Bioinformatics: Working with Campus Champion Fellows

Presenter(s): Alex Ropelewski (PSC)

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Problems which require Bioinformatics skills are attractive to a wide variety of researchers, including researchers at Research Intensive Universities as well as researchers at smaller institutions. In this talk, I will highlight two projects involving the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data that I've worked on with XSEDE Campus Champion Fellows – one involving Cancer Data and one involving Metagenomics. I will conclude the talk with advice for integrating a Campus Champion Fellow into an ECSS project.

Dream Lens: Exploration and Visualization of Large-Scale Generative Design Datasets

Presenter(s): Justin Matejka (Autodesk Research)

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With traditional Computer Aided Design users typically create a single model. In contrast, generative design allows users specify high-level goals and constraints, and then the system can automatically generate hundreds or thousands of candidate designs all meeting the design criteria. Once a large collection of design variations is created, the designer is left with the task of finding the design, or set of designs, which best meets their requirements. This is a complicated task which could require analyzing the structural characteristics and visual aesthetics of the designs. In this talk we present Dream Lens, an interactive visual analysis tool for exploring and visualizing large-scale generative design datasets.