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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 22, 2015 at 1:06:02 PM EDT</span></div>
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<div><b>D. E. Shaw Research Information Session</b></div>
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<div>Date: Friday, September 25, 2015</div>
<div>Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM EST</div>
<div>Location: Building 6, Room 321 (Moore Room)</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 developed 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>Joe Bank</b></div>
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<div>Joe develops software, and works on architectural simulation and design, for Anton. He came to DESRES after more than 10 years with Reservoir Labs. Previously, Joe directed development of dynamic compilation systems, including what was, at the time, the
world's fastest Java Virtual Machine/Just-In-Time compiler. Joe graduated from MIT with an M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science, as well as dual S.B. degrees in computer science and engineering and in mathematics.</div>
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<div><b>Shivam Verma</b></div>
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<div>Shivam is involved with simulation studies of biological systems. Shivam earned an A.B. in molecular biology from Princeton University. As an undergraduate, he developed novel biochemical methods to study chromatin accessibility and dynamics in mammalian
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