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The School of Physics welcomes Dr. Edward Seidel, assistant director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation, on "The Data and Compute-Driven Transformation of Modern Science." Guests are invited to attend the reception following the presentation.
Abstract:
We all know that modern science is undergoing a profound transformation as it aims to tackle the complex problems of the 21st Century. It is
becoming highly collaborative; problems as diverse as climate change, renewable energy, or the origin of gamma-ray bursts require understanding
processes that no single group or community alone has the skills to address. At the same time, after centuries of little change, compute, data, and network environments have grown by 9-12 orders of magnitude in the last few decades. Moreover, science is not only compute-intensive but is dominated now by data-intensive methods. This dramatic change in the culture and methodology of science will require a much more integrated and comprehensive approach to development and deployment of hardware, software, and algorithmic tools and environments supporting research, education, and increasingly collaboration across disciplines.
