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Brown Bag Lecture Series

RENCI Brown Bag Lecture Series

The RENCI Brown Bag Lecture series features talks by RENCI experts, partners and participants in the Carolina Launch Pad on current research activities. Unless otherwise advertised, the talks are held at noon on the third Wednesday of every month except November and December. All lectures are held in Suite 590 at RENCI headquarters, 100 Europa Drive, Chapel Hill, NC., and most can be viewed remotely at the UNC Health Sciences Library Collaboration Center, Room 227 HSL (335 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill).
All lectures are free and open to the public. Because space is limited, we ask attendees to RSVP by 5 p.m. the day before each lecture to Karen Green. For slides from lectures held before February 2011, please contact Karen Green.
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Next Lecture

8.24.11

Title: Building An Environment To Enable Collaborative Research: An Interactive Workshop

Presenter: Dave Fellinger, Chief Scientist, DataDirect Networks, Inc.

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 24
RENCI’s Biltmore Conference Room
100 Europa Drive, 5th Floor
Chapel Hill

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Please note: This event will also be presented at the RENCI@Duke University Collaboration Center in the OIT Telecommunications Building, Duke West Campus. Get Directions.

Abstract:

Discover how scientists and IT professionals are working together to build a framework for high speed ingest, through scripted annotation and registration, to final distribution of immutable data in a cloud-based cluster, allowing for global collaboration in life sciences, digital libraries and more.

About the speaker:

Dave Fellinger has more than 30 years of experience in engineering, including film systems, ASIC design and development, GaAs semiconductor manufacturing, RAID and storage systems, and video processing devices. He also has architected high performance storage systems for the world’s fastest supercomputers. Fellinger attended Carnegie-Mellon University and holds patents in optics, motion control, video processing, and pattern recognition.

Most Recent Lecture

RENCI Brown Bag Lecture

Title: Improving Radiotherapy by Visualizing Prior Patient Plans

Abstract:

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is the most common type of radiation therapy, and in the U.S. it is most frequently used to treat prostate cancer. Given the prevalence of prostate cancer, improving prostate IMRT is a topic of great clinical significance. The research team, led by Joseph Lo, of the radiology department at Duke University School of Medicine and Shiva Das, radiation oncologist at the Duke School of Medicine, has accrued a large knowledge base of over 400 prostate cancer cases from three institutions. Using this knowledge base, their goal is to match each new patient with patients in the database with similar imaging data.

This presentation will provide an overview of the clinical problem and the team’s knowledge-based approach to developing new radiotherapy plans, including a visualization tool created by RENCI senior research software developer Steve Chall.

Presenters: Shiva Das and Joseph Lo,  Duke University School of Medicine; Steve Chall, RENCI

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