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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">"Renaud, Julia" <<a href="mailto:Julia.Renaud@DEShawResearch.com">Julia.Renaud@DEShawResearch.com</a>><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>D. E. Shaw Research Information Session</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'">September 12, 2014 at 3:14:10 PM EDT</span></div>
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<div><b>D. E. Shaw Research Information Session</b></div>
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<div>Date: Thursday, September 18th, 2014</div>
<div>Time: 4:00 – 6:00 PM</div>
<div>Location: Duboc Room (Building 4, Room 331)</div>
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<div>Food will be served!</div>
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<div><b>About The Talk</b></div>
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<div>D. E. Shaw Research is an independent research laboratory that conducts basic scientific research in the field of computational biochemistry under the direct scientific leadership of Dr. David E. Shaw. Our group is currently focusing on molecular simulations
involving proteins and other biological macromolecules of potential interest from both a scientific and a pharmaceutical perspective. Members of the lab include computational chemists and biologists, computer scientists and applied mathematicians, and computer
architects and engineers, all working collaboratively within a tightly coupled interdisciplinary research environment.</div>
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<div>Our lab has designed and constructed multiple generations of a massively parallel supercomputer called Anton specifically for the execution of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Each Anton computer can simulate a single MD trajectory as much as a millisecond
or so in duration -- a timescale at which biologically significant phenomena occur. Anton has already generated the world’s longest MD trajectory.</div>
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<div>Join us for an overview of our work on parallel algorithms and machine architectures for high-speed MD simulations and a description of the simulations that have helped elucidate the dynamics and functional mechanisms of biologically important proteins.</div>
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<div><b>About The Speakers</b></div>
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<div><b>J.P. Grossman</b></div>
<div>J.P. works on hardware and software architecture, design, simulation, and implementation for Anton. He earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from the University
of Toronto, where he was a three-time Putnam Fellow.</div>
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<div><b>Sahar Shahamatdar</b></div>
<div>Sahar is involved with simulation studies of biological systems. Sahar graduated with honors from Brown University with a B.S in materials science engineering. As an undergraduate, she developed infrastructure to identify the perceptual principles and
computationally model the neural mechanisms underlying visual object recognition.</div>
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<div>Julia Renaud</div>
<div>Strategic Growth</div>
<div>D. E. Shaw Research</div>
<div>(212) 403-8191</div>
<div><a href="mailto:Julia.Renaud@DEShawResearch.com"><font color="blue"><u>Julia.Renaud@DEShawResearch.com</u></font></a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.deshawresearch.com/"><font color="blue"><u>www.DEShawResearch.com</u></font></a></div>
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