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SUMMARY:D. E. Shaw Research - Tech Talk et présentation 
DTSTART:20131210T173000
DTEND:20131210T183000
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Stefano Piana-Agostinetti & Dr. Michael Bergdorf\nStefano 
 Piana-Agostinetti develops methods for accurate and efficient simulation o
 f biomolecular systems. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Internatio
 nal School for Advanced Studies of Trieste\, and holds a B.S. in bioinorga
 nic chemistry from the University of Florence. Previously\, Stefano was a 
 researcher at Curtin University in Perth and held postdoctoral fellowships
  in Switzerland at both EPFL and ETH Zürich. His scientific research inte
 rests have focused on the use of ab initio and classical molecular dynamic
 s to study proteins\, DNA\, crystals\, and organic catalysts.\nMichael Ber
 gdorf is involved in the design of algorithms and software related to Desm
 ond\, a software package developed at D. E. Shaw Research to perform high-
 speed MD simulations of biological systems on conventional commodity clust
 ers. Michael received a Ph.D. in computational science and a B.S. in mecha
 nical engineering and computational science\, both from ETH Zürich. He ca
 me to DESRES from the Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory in 
 Zurich\, where\, as a Postdoctoral Researcher\, he developed multi-resolut
 ion particle methods on multi-core architectures and used them to study an
 giogenesis and turbulent flow.\nD. E. Shaw Research is an independent rese
 arch laboratory that conducts basic scientific research in the field of co
 mputational biochemistry under the direct scientific leadership of Dr. Dav
 id E. Shaw. Our group is currently focusing on molecular simulations invol
 ving proteins and other biological macromolecules of potential interest fr
 om both a scientific and a pharmaceutical perspective. Members of the lab 
 include computational chemists and biologists\, computer scientists and ap
 plied mathematicians\, and computer architects and engineers\, all working
  collaboratively within a tightly coupled interdisciplinary research envir
 onment.\nOur lab has designed and constructed a massively parallel superco
 mputer called Anton specifically for the execution of molecular dynamics (
 MD) simulations. Each Anton computer can simulate a single MD trajectory a
 s much as a millisecond or so in duration -- a timescale at which biologic
 ally significant phenomena occur. Anton has already generated the world’
 s longest MD trajectory.\nJoin us for an overview of our work on parallel 
 algorithms and machine architectures for high-speed MD simulations and a d
 escription of the simulations that have helped elucidate the dynamics and 
 functional mechanisms of biologically important proteins.
LOCATION:BC 01 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%2001
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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