Summer PACES Research Training Workshop (2025)
Registration
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The Summer PACES Research Training Workshop is a five-day event that focuses on
introducing researchers to advanced cyberinfrastructure resources including
frequently used interfaces and integrated development environments.
This workshop will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hotel Albuquerque
at Old Town from the August 11-15th, 2025. This event is open
to faculty, staff, and students looking to expand their computational skills in
using advanced cyberinfrastructure, data science programming, AI/ML, and discipline
specific workflows.
Tentative agenda includes:
- Introduction to the NSF ACES and Launch computing clusters
- Working in the Open OnDemand portal in an HPC for AI environment
- Python Programming for Data Science
- AI/ML
- Bioinformatics Pipelines
- Computational Chemistry Workflows
- Individual Project Consultation
Dates and Times
Arrival Day: Monday, August 11th, 2025 | 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Workshop Days: Tuesday, August 12th - Thursday, August 14th, 2025 | 9:00AM to 4:00PM
Final Day: Friday, August 15th, 2025 | 9:00AM to 12:00PM
Agenda
Last updated: August 13th, 2025
| Monday, August 11 | |
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| 4:00PM onward | Hotel Check-in |
| 6:00PM | Introductory Training Sessions
Room: Turquoise |
| 6:30PM | Dinner
Room: Q Room |
| Tuesday, August 12 | |
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| 8:00AM | Breakfast
Room: Q Room |
| 9:00AM | Introduction to Launch, Getting on the system
Room: Turquoise |
| 10:15AM | Break with snacks |
| 10:30AM | Introduction to Linux
Room: Turquoise |
| 12:00PM | Lunch
Room: Q Room |
| 1:00PM | Python in Jupyter Lab
Room: Turquoise |
| 2:30PM | Afternoon Break with Snacks |
| 3:00PM | Python in Jupyter Lab (continued)
Room: Turquoise |
| 4:00PM | Release for Dinner (not provided) |
| Wednesday, August 13 | |
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| 8:00AM | Breakfast
Room: Q Room |
| 9:00AM | Introduction to Machine Learning & Data Description
Room: Turquoise |
| 10:00AM | Exploratory Data Analysis for Machine Learning
Room: Turquoise |
| 11:00AM | Common Machine Learning Models & Implementation
Room: Turquoise |
| 12:00PM | Lunch
Room: Q Room |
| 1:00PM | Results Visualization
Room: Turquoise |
| 2:30PM | Afternoon Break with Snacks |
| 3:00PM | Challenges & Individual Project Implementations
Room: Turquoise |
| 4:00PM | Release for Dinner (not provided) |
| Thursday, August 14 | ||||
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| 8:00AM | Breakfast
Room: Q Room |
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| 9:00AM |
RNA Seq and Differential Expression
Accelerated Bioinformatics with Parabricks Wesley Brashear, Texas A&M HPRC |
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| 12:00PM | Lunch
Room: Q Room |
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| 1:00PM |
Classical Molecular Dynamics
Lisa Perez, Texas A&M HPRC |
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| 2:30PM | Afternoon Break with Snacks | |||
| 3:00PM |
Quantum Chemistry
Lisa Perez, Texas A&M HPRC |
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| 4:00PM | Release for dinner (not provided) | |||
| Friday, August 15 | |
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| 8:00AM | Breakfast
Room: Q Room |
| 9:00AM | Bring your own Project
Room: Turquoise |
| 10:20AM |
Lightning Talks Natalie Mendoza, Implementing Scientific LLMs on Sol for Researchers Denise Davis, Learning From RNA-Seq: The Data Behind the Diagnosis. Fidelis Ngang, Challenges & Opportunities for Community Colleges in RDM Connie Gomez, San Jacinto College Imran Khan, Local and regional open data proliferation-based framework for quantifying rural development Amin Sabha, Real-Time Cooperative Perception and Decision-Making for Connected Autonomous Vehicles in Smart City Traffic Networks Ramin Sabha, Real-Time Multi-Sensor 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Vehicles Using Adaptive Sensor Fusion and Edge AI Anas Alsobeh, SecureCI-CD: Securing Software Supply Chains on FABRIC Testbed Emma Torres, Systematic Atomic Data Structure Training Sets for Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials: Applications in Iron and Nickel Oluwatosin Saibu, Investigating HER2 Dimerization and V659E mutational effects in Cancer: A computational approach |
| 11:50AM | Wrap-up |
| 12:00PM | Lunch & Departures
Room: Q Room |
Acknowledgement
This project is supported by NSF award number 2417929.