Complex Systems Summer School 2014-Tutorials

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CSSS participants come from a wide range of disciplines. Participants are encouraged to share their knowledge by organizing their own tutorials.

Also, please email juniper@santafe.edu to request a tutorial slot.

Tutorial: Rotors, Spirals and Scroll Waves

Speaker: Hiroshi Ashikaga
Date & Time: June 16 from 2:00-2:30pm
Content: A short introduction to cardiac electrophysiology and basic mechanisms of arrhythmia.
Motivation: To get more people interested in the heart as a complex system.
Prerequisite: Whoever has a heart.

Tutorial: Browser-Based Data Visualization

Speaker: James Gentile
Date & Time: June 17 form 7:00-8:15pm

Data visualization is essential for analysis and communication but complex data often need complex visualizations. Interactive browser-based visualizations are unique because they can be viewed using (almost) any web browser. This tutorial will introduce d3.js, the JavaScript library behind many of the web’s great data viewa.

No JavaScript experience is required. I’ll be introducing the language, concepts and we’ll build an interactive visualization for delayed-point embedding.

If you’re planning to attend, I recommend downloading Firefox and a syntax-highlighting editor: TextWrangler for Macs or Notepad++ for Windows. These will help you follow along.

Tutorial: Parallel Programming - A Brief Introduction

Speaker: Fahad Khalid
Date & Time: June 18 7:00-8:15pm
Content: A language agnostic introduction to basic concepts in parallel programming.
Motivation: Several of us here at the CSSS do compute intensive simulations. Since single cores are not getting faster anymore, the only way to speed up simulations is by utilizing multiple cores. So it's good to know how to design and code a simulation that can take advantage of multiple cores.
Pre-requisites: Just a passing familiarity with programming.

Please use the comments sections below to let me know what you'd like to hear, what are your expectations from this tutorial, etc. I'll try my best to tailor the talk accordingly. Many thanks to those who've already suggested content for the talk. I'd appreciate if you could repeat the comments here as well (the CSSS Wiki seems to be a lot more organized than my brain :-)).

Comments:

• Please cover race condition.
• Generalized strategies for how a problem should be parallelized.
  • Identifying problems that cannot (or should not) be parallelized.
• GPU vs CPU parallelization (e.g., CUDA vs traditional compute cluster)
• parfor in Matlab

Tutorial: Computing with Intrinsic Dynamics of Systems

Speaker: Alireza Goudarzi
Date & Time: June 23 7:00-8:15pm