FIU AMPATH Workshop Presentations

(caution, some files are very large)

• Julio Ibarra (FIU) - Introductions; Meeting Goals & Objectives;AMPATH Update; Current Services, 6-12 Month Outlook
  
  
• Michael McRobbie (Indiana University) - Keynote Address
  
  
• Tom Greene (NSF)- US National Science Foundation Future Directions, Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure & Research
  
  
• Heidi Alvarez (FIU) - AMPATH and the international research community: Scientific research applications over the AMPATH infrastructure
  
  
• James Kennedy (AURA)- Gemini Observatory Connectivity to Facilities and Partners in South America 
  
  
• Luis Campusano (Universidad de Chile)- Chilean Astronomy Collaborations with Gemini scientists in the US, Canada, UK, and Australia
  
  
• Harvey Newman (Caltech)- Grid Data Management Prototype for multisite data production, distribution, access and analysis operations
  
  
• Claudio Geyer (UFRGS, Brazil)- Parallel Cell Simulation
  
• Julio Facelli (University of Utah, Center for High Performance Computing)- Modeling 13-C and 15-N Chemical Shifts in Crystalline systems
  
  
• Laura Burkhart (Georgia Institute of Technology)- United Counterdrug (UCD)
  
  
• Michael McClain (FIU )- Management and Conservation of Large Rivers in the Andean Amazon Basin
  
  
• Osvaldo Sala (U. of Buenos Aires, Argentina)- The Role of Biodiversity and Climate in the Functioning of Ecosystems
  
  
• Naphtali Rishe (FIU High Performance Database Research Center)- Terrafly
  
  
• Thomas Troland (University of Kentucky)- Network Applications and Remote Observing at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico
  
  
• Richard Crutcher (NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne )- Atacama Large Millimeter Array / the ALMA Project
  
  

• Robert Bradford (NASA)  Discuss the Infrastructure Enabling Potential Areas of Collaboration Between the International Space Station and the Americas
  
  

• Roy Armstrong (University of Puerto Rico)- Remote Sensing Research and Digital Archives at the University of Puerto Rico
  
  
• Hector D’Antoni (NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA)- Virtual Laboratory for analysis of Marine and Atomospheric sensor data- (95MB Presentation)
  
  
• Surendra Saxena (FIU Center for the Study of Matter Under Extreme Conditions)- Creating a network of high-pressure physicists and a network for thermodynamic assessment of databases on materials (metallurgy, ceramics)
  
  
• Armando Fernández Guillermet (Centro Atómico Bariloche-Instituto Balseiro, Argentina)- Thermodynamics of Complex Material Systems
  
  
• Horacio Torres Sanchez (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)-  Research Program on Acquisition and Analysis of Signals PAAS-UN
  
  
• Tom DeFanti (UIC)-  Starlight,  The Future of STAR TAP:Enabling e-Science Research  
  
  
• Heather Boyles  (Internet2)-  Promoting connectivity and collaboration in advanced networking in the Americas
  
  
• Florencio Utreras  (Chile)- REUNA
  
  
• Guy de Teramond (Ministry of Science and Technology, Costa Rica)- Large Scale Implementation of an Advanced Network Infrastructure in Costa Rica
  
• Luis Marcelo Achite (Inter-American Institute for Global Change Management, Brazil)
  
• Carlos Frank - (Argentina) RETINA

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