Open Panel on Career options, Academia and HPC

The Panelists:

• Charlotte Fisher is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She is is a Canadian-American applied mathematician and computer scientist who gained world recognition for the development and implementation of the Multi-Configurational Hartree–Fock (MCHF) approach to atomic-structure calculations and for her theoretical prediction concerning the existence of the negative calcium ion. For this last accomplishment, she was elected to grade of Fellow of the American Physical Society.
• Mark Thachuk is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. His current interests involve the study of the dynamics of chemical reactions and processes using mathematical and computational techniques.
• Anthony Wachs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He develops numerical models to enhance the comprehension of particle-laden flows, a particular class of two-phase flows. These models are implemented in massively parallel numerical codes that run on large supercomputers (WestGrid computing facilities among others). His research lies at the frontier between fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, numerical modelling, applied mathematics and high performance computing.
• Muhammad Abdul-Mageed is an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics, Information Sciences, and Computer Sciences. His research focuses on deep representation learning and natural language socio-pragmatics, with a goal to build “social” machines for improved human health, safer social networking, and reduced information overload.

The Moderators: UBC ARC Team

Time: Thursday at 4pm, right after the last session of the day (and of the summer school).

Please join our panelists for a discussion in the upper mezzanine level of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building (2405 Wesbrook Mall), just above the summer school auditoria.