Compute Ontario Research Day 2015

May 21
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

Program

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8:30-9:30 registration and breakfast reception and
cafeteria
9:30-9:40 opening remarks
by Ignac Kolenko
(Chair, School of Engineering and Information Technology,
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning)
A1203
9:40-10:30 invited presentation:
SAP HANA: Enterprise Data Management Meets
High Performance Computing

by Anil K. Goel

(Vice President and Chief Architect, HANA, SAP)
A1203
10:40-11:30 invited presentation:
Communication-Avoiding Algorithms for
Linear Algebra and Beyond

by James Demmel

(Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley)
A1203
11:40-12:40 contributed presentations: track 1 and track 2 A1326 and
A2107
12:40-13:40 lunch and poster presentations cafeteria
13:40-14:40 contributed presentations: track 1 and track 2 A1326 and
A2107
14:50-15:40 invited presentation:
Characterization of Aberrant Epigenetic Patterns in T Cell Leukemia
by Aristotelis Tsirigos

(Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, School of Medicine,
New York University)
A1203
15:40-16:10 break and poster presentations cafeteria
16:10-17:00 invited presentation:
Binary Black Hole Coalescence
by Harald Pfeiffer

(Assistant Professor, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics,
University of Toronto)
A1203
17:00-17:10 closing remarks
by Mike Bauer
(Scientific Director, SHARCNET)
A1203

Contributed Presentations

Morning Track 1

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11:40-11:52 Efficient Algorithms for Matching Problems
by Ilias Kotsireas

(Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University)
A1326
11:55-12:07 Monte Carlo Simulation of Massive Social Networks
by Adam Domurad

(master's degree student, University of Waterloo)
A1326
12:10-12:22 Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Scheme for Secure Range
Query Process in a Cloud Environment
by Shaobo Wei

(master's degree student, Laurentian University)
A1326
12:25-12:37 Python-based Large-scale Visual Recognition with Multiple GPUs
by Fei Mao

(HPC Consultant, SHARCNET)
A1326

Morning Track 2

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11:40-11:52 Perturbations Due to Dust in Mars Orbiting Satellites
by Ioannis Haranas

(Adjunct Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University)
A2107
11:55-12:07 Polar Data at Compute Ontario and SHARCNET
by Julie Friddell

(Associate Director, Canadian Cryospheric Information Network,
University of Waterloo)
A2107
12:10-12:22 Atmospheric Studies with Radar Data and Simulations;
HPC Applications in Radar Processing
by Marcial Garbanzo-Salas

(doctorate degree student, Western University)
A2107
12:25-12:37 Nanoscale Structure of Liquid Crystal-Nanoparticle Mixtures using
Molecular Monte Carlo Simulations
by Grigoriy Kimaev

(master's degree student, University of Waterloo)
A2107

Afternoon Track 1

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13:40-13:52 Systematic Prediction of Novel Lysine Methyltransferase Substrates
– An Integrative Approach
by Hazem Ahmed

(Postdoctoral Fellow, Structural Genomics Consortium Toronto,
University of Toronto)
A1326
13:55-14:07 Discovery of Primary, Cofactor, and Novel Transcription Factor
Binding Site Motifs by Recursive, Thresholded Entropy Minimization
by Ruipeng Lu

(doctorate degree student, Western University)
A1326
14:10-14:22 Investigating the Impact of Horizontal Gene Transfer on
Metabolic Conservation within Bacteria
by Thomas Hemmy

(master's degree student, Wilfrid Laurier University)
A1326
14:25-14:37 Mapping Loci and Genes using a Hidden Markov Model
for Bipolar Affective Disorder in Consanguineous Families
by Ricardo Harripaul

(doctorate degree student, University of Toronto)
A1326

Afternoon Track 2

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13:40-13:52 Reconstructing Molecular Geometries of Small Molecules using
Coulomb Explosion Imaging
by Ali Ramadhan

(undergraduate degree student, University of Waterloo)
A2107
13:55-14:07 Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Numerical Relativity
by Jonah Miller

(doctorate degree student, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
A2107
14:10-14:22 Parallel Processing in Image-based Localization
by Charbel Azzi

(master's degree student, University of Waterloo)
A2107
14:25-14:37 Boundary Tension Between Coexisting Phases of a Block Copolymer Blend
by Russell Spencer

(Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo)
A2107