The UIC Department of Computer Science will be participating in the Blue Waters Virtual Course on High Performance Visualization for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analytics.

This semester-long online course will include video lectures, quizzes, and homework assignments and will provide students with free access to the Blue Waters supercomputer. The course is intended for graduate students in computer science or areas related to computational sciences who are interested in learning how to use visualization to analyze large-scale scientific data sets and also will be of interest to students who are considering scientific visualization as a research topic for their advanced studies. The course will be taught by Han-Wei Shen at the Ohio State University.

The course will include students from:

• Cyprus Institute
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Colorado Denver
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Texas at El Paso

The UIC node of the course will being held as a CS 594 Special Topics class (33792) on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 - 4:45 in 2068 ERF (the EVL Cyber-Commons Classroom). Andrew Johnson is the local instructor.

Local office hours are 1:00 - 2:00 and 4:45 - 6:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and by appointment

For more information on the local course please contact Andrew Johnson at ajohnson@uic.edu

Moodle site for the class: http://bw-course.ncsa.illinois.edu/