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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Research Day - 2025 (In Person)  (back)
 
Description:
This workshop will highlight AWS services for managing infrastructure in AWS, machine learning (SageMaker Studio), Generative AI, data storage in AWS, and transfers using Globus. Presenters from AWS and UW-Madison will provide details about how these and similar tools are being used and how you can get started using them. You will also learn about two UW-Madison initiatives designed to help reduce the cost of cloud computing: the NIH STRIDES program for biomedical researchers.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided for in-person attendees. You are welcome to join via Zoom instead.

Zoom link: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/97599852043?pwd=nEbvYowULaKetgwY19u37dSmq0c2P9.1

Meeting ID: 975 9985 2043
Passcode: 159364

If you need an accommodation to attend this event, please contact Laurel Belman at laurel.belman@wisc.edu. All accommodation requests should be made no less than two weeks before the event. We will attempt to fulfill requests made after this date, but cannot guarantee they will be met.

Agenda

Morning Session

8:50 AM – 9:00 AM - Welcome and Opening Remarks - Presented by UW DoIT, AWS, and Four Points Technology
9:00 AM – 9:45 AM - Overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS), How AWS Supports Research Computing, Presented by AWS Scott Friedman
9:45 AM – 10:15 AM - UW Researcher Spotlight, "Toward More Efficient and Useful LLM Agents", Presented by Prof. Kangwook Lee
10:15 AM – 10:20 AM - Short Break
10:20 AM – 10:50 AM - UW Researcher Spotlight, "Employing AWS on an archaeological excavation at Sardis in Turkey”, Presented by Prof. Nick Cahill
10:50 AM – 11:05 AM - Short Break
11:05 AM – 12:00 PM - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) on AWS – SageMaker, Presented by Jianjun Xu (AWS)

Lunch Break

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM - Lunch Break - Catered for in-person attendees

Afternoon Session

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM - UW Researcher Spotlight, “Bridging the Gap: Pairing Research Needs with AWS Services”, Presented by Thomas Blader, Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM - Research Tools, Learning materials – Carpentry, Globus & Integrations with AWS, AWS – Globus support -past and future cloud, Presented by Chris Endemann, Zekai Otles, Scott Friedman (AWS)
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM - AWS Bedrock architecture, Presented by Manoj Elavalli (AWS)
2:30 PM – 2:45 PM - Short Break
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM - Hands-on Lab: Amazon SageMaker and Bedrock Examples for Research – Resources Immersion days, etc, Presented by Jianjun Xu (AWS), Manoj Elavalli (AWS)
4:00 PM – 4:20 PM - Research Tools Support (panel Discussion), Presented by UW DoIT, AWS, and FourPoints
4:20PM - 4:30 PM - Closing Remarks, Presented by AWS, and Four Points
Contact Info:
Zekai Otles (otles2@wisc.edu)
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