Speakers
Opening Remarks
Tuesday 4/13/10 8:30am
Dr. Rajinder P. Khosla joined the National Science Foundation in October 1996 and is currently a Program Director of the Integrative, Hybrid, and Complex Systems (IHCS) Program in the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division in the Engineering (ENG) Directorate. He previously served as an Acting Director of the ECCS Division (January 2000- February 2002), Program Director in the Electronics, Photonics, and Device Technology (EPDT) Program. From (October 2008-October 2009), he was the Deputy Division Director of the Computer & Network System CNS) Division in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate. Dr. Khosla was on a special assignment as an Embassy Fellow (March 2002-June 2002), to study the state of Nanotechnology research in Japan, at the US Embassy in Tokyo on behalf of the NSF and the US State Department.
Dr. Khosla worked at Eastman Kodak Co. from 1966-96. He was the General Manager of the Microelectronics Technology Division at Kodak from 1985-95, and was responsible for the research, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of solid-state imagers and support IC's.
Dr. Khosla received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Purdue University in 1966. In 1974-75, he was on an academic award from Kodak as a Visiting Scientist in the Department of EE&CS at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In the fall of 1989, he attended the Harvard Business School for the Advanced Management Program. He was an Executive-on-Loan at Cornell University during 1995-96 to develop industry/university relations.
His areas of expertise are: Engineering Systems on a Chip; Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS); Applications of Micro/nanotechnologies in Biology and Medicine; Biosensors, Image Sensors and Sensor Systems; Nanoelectronic Device Design, Modeling, Simulation, and Processing Technologies. He has been the Program Manager for the “Center for Computer Integrated Surgical Systems Technology “(CISST) Engineering Research Center at John Hopkins University and is currently the Program Manager for the “Network for Computational Nanotechnology “(NCN) at Purdue University.
Dr. Khosla is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He was awarded the 1990 IEEE Frederick Philips Award for R&D technical management. He is the Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Science at Purdue University.
Abstract
In his opening remarks, Dr. Khosla will discuss the importance and the significant value of collaborative learning and information sharing. A historical perspective will be provided with examples where shared learning and openness in science and engineering have made important discoveries. These discoveries have made this world smaller, and our linkages more productive. nanoHUB and HUBzero are excellent examples of the modern approaches to information sharing that support scientific research, education, and collaboration around the world.
From nanoHUB to HUBzero
Tuesday 4/13/10 9:00am
Mark Lundstrom received the B.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Purdue. Before coming to Purdue, he worked at Hewlett-Packard Corporation on integrated circuit process development and manufacturing support. Lundstrom is the Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and was the founding director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. His research interests center on the physics of small electronic devices and more recently on devices for energy conversion, storage, and conservation. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of several national awards for his contributions to education and research.
Abstract
The novel integration of computers, networks, and data archives – cyberinfrastructure - can have a transformative impact on how we work, learn, and collaborate. The speaker will share some personal experiences on creating the nanoHUB, the precursor to HUBzero, and some thoughts on what cyberinfrastructure means from the perspective of an individual faculty member.
A Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering
Tuesday 4/13/10 9:30am
Dr. Jennifer M. Schopf is a program officer at the National Science Foundation, overseeing middleware, networking, and campus bridging programs with an emphasis on sustainable approaches to pragmatic software infrastructure. She also holds an appointment at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI), where she is helping to develop a vision and implementation strategy to strengthen WHOI’s participation in cyberinfrastructure and ocean informatics programs. Prior to this, she was a Scientist at the Distributed Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory for 7 years, and spent 3½ years as a researcher at the National eScience Center in Edinburgh, UK. She received MS and PhD degrees from the University of California, San Diego in Computer Science and Engineering.
Abstract
Today’s science has been radically changed by advances in cyberinfrastructure (CI) – faster machines, better networking, more collaboration, shared data, and the ability to study vastly more complex problems than previously feasible. This talk will present the Office of CyberInfrastructure (OCI) vision for how NSF is addressing both the needs and opportunities raised by these advances in science and CI in terms of innovation, integration, sustainability and people. The CI ecosystem is growing and changing, and NSF is addressing this through extended community interactions through a series of task forces and new programs to be able to sustain, advance, and experiment with cyberinfrastructure, broadly construed.
Hub Owner Experiences - nanoHUB
Tuesday 4/13/10 10:30am - Noon
Gerhard Klimeck is the Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He guides the technical developments and strategies of nanoHUB.org which served over 89,000 users worldwide with on-line simulation, tutorials, and seminars in the year 2008. He was the Technical Group Supervisor of the High Performance Computing Group and a Principal Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Previously he was a member of technical staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas Instruments where he served as manager and principal architect of the Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO 1-D) program. NEMO 1-D was the first quantitative simulation tool for resonant tunneling diodes and 1D heterostructures. At JPL and Purdue Gerhard developed the Nanoelectronic Modeling tool (NEMO 3-D ) for multimillion atom simulations. NEMO 3-D has been used to quantitatively model optical properties of self-assembled quantum dots, disordered Si/SiGe systems, and single impurities in Silicon. Both tools are based on the representation of the nanoelectronic device with atomistic empirical tight-binding. Quantitative device modeling was demonstrated without any material parameter adjustments, just by entry of geometrical structure parameters. At Purdue his group is developing a new simulation engine that combines the NEMO 1-D and NEMO 3-D capabilities into a new code entitled OMEN. Prof. Klimeck’s research interest is in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, and genetic algorithms. Dr. Klimeck received his Ph.D. in 1994 on Quantum Transport from Purdue University and his German electrical engineering degree in 1990 from Ruhr-University Bochum. Dr. Klimeck’s work is documented in over 118 peer-reviewed journal and 115 proceedings publications and over 120 invited and 250 contributed conference presentations. He is a senior member of IEEE and member of APS, HKN and TBP. NEMO 1-D was recently demonstrated to scale to 23,000 parallel processors, NEMO 3-D was demonstrated to scale to 8,192 processors, and OMEN was demonstrated to scale to 65,536 processors.
Abstract
With over 110,000 unique users from 172 countries for the last 12 months, nanoHUB.org generates as much traffic as the Purdue website does. In this talk Dr. Klimeck will present the key features of nanoHUB and how it provides evident research impact on the community. He will also go over the Science Gateway Essentials, or the basic checklist for researchers to determine if the HUBzero platform is for them.
Hub Owner Experiences - NEEShub
Tuesday 4/13/10 10:30am - Noon
Rudolf Eigenmann is a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technical Director for HPC of the Computing Research Institute at Purdue University. He is the leader of Information Technology in the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Operations project, 2009-2014. His research interests include optimizing compilers, programming methodologies and tools, performance evaluation for high-performance computers and applications, and cyberinfrastructures. Dr. Eigenmann received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science in 1988 from ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Abstract
The National Science Foundation created the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) to improve our understanding of earthquakes and their effects. Dr. Eigenmann will walk us through the formation of NEEShub and why HUBzero is the perfect platform for their purpose. He will also talk about the challenges they face as a growing hub.
Hub Owner Experiences - pharmaHUB
Tuesday 4/13/10 10:30am - Noon
Dr. Reklaitis is Edward W. Comings Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Industrial & Physical Pharmacy (by-courtesy) at Purdue University. He is the deputy director of the Engineering Research Center on Structured Organic Particulate Systems, a four university collaboration supported by the NSF and conducted in partnership with over 25 industrial members. At Purdue he has served as Assistant Dean of Engineering for Graduate Education and Research, Head of Chemical Engineering, Director of the Computer Integrated Process Operations Center and co-chair of the Pharmaceutical Technology and Education Center. He earned the BS ChE at Illinois Institute of Technology, MS and PhD from Stanford University and has held an NSF Postdoctoral fellowship (Zurich, Switzerland) and Senior Fulbright Lectureship (Vilnius, Lithuania). His expertise lies in process systems engineering, the application of information and computing technologies to process and product design, process operations and supply chain management. Current research interests includes model- based approaches to improving the design, development and manufacturing of pharmaceutical products. Specific current topics include the conversion from batch to continuous processing and the integration of models and quantitative risk metrics in quality by design methodology. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, fellow of AIChE, past Editor-in-Chief of Computers & Chemical Engineering and member of the editorial boards of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation, and Computer Applications in Engineering Education. He has received the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award (AICHE), the ChE Lectureship Award (ASEE), the George Lappin Service Award (AIChE) and has been distinguished lecturer at a number of universities. He has served on the Board of Directors of AICHE, the Council for Chemical Research and the CACHE Corporation. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters and edited/authored eight books in these domains.
Abstract
pharmaHUB is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and is populated with content from the Engineering Research Center (ERC), the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Technology and Education (NIPTE), and the members of the pharmaHUB community. Dr. Reklaitis will talk about how pharmaHUB was formed to address the need for a community knowledge base for the creation and sharing of innovative tools and methods for engineering and manufacturing pharmaceutical products. He will share some thoughts on the overall experience of using the HUB technology and discuss some examples of tools and courses available on the hub that were contributed by pharmaHUB’s web-based community members.
Hub Owner Experiences - IndianaCTSI
Tuesday 4/13/10 10:30am - Noon
William K. Barnett oversees life sciences and biomedical research technologies at Indiana University and the Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). As the Senior Manager of Life Sciences, Bill oversees the development and implementation of research technology programs for biological research including high performance computing (HPC) applications, analytical pipelines, and genomics research. As the Director of the Advanced IT Core at the IUSM, Bill oversees the development and management of biomedical applications, including HPC and applications development in support of health care research. As the Director of Information Architectures for the Indiana CTSI, he oversees the development of collaborative technologies for the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. As Associate Director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Bill also oversees privacy programs for research technologies, including HIPAA alignment of academic computing systems at Indiana University.
Abstract
As one of the first hubs created using the HUBzero platform, IndianaCTSI was the first to have additional hub capabilities such as Federated Identity, which enables users to log in using existing credentials issued by participating universities and other organizations. The speaker will talk about how IndianaCTSI was formed, its goals, accomplishments, current projects, and the process through which they develop their services.
HUBzero Overview
Tuesday 4/13/10 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Michael McLennan is a senior research scientist at Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, where he is Director of the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration. He received a Ph.D. in 1990 from Purdue University, supported as an SRC Graduate Fellow, for his dissertation on dissipative quantum mechanical electron transport in semiconductor heterostructure devices. He spent 14 years working in industry at Bell Labs and Cadence Design Systems, developing software for computer-aided design of integrated circuits. He created [incr Tcl], an object-oriented extension of the Tcl scripting language, which has been used by thousands of developers worldwide on projects ranging from the TiVo digital video recorder to the Mars Pathfinder. He coauthored two books, Effective Tcl/Tk Programming (Addison-Wesley, 1997) and Tcl/Tk Tools (O’Reilly Media, 1997). His latest project is the Rappture Toolkit, which accelerates the process of creating scientific tools for simulation and modeling.
Technology Stewardship: Listening, Interacting and Leading
Wednesday, 4/14/10 9:00am
John is a technology steward, coach, community leader, and consultant on communities of practice. He helps communities, their leaders, and their sponsors with technology, learning and political decisions and practices. His background includes the design and production of community events, community self-assessment, and the selection, configuration, and use of technologies. He is the community steward for CPsquare, an international community of practice on communities of practice. He’s recently completed a book with Etienne Wenger and Nancy White entitled "Digital Habitats: stewarding technology communities." In collaboration with Etienne Wenger and Bronwyn Stuckey, he has offered the “Foundations of Communities of Practice” online workshop over the last ten years. He is trained in dialog, evaluation, and data analysis. He worked at the University of Colorado as a planner, institutional researcher, administrator, and technologist. He received a Bachelor’s degree from St. John’s College and a master’s degree in planning and architecture from the University of New Mexico. He was born and raised in Humacao, Puerto Rico.
http://www.learningalliances.net/
http://www.technologiesforcommunities.com/
Abstract
Your hub platform may be where you as tech steward most visibly act, but it's not necessarily the center of the world or of your community. You need to see your community’s digital habitat through the community's eyes and see your community through deliberately chosen listening posts (on and off your platform). You need to listen for domain, community, and practice themes. Paying attention to and making sense of specific differences and similarities between Hub communities is your most practical and potent resource for individual community and collective success.
In this talk John intends to give you:
- An understanding of what a technology steward does and how that definition maps to your job
- Tools to define the scope and focus of your job as technology steward
- A listening strategy to shape your work as technology steward
- A vocabulary for learning from and with other tech stewards in your community
HUBzero Roadmap Discussion and Community Feedback
Wednesday 4/14/10 10:45am - Noon
George B. Adams III is an Executive Consultant of the HUBzero Project. He is also the Deputy Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN). He earned the BSEE degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1978 and the MSEE and PhD degrees in 1980 and 1984 from Purdue University. In 1983 he joined the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at the NASA Ames Research Center as one of the initial five staff members and worked in high-performance computing for scientific applications. He was a member of the founding Executive Committee for Supercomputing ’88 (now known as the SC’XX conference series). In 1987 he joined the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University. In 2000, he joined the planning team for what became the Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) facility in Purdue’s Discovery Park, widely considered the preeminent university nanoscale research facility. He became Research Development Manager for BNC in 2004 and Special Projects Manager for Discovery Park in 2006. Dr. Adams has written over 50 papers and book chapters, held one US patent, and received three national awards for his distance education classes.
Closing Remarks
Wednesday, 4/14/10 Noon
Gerry McCartney was appointed Purdue's vice president for information technology and CIO in July 2007 after having served in an interim capacity since July 2006. He was named the Oesterle Professor of Information Technology in June 2009.
As CIO, McCartney is responsible for overseeing Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) and is responsible for the planning and coordination of central computing and telecommunications systems on the West Lafayette campus, along with media production and distance-learning services. The organization has more than 450 staff members and an annual budget of more than $63 million.
Prior to his interim appointment, McCartney served two years as assistant dean for technology at Purdue's Krannert School of Management where he taught in the Krannert MBA, executive programs and engineering management program.
McCartney was associate dean and chief information officer at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He has also held managerial positions in the computing centers at both the University of Notre Dame and Maynooth College in Ireland. He holds a patent, was awarded the CIO Enterprise Value Award in 2003, and is a member of the CIO Executive Council. He speaks and comments frequently on the entrepreneurial management of technology.