VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: 10am-11.30am, Thursday, February 2nd, 2017Location: Room 102, Michael Smith Labs
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Monday, December 12, 2016 ( 9am - 12.30pm PST)Location: IRMACS Presentation Studio (ASB 10900), Simon Fraser University, Burnaby /// Online
Public health and Agri-food labs around the world are embracing the use of microbial genome sequencing to improve infectious disease surveillance and outbreak investigations. This technology requires new computational methods to translate this “big data” into meaningful information for the front lines in infectious disease response.
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Fourteen UBC researchers were included among 203 new and renewed Canada Research Chairs announced by the Government of Canada.
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The Canada Research Chair program helps attract and retain top researchers across the country. Today’s announcement will support 4 new chairs at UBC and will continue to support 10 renewed chairs. There are 187 chairs at the university.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Thursday, December 8, 2016 ( 14:00 to 14.30 PST) Where: Online
Our next online Office Hours session will focus on recent training sessions on advanced research computing tools and services available to researchers in bioinformatics, genomics, and health sciences. We're bringing back our session presenters for a 30-minute follow up Q&A:
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 6pmLocation: UBC Robson Square, C300 - 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC
Join representatives from Boeing, Microsoft, Visier and Vancouver Coastal Health for the launch of UBC’s Master of Data Science program. Hosted by UBC Science, a panel of experts will discuss challenges and opportunities for careers in data science, and how research groups, corporations and training programs can collectively build the province’s capacity in DS. The panel will...
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
VanBUG (Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group) is an association of researchers, other professionals and students in the BC Lower Mainland who have an interest in the field of bioinformatics. VanBUG meets on the second Thursday of every month from September through April. Research presentations by bioinformatics leaders, students and industry representatives are followed by networking over pizza and refreshments.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: November 24, 2016 - 10-11am PST // 11am-12pm MST // 12-1pm CSTLocation: Online
Dear WestGrid Community,
As part of our ongoing initiative to keep users regularly informed and engaged, WestGrid is hosting our fourth Community Town Hall session on Thursday, November 24.
WestGrid's management team and support staff will share the latest updates on:
* the migration of users and data from Silo, Jasper and Hungabee
* RAC and allocatable systems for...
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Nov. 24th, 2016 from 2pm-3pm Location: Neville Scarfe Building 310, 2125 Main Mall
You are invited to a Research Data Management Session presented by members of the UBC ARC team - Eugene Barsky (Research Data Librarian), Kaitlyn Gutteridge (Research Data Privacy and Security Officer) and Megan Meredith-Lobay (Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Analyst).
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2016 Location: Online ( Please register here.)
Speaker:
Phillip Richmond
PhD Student, Wasserman Lab, Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics
BC Children's Hospital, University of British Columbia
VPRI Unit: VP Research & Innovation Office
Faculty of Science professor wins the most prestigious prize given by the Oceanographic Institute.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Wednesday, November 16Location: online
Speaker Info:
Eugene Barsky
Research Data Librarian, Library Administration
University of British Columbia
In Canada, as in many developed countries, requirements for data management are being established across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In this presentation, Eugene Barsky from the University of British Columbia's ARC Team will offer UBC Library expertise in managing thousands of data files with Dataverse software....
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
When: Friday, November 4, 12-1 pmWhere: The Lew Forum, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC, 1822 East Mall
Speaker: Ted Underwood, Professor of English and Information Sciences, University of Illinois
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
Date: Thu. 3 November 2016 (9.00 AM - 4.30PM)Location: University of British Columbia, 2405 Wesbrook Mall, Room 3340, Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, Vancouver, BC.
VPRI Unit: Advanced Research Computing
When: Wednesday, November 2, 5-6:30 pm, reception to followWhere: Coach House, Green College, UBC, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Speaker: Ray Siemens, Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Victoria (BC)