[Swift-user] Call for Participation: Cloud Futures 2012, Berkeley, CA (May 7-8)

Sat Apr 14 07:42:32 CDT 2012

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*/Cloud Futures: Hot Topics in Research and Education/*

Berkeley, CA | May 7-8, 2012

http://research.microsoft.com/cloudfutures2012/

The Cloud Futures Workshop series brings together thought leaders from 
academia, industry, and government to discuss the role of cloud 
computing across a variety of research and educational areas---including 
computer science, engineering, Earth sciences, healthcare, humanities, 
interactive games, life sciences, and social sciences.Presentations, 
posters and discussions will highlight how new techniques, software 
platforms, and methods of research and teaching in the cloud may solve 
distinct challenges arising in those diverse areas.

This year's Workshop is being hosted in conjunction with UC Berkeley.

Conference Co-Chairs: Michael Franklin, UC Berkeley and Tony Hey, 
Microsoft Research

*Register today! 
<https://www.ustechsregister.com/cloudfutures/default.aspx?pageid=3232>*

Program:

Day 1 Monday 05/07/2012

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote.   Science In the Cloud, Joseph Hellerstein,  
Manager Big Science, Google_

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00 plenary session

·10:30 -- 11:00 Advancing Declarative Query for Data-Intensive Science 
in the Cloud, Bill Howe, University of Washington

·11:00 -- 11:30 Programming Paradigms for Technical Computing on Clouds 
and Supercomputers, Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, Dennis Gannon,  
Microsoft

·11:30 -- 12:00 Cloud Computing for Fundamental Spatial Operations on 
Polygonal GIS Data, Sushil Prasad, Dinesh Agarwal, Satish Puri, Xi He, 
Georgia State University

12:00  - 02:00 Lunch Posters

02:00 - 3:30  Session 1a  Education

·02:00 -- 2:30 InstantLab 2.0 - A Platform for Operating System 
Experiments on Public Cloud Infrastructure,  Andreas Polze, Christian 
Neuhaus, Rehab Alnemr, Lysann Kessler and Frank Schlegel, University of 
Potsdam

·02:30 -- 3:00 Case Study on Cloud Computing Infusion at a Leading 
Tertiary Institution in Singapore, Choong Wu Gary Lim,  Nanyang Polytechnic

·03:00 -- 3:30 Teaching Web-scale Data Management using Microsoft Azure: 
POSTECH Experiences, Seung-won Hwang,  POSTECH

02:00 -- 3:30 Session 1b Life Sciences

·02:00 -- 2:30 A-Brain: Using the Cloud to Understand the Impact of 
Genetic Variability on the Brain,  Alexandru Costan, Radu Tudoran, 
Benoit Da Mota, Gabriel Antoniu and Bertrand Thirion, INRIA Rennes and 
Saclay

·02:30 -- 3:00 Very Large Scale Operon Predictions via Comparative 
Genomics,  Ehsan Tabari, ZhengChang Su,  UNC Charlotte

·03:00 -- 3:30 Fast Exploration of the QSAR Model Space with e-Science 
Central and Windows Azure, Jacek Cala, Hugo Hiden, Simon Woodman, Paul 
Watson,  Newcastle University

03:30 - 04:00 Break

04:00 -  05:30 Session 1c Interactive Services

·04:00 -- 4:30 3D Remote Collaboration Framework for Virtual Cultural 
Heritage, Yasuhide Okamoto, Gregorij Kurillo,  Ruzena Bajcsy University 
of California, Berkeley, Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi  Ikeuchi , University 
of Tokyo

·04:30 -- 5:00 Interactive 3D Services over Windows Azure, Lukas Kencl, 
Jiri Danihelka , Czech Technical University , Prague

·05:00 -- 5:30 Microsoft Azure and the Kinect Join the World of 
Telemedicine to Save Lives, Janet Bailey, Aaron Rothberg,  University of 
Arkansas, Bradley Jensen, Microsoft

04:00 -- 05:30 Session 1d  Environmental Applications

·04:00 -- 4:30 Cloud-based Exploration of Complex Ecosystems for 
Science, Education and Entertainment, Ilmi Yoon, Sangyuk Yoon, Gary Ng, 
Hunvil Rodrigues, Sonal Mahajan,  San Francisco State University, Neo 
Martinez, Pacific Ecoinformatics Lab

·04:30 -- 5:00 Cloud Computing as a Cyber-Infrastructure for Mass 
Customization and Collaboration, Kwa-Sur Tam, Virginia Tech

·05:00 -- 5:30 Green Prefab: Civil Engineering Hub In Ms Windows Azure, 
Furio Barzon, Collaboratorio, Italy

06:00-09:00 Dinner

  Day 2 Tuesday  05/08/2012

09:00 - 10:00 Keynote, Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft 
Corporation, Large Scale Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30 - 12:00  Plenary Session

·10:30 -- 11:00 Vision Paper: Towards an Understanding of the Limits of 
Map-Reduce Computation,  Anish Das Sarma, Google Research, Semih 
Salihogluz, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University, Foto Afrati, 
National Technical University Athens

·11:00 -- 11:30 Twister4Azure: Parallel Data Analytics on Azure, Judy 
Qiu, Thilina Gunarathne, Indiana University

·11:30 -- 12:00 CumuloNimbo: Parallel-Distributed Transactional 
Processing, Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Marta Patiño-Martínez, Iván 
Brondino,  Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, José Pereira, Rui 
Oliveira, Ricardo Vilaça, University Minho, Bettina Kemme, Yousuf Ahmad, 
McGill Univ.

12:00  - 02:00 Lunch Posters

02:00 - 3:30 Session 2a Social and Mobile Services

·02:00 -- 2:30 An Efficient Meet-Up Mechanism by Mashing-up Social and 
Mobile Clouds, Li-Chun Wang, Chia-Yu Lin, Yu-Jia Chen, Yu-Chee Tseng,  
National Chiao Tung University

·02:30 -- 3:00 Scalable, Secure Analysis of Social Sciences Data on the 
Azure Platform, Yogesh Simmhan, Litao Den, Alok Kumbhare, Mark Redekopp 
and Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California

·03:00 -- 3:30 Remote Software Service for Mobile Clients leveraging 
Cloud Computing,  Chunming Hu, Beihang University

02:00 -- 3:30 Session 2b Computational Models and applications

·02:00 -- 2:30 Enabling cloud interoperability with COMPSs, Daniele 
Lezzi, Fabrizio Marozzo, Francesc Lordan, Roger Rafanell, Rosa Badia, 
Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Domenico Talia, University of Calabria

·02:30 -- 3:00 McCloud: Monte Carlo Service in Windows Azure, Rafael 
Nasser,  Karin Breitman,  Rubens Sampaio, Americo Cunha, Helio Vieira, 
PUC-Rio

·03:00 -- 3:30 Experiences using Windows Azure to Calibrate Watershed 
Models,  Marty Humphrey, Norm Beekwilder,  University of Virginia, Jon 
Goodall, Mehmet Ercan, University of South Carolina

03:30 - 04:00 Break
04:00 - 05:30 Panel TBD

05:30 - Close

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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Office: 1-312-567-5704
Email:iraicu at cs.iit.edu
Web:http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/
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