Trustworthy Computational Science Speaker Series: Jong S. Lee

Abstract: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) funded the multi-university five-year Center of Excellence for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning (CoE), headquartered at Colorado State University, to develop the measurement science to support community resilience assessment. Measurement science is implemented on a platform called Interdependent Networked Community Resilience Modeling Environment (IN-CORE). On IN-CORE, users can run scientific analyses that model the impact of natural hazards and resiliency against the impact on communities. The CoE identified the need for a modeling environment which is easy for researchers to use and develop their own models and data. In order to meet the need, IN-CORE has been designed and developed as a web-enabled architecture. The platform is built on a Kubernetes cluster with Docker container technology. On the cluster, customized JupyterHub, python library of scientific analyses, web services, and light-weight web applications are implemented. This talk will present the architecture and implementation of IN-CORE, and a plan for open-source community.

Dr. Jong S. Lee is Deputy Associate Director of Software Directorate at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). His research interests focus on designing, developing, and operating end-to-end cyberenvironments supporting various research and education communities. He is particularly interested in the role of geographic information sciences and systems in research cyberenvironments.  Current representative projects include NIST-funded IN-CORE: Modelling Platform for Community Resilience, Ergo: Seismic Risk Assessment Systems, Great Lakes to Gulf Virtual Observatory, and GeoStreaming Platform, and DataWolf: Scientific Workflow Systems.

This series, open to the public, is hosted by the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS). For the Spring 2024 schedule and access to previous talks, visit the Trustworthy Computational Science website. If you are interested in this speaker series, please subscribe to our speaker series calendar: Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar. 

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