Long Tales of Science

By Nicole Brewer

Our mission is to expose and encourage women to pursue research and careers in high performance computing and computing-envabled fields. In this podcast, we interview women in HPC about their research... more

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The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.

Long Tales of Science episodes:

May 26, 2023 The Reproducibility Initiative at SC'22 - Episode 5
In this episode, Nicole interviews members of the Reproducibility Committee at SC'23. Together, they talk about the history of the initiative, the roles of the various subcommittees, Artifact Documentation and Artifact Evaluation, how the representation of industry affects reproducibility expectations, many other aspects of reproducibility, and much more.
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32min
May 18, 2022 Trial by Fire - Episode 4
In this episode, Nicole interviews Elizabeth Aslinger, who recently defended her dissertation for which she used mathematical modeling to identify people who have schizophrenia. We talk about her experience managing software and students in a computational psychology lab, teaching herself standards of practice, and what her priorities as she is choosing the next step in her career.
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24min
December 31, 2021 Call 1-800-HLP-DESK
In this episode, @catch_me_coding interviews Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, former associate director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. In this episode, we talk about Nancy’s pathway into HPC and her involvement in TeraGrid, XSEDE, and the Science Gateways Community Institute. We also discuss the state of software-related contributions in academia, project management, navigating a career in tech, and her recent retirement.
You can get in touch with Nancy by email at [email protected]
Keep up to date with @LongTalesofSci on Twitter
Follow Purdue’s Women in HPC Chapter @purduewhpc
Learn more about us
Sign up for the international organization
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25min
December 31, 2021 Call 1-800-HLP-DESK
In this episode, @catch_me_coding interviews Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, former associate director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. In this episode, we talk about Nancy’s pathway into HPC and her involvement in TeraGrid, XSEDE, and the Science Gateways Community Institute. We also discuss the state of software-related contributions in academia, project management, navigating a career in tech, and her recent retirement.
You can get in touch with Nancy by email at [email protected]
Keep up to date with @LongTalesofSci on Twitter
Follow Purdue’s Women in HPC Chapter @purduewhpc
Learn more about us
Sign up for the international organization
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25min
December 30, 2021 Call 1-800-HLP-DESK - Episode 3
In this episode, Nicole interviews Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, former associate director of the San Diego Supercomputing Center. They talk about Nancy's pathway into HPC and her involvement in TeraGrid, XSEDE, and the Science Gateways Community Institute. They discuss the state of software-related contributions in academia, project management, navigating a career in tech, and her recent retirement.
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24min
October 04, 2020 Models and Simulations Run on the Cluster and in the Family
In this episode, @catch_me_coding interviews Dr. Sarah Wellons, an astrophysicist who uses HPC resources to run massive simulations of galaxy formation, and her mother, Dr. Helen Wellons, a retired chemical engineer who used parallel computing to deploy computational modeling applications to optimize real-time refinery operations at ExxonMobil.
You can find Sarah at [email protected] or on her website. Helen can be reached at [email protected].
Keep up to date with @LongTalesofSci on Twitter
Follow Purdue’s Women in HPC Chapter @purduewhpc
Learn more about us
Sign up for the international organization
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49min
October 03, 2020 Models and Simulations Run on the Cluster and in the Family - Episode 2
In this episode, Nicole interviews Dr. Sarah Wellons, an astrophysicist who uses HPC resources to run massive simulations of galaxy formation, and her mother, Dr. Helen Wellons, a retired ceimical engineer who used parallel computing to deploy computational modeling applications to optimize real-time refinery operations at ExxonMobile.
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48min
July 20, 2020 Who is Women in HPC at Purdue
In this episode, we interview a panel of women in ITaP research computing about their careers and daily life in the HPC space. Carol Song informs us about XSEDE, an NSF-funded virtual organization that and coordinates the sharing of advanced computational resources. She also talks about Purdue's up and coming compute cluster, Anvil, which will expand XSEDE cyberinfrastructure. We also talk about membership to WHPC at Purdue and internationally.
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30min

FAQs about Long Tales of Science:

How many episodes does Long Tales of Science have?

The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.