TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST 2008

Texas A&M University, College Station

The Texas Research Exchange Fest 2008 was held September 8th - 10th in the Annenberg Conference Center at the George Bush Presidential Library located on the campus of Texas A&M University. The purpose of this meeting was to have various representatives from federal agencies discuss the details of their different research programs and to encourage collaborations among the researchers at Texas Universities and Industry.

The event included poster sessions and collaborative discussions in addition to the informational sessions featuring the representatives from different federal agencies. The event was organized to focus on five major areas within computer science: security, software, networks, information, and high performance computing.

Representatives from the National Science Foundation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, The National Nuclear Security Administration, and The Air Force Office of Scientific Research gave guest lectures and helped to facilitate discussion.

TEXAS RESEARCH EXCHANGE FEST 2009: Details tba

TREF 2008 Speakers & Slides (if availible)

• Dr. Deborah L. Crawford: Computing at the Frontier - Thinking Big and Being Bold (coming soon)
• Ms. Thuc Hoang: High Performance Computing for National Security (pdf file)
• Dr. Amy Vanderbilt: Getting Unreal to Understand Reality: Mixed Reality and Network Analysis (slides unavailible)
• Dr. Jim McGraw: Science and Security Through Computing (pdf file)
• Dr. Robert Bonneau: Complex Networks (coming soon)
• Dr. David R. Luginbuhl: Systems and Software/Distributed Intelligence and Information Fusion (coming soon)
• Mr. James Nunez: High End Computing File Systems and I/O: Coordinating the US Government Research Investments (pdf file)

TREF 2008 Photos (coming soon)