Information Technology for Research:
The Impact of National Directions in Cyberinfrastructure
April 4th, 2006
9AM-4PM

Executive Meeting Room, Camden Campus Center, Camden
MPR West, Robeson Campus Center, Newark and
MPR, Busch Campus Center, New Brunswick

Sponsored by
The Office of the Vice-President for Research
The Office of Information Technology and
Internet2

( ) indicates origination of presentation

8:30 – 9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10	CTO Opening Address (NB) Charles Hedrick – OIRT
9:10 – 9:30	Internet2 and its Resources for Research and Education (Camden) Jennifer Oxenford – MAGPI
9:30 – 10:30	Cyberinfrastructure Enabling Frontier Research and Education (NB) Robert Wilhelmson, Chief Scientist and Associate Director of Cyber Applications and Communities, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Professor of Meteorology, Department of Atmospheric Sciences – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Internet2-sponsored speaker
10:30 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:45	Panel Discussion on CI with Major Funding Agencies (Washington, DC) NSF – Guy Almes – Program Director – Office of Cyberinfrastructure NIH – Peter Highnam – Senior Advisor – Office of the Director DOE – Mary Anne Scott – Pgm Mgr for Collaboratory Research & ESNet NASA – Tsengdar Lee - Scientific Computing Portfolio Manager, NASA Science Mission Directorate
11:45 – 12:30	Information-driven Science and the CyberInfrastructure: Opportunities for Collaborations at Rutgers (NB) Manish Parashar, Electrical & Computer Engineering
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch - Vendor Tables
1:30 – 2:20	Breakout Sessions Session 1: Collaborative eScience: Evolving Approaches(NB)     Charles Severance - University of Michigan Session 2: NJEDge Resources in Support of the Research Community(Newark)     George Laskaris - NJEDge Session 3: K-12 Outreach(Newark)     Gayle Stein - OIRT     Alaska SeaLife Center
2:20 – 2:30	Room Swap
2:30 – 3:20	Breakout Sessions Session 1: The Protein Data Bank: Multiple Collaborations in Action (NB)     Helen Berman – Chemistry and Chemical Biology     Director, Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics and the Protein Data Bank Session 2: RU Community Repository (RUCore) (NB)     Grace Agnew – Rutgers University Libraries Session 3: Using Sakai in Research at Rutgers (NB)     Gayle Stein – OIRT     Tom Grzelak – OIRT
3:30 – 4:00	Informal Discussion/Evaluation – Main Room at all Sites
Videoconferencing by: