Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement,

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Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education,
Advancement, Mentoring (CI-TEAM)

• Miriam Heller
• National Science Foundation
• ACCI
• October 31, 2006

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Cyberinfrastructure Revolution

• the cyberinfrastructure layer for the
  empowerment of specific communities of
  researchers to innovate and eventually
  revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and
  who participates.
• must also exploit the new opportunities that
  cyberinfrastructure brings for people who,
  because of physical capabilities, location, or
  history, have been excluded from the frontiers of
  scientific and engineering research and
  education.

www.nsf.gov/od/oci/reports/toc.jsp
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Call to Action

• Vision
• NSF will play a leadership role in the
  development and support of a comprehensive
  cyberinfrastructure essential to 21st century
  advances in science and engineering research and
  education.
• Mission
• Promote a CI that serves as an agent for
  broadening participation and strengthening the
  Nations workforce in all areas of science and
  engineering

• Goals and Strategies
• Support the development of the computing
  professionals, interdisciplinary teams and new
  organizational structures, such as virtual
  communities, ..., paying particular attention to
  the opportunities to broaden the participation
  of underrepresented groups

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Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education,
Advancement, and Mentoring for Our 21st Century
Workforce (FY06 CI-TEAM)

• Goals
• Develop a diverse cyberinfrastructure workforce
• Foster inclusion in cyberinfrastructure
  activities of diverse groups
• FY06 program funds 10 M for two types of
  awards
• Demonstration Projects 250,000
• Implementation Projects 1,000,000
• Multidisciplinary teams
• Significant impact from partnerships
• Leveraged cyberinfrastructure
• Replicable and (potentially) scalable
• Open software standards where appropriate and
  possible
• Management, collaboration and evaluation plans

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Community Mobilization, CI Awareness Training
New Curricula and Pedagogical Models
Authentic Research, Discovery-based Learning
Tool / Environment Development Dissemination
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure
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Learning and Our 21st Century CI
WorkforceCI-TEAM Demonstration Projects FY05

• Alvarez (FIU) CyberBridges
• Crasta (VaTech) Project-Centric Bioinformatics
• DiGiano (SRI) Cybercollaboration Between
  Scientists and Software Developers
• Figueiredo (UF) MW enables Coastal Estuarine
  Science CI Training
• Fortson (Adler) CI-Enabled 21st c. Astronomy
  Training for HS Science Teachers
• Fox (IU) - Bringing Minority Serving Institution
  Faculty into CI e-Science Communities
• Gordon (OSU) Leveraging CI to Scale-Up a
  Computational Science U/G Curriculum
• Panoff (Shodor) Pathways to CyberInfrastructure
  via Computational Science
• Regli (Drexel) CI for Creation and Use of
  Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models
• Simpson (PSU) CI-Based Engineering Repositories
  for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)
• Takai (SUNY) Cyberinfrastructure via MARIACHI

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Learning and Our 21st Century CI
WorkforceCI-TEAM Demonstration Projects FY05

• Alvarez (FIU) CyberBridges
• Crasta (VaTech) Project-Centric Bioinformatics
• DiGiano (SRI) Cybercollaboration Between
  Scientists and Software Developers
• Figueiredo (UF) MW enables Coastal Estuarine
  Science CI Training
• Fortson (Adler) CI-Enabled 21st c. Astronomy
  Training for HS Science Teachers
• Fox (IU) - Bringing Minority Serving Institution
  Faculty into CI e-Science Communities
• Gordon (OSU) Leveraging CI to Scale-Up a
  Computational Science U/G Curriculum
• Panoff (Shodor) Pathways to CyberInfrastructure
  via Computational Science
• Regli (Drexel) CI for Creation and Use of
  Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models
• Simpson (PSU) CI-Based Engineering Repositories
  for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)
• Takai (SUNY) Cyberinfrastructure via MARIACHI

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Learning and Our 21st Century CI
WorkforceCI-TEAM Demonstration Projects FY05

• Alvarez (FIU) CyberBridges
• Crasta (VaTech) Project-Centric Bioinformatics
• DiGiano (SRI) Cybercollaboration Between
  Scientists and Software Developers
• Figueiredo (UF) MW enables Coastal Estuarine
  Science CI Training
• Fortson (Adler) CI-Enabled 21st c. Astronomy
  Training for HS Science Teachers
• Fox (IU) - Bringing Minority Serving Institution
  Faculty into CI e-Science Communities
• Gordon (OSU) Leveraging CI to Scale-Up a
  Computational Science U/G Curriculum
• Panoff (Shodor) Pathways to CyberInfrastructure
  via Computational Science
• Regli (Drexel) CI for Creation and Use of
  Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models
• Simpson (PSU) CI-Based Engineering Repositories
  for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)
• Takai (SUNY) Cyberinfrastructure via MARIACHI

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Learning and Our 21st Century CI
WorkforceCI-TEAM Demonstration Projects FY05

• Alvarez (FIU) CyberBridges
• Crasta (VaTech) Project-Centric Bioinformatics
• DiGiano (SRI) Cybercollaboration Between
  Scientists and Software Developers
• Figueiredo (UF) MW enables Coastal Estuarine
  Science CI Training
• Fortson (Adler) CI-Enabled 21st c. Astronomy
  Training for HS Science Teachers
• Fox (IU) - Bringing Minority Serving Institution
  Faculty into CI e-Science Communities
• Gordon (OSU) Leveraging CI to Scale-Up a
  Computational Science U/G Curriculum
• Panoff (Shodor) Pathways to CyberInfrastructure
  via Computational Science
• Regli (Drexel) CI for Creation and Use of
  Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models
• Simpson (PSU) CI-Based Engineering Repositories
  for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)
• Takai (SUNY) Cyberinfrastructure via MARIACHI

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Middleware-enabledCoastal Estuarine Science CI
TrainingR. Figueiredo, J. R. Davis, J. A. B.
Fortes, Y. P. Sheng (University of Florida)

• Goals
• Educate and train the coastal and estuarine on
  use and development of CI.

• Approach
• Create web portal with Grid-enabled simulators to
  model water quality at the Guana Tolomato
  Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve
  (NERR).
• K-grey access to simulators at NERR and to water
  policy decision-makers.
• Develop Grid middleware curriculum content.

• Partners
• St. Johns River Water Management District
• NERR

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• NMI products In-VIGO and Condor

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Learning and Our 21st Century CI
WorkforceCI-TEAM Demonstration Projects FY06

• Acevedo (U North Texas) Engaging Local
  Governments, Teachers and Students in CI for
  Environmental Monitoring and Modeling
• Brodley (CRA) Multidisciplinary Opportunities for
  Women
• Grimshaw (U VA) Towards a Culture of
  Computational Science
• Neeman (U Oklahoma) Cyberinfrastructure Education
  for Bioinformatics and Beyond
• O'Brien (UT Austin) Educating a Competitive,
  Cyberinfrastructure Savvy Engineering and
  Construction Workforce
• Pennington (UNM) Advancing Cyberinfrastructure-bas
  ed Science Through Education, Training, and
  Mentoring of Science Communities
• Steckler (Oregon State U) Tsunami Shelter
  Challenge

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Learning and Our 21st Century CI
WorkforceCI-TEAM Implementation Projects FY06

• Alo (UH Downtown) Minority Serving Institutions
  (MSI)-Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition
  (MSI-CIEC)
• Alvarez (FIU) Global CyberBridges (GCB) A Model
  Global Collaboration Infrastructure for e-Science
  for US / Intl Partners
• Finholt (U Mich) Cyberinfrastructure for Next
  Generation Civil Infrastructure
• Hayden (Elizabeth City St U) Cyberinfrastructure
  for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets
• Jordan (USC) Advancement of Cyberinfrastructure
  Careers through Earthquake System Science
  (ACCESS)
• Kalkhan (CO State) GODM Cyberinfrastructure for
  Citizen Scientists
• Karniadakis (Brown U) Training Simulation
  Scientists in Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Tools
  and Concepts
• Regli (Drexel) Cyber-Infrastructure for
  Engineering Informatics Education
  
• Simpson (Penn State) A National Engineering
  Dissection Collaboratory
• Takai (SUNY Stony Brook) Cyberinfrastructure via
  MARIACHI

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Tsunami Shelter ChallengeR. Steckler, M.
Bailey, H. Yeh (Oregon State U)

• Goals
• Build CI and computational skills in middle
  school teachers and students (low income, rural
  Hispanic Native American).

• Approach
• Design tsunami shelter with CAD tools.
• Simulate visualize effects of tsunami over CAD
  structures.
• Document all with collaboration tools.
• Test shelter mockups at Tsunami Wave Basin, with
  tele-presence, and compare with simulated results.

• Partners
• IronCAD
• International

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• NEESgrid and repository and DLESE

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(MSI-CIEC) Minority Serving Institutions
CyberInfrastructure Empowerment Coalition R.A.
Aló (UH), G.C. Fox (IU), A.S. Kuslikis (AIHEC),
A. Ramirez (HACU), S. Singleton (NAFEO)

• Goals
• Provide a scalable, equitable mechanism for
  developing a CI-enabled science and engineering
  workforce inclusive of MSIs as full partners.

• Approach
• Form a virtual organization supported by an
  MSI-CIEC portal and a CI Advisory Council.
• Raise CI awareness of MSI students, faculty,
  ad-ministrators through education, curriculum,
  training.
• Build CI-enabled MSI research capability.
• Build institutional capacity in CI.

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• TeraGrid, NCSA, SDSC, TACC, OSG.

• Partners
• Eventually 335 MSIs

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Global CyberBridgesH. Alvarez, J. Ibarra, K.
Kumar, C. Zhang (FIU) and P. Arzberger (UCSD)

• Goals
• Create and transfer CI-enabled research knowledge
  and skills, increase scientists rates of
  discovery, and create a CI empowered global
  workforce.

• Approach
• Engage graduate students as hubs in global,
  interdisciplinary faculty teams pursuing
  inquiry-based learning.
• Develop socio-technical infrastructure to
  facilitate globally distributed RD projects.
• Launch CI scholastic certification program.

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• WHREN-LILA AMPATH
• OptIPuter

• Partners
• International (China, Hong Kong, Brazil)
• PRAGMA

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Cyberinfrastructure for Simulation Scientists
G.E. Karniadakis (Brown U), S. Dong (Purdue U)
and N. Karonis (Northern Illinois U)

• Goals
• Advance simulation tools for TeraGrid.
• Disseminate to wider scientific community.
• Lower barriers to TeraGrid (TG) use.

• Approach
• Mobilize and train new generation of biomechanics
  researchers.
• Develop curriculum in grid computing, multiscale
  biological modeling, scientific visualization.

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• Develop TG biomechanics gateway.
• Develop web portal bioHUB.

• Partners
• Community colleges (Chicago area)
• High schools (Providence area)

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MARIACHI www.elmariachi-project.orgH. Takai, J.
Hover, M. Marx (BNL), R.D. Bynum M.
Fernandez-Bugallo (SUNY SB)

• Goals
• Build a state-of-the art educational program for
  distributed CI data collection analysis and
  large-scale collaborative research projects.

• Approach
• Exploit CI distributed education facilities to
  detect ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.
• Provide discovery-based and hands-on learning in
  physics, engineering, data management, and
  computer science.
• Communicate with collaboration tools.

• Partners
• LIGASE
• High schools
• Community colleges
• International partners

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• Implemented prototype detectors.
• Open Science Grid for data collection and
  analysis.

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FY05 / FY06 CI-TEAM Summary

• Two successful competitions.
• 28 projects funded across all areas of science
  and engineering.
• Geographical, organizational, gender, ethnic
  diversity.
• Substantial impact expected through partnerships.
• Working on the FY07 CI-TEAM solicitation with the
  NSF-wide management team.
• Planning a CI-TEAM or CI-LWD grantees meeting.

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Backup Slides
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FY05 CI-TEAM Award Statistics
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FY06 CI-TEAM Award Statistics
sciplines
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CI-Enabled 21st c. Astronomy Training for High
School Science Teachers L. Fortson (Adler),
C.R. Pennypacker (LBL), A Rahimi (Northwestern)

• Goals
• Provide professional development to high school
  teachers to teach students how to carry out
  authentic astronomy research.

• Approach
• Use research scenarios for training on START
  Collaboratory resources and tools to generate
  useful scientific results like professional
  astronomers.
• Provide a model for network-based collaborative
  research to form a virtual community of
  practice.

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• SDSS / NVO JHU.
• START Collaboratory.

• Partners
• Hands-On Universe, UC B

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FY05 CI-TEAM CIBER-U Demonstration Project
Community Databases for Research
EducationSimpson (PSU), Regli (Drexel), Stone
(UMo), Lewis (SUNY Buffalo)

• Goals
• Attract and prepare students to work in
  distributed, technology-mediated environment,
  preferred by automotive and aerospace industries
  today.

• Approach
• Implement CIBER-U in 7 U/G engineering design
  courses to teach access, storage, search, reuse
  of CAD models and data from NDR.
• Enhance and use collaboration tools in NDR.
• Expose over 1700 undergraduate students
  and 200 high school students to CIBER-U

• Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure
• National Design Repository (NDR)
• gt 55,000 CAD models and assemblies
• Used by gt 1000 researchers per month

• Partners
• Project Lead the Way high school state programs.

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FY05 CI-TEAM Exploiting Cyber-Infrastructure for
Creation and Use of Multi-Disciplinary
Engineering ModelsRegli, Piasecki (Drexel),
Gupta (UMd), Lin (UNC), Shapiro (U Wisc)

• Snake-inspired robot systems
• Semantic descriptions of robotic components,
  physics-based behavioral simulation, control and
  navigation software, tools for analysis and
  visualization, component surrogation and mission
  assessment.

• Comprehensive engineering model for shared
  in-silico prototyping

• Multidisciplinary PI-developed courses taught at
  partner institutions, exploit tele-collaboration,
  distance- and

• e-Learning

• Engineering Informatics
• Partners to rapidly transition new knowledge
  representation, standards, and software
  interoperability
• NIST, DoE, ISO, W3C / Boeing, Honeywell, Kulicke
  and Soffa, EDS, SK, Lockheed Martin and MSC