It was our pleasure to invite members of the UF Research community to participate in the 2018 HiPerGator Symposium:

Tuesday, October 16, 2018
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
UF Informatics Institute

This year marked the fifth anniversary of HiPerGator, UF’s supercomputer for research. This symposium’s focus was to bring HiPerGator users together to showcase their research in a broad variety of disciplines, share their experience and results, and foster communication and collaboration among HiPerGator users.

The program consisted of 14 ten-minute lightning presentations in the morning and a poster session during and after lunch.

Program Agenda
9:00AM	Introduction Erik Deumens
9:15am	Intelligent platform: Creating intelligence to empower researchers in diverse disciplines Andy Li
	Deciphering how the human milk metabolome contributes to pediatric obesity Dominick Lemas
	Deploying bioinformatics services through object-oriented analysis pipelines Alberto Riva
	Genome-enabled prediction of bull fertility in US Jersey cattle Fernanda Rezende
	Molecular dynamics simulations of grain boundary yielding behavior Bryan Kuhr
	Gravitational lens modeling of high-redshift galaxies with MCMC approach Chenxing Dong
	Fusion of intelligent transportation systems and bridge information modeling Alireza Adibfar
10:45am	Break
11:00am	Accelerating protein-polymer dynamics on GPU architectures Farhad Ramezanghorbani
	Modelling lateral viscosity variations in Earth’s mantle Marie Thomas
	Identifying drivers of freshwater ecological degradation at the continental scale Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
	Genomic prediction of service sire fertility in U.S. dairy cattle Juan Pablo Nani
	Genome wide analysis to identify common genetic variants of high blood pressure Nihal Rouby
	Effects of sustainability and asymmetry on managing multiple natural resources Woi Sok Oh
	The third generation is here: single molecule, long read sequencing in gene discovery Christine Bruels
12:30pm	Luncheon for participants and registered attendees Poster sessions