Our mission is to expose and encourage women to pursue research and careers in high performance computing and computing-envabled fields. In this podcast, we interview women in HPC about their research, career paths, and what it means to be a woman in technology. Interviewees come from industry, academia, government, science, engineering, social science, and the humanities.
Nicole Brewer
Latest Episode
The Reproducibility Initiative at SC'22
Posted on Friday, May 26, 2023 | reproducibility, supercomputing, hpc
In this episode, Nicole interviews members of the Reproducibility Committee at SC'23. Together, they talk about the history of the initiative, the roles of the various subcommittees, Artifact Documentation and Artifact Evaluation, how the representation of industry affects reproducibility expectations, many other aspects of reproducibility, and much more.
Trial by Fire - Episode 4
Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2022 | computational psychology, testing, user interface, graduate student, management
In this episode, Nicole interviews Elizabeth Aslinger, who recently defended her dissertation for which she used mathematical modeling to identify people who have schizophrenia. We talk about her experience managing software and students in a computational psychology lab, teaching herself standards of practice, and what her priorities as she is choosing the next step in her career.
Call 1-800-HLP-DESK - Episode 3
Posted on Thursday, Dec 30, 2021 | XSEDE, Science Gateways, Project Management, SDSC
In this episode, Nicole interviews Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, former associate director of the San Diego Supercomputing Center. They talk about Nancy’s pathway into HPC and her involvement in TeraGrid, XSEDE, and the Science Gateways Community Institute. They discuss the state of software-related contributions in academia, project management, navigating a career in tech, and her recent retirement.
Models and Simulations Run on the Cluster and in the Family - Episode 2
Posted on Saturday, Oct 3, 2020 | parallel computing, modeling and simulation, astrophysics
In this episode, Nicole interviews Dr. Sarah Wellons, an astrophysicist who uses HPC resources to run massive simulations of galaxy formation, and her mother, Dr. Helen Wellons, a retired ceimical engineer who used parallel computing to deploy computational modeling applications to optimize real-time refinery operations at ExxonMobile.