Kolloquium WiSe 2014/15

Speaker

Prof. Dr. Ing. Ramin Yahyapour 

Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Lehrstuhl für Praktische Informatik/eScience

Gesellschaft für 
wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG)
Geschäftsführer/Managing Director

When: Monday,  08.12.2014 – 17:15

Where: Room D-125, Informatikum

This talk will be held in English or German, according to preference.

Topic

„eResearch – Management of Research Data “

Abstract

Intelligent management of data is a current topic in many areas. This especially applies to sciences which increasingly evolved from experimental and simulation-based to data-driven research. This is not only true for the natural sciences but also for life sciences, social sciences and humanities. A common question is the efficient management of large-volume of data as well as the analytics associated with it. “Cloud Computing” and “Big Data Analytics” are current topics in computer science to facilitate this kind of research. This includes the support of the typical lifecycle ranging from capturing data to analytics, archiving and re-use. The talk shows examples from the Goettingen Research Campus how different disciplines are supported in this endeavor and how research data management is established as a strategic institutional objective as part of the campus research infrastructure.

Speaker biography

Ramin Yahyapour is full professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen since 2011. He is managing director of the GWDG, a joint compute and IT competence center of the university and the May Planck Society. The GWDG has over 110 staff members and serves as a research and service center. Prof. Yahyapour is also CIO of the University and the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). Before his appointment in Göttingen, he was Professor at TU Dortmund University, director of the IT & Media Center and CIO of the University.

Dr. Yahyapour holds a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering and his research interest lies in the area of efficient resource management in its application to service-oriented infrastructures, clouds, and data management. He is especially interested in data and computing services for eScience. He gives lectures on parallel processing systems, service computing, distributed systems, cloud computing, Grid technologies.

He was and is active in several national and international research projects. Since 2012 he is member of the IT commission of the German science foundation (DFG) and speaker of the network commission. He is member of the BAR of the Max Planck Society.

Contact person

Prof. H.-Siegfried Stiehl - BV