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Ashok Srinivasan represented Project VIPRA at the Blue Waters Symposium in Sun River, OR. He gave a talk on Simulation-Based Policy Analysis To Reduce Ebola Transmission Risk in Air Travel. He was later interviewed by the NCSA Public Affairs team so that this research could be shared with a wider audience.

The online international science magazine, Science Node, featured an article on Project VIPRA. It is available at: sciencenode.org/feature/fear-of-flying-combating-disease-spread-with-hpc.php.

An abstract on “Combining Human Movement Models with Phylogeography for Airplane Policy Options During Ebola Outbreaks” has been accepted for presentation at the 13th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID 2016). It is co-authored by M. Scotch, R. Beard, R. Pahle, A. Mubayi, S. Namilae, and A. Srinivasan.

A poster on “The Spread of the 2014 Ebola Zaire Virus in West Africa” was presented at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), 2016. It was co-authored by M. Scotch, R. Beard, R. Pahle, A. Mubayi, S. Namilae, and A. Srinivasan.

An abstract for oral presentation on “Self-Propelled Pedestrian Dynamics Model for Studying Infectious Disease Propagation during Air-Travel” has been accepted at the International Conference on Transport and Health (ICTH), 2016. It is co-authored by S. Namilae, A. Srinivasan, C.D. Sudheer, A. Mubayi, R. Pahle, and M. Scotch.

A paper on “Optimizing Massively Parallel Simulations of Infection Spread Through Air-Travel for Policy Analysis” has been accepted at the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid). It is co-authored by Ashok Srinivasan, C.D. Sudheer of IBM Research, and Sirish Namilae. It relates to efficient parallelization of the SPED pedestrian dynamics model.

We gave a presentation on Project VIPRA in the NCSA Exhibit at SC ’15. High Definition version available at Vimeo

Rachel Beard has been awarded a three-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Research Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Library of Medicine. Her sponsor is Matthew Scotch.

A paper on “Efficient Barrier Implementation on the POWER8 Processor” has been accepted at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) (2015). It is co-authored by Ashok Srinivasan and C.D. Sudheer of IBM Research. It relates to the issue of making computations efficient.

Ebola at 30,000 feet: FSU Researchers work to combat future outbreaks InternetCoast News cites research conducted under project VIPRA. InternetCoast is a non-profit organization promoting economic growth in Florida through innovation and technology.