Virtual Organizations, CyberInfrastructure and Campuses

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• Thanks to Stanford and PSU for vision…

• http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/events/VirtOrg2008/

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Tuesday

• Welcome - Ian Foster, U Chicago/Argonne - Ballroom IIResults from prior workshop on virtual organizations - Carl Kesselman, ISI, University of Southern California

• OCI Virtual Organizations Overview - Diana Rhoten, NSF Vision, goals and objectives for cyberinfrastructure and virtual organizations, NSF Program Officer (PO) introductions

• Plenary address: "Lessons from the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Experience"Speaker: Bill Spencer, Smart Structures Technology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPanel: Perspectives on Key Virtual Organization Issues from the Field - BallroomModerator: Carl Kesselman, ISI/USCPanelists:George Adams, nanoHUB, Purdue UniversityPaul Avery, Large Hadron Collider, University of FloridaChaitan Baru, GEON and San Diego Supercomputer CenterDavid Kirschtel, CUAHSIRuth Pordes, Open Science Grid

• Keynote Address: "The Complexity of Virtual Organizations" Keynote Speaker: Bill Rouse, Tennenbaum Institute, Georgia TechLocation: Ballroom II

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• 1:30 pm Panel: Perspectives on Virtual Organization Infrastructures and Technologies – BallroomModerator: Ian Foster, Argonne National LabPanelists:Dan Fraser, Argonne National LabDennis Gannon, Indiana UniversityKen Klingenstein, Internet2 and University of ColoradoJim Myers, National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsNancy Wilkins-Diehr, TeraGrid/SDSC

• Special Interest Group Sessions and Session Leaders – Ballroom, Imperial II, Decatur, Culpeper, Latrobe  • 1. Intellectual property rights issues

Siobhan O'Mahony, University of California, Davis, and Diana Rhoten, NSF • 2. Workflow

Carol Goble, University of Manchester • 3. VO Infrastructure (TeraGrid/OSG)

Ruth Pordes, Open Science Grid

• 4. The NSF ITR surveyJonathon Cummings, Duke University

• Lessons learned concerning dos and don'ts of collaboration • 4:30 pmPanel: Perspectives on Project Management and Organization – Ballroom

Moderator: Tom Finholt, University of MichiganPanelists:Kevin Crowston, Syracuse UniversityJonathon Cummings, Duke UniversityCarole Goble, University of ManchesterJim Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon UniversitySiobhán O'Mahony, University of California, Davis Ann Zimmerman, University of Michigan

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Wednesday

• Remarks by Dan Atkins, NSF Location: Ballroom II8:45 amPlenary talk: "How Virtual Organizations Fail"Speaker: Tom Finholt, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work, School of Information, University of Michigan9:15 amSpecial Interest Group Sessions and Session Leaders – Ballroom, Imperial II, Decatur, Culpeper, Latrobe 

• 1. Collaboration toolsJim Myers, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

• 2. Community buildingKatherine Lawrence and Tom Finholt, University of Michigan

• 3. Portals and gatewaysDennis Gannon, Indiana University

• 4. Semantic Web and Knowledge Sharing TechnologiesJennifer Golbeck, University of Maryland

• Special Interest Group Sessions and Session Leaders - Decatur, Latrobe, Longworth, CulpeperLocation: Ballroom II 

• 1. Data Chaitan Baru, GEON/SDSC

• 2. Security Frank Siebenlist, Argonne National Laboratory

• 3. Virtual Organizations and Grid MiddlewareCarl Kesselman, ISI and Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory

• 4. TeleinstrumentationRick McMullen, Indiana University

• 5. Engineering Virtual OrganizationsPhil Westmoreland, National Science Foundation The Engineering Virtual Organization's are two-year seed grants to organize people, to develop VO prototypes including at least one element of active cyberinfrastructure, and to develop plans for full implementation. This SIG will serve as the EVO Kickoff Meeting, PIs will briefly present their plans and activities, followed by collective discussion of sharable tools and of insights from the larger BEVO 2008 meeting. It is required for and closed to EVO PI's.

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Wednesday

• 1:30 pm Panel: Discussion of Lessons Learned and Strategies to Foster ongoing Information Sharing and CollaborationModerator: Diana Rhoten, NSFPanelists:Jonathon Cummings, Duke UniversityTom Finholt, University of MichiganIan Foster, University of Chicago/Argonne National LabCarl Kesselman, ISI, University of Southern California

• 2:30 pmWorkshop Synthesis: Where have we been, Where are we Going? A Conversation with NSF LeadershipModerator: Diana Rhoten, NSFNSF Panelists:Dan Atkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI)Tony Chan, Assistant Director, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)David Lightfoot, Assistant Director, Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE)Thomas Weber, Director, Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE)

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Takeaways

• VO’s and Team Science/Shakespeare are here to stay

• Researchers want us to get out of the way or help them or both

• Enterprise IT needs a presence in agency discussions