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SUMMARY:Computational journeys in a sparse universe
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DESCRIPTION:Aydin Buluc\nAbstract: Sparsity is a fundamental assumption th
 at allows us to compute efficiently and find parsimonious solutions to sci
 ence and engineering problems. Sparsity exists in all basic sciences such 
 as physics\, biology\, and chemistry. I am going to give a sampling of our
  recent work on sparse computations\, with an emphasis on large-scale para
 llelism. My talk will travel across diverse problem domains including ra
 ndomized linear algebra\, graph neural networks\, protein family and struc
 ture discovery from metagenomic data\, and tensor computations. The underl
 ying theme will be the challenges posed by sparsity and the computational 
 techniques we employ to overcome these challenges.\n\nBio: Aydın Buluç 
 is a Senior Scientist at the Applied Math and Computational Research Divis
 ion of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and an Adjunct Fac
 ulty at EECS department of UC Berkeley. His research interests include par
 allel computing\, combinatorial scientific computing\, high performance gr
 aph analysis and machine learning\, sparse linear algebra\, and computatio
 nal genomics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Universit
 y of California\, Santa Barbara in 2010. After that\, he was a Luis W. Alv
 arez postdoctoral fellow at LBNL. Dr. Buluç is a recipient of the DOE Ear
 ly Career Award in 2013 and the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early C
 areer Researchers in 2015. He recently led a team that was chosen as a fin
 alist for the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize. He was a founding associate edit
 or of the ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing. He is currently directin
 g a DOE Mathematical Multifaceted Integrated Capabilities Center named Spa
 rsitute.\n 
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