Past Symposia and Workshops Nov. 13, 2003: Computational Genetics Laboratory Grand Opening Sep. 18-19, 2003: Data Mining and Exploration Middleware for Distributed and Grid Computing Aug. 5-8, 2003: The Eighth IBM System Scientific Computing User Group Conference (ScicomP8) May 17-19, 2003: Electronic Structure Workshop 2003 Apr. 25, 2003: Neuroinformatics 2003 Sponsors: NSF IGERT Program University of Minnesota Computational Neurosciences Program University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation University of Minnesota Digital Technology Center University of Minnesota Graduate School University of Minnesota Medical School University of Minnesota Institute of Technology August 26, 2002 Center for NanoEnergetics Research - University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Workshop Sponsors: Center for NanoEnergetics Research University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Co-Sponsors: IBM SGI Workshop Organizer: Donald G. Truhlar, University of Minnesota Jun. 2-4, 2002: Computational Chemistry at the Interface Apr. 5-6, 2002: Third Annual Computational Neuroscience Symposium October 5-6, 2001 Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference Sponsors: University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Army High Performance Computing Research Center Cray, Inc. Compaq IBM SGI Workshop Organizers: Christopher Cramer University of Minnesota Jiali Gao, University of Minnesota J. Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota Darrin York, University of Minnesota April 7, 2001 Third Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets Sponsors: Army High Performance Computing Research Center University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Center for Applied Scientific Computing/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Workshop Organizers: Michael Burl, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Raju Namburu, Army Research Laboratory November 13-14, 2000 Workshop on Excited State Properties and Response Functions for Materials Sponsors: Department of Energy University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Local organizer: James R. Chelikowsky, University of Minnesota September 27-29, 2000 Computational Neuroscience 2000 NEURON Workshop and Symposium Sponsors: National Science Foundation-Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program University of Minnesota Graduate School, Institute of Technology, Medical School, and the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Organizers: Robert Miller, University of Minnesota Hans Othmer, University of Minnesota July 20-21, 2000 Second Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets Sponsors: Army HPC Research Center Center for Applied Scientific Computing/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Organizers: Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Raju Namburu, Army Research Laboratory June 6-11, 2000 International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids Sponsors: International Union of Pure and Applied Physics National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Theoretical Physics Institute University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Institute of Technology Office of the Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President Organizing Committee: Charles Campbell (University of Minnesota), co-chair William Zimmermann (University of Minnesota), co-chair May 14-16, 2000 2000 Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference Sponsors: University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation IBM National Science Foundation (proposal pending) Organizers: Richard McClurg and J. Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota April 17-18, 2000 Text Mining Workshop Sponsors: University of Minnesota Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Army High-Performance Computing Research Center University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation West Group Organizers: James Allen, University of Massachusetts Vipin Kumar, AHPCRC Paul Thompson, West Group March 18-19, 2000 Fifteen years of the Car-Parrinello Method in Physics and Chemistry Sponsors: IBM University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Endorsements: American Physical Society Workshop Organizers: James R. Chelikowsky (University of Minnesota) Michael Klein (University of Pennsylvania) Sokrates T. Pantelides (Vanderbilt University) October 14-15, 1999 Workshop on Graph Partitioning & Applications Sponsors: Army High Performance Computing Research Center University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Workshop Organizers: Rupak Biswas, NASA Ames Research Center (rbiswas@nas.nasa.gov) Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories (bah@cs.sandia.gov) George Karypis, University of Minnesota (karypis@cs.umn.edu) Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota (kumar@cs.umn.edu) October 7-8, 1999 First Annual Computational Neuroscience Symposium Sponsors: Computational Neuroscience Program of the University of Minnesota Department of Neuroscience Graduate Programs in Scientific Computation and Neuroscience University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation Program Committee Timothy Ebner, Department of Neuroscience, Co-Chair Donald Truhlar, Department of Chemistry and University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation, Co-Chair Vipin Kumar, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Co-Chair Linda Boland, Department of Neuroscience Daniel Boley, Department of Computer Science & Engineering Apostolos Georgopoulos, Department of Neuroscience Daniel Kersten, Department of Psychology Robert Miller, Department of Physiology Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Department of Computer Science & Engineering John Soechting, Department of Neuroscience Jaideep Srivastava, Department of Computer Science & Engineering David Thomas, Department of Biochemistry Lawrence Wackett, Department of Biochemistry George Wilcox, Department of Neuroscience All departments listed above are of the University of Minnesota. September 9-10, 1999 Workshop on Mining Scientific Datasets Sponsors: Army High Performance Computing Research Center and the University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation University of Minnesota Program Committee Chandrika Kamath, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory     (kamath2@llnl.gov) W. Philip Kegelmeyer, Sandia National Laboratory     (wpk@ananda.ran.sandia.gov) Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota     (kumar@cs.umn.edu) Raju Namburu, Army Research Laboratory     (raju@arl.mil) June 10-12, 1999 1999 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrix Problems in Industrial Applications Sponsors: University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation University of Waterloo in cooperation with SIAM Conference chair: Yousef Saad, University of Minnesota Program co-chairs: Daniel Pierce, Boeing company Wei-Pai Tang, University of Waterloo Program committee: Steve Ashby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Alda Behie, Intera Consultants Ltd. Ake Bjorck, Linksping University, Sweden Tony Chan, University of California at Los Angeles Iain Duff, Appleton-Rutherford Lab (UK) John R. Gilbert, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Esmond Ng, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Barry Smith, Argonne National Laboratory Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Henk van der Vorst, Utrecht University, Netherlands August 7-9, 1997 The 10th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing Program Co-Chairs: Zhiyuan Li, Department of Computer Science Pen Yew, Department of Computer Science Steering committee: Utpal Banerjee, Intel David Gelernter, Yale University Alex Nicolau, University of California, Irvine David Padua, University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign Program committee: Sid Chatterjee, University of North Carolina C.-H. Huang, Ohio State University Zhiyuan Li, University of Minnesota P. Sadayappan, Ohio State University David Sehr, Intel Pen-Chung Yew, University of Minnesota cosponsor: Cray Research, Inc./A Silicon Graphics Company Proceedings: Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 10th International Workshop, LCPC'97, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, August 1997 Proceedings, edited by Z. Li, P.-C. Yew, S. Chatterjee, C.-H. Huang, P. Sadayappan, D. Sehr (Springer-Verlag, 1998). University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Bulletin Article from Vol. 14 No. 1 April 7-11, 1997 IMA-MSI Workshop on Rational Drug Design Organizing committe: W. Jeffrey Howe, Upjohn Laboratories, chair Jeffrey M. Blaney, Chiron Corporation Richard Dammkoehler, Washington University Anton J. Hopfinger, University of Illinois at Chicago Donald G. Truhlar, University of Minnesota October 21-25, 1996 Workshop on Evolutionary Algorithms Organizers: Michael Vose, University of Tennessee Daryl Whitley, Colorado State University Ken De Jong, George Mason University David Davis, Tica Associates, Cambridge, MA Local cosponsor: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications October 11-12, 1996 Modeling in Biochemical Engineering Organizers: Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Purdue University Friedrich Srienc, University of Minnesota Sponsors: National Science Foundation Biological Process Technology Institute, University of Minnesota Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Department, University of Minnesota October 3-4, 1996 International Conference on Parallel Computing Organizing committee: Inder P. Batra, IBM Almaden Research Center Norm Troullier, IBM, Minneapolis Donald G. Truhlar, University of Minnesota International advisory committee: Inder Batra, IBM-Almaden, chair Farid Abraham, IBM-Almaden Salem Ciraci, Ankara, Turkey Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory Mark Gordon, Iowa State Suichi Iwata, University of Tokyo, Japan Malvin Kalos, Cornell Theory Center Barry Klein, University of California, Davis Paul Pritchard, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia Ahmed Sameh, University of Minnesota Bob Steen, IBM Donald Truhlar, University of Minnesota Priya Vashishta, Louisiana State University David Yuen, University of Minnesota June 15-17, 1996 Eighth Annual Conference on New Methods in Electronic Structure Calculations local co-organizer: James R. Chelikowsky, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. Fall 1996 University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Bulletin article May 9-12, 1996 Supercomputer Applications in the Behavioral Sciences local co-organizer: Lynne K. Edwards, Educational Psychology and Supercomputer Institute other co-organizers: Stephen W. Link, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canda and Cynthia H. Null, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Summer 1996 University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Bulletin article April 1-3, 1996 Third US-Japan Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Large-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics local co-organizer: Tayfun Tezduyar, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics and Army High Performance Computing Research Center other co-organizers: Thomas J.R. Hughes, Stanford University and Mutsuto Kawahara, Chuo University cosponsors: Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Army High Performance Computing Research Center, and the Minnesota Supercomputer Center, Inc Summer 1996 University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Bulletin article August 23-26, 1995 Neural Networks for Physicists V organizer: Philippe de Forcrand, Theoretical Physics Institute cosponsors: Theoretical Physics Institute and Cray Research Foundation October 24-26, 1994 International Symposium on Computational Molecular Dynamics local co-organizers: Jan Almlöf and Donald G. Truhlar, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Physics program other co-organizers: Evelyn Goldfield, Cornell Theory Center, M. Katharine Holloway, Merck Research Laboratories, William Jorgensen, Yale University, Peter Rossky, University of Texas at Austin, and George Schatz, Northwestern University cosponsors: Computers in Chemistry Division, American Chemical Society, Division of Computational Physics, American Physical Society, and Division of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society July 13-16, 1994 Neural Networks for Physicists IV organizer: Philippe de Forcrand, Theoretical Physics Institute cosponsors: Theoretical Physics Institute and Cray Research Foundation April 25-26, 1994 Workshop on Domain-Based Parallelism and Problem Decomposition Methods in Computational Science and Engineering local co-organizers: Youcef Saad, Dept. of Computer Science, and Donald G. Truhlar, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Physics program other co-organizer: David Keyes, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University organized in cooperation with SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing and Army High Performance Computing Research Center The proceedings of this workshop were published in a book entitled "Domain-Based Parallelism and Problem Decompostion Methods in Computational Science and Engineering", edited by David E. Keyes, Youcef Saad, and Donald G. Truhlar, published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1995. October 25-27, 1993 Symposium on Parallel Finite Element Computations organizer: Tayfun Tezduyar, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics organizing committee: Marek Behr, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics; Sanjay Mittal, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics; and Thomas Hughes, Stanford University co-sponsor: Army High Performance Computing Research Center The invited papers from this symposium were published by North-Holland as a special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Vol. 119, issues 1-2) entitled "Parallel Finite Element Computations" edited by Tayfun E. Tezduyar. July 14-17, 1993 Neural Networks for Physicists III organizer: Philippe de Forcrand, Theoretical Physics Institute cosponsor: Theoretical Physics Institute and Cray Research Foundation July 5 - 23, 1993 IMA-Supercomputing Institute Symposium on Modeling, Mesh Generation, and Adaptive Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations local co-organizer: Tayfun Tezduyar, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics other co-organizers: Joseph E. Flaherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ivo Babuska, University of Maryland-College Park; John E. Hopcroft, Cornell University; William D. Henshaw, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center; and Joseph E. Oliger, Stanford University cosponsor: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications and Army High Performance Computing Research Center October 12-14, 1992 US-Japan Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Large-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics local co-organizer: Tayfun Tezduyar, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics other co-organizers: Thomas J.R. Hughes, Stanford University and Mutsuto Kawahara, Chuo University cosponsor: Army High Performance Computing Research Center September 9-10, 1992 Symposium on Visualization and Statistical Analysis in Hard Turbulence local co-organizer: David Yuen, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics other co-organizer: Stephane Zaleski, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France cosponsor: Army High Performance Computing Research Center August 17-21, 1992 Neural Networks for Physicists II organizer: Philippe de Forcrand, Theoretical Physics Institute cosponsor: Dept. of Computer Science and Cray Research, Inc. April 24-25, 1992 XIth Parallel Circus local co-organizers: Gene Golub, Stanford University (visitor at the IMA) and Ahmed Sameh, Dept. of Computer Science other co-organizer: Bill Harrod, Cray Research, Inc. cosponsor: Dept. of Computer Science and Cray Research, Inc. February 24-March 1, 1992 Workshop on Iterative Methods for Sparse and Structured Problems local co-organizer: Mitchell Luskin, Dept. of Mathematics other co-organizer: Anne Greenbaum, Courant Institute, New York University cosponsor: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications The proceedings of this workshop were published by North Holland as Volume 53 of Computer Physics Communications. October 31-November 1, 1991 Symposium on Computational Approaches in Molecular Biology and Biophysics local co-organizers: Victor Bloomfield, Dept. of Biochemistry (CBS) and George Wilcox, Dept. of Pharmacology August 28, 1991 Symposium on Large-Scale Computations Applied to Many-Body Systems local co-organizer: Charles Campbell, Dept. of Physics other co-organizer: Eckhard Krotscheck, Center for Theoretical Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas cosponsor: Seventh International Conference on Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories November 19-20, 1990 Symposium on Supercomputer Simulation of Semiconductor Devices local co-organizer: Michael Shur, Dept. of Electrical Engineering other co-organizer: Tor Fjeldly, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Norwegian Institute of Technology, University of Trondheim, Norway The proceedings of this symposium were published in Volume 67 of Computer Physics Communications. June 11-15, 1990 Workshop on Chaotic Processes in the Geological Sciences local co-organizers: George R. Sell, Dept. of Mathematics and David Yuen, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics cosponsor: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications June 4-8, 1990 Workshop on Nonlinear Phenomena in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences local organizer: David Yuen, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics other co-organizers: George Carnevale, Scripps Institute of Oceanography and Raymond Peirrehumbert, Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago cosponsor: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications April 23-24, 1990 Symposium on Recent Developments in Large-Scale Computational Fluid Dynamics local co-organizer: Tayfun Tezduyar, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics other co-organizer: Thomas J.R. Hughes, Stanford University November 30, 1989 Symposium on Visualization and Graphics local organizer: George Sell, Dept. of Mathematics and Army High Performance Computing Research Center cosponsor: Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Geometry Supercomputer Project, and Institute for Mathematics and its Applications October 16, 1989 Symposium on Supercomputer Protein Chemistry local organizer: Donald G. Truhlar, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Program June 1, 1989 Potential Energy Surfaces and Chemical Dynamics (in Duluth) local organizer: Donald K. Harriss, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Minnesota-Duluth cosponsor: American Chemical Society Great Lakes Regional Meeting April 10-11, 1989 Symposium on Modeling for Conservation Laws in Continuum Mechanics co-organizers: James Glimm, New York University and Andrew Majda, Princeton University local co-hosts: Paul Woodward, Dept. of Astronomy and Willard Miller, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications cosponsor: Institute for Mathematics and its Applications October 23-25, 1988 Workshop on Practical Iterative Methods for Large-Scale Computations local co-organizers: Daniel Boley, Dept. of Computer Science and Donald G. Truhlar, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Program other co-organizers: Youcef Saad, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Ames Research Center and Robert E. Wyatt, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin cosponsors: Cray Research, Inc. and ETA Systems, Inc. The proceedings of this workshop were published in Volume 53 of Computer Physics Communications May 16-18, 1988 Symposium on Supercomputing and Large-Scale Computations local co-organizers: J. Ben Rosen and Eugene Shragowitz, Dept. of Computer Science March 30-31, 1988 Symposium in Memory of Aneesur Rahman local co-organizer: Charles Campbell, Dept. of Physics cosponsors: School of Physics and Astronomy and Theoretical Physics Institute September 13-16, 1987 Conference on Supercomputing in Biology: Proteins, Nucleic Acids, and Water local co-organizers: George Wilcox and Leonard Lichtblau, Dept. of Pharmacology in the Medical School conference chairperson: J. Andrew McCammon, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Houston cosponsors: Medical School, Institute of Technology, College of Biological Sciences, Cray Research, Inc., AMOCO Corporation, Eli Lilly Research Laboratories, Riker Laboratories/3M Star Technologies, Biosym Technologies, and Burroughs Wellcome Company March 15-17, 1987 Symposium on Supercomputer Research in Chemistry and chemical Engineering local co-organizers: Klavs F. Jensen, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Donald G. Truhlar, Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Program cosponsors: American Chemical Society, Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Cray Research, Inc., and ETA Systems, Inc. The proceedings of this symposium were published in the American Chemical Society Sympoisum Series, Volume 353. 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