them develop a better appreciation of biodiversity, conservation and the sciences. TLC2TIMES Research Colloquia: Undergraduate algebra achievement 24 October 2007, TLC2 Annex Room 214 Dr. Tammy Tolar will present her research on “A Cognitive Model Of Algebra Achievement Among Undergraduate College Students” on Oct 24, 2007, at the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation and Statistics (TIMES). Dr. Tolar is a post doctoral researcher at TIMES working on cognitive processes in math. TLC2 Innovation Seminar Series featuring Dr. Alok Bhargava 12 October 2007, TLC2 Room 232 The Texas Learning and Computation Center invites you to attend the Second Friday Research Seminar Series, held on the second Friday of each month this fall. Dr. Alok Bhargava, UH Dept. of Economics, will present his research results into child obesity. Come meet active, dynamic and cutting-edge UH faculty members from across campus. HPCC 2007 26-29 Sept 2007, Houston, USA The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever-increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications(HPCC). HPCC-07 is a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges, and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. Space2007 18-20 September 2007, Long Beach, USA Mars Rover Celebration, a UH educational program to increase students' interest in science and technology by building a mock-up of a Mars Rover model, will be featured at the Space2007 conference organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Dr. Edgar Bering will present a teacher workshop on how the Mars Rover Celebration can be started in cities across the country. Python Boot Camp 15-16 September 2007, TLC2 Room 200 TLC2 will host the Python Unconference for the Texas Region. This is a free event to support the open source community and provide a forum for participants to share their experiences and developments. The content of the 'unconference' will be largely driven by the needs and participation of attendees from the development community. TLC2 Innovation Seminar Series 14 September 2007, TLC2 Room 232 The Texas Learning and Computation Center invites you to attend the Second Friday Research Seminar Series, held on the second Friday of each month this fall. Past recipients of TLC2 Innovative Research Funding Awards will present their research results. Come meet active, dynamic and cutting-edge UH faculty members from across campus. The featured speaker for this seminar will be Dr. Max Kurz, UH Department of Health & Human Performance. DRAGON Workshop 13-14 September 2007, University of Houston This two-day workshop provides attendees with a working knowledge of how to design and deploy a GMPLS-based dynamic circuit services network. The workshop will provide an overview of GMPLS architecture, RSVP and OSPF protocols, control plane design concepts, and specifics of dynamic circuit services network engineering as relates to campus, regional, and national network facilities in the R&E community. Acres Homes Web Launch 12 September 2007, Acres Homes Multi Service Center The Acres Homes Community will launch its new neighborhood website on September 12, 2007. TLC2 has provided technical and web hosting support during the construction of the community portal. City, civic and UH leaders will be present at the event. Mars Rover Teacher Workshop 8 September 2007, TLC2 Room 232 Teachers and leaders from community organizations are invited to attend the Mars Rover Teacher Workshop on September 8 from 9 am to 12 noon in Philip G. Hoffman Hall Room 232, TLC2's high tech multimedia classroom built with funding from NASA. Mars Rover 2008 is an exciting educational opportunity for students to gain hands-on experience building a model of a Mars Rover. Cluster Seminar 7 September 2007, TLC2 Room 232 TLC2 will host a tutorial session for Atlantis cluster users. This tutorial will focus on how to compile programs and run jobs via torque/maui on the newly upgraded Atlantis. There will also be updates on the new visualization environment. A few short presentations will be given followed by a Q & A session. Lunch will be provided. Web Portal Training, 10 Aug 07 Web Portal Training, 6 Aug 07 FLUKA 2007 Grid Computing Summer School in Sweden Plone Boot Camp EMAN – The Single Particle Reconstruction and Visualization Workshop Photographer Sally Mann at UH Visual Studies Lecture Visual Studies Conference France – USA Conference on Applied and Numerical PDEs Texas FE Rodeo Dave Anderson Lecture for UH Visual Studies Dan Kelly Lecture at UH Visual Studies Mars Rover Celebration 2007 John Paul Capognigro Lecture at UH Visual Studies Python Boot Camp