In 2010 Georgia Tech announced the creation of the School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) within the College of Computing. The new school serves as a focal point for innovative interdisciplinary research and education in areas such as:

• High performance computing
• Data analytics, machine learning and visualization
• Modeling and simulation
• Scientific computing

The CSE Convocation is an opportunity to gather to celebrate and explore the scope of this new field of computing.

What is CSE?

CSE is a collaborative discipline that synthesizes principles from mathematics, science, engineering and computing to create and apply computational models to solve today’s grand challenges. The School of CSE’s mission is to advance computational methods and techniques that create novel solutions to real world problems and enable discovery and innovation in science and engineering.

The Georgia Tech College of Computing has always been focused on transformation, and the School of CSE is at the forefront. Join us at the CSE Convocation as we examine the possibilities of this exciting field of study.

Agenda

12:00 pm Lunch

12:40 pm Convocation Program (Klaus 1116)

1:00 pm Panel Session (Klaus 1116). Transformational Science: Past, Present, Future

2:00 pm Keynote Presentation: David Keyes (Klaus 1447)

David Keyes

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Dean, Mathematical & Computer Sciences & Engineering

Named Professor, Applied Mathematics & Computational Science

Dr. David Keyes is a pioneer in the development of large-scale simulation. He currently leads a mathematical cyberinfrastructure center for the U.S. Department of Energy under the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) initiative, and was recognized with the Sidney Fernbach Award of the IEEE Computer Society (2007) and an ACM Gordon Bell Prize (1999). Keyes was named the Fu Foundation Professor of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, the vice president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and part-time director of the Institute for Scientific Computing Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1999-2008).

Keyes began his career at Yale University, then joined Old Dominion University and the Institute for Computer Applications in Science & Engineering at NASA Langley Research Center (1993). He graduated summa cum laude with a BS in engineering in aerospace and mechanical sciences from Princeton University (1978), and earned a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard University (1984). He did postdoctoral work in the Computer Science Department of Yale University (1984-1985).