FIU AMPATH
Workshop
Agenda
The workshop will be held in Miami, Florida at the Florida International University Koven's
Conference Center. The site is easily accessible from area hotels and the Miami
International or Ft. Lauderdale
International airports. The official conference hotel is Loews Miami Beach Hotel 1601 Collins Ave. 305-604-1601. The Loews has
comfortable rooms, dining facilities, as well as a reception area and the well-known South Beach Art Deco Historical
District. Bus transportation will be provided to and from the hotel to the Koven's Conference Center located on the Biscayne
Bay Campus in North Miami on August 16th.
August 15, 2001
Cisco Systems
Next Generation Internet Routing
+ Education Mini-Road Show
12:00 Noon – 5 P.M. EDT at the Loews
Hotel
Offered to Senior Network Engineers in conjunction with the
AMPATH Workshop
7:00PM - 9:00PM Welcome informal reception at the
Loews Hotel for all Participants
August 16, 2001
7:30AM-8:15AM Bus
transportation to Florida
International University Kovens Conference Center.
8:15AM - 9:00AM Continental
Breakfast & Registration
9:00-9:10 Welcome
Introductions; Meeting Goals
& Objectives, Julio Ibarra (FIU)
9:10 - 9:40 Keynote Address,
Michael McRobbie (Indiana University)
9:40 - 9:50 AMPATH Update; Current
Services, 6-12 Month Outlook, Julio Ibarra (FIU)
9:50 - 10:00 US National
Science Foundation Future Directions
Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure & Research,
Tom Greene (NSF)
10:00-10:05 AMPATH and the
international research community
Scientific research applications over the AMPATH infrastructure,
Heidi Alvarez (FIU)
10:05 - 10:15 Gemini
Observatory Connectivity to Facilities and Partners in South
America, James Kennedy (AURA)
10:15 - 10:25 Chilean
Astronomy Collaborations with Gemini scientists in the US,
Canada, UK, and Australia, Luis Campusano
(Universidad de Chile)
10:25 - 10:30 Questions on the
Gemini Collaboration
10:30 - 10:50 Break (Coffee, soft drinks)
10:50 - 11:15 Grid Data
Management Prototype for multisite data production,
distribution, access and analysis operations, Harvey
Newman (Caltech), inclusive of questions.
11:15 - 11:25 Parallel Cell
Simulation, Claudio Geyer (UFRGS,
Brazil), inclusive of questions
11:25 - 11:35
Research
Program on Acquisition and Analysis of Signals PAAS-UN,
Horacio Torres Sanchez (Universidad Nacional de
Colombia)
11:35- 11:45 United Counterdrug
(UCD), Laura Burkhart (Georgia Institute of Technology)
inclusive of questions
11:45 - 12:00 Discuss the Infrastructure Enabling Potential Areas of Collaboration Between the International Space Station and the Americas
, Robert Bradford
(NASA) inclusive of questions
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch
- Welcome Greeting from FIU's
Provost, Mark Rosenberg
- Welcome Greeting from FIU
Dean of Outreach, David Grossman
- Discussion Question,
"Does a high speed network represent more than a data
pipe from here to there?"
- Gallery Display: AMPATH
Application Content (Break Area)
- Laptop Bar Open
1:20- 1:30 Terrafly,
Naphtali
Rishe (FIU High
Performance Database Research Center)
1:30 - 1:40 Network
Applications and Remote Observing at Areceibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico, Thomas
Troland, (University of Kentucky)
1:40 - 1:50 Atacama Large
Millimeter Array / the ALMA Project, Richard Crutcher
(NCSA,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne )
1:50 - 1:55 Questions for
Troland and Crutcher
1:55- 2:10 Modeling 13-C and
15-N Chemical Shifts in Crystalline systems, Julio Facelli
(University of Utah, Center for High Performance Computing)
inclusive of questions - via the Access Grid
2:10 - 2:20 Remote Sensing
Research and Digital Archives at the University of Puerto Rico, Roy Armstrong
(University of Puerto Rico)
2:20 - 2:30 Virtual
Laboratory for analysis of Marine and Atomospheric sensor data, Hector
D’Antoni (NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA)
2:30 - 2:35 Questions for
Armstrong and D'Antoni
2:35 - 2:45 Creating a
network of high-pressure physicists and a network for
thermodynamic assessment of databases on materials (metallurgy,
ceramics), Surendra Saxena (FIU Center
for the Study of Matter Under Extreme Conditions)
2:45 - 2:55 Thermodynamics
of Complex Material Systems, Armando
Fernández Guillermet (Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto
Balseiro, Argentina)
2:55 - 3:00 Questions for
Saxena and
Fernández Guillermet
3:00 - 3:20 Break (Coffee, soft drinks)
3:20- 3:30 Management and
Conservation of Large Rivers in the Andean Amazon Basin, Michael McClain
(FIU )
3:30- 3:40 The
Role of Biodiversity and Climate in the Functioning of
Ecosystems, Osvaldo Sala (U.
of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
3:40 - 3:45
Inter-American Institute for
Global Change Research - IAI Database Information System,
Luis Marcelo Achite
3:45 - 3:50 Questions for
McClain, Sala and Achite
3:50 - 4:00 Starlight,
The
Future of STAR TAP:Enabling e-Science Research Tom DeFanti
(UIC)
inclusive of questions
4:00 - 4:10 Promoting
connectivity and collaboration in advanced networking in the
Americas, Heather Boyles
(Internet2) inclusive of
questions
4:10 - 4:20 Florencio
Utreras (REUNA, Chile)
4:20 - 4:30 Large Scale Implementation
of an Advanced Network Infrastructure in Costa Rica, Guy
de Teramond (Ministry of Science and Technology, Costa Rica)
4:30 - 4:40 General Questions /
Comments
4:40 - 5:00 Concluding remarks, Julio Ibarra (FIU)
Evaluation Survey of the Workshop http://news.fiu.edu/id/ampath/evaluation_survey.asp
Purpose: Gather
recommendations and perceptions from the conference at large
The survey will be included in the AMPATH workshop program and
on the workshop website.
Day 1: Evening Activity
Participants may be on their own to enjoy South Beach
restaurants and nightlife
Day 2: August 17th at the
Loews Miami Beach Hotel 8:30 AM - 1:00PM
Breakfast will be served for session attendees between
Periwinkle and Boardroom Conference Rooms at 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
(These sessions are by invitation. Please let us know of
your interest )
Break-Out Session I: Researchers Round Table 9:00 AM - 1:00
PM in the Boardroom
This will be a smaller round table meeting of invited key
researchers. The purposes of this session are:
· Outline the format and content of the report deliverable
resulting from the workshop
· Build consensus on the factual findings of the workshop
· Solicit recommendations for the future of AMPATH with regard
to deployment strategy, funding sources and proposal writing
plans.
· Publication Plans
Break-Out Session II:
Establish the AMPATH User's Group 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM in the
Periwinkle Conference Room
This is a session for AMPATH participant National Research
Network executives and key stakeholders in the AMPATH project.
· Discussion of structure and management
· Definition of coordinated activities between AMPATH members
and collaborators (research, education, and network requirements
and opportunities)
· Discussion of implementation and administration methodologies
· Coordination among participants, FIU management and
operations, Global NOC at Indiana University, and the AMPATH
corporate sponsors (particularly Global Crossing and Terremark
Worldwide NAP of
the Americas)
Break-Out Session III: Establish the AMPATH Technical
User's Group 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM in the Periwinkle Conference
Room
· Network engineers from the US NRNs and the AMPATH service area NRNs to
establish the AMPATH technical users group
· Review Network Operations Center services provided by the
Global NOC at Indiana University and Florida International
University
· Discuss network configurations and provide support
information to emerging National Research Networks in the AMPATH
service area
· Recommended active equipment, quality controls
1:00 PM Workshop Closes
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