Long Tales of Science Nicole Brewer

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.

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.

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.

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.