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Hands-On Workshops
Joint Techs Meeting

AMPATH™ Workshop: Fostering Collaborations and Next Generation Infrastructure

A conference sponsored by the National Science Foundation CISE-ANIR

Agenda

Presentations are linked to each name, if available. Other presentations will be posted as soon as possible.

Day 1: Wednesday, January 29
All sessions in Graham Center Ballrooms, unless otherwise noted.

9:00am - noon	Pre-conference seminar: Introduction to the Globus Toolkit and Grid Computing - John McGee, the Globus Project, USC ISI Location: GC-150
	Lunch on own
13:00 - 13:10	Introduction, Welcome - Catherine Thurman, FIU Office of Sponsored Research & Training
13:10 – 13:40	Interagency Partnerships for the formation of Global Cyber-Infrastructure - Marvin Goldberg, NSF
13:45 - 14:00	HENP educational outreach and collaboration with Brazil - Dr. Laird Kramer (FIU)
14:00 - 14:45	Atmospheric and Marine Sciences Panel Dr. Hugh Willoughby, NOAA, Chair Robert Kohler, NOAA Lixion Avila, National Hurricane Center: communications potential over optical networks for coordination for hurricane watches, warning and advisories in the Caribbean.
14:45 - 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15	Disaster/Crisis Management Issues Panel Kuldeep Kumar, FIU, Chair George Markowsky, University of Maine Victor Cid, National Library of Medicine: Central American Disater Information network
16:15 - 17:00	Demonstrations of High Bandwidth Collaborative Applications: THOR - Molecular Biology - Brazil - Walfredo Cirne ANSP's iGrid demo - Luis Fernandez Lopez New World Symphony - Tom Snook
17:00 - 17:15	Vanderbilt web platform for faculty collaboration - Chip Cox, Vanderbilt University
17:15 - 17:30	Data mining for the Americas, Bob Grossman (Univ. Illinois-Chicago)

Dinner on own

Day 2: Thursday, January 30
Beginning at 7:30am - Bus to FIU

08:30am	Continental Breakfast, registration
09:00 – 10:00	Opening Plenary: Welcome – John McGowan (FIU) Introduction, Goals, Objectives - Julio Ibarra (FIU) First Keynote: Jose Fernando Perez, FAPESP Presentation by the US National Science Foundation - Tom Greene
10:15 - 10:30am	International Development Agencies Saul Hahn, Organization of American States (OAS)
10:30am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Panel: Why Optical Networking in the Americas? Chair: Maxine Brown (STARTAP) Why International Optical nets? Tom DeFanti (STARTAP) TeraGrid and international applications, John Towns (NCSA) Dr. Hugo Fragnito (Unicamp) Eduardo Vera (Universidad de Chile) Ana Preston (University of Tennessee/Internet2)
12:15pm - 13:30pm	Lunch
13:30pm	Panel: What will optical networking for the Americas look like? Chairs: Marta Cehelsky (IADB) & Tom Greene (NSF) Carlos Casasus (CUDI) Roosevelt Ferreira (Juniper) Michael Stanton (RNP) Cristian Henry (REUNA)
14:45	Presentation on Optical networking research and predicting El Niño/Cholera - Azael Barrera (SENACYT)
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30 - 15:45	Internet2: Partnerships in the Americas- Douglas Van Houweling (UCAID)
15:45	Panel: How can optical networking happen? Chair: Julio Ibarra (AMPATH/FIU) Dale Miller (Global Crossing) Steve Corbato (Internet2) Bill St. Arnaud (CANARIE) Doug Gatchell (NSF) Alberto Santoro (UERG)
16:45	Need for Evaluation and Engineering Tony Rimovsky (NCSA) Jim Hale (NLANR)
17:45	Buses depart for Marriott
18:30pm	Buses depart Marriott for Reception, Bayside Fiesta Boat Tour

Day 3: Friday, January 31
Beginning at 7:30am - Bus to FIU

08:30	Continental Breakfast
09:00am	Second Keynote: Challenges in the telecom industry and tariffs on bandwidth in the region; Curtis White
09:15am	Infrastructure Updates: Panama/SENACYT - Azael Barrera CLARA - Carlos Frank RNP - Alexandre Grojsgold
10:15am	Coffee Break
10:45am - 11:30am	Panel - Digital Divide Alberto Santoro (CBFP), Chair Arturo Serrano Santoyo (TELEDDES) Ronald Lee (FIU) Harvey Newman (CalTech) Eduardo Vera (University of Chile)
11:30am - 12:30pm	Panel - How to Work with Scientists Tom Greene (NSF) Chair Carlos Casasus (CUDI) Luis Fernandez Lopez (ANSP) Maxine Brown (STARTAP)
12:30 - 12:40pm	Closing Remaks - Julio Ibarra
12:40pm - 13:30pm	Lunch
14:00pm	Tour of NAP of the Americas - return to FIU at 16:00
13:30 - 17:00	AMPATH Working Groups - First Meetings Astronomy WG - Eduardo Vera, Chair Agenda, click here Location: GC Ballroom Digital Data Collaboration WG - Liane Tarouco, Chair Location: GC-241B Agenda, click here Atmospheric & Oceanographic WG - Azael Barrera, Chair. Agenda, click here. Location: GC-150
17:15pm	Buses leave for the Marriott

Saturday, February 1:
High Energy Physics (HEP) Working Group, (9am - 12noon) Alberto Santoro, Chair, with Harvey Newman and Shawn McKee (Internet2 HENP Working Group) at GC Ballroom

February 1 & 2: IPv6 Workshop at MARC 290

February 2-5: Joint Techs Workshop, in the GC Ballroom

February 5 - 7: Multicast Workshop (starts at noon on the 5th) at MARC 290