Upcoming Research Computing Events

This page highlights past and upcoming Kennesaw State events happening in the Center for Research Computing focused on research that creates impacts in business, the sciences, and more! Featured are the Supercomputing Researcher Spotlight Series with Yifan Zhang on Bayesian Statistics, and the Research Computing Speaker Series with Milad Minooie on Agendamelding and COVID-19. Free recordings of these sessions are also available.

KSU proudly offers open office hours on Tuesday and Friday at noon for high-performance computing research support. For guided support outside of these times, please contact tboyle@kennesaw.edu.


2025 Supercomputing Researcher Spotlight Series

In addition to these web-based spotlights, we host a yearly speaker series where we have a KSU HPC researcher share their work and how they use the HPC to accomplish their computation needs.  For 2025, we present two sessions from Dr. Todd Pierson, Assistant Professor of Biology in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology.  Here is a description of the two sessions this year:

Applications of Genomic Data to Study the Ecology and Evolution of Amphibians: Research and Impact
11AM - 12PM, Monday, March 24, 2025 on
Appalachia is the global center of biodiversity for salamanders. However, these amphibians are notoriously difficult to identify with morphological characters and have gigantic genomes鈥攖wo large challenges to biologists tasked with identifying and classifying their diversity. This presentation is designed for a non-technical audience and includes a series of case studies demonstrating how the Pierson Lab @ KSU uses genomic data to better study the ecology, evolution, and conservation of these amphibians.

Applications of Genomic Data to Study the Ecology and Evolution of Amphibians: Implementation and Demonstration
11AM - 12PM, Monday, March 31, 2025 on
This presentation is designed for a more technical audience and offers a glimpse into some of the approaches that the Pierson Lab uses to analyze genomic data on the KSU HPC. These methods include brief introductions to the handling, processing, and assembly of large genomic datasets and methods for phylogenomic and population genomic inference.

Past KSU Events

DATE (EST) TYPE DESCRIPTION NOTES COST
03/27/24 2-3 PM Supercomputing Researcher Spotlight Series Bayesian Statistics for Social Science and Business Research:  Yifan Zhang Free
04/03/24 2-3 PM Supercomputing Researcher Spotlight Series Bayesian Statistics for Social Science and Business Research:  Yifan Zhang Free
03/17/23 12-1 PM Research Computing Speaker Series Agendamelding and the COVID-19 Impact: Research and Impact
 Milad Minooie Free
03/24/23 12-1 PM Research Computing Speaker Series Agendamelding and the COVID-19 Impact: Implementation and Demonstration
 Milad Minooie Free

If you need training or want to request training for your students or research team, please reach out to tboyle@kennesaw.edu to discuss your needs and schedule a time.

KSU HPC Office Hours

The Research Computing hosts a mostly weekly series of open office hours on Tuesdays and Fridays at Noon. If you have a question or need help with HPC, click the link to attend the webinar-like session on Teams.

DATES DAYS LINKS
02/21/2025 12-1 PM EST HPC Office Hour Friday
02/25/2025 12-1 PM EST HPC Office Hour Tuesday
02/28/2025 12-1 PM EST HPC Office Hour Friday Cancelled
03/04/2025 12-1 PM EST HPC Office Hour Tuesday
03/07/2025 12-1 PM EST HPC Office Hour Friday

If you cannot attend one of these sessions, please reach out to tboyle@kennesaw.edu to schedule a session for you and your team.