Purdue WHPC Community Virtual Technical Talk Series

Purdue's WHPC chapter is launching a community-driven talk series to showcase innovative research and technical projects in STEM.

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to present or attend!

Event: May 22, 2026 @ 10am EST

Speakers:

Sasmita Mohapatra – HPC Research Scientist & Facilitator, University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Sasmita Mohapatra is a HPC Research Scientist and facilitator working on HPC software tools and user support at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), High Performance Computing, Office of Research and Innovations, in Richardson, Texas. She works on parallel jobs, SLURM configuration, and resource usage analysis. She’s been focused on improving job efficiency policies across their clusters. She enjoys debugging weird MPI behavior, parallelizing code with OpenMP and performance tuning with OpenMP and MPI. She also enjoys helping users get the most out of their code. She is actively involved in HPC orientations, user guide and several other training programs for UTD clusters.

Anjusree Karnavar - Stayed tuned for more!

To attend, please register here: REGISTRATION

Presentation Callout

If you would like to present at our May 22 event, or any future events, please fill out the interest form: Presenter Proposal Form

Information for Presenters:

• Presenter proposals due: May 15, 11:59 PM EST (Fast Approaching!)
• Presentation formats: Lightning Talk, Standard, or Extended
• Proposal: 2–5 sentence description of your talk

Choose between a:

• Lightning Talk (5-10mins)
• Standard Presentation (20-30mins)
• Extended Presentation (45mins)

Why present?

• Share your work with WHPC
• Practice presenting in a supportive space
• Shape the future of WHPC technical programming

This opportunity is open to all experience levels—first-time presenters encouraged! Please feel free to share this page with colleagues who may be interested in attending or presenting!