NYCCS/Computer Science Seminar

Ed Seidel, PhD - Friday, March 28, 2008 -3:00 PM

Wang Center - Room 201

"From Black Holes to Black Oil: Cyberinfrastructure - Enabled Complex Problem Solving"

Computing is revolutionizing our ability to solve complex problems in all areas of research. For example, detailed, multiscale theoretical simulations of the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of binary black hole systems, impossible for decades until just a few years ago, are now routinely performed and used in experimental searches for gravitational waves on a daily basis. Using recent breakthroughs in numerical relativity as a leading example, I will show how modern cyberinfrastructure -- the comprehensive set of hardware, software, and algorithmic tools and approaches to scientific inquiry --- are accelerating and transforming research, education, and increasingly collaboration across and among all disciplines, whether they are experimental, data-driven, theoretical, and/or computational.