CoDEx 2025 Agenda

Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) will occur on April 8, 2025, in the Norris University Center on the Evanston Campus. Registration/check-in will be in the Louis Lobby from 8 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Our experts will be available throughout the symposium to answer your computing, data management, and data science questions in our consultation room.

CoDEx is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and corporate sponsors AWS, Comsol, Lenovo, NVIDIA, and Wolfram Research.

As Green Office certified, Research Computing and Data Services encourages participants to bring a reusable water bottle to the event and be mindful of single-use materials at the symposium.

CoDEx agenda
Time	Event
8–10:45 a.m.	Registration and Continental Breakfast - Louis Lobby
9–9:15 a.m.	Opening Address - McCormick Auditorium Jackie Milhans, Director, Research Computing and Data, Northwestern IT
9:15–10 a.m.	Keynote - McCormick Auditorium Ten Billion Galaxies! Ushering In the Petabyte Era in Astronomy and Astrophysics Adam Miller, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
10–10:10 a.m.	Break
10:10– 10:35 a.m.	Parallel Research Talks: Systematic Content Analysis of Litigation Events Open Knowledge Network (SCALES – OKN) - Arch Room David Schwartz, William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Professor of Law, Pritzker School of Law Understanding the Gut Microbiome Via Non-Human Dietary Patterns - Big Ten Room Katie Amato, Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences High-Performance Inferencing on Multi-Gigapixel Pathology Images - Lake Room Lee A.D. Cooper, Associate Professor of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine Sponsor Demonstration: Wolfram Research Scientific Literature Assistants: Embedding Spaces and Retrieval Augmented Generation for AI Applications - Rock Room John McNally, Principal Academic Solutions Developer, Wolfram Research
10:10– 11:05 a.m.	Visualization Challenge Presentations - Evans Room
10:10 a.m.–12:10 p.m.	Poster Session
10:40– 11:05 a.m.	Parallel Research Talks: The Linguistic Features of the Anthropocene: Bringing Big Data and Supercomputers to the Humanities - Arch Room Aerith Netzer, Digital Publishing and Repository Librarian, Northwestern Libraries Efficient Genome Indexing for Large-Scale Linked Interval Data - Big Ten Room Richard Schaefer, Research Associate, Department of Urology, Feinberg School of Medicine Streamlining Missing Data Identification Across REDCap Databases Through Automation - Lake Room Deborah Zemlock, Director of Data Management, Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease, Feinberg School of Medicine Sponsor Demonstration: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Presentation information coming soon - Rock Room
11:05– 11:15 a.m.	Break
11:15– 11:40 a.m	Parallel Research Talks: Westernization, Nationalism, Confucianism: The Reception of Western Classical Music in Contemporary Urban China - Arch Room Xi Cheng, PhD Student in Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Balancing Precision and Retention in Experimental Design - Big Ten Room Gustavo Diaz, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Political Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Learning the Galaxies to Learn the Universe - Lake Room Tjitske Starkenburg, Research Assistant Professor, CIERA and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Sponsor Demonstration: NVIDIA Accelerating Science - Rock Room Angus Forbes, Strategic Researcher Engagement, NVIDIA
11:15 a.m.–12:10 p.m.	Lightning Talks - McCormick Auditorium
11:45 a.m.–12:10 p.m.	Parallel Research Talks: Computational Methods for Large-Scale Analysis of Web Content in AI Training Data - Arch Room Nick Hagar, Postdoctoral Scholar, Generative AI in the Newsroom Initiative, School of Communication Reliable and Scalable Computational Image-Based Research Using NU Research Image Processing System (NURIPS) - Big Ten Room Todd Parrish, Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Impacts of Global Snowpack-Induced NOx Emissions on Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality - Lake Room Debatosh Banik Partha, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Science, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Sponsor Demonstration: Lenovo Optimizing LLMs: Sizing and Fine-Tuning Strategies - Rock Room David Ellison, Chief Data Scientist and Director of AI Engineering, Lenovo
12:10– 12:35 p.m.	Break and Light Refreshments
12:35–1 p.m.	Competition Awards and Closing - Louis Room Jackie Milhans, Director, Research Computing and Data, Northwestern IT; John Lee, Data Scientist, Research Data Services, Northwestern IT

Thank you to our Corporate Sponsors.

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