1. Miriam Heller National Science Foundation ACCI October 31, 2006
Cyberinfrastructure Training, Education, Advancement, & Mentoring (CI-TEAM)
Miriam Heller
National Science Foundation
ACCI
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October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

2. 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.”
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

3. Office of CyberInfrastructure
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 Nation’s 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”
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

4. Office of CyberInfrastructure
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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Office of CyberInfrastructure

5. Community Mobilization, CI Awareness & Training
New Curricula and
Pedagogical Models
Tool / Environment Development &
Dissemination
Authentic Research,
Discovery-based Learning
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Office of CyberInfrastructure
Office of CyberInfrastructure

6. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Learning and Our 21st Century CI Workforce CI-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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

7. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Learning and Our 21st Century CI Workforce CI-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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

8. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Learning and Our 21st Century CI Workforce CI-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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

9. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Learning and Our 21st Century CI Workforce CI-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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

10. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Middleware-enabled Coastal & Estuarine Science CI Training R. 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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

11. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Learning and Our 21st Century CI Workforce CI-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-based Science Through Education, Training, and Mentoring of Science Communities
Steckler (Oregon State U) Tsunami Shelter Challenge
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

12. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Learning and Our 21st Century CI Workforce CI-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 / Int’l 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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

13. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Tsunami Shelter Challenge R. 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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

14. Office of CyberInfrastructure
(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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

15. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Global CyberBridges H. 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 R&D projects.
Launch CI scholastic certification program.
Leveraged Cyberinfrastructure:
WHREN-LILA; AMPATH
OptIPuter
Partners:
International (China, Hong Kong, Brazil)
PRAGMA
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

16. Office of CyberInfrastructure
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)
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

17. Office of CyberInfrastructure
MARIACHI H. 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.
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

18. Office of CyberInfrastructure
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.
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

19. Office of CyberInfrastructure
Backup Slides
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20. FY05 CI-TEAM Award Statistics
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21. FY06 CI-TEAM Award Statistics
sciplines
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22. Office of CyberInfrastructure
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
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

23. Office of CyberInfrastructure
FY05 CI-TEAM: CIBER-U Demonstration Project Community Databases for Research & Education Simpson (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.
National
Design
Repository
CIBER-U’s CAD Model Creation/Sharing
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)
> 55,000 CAD models and assemblies
Used by > 1000 researchers per month
Partners:
Project Lead the Way high school state programs.
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure

24. Office of CyberInfrastructure
FY05 CI-TEAM: Exploiting Cyber-Infrastructure for Creation and Use of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models Regli, Piasecki (Drexel), Gupta (UMd), Lin (UNC), Shapiro (U Wisc)
Comprehensive engineering model for shared in-silico prototyping
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.
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, S&K, Lockheed Martin and MSC
October 31, 2006
Office of CyberInfrastructure