March 2019 - Affiliates - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

REMINDER: Core values forums today/tomorrow
by Habib, Salman 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

The calendar is: Today, March 27, 12:00pm - 2:00pm for CELS postdoctoral researchers and early career staff Today, March 27, 3:00pm - 5:00pm for any CELS members Tomorrow, March 28, 9:00am - 11:00am for CELS shared services Building 240, Room 1416. Please try to go -- Todd Munson is the main contact. Best Salman

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REMINDER: Argonne Computing Coffee Hour Today in the Viz Lab from 2:00-3:00
by Werner, Janet M. 27 Mar '19

27 Mar '19

Hello, The weekly Argonne Computing Coffee Hours are going well with having presentations each week to facilitate everyone getting to know about each other’s computing activities to enable more collaborations. The coffee hours take place on Wednesdays, 2pm – 3pm in the Viz Lab on the 4th floor, 4312. If you have not given a talk or scheduled to give a future talk, we invite you to identify some dates that work for you to give a 5-minute presentation about your current and future activities via the following doodle polls for dates 1/2/2019 – 6/26/2019: https://doodle.com/poll/m44krh7u5d9hpu4i The speaker for today is Corey Adams. The title of Corey’s talk is “Neutrino Physics and Deep Learning”. Janet

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Fw: new advanced statistics and machine learning journal club - first meeting April 10 at 1 pm in B240 - #4313
by Wild, Stefan M. 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

A good opportunity if you like reading with friends. Stefan ________________________________ From: Becker, Matthew R Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:08 PM To: Becker, Matthew R Cc: Ramachandra, Nesar Soorve; Maulik, Romit Subject: new advanced statistics and machine learning journal club - first meeting April 10 at 1 pm in B240 - #4313 Hi everyone! I am writing to announce a new journal club (i.e., a place to talk about the latest papers) focused on advanced statistics, AI and machine learning. Some details: 1. The journal club is meant to be jointly hosted by PSE and CELS. We want this to serve as a place to discuss joint interests, research papers, and hopefully foster new collaborations in ML/AI across divisions. 2. The organizational impetus for this journal club came from the HEP Division Advanced Computing Working Group and PSE AI/ML Steering Committee. Feel free to get in touch if you have questions, comments etc! 3. We have two postdoc volunteers one from PSE (Nesar) and one from CELS (Romit) who have agreed run and host the meetings. Thank you to both of you! 4. The first meeting will be April 10 at 1PM in building 240, room 4313. Time and location will be adjusted as needed OFC. 5. We are planning an every other week cadence for the time being. 6. We will be using this arXiv reading service, https://www.benty-fields.com/, to help host the journal club. The name of the journal club on Benty-Fields is "Argonne - Stats & ML" If you would like to join us (and we hope you do!), then please sign up for Benty-Fields. Once you have an account, you can join the journal club via clicking on the "Journal Club" link on the top nav bar, then clicking "Join Journal Club" on right, and finally selecting the club named "Argonne - Stats & ML" in the drop down menu. After you have an account, feel free to vote on papers and please volunteer to talk about them! We want to keep the barriers to entry low, so talking about a paper should *very* casual. In five minutes or less, we would like people to give us a broad overview of the context around the paper, the techniques, the main results, and maybe walk us through a table or figure or two. No slides, whiteboard/chalkboard talks or anything more formal than what I just described please! I hope to see you there and please forward this along to interested parties! Cheers, Matthew R Becker on behalf of the PSE AI/ML Steering Committee and the HEP Division Advanced Computing Working Group

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Re: Argonne Launchpad program
by Thakur, Rajeev 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

I will just add that Rajesh Sankaran from MCS is currently in this program. You can talk to him about his experience if you are interested. Rajeev -----Original Message----- From: <cps-friends-bounces(a)lists.anl.gov> on behalf of "Habib, Salman via cps-friends" <cps-friends(a)lists.anl.gov> Reply-To: "Habib, Salman" <habib(a)anl.gov> Date: Sunday, March 24, 2019 at 10:46 PM To: "cps-all(a)anl.gov" <cps-all(a)anl.gov> Subject: Argonne Launchpad program Hi Everyone, I met recently with John Harvey who manages the Launchpad program at Argonne (http://inside.anl.gov/pages/launchpad-program) This program is meant to support work by highly motivated early/mid-career people in order to help them convert an initial technical idea into a much bigger R&D effort. Typically the Launchpad program lasts for a year and covers 50% of the FTE costs; aside from giving time to develop the idea, it also aims to help in honing a participant's program development skills. Program managers in DOE have seen the value of Launchpad and have paid into it. Access to the program is via open calls (May/June timeframe, if I remember correctly) or Divisional nomination. The technical idea can involve work at a basic R&D level or it can be higher up the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) stack. John was interested in seeing more applicants from the more basic science side of the Lab and we did some brainstorming. One idea is that we can use Launchpad as an internal silo-breaking strategy, for instance by bringing people in as "teams of two" (from two different parts of the Lab, e.g., CPS and HEP, CPS and MSD, etc.). Another is to promote initial work on an Early Career project; yet another is preliminary activity for an SBIR effort. If you have even a small interest in Launchpad, please swing by and talk to me. Also, do feel free to contact John Harvey (harveyj(a)anl.gov) if you have questions. Best Salman _______________________________________________ cps-friends mailing list cps-friends(a)lists.anl.gov https://lists.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/cps-friends

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Argonne Launchpad program
by Habib, Salman 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

Hi Everyone, I met recently with John Harvey who manages the Launchpad program at Argonne (http://inside.anl.gov/pages/launchpad-program) This program is meant to support work by highly motivated early/mid-career people in order to help them convert an initial technical idea into a much bigger R&D effort. Typically the Launchpad program lasts for a year and covers 50% of the FTE costs; aside from giving time to develop the idea, it also aims to help in honing a participant's program development skills. Program managers in DOE have seen the value of Launchpad and have paid into it. Access to the program is via open calls (May/June timeframe, if I remember correctly) or Divisional nomination. The technical idea can involve work at a basic R&D level or it can be higher up the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) stack. John was interested in seeing more applicants from the more basic science side of the Lab and we did some brainstorming. One idea is that we can use Launchpad as an internal silo-breaking strategy, for instance by bringing people in as "teams of two" (from two different parts of the Lab, e.g., CPS and HEP, CPS and MSD, etc.). Another is to promote initial work on an Early Career project; yet another is preliminary activity for an SBIR effort. If you have even a small interest in Launchpad, please swing by and talk to me. Also, do feel free to contact John Harvey (harveyj(a)anl.gov) if you have questions. Best Salman

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Fwd: Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing
by Ramprakash, Jini 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Hello, For those of you considering attending the conference, please see Emily's email below requesting that you fill out the short survey so we can better organize Argonne's presence at this conference which had ~20k people attend last year. If you're wondering what the experience is like, come ask me. Male allies are always welcome. -- Thanks & Regards, Jini Ramprakash ramprakash(a)anl.gov Deputy Division Director Argonne Leadership Computing Facility -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 22:09:57 +0000 From: Zvolanek, Emily A. via wisttalk <wisttalk(a)lists.anl.gov> Reply-To: Zvolanek, Emily A. <ezvolanek(a)anl.gov> To: wisttalk(a)anl.gov <wisttalk(a)anl.gov> Hello All, WIST and the Leadership Institute are working to identify people interested in attending the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration in Orlando, Florida, on October 2-4, 2019. If you are interested in attending the conference, please complete this short survey <https://goo.gl/forms/EXmT7qOA1hYgineV2> by April 1, 2019. Completing the survey does not obligate you to attend the conference. It also does not obligate WIST or the Leadership Institute to fund anyone’s attendance at the conference. The survey will be used to measure interest in the Grace Hopper Celebration across the laboratory, and to verify if the level of interest is commensurate with Argonne’s recent attendance at the conference. For more details about the conference, including registration costs and the conference agenda, please see AnitaB.org’s conference website: https://ghc.anitab.org/. Best, ~Emily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Zvolanek WIST Program Initiator Senior GIS Analyst Environmental Science Division Argonne National Laboratory 9700 S. Cass Ave, Building 240 Argonne, IL 60439 630.252.1443 emily(a)anl.gov <mailto:[email protected]> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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PDEs under UQ - registration available
by Marin, Oana 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

I am pleased to let you know that the registration for the course "PDEs under Uncertainty Quantification" is now open. http://www.cvent.com/d/f6qwkk The attendance is limited to 110 seats for the morning lecture sessions, and 55 for the hands-on in the afternoon. For those who would prefer to attend only the lectures, the codes for the hands-on afternoon session will be accessible on the morning of each lecture. Please feel free to forward this to other ANL divisions who may be interested. The course is open to an external audience as well and will be advertised externally in a few days, to give lab-wide ANL employees priority. Hoping to see a full lecture room and subsequently exciting discussions on the topic, Oana

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The Argonne Computing Coffee Hour for Today is canceled
by Werner, Janet M. 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Good Morning, There will not be a computing coffee hour today. Janet

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Reminder: Individual meetings
by Habib, Salman 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

Hi Everyone, This is just a catch-up on the one-on-one meetings. I have talked to about half of you so far and I would really like to finish all of these initial meetings in two weeks. So, if you can, please do set up an appointment with Samantha (cc'd). I apologize that the meetings are so short, 30 minutes is hardly enough for a reasonable discussion. However, we will have many other chances to meet so do bear with me. The discussions have all been very helpful and I am learning a lot. If you have questions or random thoughts, just send me an email. All the Best Salman ********************************************************************** Salman Habib Division Director, Computational Science Division Deputy Division Director (Interim), High Energy Physics Division Argonne National Laboratory Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory/Northwestern University Email: habib(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> ********************************************************************** -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Individual meetings Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:37:40 +0000 From: Habib, Salman via cps-employees <cps-employees(a)lists.anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]> Reply-To: Habib, Salman <habib(a)anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]> To: cps-all(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> <cps-all(a)anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]>, Tezak, Samantha L. <stezak(a)anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]> Hi Everyone, As you probably know, my schedule is a bit messy during the transition period. Starting from Feb 13, I hope to follow the schedule below: Monday AM – HEP Monday PM – CPS Tuesday AM – CPS Tuesday PM – HEP Wednesday AM – HEP Wednesday PM – CPS Thursday AM- CPS Thursday PM – Go where needed Friday AM – CPS Friday PM – HEP That said, undoubtedly there will be some element of chaos until the end of this month. Nevertheless, I would like to start setting up individual meetings with all the CPS staff members ASAP. Please send times that are generically good for you to Samantha Tezak (stezak(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>, cc'd) and we'll start setting up meetings (Samantha has the best knowledge of my schedule, such as it is). Now, I know some of you personally already, but many of you I do not. So, if you suspect I have no idea what you work on, this is what you do: Suggest one grad level textbook, one recent review article, and one or two recent papers that you think are a breakthrough in your field (or very interesting anyway) and I'll do my homework before we meet (send this info along to Samantha as well). All the Best Salman ********************************************************************** Salman Habib Division Director, Computational Science Division Deputy Division Director (Interim), High Energy Physics Division Argonne National Laboratory Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory/Northwestern University Email: habib(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> **********************************************************************

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REMINDER: Argonne Computing Coffee Hour Today in the Viz Lab from 2:00-3:00
by Werner, Janet M. 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hello, The weekly Argonne Computing Coffee Hours are going well with having presentations each week to facilitate everyone getting to know about each other’s computing activities to enable more collaborations. The coffee hours take place on Wednesdays, 2pm – 3pm in the Viz Lab on the 4th floor, 4312. If you have not given a talk or scheduled to give a future talk, we invite you to identify some dates that work for you to give a 5-minute presentation about your current and future activities via the following doodle polls for dates 1/2/2019 – 6/26/2019: https://doodle.com/poll/m44krh7u5d9hpu4i The speaker for today is Arvind Ramanathan. The title of Arvind’s talk is “Scalable machine learning and artificial intelligence for multi-scale Biology”. Janet

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