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A paper on efficient parameter sweep for public health applications using low discrepancy sequences has been accepted at CCGrid 2018. Its details are as follows. S. Chunduri , M. Ghaffari, M.S. Lahijani, A. Srinivasan, and S. Namilae. Parallel Low Discrepancy Parameter Sweep for Public Health Policy. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid), […]

The Phoenix affiliate of CBS interviewed Project VIPRA researchers and presented a news segment on our research.

Results from Project VIPRA were covered in around 40 international news outlets in four continents, including newspapers and magazines such as The Economist, Fox News, Economic Times, Navbharat Times, and India Today, with total monthly unique readership of around 1.8 billion. Please see the ‘Press Coverage’ tab for further details.

A talk on Project VIPRA was presented at ICCE 2017. P. Derjany, S. Namilae, A. Mubayi, M. Scotch, and A. Srinivasan, Molecular Dynamics Like Numerical Approach for Studying Infection Propagation, International conference of composites Engineering ICCE (2017).

Ashok Srinivasan and Sirish Namilae gave invited talks related to Project VIPRA at ICRA, Chicago, 2017. 1. S. Namilae, Multiscale Model for Pedestrian and Infection Dynamics During Air Travel. 2. A. Srinivasan, Optimizing Massively Parallel Simulations of Infection Spread Through Air-travel for Policy Analysis.

HPC Wire published an article on Project VIPRA titled Using Blue Waters Supercomputer to Better Understand Ebola Transmission.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications featured Project VIPRA in their news today. The news article is available at: www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/using_blue_waters_supercomputer_to_better_understand_ebola_transmission.

A paper on the pedestrian dynamics modeling of Project VIPRA has been published in Physica A. Its details are as follows. S. Namilae, A. Srinivasan, A. Mubayi, M. Scotch, and R. Pahle, Self-Propelled Pedestrian Dynamics Model: Application to Passenger Movement and Infection Propagation in Airplanes, Physica A, vol. 465 (2017) 248-260.

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.