October 08, 2012
URBANA, Ill., Oct. 8 — The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) announced today that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $99,986 to support its proposed Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI): Methods in Computational Discovery for Multidimensional Problem Solving to be hosted at the Universidad del Valle Guatemala for 10 days in July 2013. The workshop partners (1) the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE); (2) the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); (3) the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL); (4) the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA); (5) the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks (RedClara); and (6) the Organization of American States (OAS).
Computational resources empower researchers to gather, transform and analyze data in search of solutions to the complex and multidimensional challenges facing the Americas and the world at large. A proliferation of tools and data – such as improved sensors and instrumentation that capture terabytes of data, expanding video archives, and digitization of decades of past research – make it increasingly necessary that researchers across disciplines learn advanced skills in data acquisition; transformation and visualization; analysis, scaling and preservation. Namely, they require training in methods of computation-based discovery (CBD).
"The objective of the PASI is to introduce young researchers across the Americas to methods in CBD and demonstrate how it can support research involving large and or highly complex data sets generated to study large scale problems," said Jorge Duran, Chief of the Office of Science, Technology and Innovation at the OAS.
The workshop is expected to help foster new collaborations and cross-disciplinary research networks by encouraging teams to work on problems and research challenges of shared concern. It will bring United States and Latin American researchers together adding a cultural dimension to thinking about research with complex data using new CBD methods and networks. The workshop reflects a commitment to the Plan of Action of Panama that was approved at the November 2011 Organization of American States' Eighth Plenary Session. Materials developed for the PASI will be made publicly available for broad community access and will be promoted and disseminated by the partnering organizations.
About I-CHASS
The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Science (I-CHASS) charts new ground in high-performance computing and the human sciences. Founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, I-CHASS creates learning environments and spaces for digital exploration and discovery; presenting leading-edge research, computational resources, collaborative tools, and educational programming to showcase the future of the humanities, arts, and social science. For more information on I-CHASS, visit: http://www.ichass.illinois.edu.
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Source: I-CHASS
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