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May 26-27, 2009 Dr. Jun Ni ataend Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering, Operating Council Meeting, Chicago.

Nov. 4, 2008, Dr. Jun Ni was invited by Illinois Borad of Trusts, president and Cancellor, and NCSA director to attend Blue Waters celebration, NCSA

Sept. 10, 2008, Message from NCF-CISE Directors., more ...

July 102, 2008, Dr. Jun Ni attended Virtual School of Computational science and Engineering, 2008 Planning Meeting at University of Michagan.

June 20, 2008 US fastest supercomputer, IBM Runner, set the word-record. It reaches petaflops (processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, or 1,000 trillion calculations per second). The system starts to serve DOE Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in computations for nuclear weapons stockpile, and will be used used for astronomy, energy, human genome science and climate change research. more ...

June 20, 2008 Bill Gates was recently interviewed by Michael Miller, the PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief, on the Bill's review of PC industrials in history and the vision of future development. The interview can be found at PC Magazine. more

June 10, 2008 Microsoft News Press released the article about" Universities Choose Microsoft High-Performance Computing to Advance Innovative Research". It s cites several academic customers report case of development and deployment in ventures ranging from biotechnology to urban modeling. The report includes Dr. Jun Ni's research lab development. more ...

June 10, 2008 National Science Foundation News: LSU-Center for Computational Technologies (CCT) Director Dr. Ed Seidel is selected as the Director of NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure. more ...

Jun 5, 2008 Dr. Jun Ni received NCSA faculty fellowship and working with Prof. Thom Dunning, the director of NCSA. On June 5, he gave a short talk on Cyber-enabled HPC for Accelerating Medical Imaging & Informatics Research at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) during Summer Faculty Fellowship Opining. His projects are cyberinfrastrcuture-enabled petascale computing for medical imaging and nanotechnology.

May 1, 2008 Dr. Jun Ni gave a seminar talk on parallel monte carlo algorithm for simulation of photon migration inside biological tissues at The Iowa Institute of Biomedical Imaging, Seminar, May 1, 2008

Feb. 21, 2008 Dr. Jun Ni gave a presentation on modeling of biotransport in biophysics systems using petascale computing and medical imaging at NSF invited workshop on Biological Communications and Molecular Communications.

Feb. 7, 2008 Dr. Jun Ni was invited by Dr. Milan Sonka to give a se miner on “Vision of Cyberinfrastructure for Biomedical Imaging,” ECE Graduate Seminar and the Iowa Institute of Biomedical Imaging

Nov. 29, 2007 Dr. Jun Ni presented his scientific paper, co-authored by Bo Qiang and Dr. Laurie Fajardo. at Radiology Society of North American, RSNA|07, Chicago. The presentation “Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithm for Simulation of Photon Migration inside Biological Tissues,” Nov. 29, 2007

Nov. 18, 2007 Dr. Jun Ni gave a presentation on "Cyber infrastructure-enabled Computations for the Discovery of Innovative Technology in Medical Imaging through Nanotechnology,” at The Third High Performance Computing for Nanotechnology (HPCNano07), in IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2007, Reno, NV, USA

Oct. 16, 2007 Dr. Jun Ni presented topic of "The Role of Large-Scale Computation and Cyber-Enabled Discovery in Multi-scale Simulations of Nanostructured Materials,” at internal NSF Workshop on NSF Nanoelectronics: Circuits, Systems, and CAD Tools, NSF, Washington, DC. Ni was also invited to have Microsoft interview and the interview appears on Microsoft Web site in the following video - "High Productivity Computing in Science and Education"

Nov. 12, 2007 Dr. Jun Ni gave invited feature talk, "HPC-enabling Technology for Medical Imaging and Informatics in Integrated Medical Image Informatics Systems,” at First Annual Microsoft HPC Summit, in IEEE/ACM SC07, Reno, NV, USA

Sept. 13, 2008 Dr. Jun Ni attended The Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) 13, at NCSA, UIUC

Aug. 22, 2007 Dr. Jun Ni gave an invited talk NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure during his NCS-OCI's program director interview. His presentation title is "Integration and Implementation of Cyberinfrastructure. His presentation slides can be found here.

Aug. 16, 2007 At the Second International Multi-symposiums on Computer and Computational Sciences, on Aug. 8, 2008. Engineering College, University of Iowa. Dr. Sally Mason, the 20th President of the University of Iowa delivered a welcome message, emphasized her appreciation, encouragement, endorsement, and support to cyberinfrastructure-based computing for UI multidisciplinary research. More in UI News about the conference . The chair of University of Michigan's research cyberinfrastructure committee, Prof. Brain Athey gave his excited presentation about cyberinfrastructure-powered NCIBI sponsored by NIH. The conference was organized by general chair, Dr. Ed Seidel, Director of CCT, Prof. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Prof. Thom Dunning, Director of NCSA, and local organizers, Dr. Jun Ni and Prof. Jim Cremer, Chair of CS department. The director of nanoHub project sponsored by NSF National nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), Prof. Gerhard Kimeck from Purdue University gave his introduction about future cyberinfrastructure-enabled nanoHub project.

July 14, 2007, Dr. Jun Ni gave presentation at Great Lake Consortium-Petascale computing workshop, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He presented his two white papers. They are “Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Petascale Computing for Nanotechnology (cPCN)", and "Cyberinfrastructure-Enabled Medical Imaging Informatics". The papers has been requested. He was the first who initiated CI-based medical imaging and medical imaging informatics.

August 8, 2007, National Science Board (NSB) approved a resolution authorizing the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund the acquisition and deployment of the world's most powerful "leadership-class" supercomputer, proposed in response to NSF's "Track 1" supercomputing solicitation. Details

Dec. 6, 2006, Thom Dunning at NCSA, proposed Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation. Detials

 

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Medical Imaging HPC and Informatics Lab, Department of Radiology
Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa