AWS Education: Research Seminar Series
The AWS Research Seminar Series is a set of informational sessions focused on how research spurs scientific and technological evolutions. This series aims to connect worldwide researchers with the internal Amazon research communities to exchange ideas, share information, and discuss topics including artificial intelligence, blockchain for science, high performance computing, quantum computation, machine learning, and robotics.
Join us in collaboration with Amazon Research Days (ARD) at these virtual and in-person sessions around the world featuring some of the foremost research experts in their fields.
Each session is approximately 60 minutes (50 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of Q&A). Interested in presenting? Contact us at aws-wwps-seminar@amazon.com.
Next webinar - Science at the Petascale: Advancing Global Scientific Projects Through Distributed Computing
Prof. Frank Wuerthwein, Executive Director, Open Science Grid (OSG), and Professor of Physics, UC San Diego
Bio
Prof. Wuerthwein, an experimental particle physicist analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider, is responsible for providing an integrated data and compute platform that advances open science through distributed high-throughput computing as executive director of OSG. The platform has been used in the detection of gravitational waves (Nobel Prize 2017) and the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Nobel Prize 2013), as well as many other scientific achievements.
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Time: 8:00-9:00AM PST
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Title: Science at the Petascale: Advancing Global Scientific Projects Through Distributed Computing
Presenter: Prof. Frank Wuerthwein, Executive Director, Open Science Grid (OSG), and Professor of Physics, UC San Diego
Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Time: 8:00-9:00AM PST
Presenter Abstract/Biography:
Attend this session to receive an overview of three global science drivers – the Large Hadron Collider, gravitational wave detection, and the IceCube neutrino observatory, elucidating common patterns in the architecture of their global computing infrastructure. Learn about the role AWS can play in these large international projects using advancements in computing technologies as data volumes explode over the next decade.
Hear from Prof. Wuerthwein, an experimental particle physicist analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider, who is the executive director of OSG responsible for providing an integrated data and compute platform that advances open science through distributed high-throughput computing. The platform has been used in the detection of gravitational waves (Nobel Prize 2017), the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Nobel Prize 2013), and many other scientific achievements.
Title: Changing the Way Scientists Share Data: Open Storage Network
Presenter: Prof. Alex Szalay (TBC), Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, The Johns Hopkins University
Date: Coming up in June 2019
Time: 8:00-9:00AM PST
Presenter Abstract/Biography:
Alexander Szalay is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy, and Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He is the Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004, he received an Alexander Von Humboldt Award in Physical Sciences and in 2007, he received the Microsoft Jim Gray Award. In 2008, he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eotvos University, Budapest.
Title: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Biomedical Research
Presenter: Prof. Judith Dexheimer, University of Cincinnati Professor, University of Cincinnati Department of Pediatrics
Date: Coming up in July 2019
Time: 8:00-9:00AM PST
Presenter Abstract/Biography:
Dr. Dexheimer has a background in developing, implementing, and evaluating clinical information systems including clinical decision systems, organizational and workflow aspects of informatics applications, computerized applications for emergency medicine, and implementation of artificial intelligence techniques, computerized guideline applications and evidence-based medicine, public health informatics, and preventive care measures. Her research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of clinical decision support systems in pediatric emergency medicine to improve clinical care.
Dr. Dexheimer co-leads the Decision Support Analytics Workgroup (DSAW), which investigates the links between the effectiveness of clinical decision support (CDS), patient safety, and user efficiency. This research has demonstrated ties between decreasing alert burden on clinicians, increasing CDS alert salience, and improving patient outcomes.
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Presenters
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Prof. Frank Wuerthwein, Executive Director Open Science Grid (OSG), and Professor of Physics at UC San Diego
Prof. Wuerthwein, an experimental particle physicist analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider, is responsible for providing an integrated data and compute platform that advances open science through distributed high-throughput computing as executive director of OSG. The platform has been used in the detection of gravitational waves (Nobel Prize 2017) and the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Nobel Prize 2013), as well as many other scientific achievements.
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Past Sessions
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Amazon Research Days
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Amazon Research Days (ARD) is an event series of one-day interactive symposia, which is designed to connect academic researchers worldwide with the Amazon research community to allow for an exchange of ideas. One unique characteristic of the Amazon Research Days is that each day is held in a different location to make it easy for any academic worldwide to attend. Each one-day event is held at a major research talent hub, including Bangalore (India), Haifa (Israel), Berlin (Germany), Cambridge (UK), Boston (USA/MA), and will conclude at Amazon headquarters in Seattle (USA/WA).
Each event’s agenda composition is different. We have speaker tracks at each event but also a combination of demo sessions, internal and external poster sessions, Q&A panels, roundtables focusing on specialties, diversity mentor sessions (for example, women graduate student mentoring breakfast), and more. When developing the attendance list, we looked to have diversity in levels of expertise and also a diverse audience in regards to gender and geography.
