Upward Bound Workshop 2022

Exploring the power of computational science

Upward Bound students get first-hand experience in this summer workshop for high-performance computing taught by University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty and staff volunteers. Six faculty members collaborate with UW-Eau Claire’s Upward Bound program to share techniques used to process large amounts of data and perform complex calculations at high speed. The workshop’s topics featured this year include: biology, computer science, chemistry, materials science and biomedical engineering, mathematics, and physics and astronomy.

With this workshop, we hope to bring HPC and computational sciences to local high school students, potentially attracting bright minds to UW-Eau Claire.

Workshop Schedule

The workshop will be split between a few different rooms in Hibbard Humanities Hall (HHH) to accommodate all students. Zoom will be set up in all of the rooms to watch the presenter.

Rooms:

  • HHH 107 (24 Seats)
  • HHH 201 (32 Seats)
  • HHH 106a (12 Seats - Overflow)
  • HHH 180 (REU / Non-UB Students Only)
Friday, June 17th

Time

Session

9:00 - 10:15

Introduction to high performance computing (HPC), computational science, and basic Linux commands.

Blugold Center for HPC Staff

Links: Presentation

10:30 - 12:00

Making the atoms dance

Dr. Sudeep Bhattacharyay
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Links: Presentation | Configure Q-Chem | Example Output File
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30

Building “trees” of South African shrubs – using the HPC to understand evolutionary relationships

Dr. Nora Mitchell 
Biology

Links: Presentation
2:30 - 2:45

Wrap Up

Blugold Center for HPC Staff
Friday, June 24th

Time

Session

9:00 - 10:15

Recap of June 17th and submitting jobs to a supercomputing cluster using Slurm.

Blugold Center for HPC Staff

Links: Presentation | Unsplash

10:30 - 12:00

The Lives of Stars

Dr. Bill Wolf
Physics + Astronomy

Links: Presentation | Tasks 2 & 4 - ZAMS | Task 7 - TAMS
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30

Cryptocurrency Trading Strategies Based on Market Signals and Deep Learning Approach

Dr. Wufeng Tian
Mathematics

Links: Presentation
2:30 - 2:45

Wrap Up

Blugold Center for HPC Staff
Friday, July 8th

Time

Session

9:00 - 10:15

Session 7

Review of high performance computing, Linux commands, and submitting jobs using Slurm.

Blugold Center for HPC Staff

Files: Presentation

10:30 - 12:00

Session 8

How to Teach a Machine to Detect Sentiment - A Machine Learning Approach

Dr. Rakib Islam
Computer Science

Links: Presentation
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 - 2:30

Session 9

How to engineer a super-bouncy ball

Dr. Ying Ma
Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering

Links: Presentation
2:30 - 2:45

Wrap Up

Blugold Center for HPC Staff

Workshop Session Faculty