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High End Networking:
Networking for Advanced Cyberinfrastructure in EPSCoR States
(Partner: Great Plains Network)
February 13-14, 2006

Agenda and Presentations

Monday February 13, 2006
Morning Session: Visions
8:00-8:30 --- Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45 --- Welcome -- Greg Monaco, Jim Roberts, and Kristin Bowman-James
8:45-9:00 --- Workshop Overview, Objectives, and Outcomes -- Mel Ciment and Rand Haley [PPT]
9:00-10:45 --- Vision for Cyberinfrastructure and Advanced Networking
           (Session Chair: Mel Ciment)
           1. Jay Boisseau, TACC [PPT]
           2. JJ Jamison, Cisco [PPT]
10:45-11:00 --- Coffee Break

Mid-Day Sessions: The Opportunities
11:00-Noon --- NSF Funding Directions
           (Session Chair: Rand Haley)
           2. NSF GENI, Joe Evans [PPT]
           3. NSF CRI, MRI, and I/UCRC, Rita Rodriguez, NSF [PPT]
12:00-1:00 --- Lunch
1:00-1:45 --- EPSCoR Collaboration Models and Opportunities
           (Session Chair: Ken
          1. Doug Gale, IT Associates

Afternoon Session: Moving Forward
1:45-3:15 --- Distributed Collaboration -- A Focus on Tools and Technology
           (Session Chair: Amy Apon)
          1. Victor Frost (KU), An Integrated Bioinformatics Information Infrastructure [PPT]
          2. Gordon Springer, University of Missouri [PDF]
          3. Richard Wolff, Montana State University [PDF]
          4. Jim Griffioen, University of Kentucky [PDF]
3:15-3:45 --- Coffee Break
3:45-5:15 --- Collaboration Drivers -- A Focus on Advanced Research Drivers
          (Session Chair: Greg Monaco)
          1. Rich Sincovec, UNL [PPT]
          2. Gwen Jacobs, MSU, LARIAT [PPT]
          3. Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma (OU) [PDF]
          4. David Swanson, UNL, “CMS Project” [PDF]
5:15-6:30 --- Reception and Tour of KU Information & Telecommunication Technology Center, Victor Frost
6:30-8:00 --- Dinner, Lieds Center
          Dinner Speaker: NSF Cyberinfrastructure, Guy Almes, NSF [PPT]

Tuesday February 14, 2006
Morning Session: Starting Points
8:00-8:30 am --- Continental Breakfast
8:30- 11:30 --- Organizational Structures and Potential Initiatives
           (Session Chair: Mel Ciment)
          1. Rick Summerhill, Internet2[PPT]
          2. Ray Ford, Northern Tier Network Consortium, University of Montana, [PPT]
          3. Joe Evans, KU [PPT]
          4. Prem Paul, VCR, UNL, “Four Corners”
          5. Greg Monaco, Great Plains Network (GPN) [PPT]

Afternoon Session: Moving Forward
11:30-1:00 pm Working Lunch: Scenarios for Collaboration: Facilitator, Doug Gale
1:00-1:30 --- Scenario Reports
           (Session Chair: Doug Gale)
1:30- 2:30 --- EPSCoR Investment Strategies: Identify potential projects/proposals
           (Workshop Organizers, Scenario Reporters, and Others)
           Identify leaders, participants, strategies, next steps - Mel Ciment [PPT]

Sponsored by the EPSCoR Centers Development Initiative (CDI), an EPSCoR/IDeA Foundation initiative funded by the National Science Foundation