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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium : Here and now: the intersection of computational sc
 ience and computer science
DTSTART:20151207T161500
DTEND:20151207T173000
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DESCRIPTION:By : Nicola Marzari - EPFLVideo of his talkAbstract :\nQuantum
 -mechanical simulations have become dominant and widely used tools for sci
 entific discovery and technological advancement\; since they are performed
  without any experimental input or parameter they can streamline\, acceler
 ate\, or replace actual physical experiments. This is a far-reaching parad
 igm shift\, substituting the cost- and time-scaling of brick-and-mortar fa
 cilities\, equipment\, and personnel with those\, very different\, of comp
 uting engines.\nNevertheless\, computational science remains anchored to a
  renaissance model of individual artisans gathered in a workshop\, under t
 he guidance of an established practitioner. Great benefits could follow fr
 om rethinking such model\, while adopting concepts and tools from computer
  science for the automation\, management\, preservation\, analytics\, and 
 dissemination of these computational efforts.\nI will offer my perspective
  on the current state-of-the-art in the field\, its power and limitations\
 , and the role and opportunities of high-throughput computing (HTC\, rathe
 r than HPC)\, of open-source codes and workflows\, and of big data availab
 le on demand.Bio :\nNicola Marzari holds a degree in physics from the Univ
 ersity of Trieste (1992) and a PhD in physics from the University of Cambr
 idge (1996). He moved to the US in 1996\, first as a NSF postdoctoral fell
 ow at Rutgers University (1996-98) and then as a research scientist at the
  Naval Research Laboratory (1998-99) and at Princeton University (1999-01)
 . In 2001 he was appointed assistant professor of computational materials 
 science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where he was promot
 ed to associate professor in 2005 and to the Toyota Chair of Materials Eng
 ineering in 2009. In 2010 he joined the University of\nOxford as its first
  Statutory (University) Professor of Materials Modelling and director of t
 he Materials Modelling Laboratory. He came to EPFL in 2011\, as chair of T
 heory and Simulation of Materials\; from 2014 he also directs the new MARV
 EL NCCR on Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials.
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