July 15-26, 2013 - Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala
Submission Deadline – June 9, 2013

The objective of this Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI) is to introduce researchers early in their careers to Methods in Computation-Based Discovery (CBD). In the quest for solutions to major problems (e.g., biodiversity, modeling of natural systems, water ecology, digital cultural heritage, etc.), researchers across the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities and arts are generating massive and/or highly complex data sets that extend well-beyond humans’ capacities to perceive or analyze without sophisticated technological augmentation. CBD allows researchers to gather, transform and analyze data from a range of sources, including, for example, sensors, video archives, telescopes, and supercomputers. Researchers today need both access to advanced computational resources and sophisticated skills in data acquisition, management, transformation, visualization, analytics, and preservation.  The Institute will be offered through a joint effort of seven organizations: (1) the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE); (2) the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), including the Blue Waters Petascale Supercomputer project; (3) the Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (I-CHASS) (4) the Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL); (5) the Advanced Research and Technology Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA); (6) the Latin American Cooperation of Advanced Networks (RedCLARA); and (7) the Organization of American States (OAS). These organizations believe research collaboration to be essential to building strong international partnerships to address grand challenges. For more information, please visit http://artcaonline.org/pasi.html.