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GEMS Workshop: Superheroes vs. Supercomputers with Professor Jeho Park of Claremont McKenna College
February 1, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
TOPIC: Superheroes vs. Supercomputers
Superheroes like Wonder Woman, Black Panther, Superman, and Captain Marvel, just to name a few, all have “super” power and they save the world from “super”-villains. Well, just one catch–they are not real. In our real world, there are computers built for super power to save the (real) world. In this talk, you will be introduced to “super”computers built to defeat “super”villains (i.e., super difficult problems). To understand supercomputing, you will learn some (or all) of the following exciting terms and theories (which are not commonly discussed in high school classrooms): cluster, GPU, parallel processing, decomposition, shared memory, distributed memory, Amdahl’s law, big data, artificial intelligence, deep learning, machine learning, and data science.
WHAT IS GEMS:
The Gateway to Exploring Mathematics program (GEMS) is a series of workshops that helps excite the interests and curiosity of young students in mathematics and science
GEMS meets once a month on a Saturday morning from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
GEMS is designed to reach 8th, 9th and 10th grade students who have an interest in mathematics and science
Participants interact with excellent and award winning faculty, staff, students and alumni from each of the seven Claremont Colleges
SPRING 2020 DATES:
February 1, 2020
March 7, 2020
April 18, 2020
REGISTRATION:
To register for our next event on February 1, please click on the following link:
https://forms.gle/14wMcsV5iUGN5mqNA
ANY QUESTIONS:
Please contact our 2019-2020 GEMS coordinator, Josh Kiernan at joshua.kiernan@cgu.edu