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University will be hosting the NSF Engineering directorate’s Cyberinfrastructure
Workshop on campus from April 22nd to 23rd. This year’s theme is “Research
Opportunities in CyberEngineering/CyberInfrastructure.”
The event will be held in
the Paul Peck Center from 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Thursday April
22nd and from 8:00 am – 3:30 pm on Friday, April 23rd.
There will also be a small dinner reception at the Peck Center
at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 22nd for workshop participants
to mingle with colleagues and NSF representatives, who will include: Bruce
Hamilton, deputy director of the Engineering Directorate; Priscilla Nelson,
the special advisor to the director and former director of the CMS division;
Vasundara Varadan, ECS division director; Bruce Kramer, EEC division director;
and a number of program directors from all six divisions within the Engineering
Directorate.
The third in a series of four, this workshop is aimed at identifying research
endeavors across all engineering disciplines for which cyberinfrastructure
either needs to be developed or be made available on a much broader scale.
This effort is aimed at getting the engineering community to think about
enabling investments—like NEES for Earthquake Engineering, CLEANER for
Environmental Engineering and NNIN for Nanotechnology—which could open
new pathways and opportunities for future engineering research.
This is an NSF-wide initiative that has already spawned several successful
initiatives in the Math & Physics and Geoscience Directorates, where
communities have joined together to formulate and support large scale
initiatives including GEON, CUAHSI, and IRIS, which bring together CISE,
which has a new division for Shared Cyberinfrastructure, along with the
other directorates. The directorate for engineering is seeking to further
define and expand its role within this NSF-wide initiative and perhaps
develop additional themes within Engineering along the lines of NEES and
CLEANER.
For further background on the workshop, please visit http://thor.cae.drexel.edu/~workshop.
For further background on the Cyberinfrastructrue initiative, please visit
http://www.eng.nsf.gov/general/cyber/index.htm.
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