Join the Research Cyberinfrastructure team for Amazon web services (AWS) research day.
This one-day workshop will highlight AWS services for managing infrastructure in AWS, machine learning (SageMaker Studio), Generative AI, data storage in AWS, and transfers using Globus. Presenters from AWS and UW–Madison will provide details about how these and similar tools are being used and how you can get started using them. You will also learn about two UW–Madison initiatives designed to help reduce the cost of cloud computing: the NIH STRIDES program for biomedical researchers.
Register to join us virtually or in-person. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees.
Details
When
- Tuesday, October 21. 8:30am to 4:30pm
Where
- Computer Sciences building, room 3139
- Virtual via Zoom
- Meeting ID: 975 9985 2043
- Passcode: 159364
Registration
- Register for the in-person event: https://go.wisc.edu/9f625n
- Register to attend virtually: https://go.wisc.edu/t3o836
All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date but cannot guarantee they will be met.
Agenda
Morning Session
- 8:50 AM – 9:00 AM – Welcome and Opening Remarks – Presented by UW DoIT, AWS, and Four Points Technology
- 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS), How AWS Supports Research Computing, Presented by AWS Scott Friedman
- 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM – UW Researcher Spotlight, “Toward more efficient and useful LLM agents”, Presented by Prof. Kangwook Lee
- 10:15 AM – 10:20 AM – Short Break
- 10:20 AM – 10:50 AM – UW Researcher Spotlight, “Employing AWS on an archaeological excavation at Sardis in Turkey”, Presented by Prof. Nick Cahill
- 10:50 AM – 11:05 AM – Short Break
- 11:05 AM – 12:00 PM – Introduction to Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) on AWS – SageMaker, Presented by Jianjun Xu (AWS)
Lunch Break
- 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break – Catered for in-person attendees
Afternoon Session
- 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM – UW Researcher Spotlight, “Bridging the Gap: Pairing Research Needs with AWS Services”, Presented by Thomas Blader, Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene
- 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM – Research Tools, Learning materials – Carpentry, Globus & Integrations with AWS, AWS – Globus support -past and future cloud, Presented by Chris Endemann, Zekai Otles, Scott Friedman (AWS)
- 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM – AWS Bedrock architecture, Presented by Manoj Elavalli (AWS)
- 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM – Short Break
- 2:45 PM – 4:00 PM – Hands-on Lab: Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock Examples for Research – Resources Immersion days, etc, Presented by Jianjun Xu (AWS), Manoj Elavalli (AWS)
- 4:00 PM – 4:20 PM – Research Tools Support (panel Discussion), Presented by UW DoIT, AWS, and FourPoints
- 4:20PM – 4:30 PM – Closing Remarks, Presented by AWS, and Four Points