TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST 2009

Texas A&M University, College Station

The Texas Research Exchange Fest 2009 was held September 7th - 8th at the Hilton located near the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station. The purpose of this meeting was to have various representatives from federal agencies discuss the details of their different research programs and to encourage collaborations among the researchers at Texas Universities and Industry.

The event included poster sessions and collaborative discussions in addition to the informational sessions featuring the representatives from different federal agencies. The event is organized to focus on five major areas within computer science: security, software, networks, information, and high performance computing.

Representatives from the National Science Foundation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, The National Nuclear Security Administration, and The Air Force Office of Scientific Research gave guest lectures and helped to facilitate discussion.

TREF 2009 Speakers & Slides

• Ms. Sandy Landsberg: Advanced Scientific Computing Research: An Introduction (pdf file)
• Dr. Taieb Znati: tba
• Dr. Jose Munoz: High Performance Computing at NSF: Past Present and Future
• Dr. Nathan DeBardeleben: The Need for Resilient HPC Systems (pdf file)

TREF 2008 Speakers & Slides

• Dr. Deborah L. Crawford: Computing at the Frontier - Thinking Big and Being Bold
• Ms. Thuc Hoang: High Performance Computing for National Security (pdf file)
• Dr. Amy Vanderbilt: Getting Unreal to Understand Reality: Mixed Reality and Network Analysis
• Dr. Jim McGraw: Science and Security Through Computing (pdf file)
• Dr. Robert Bonneau: Complex Networks
• Dr. David R. Luginbuhl: Systems and Software/Distributed Intelligence and Information Fusion
• Mr. James Nunez: High End Computing File Systems and I/O: Coordinating the US Government Research Investments (pdf file)