The annual Supercomputing (SC11) Conference will be held November 12-18, 2011 in Seattle, Washington. Recognized globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC11 features interesting and innovative HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world. The SC11 Workshop “Computational Methods for Biosurveillance” will be held on Monday, November 14th from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The format will include technical presentations and a panel session.
Workshop organizers Bob Cottingham and Rich Stouder (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) would like to encourage those interested to participate and submit a proposed presentation on the following relevant topics:
Data intensive computing for analysis of multiple real-time data streams
Genomic and transcriptomic analysis of environmental samples
Social network analysis
Sensor network integration
Spatial analysis and visualization
Agent-based simulation
Submissions for the technical program will be accepted through Friday, August 26th. Please e-mail your proposed response (not more than 2 pages) to foustcb@ornl.gov using Word or PDF format.
Biosurveillance has been primarily based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) detection, and intelligence gathering and analysis. With the increasing potential for terrorist engineered threats, and the computational means to detect both natural and synthetic threats, this workshop brings together experts in related capabilities, both biological and computational, to consider existing and proposed methods for computational biosurveillance. The workshop aims to provide an integrated view of the state of the art, identify technical challenges, and develop a vision for the future of computational biosurveillance. Relevant topics include data intensive computing for analysis of multiple real-time data streams, genomic and transcriptomic analysis of environmental samples, social network analysis, sensor network integration, spatial analysis and visualization, agent-based simulation.
For more information, visit the Official Event Website.
