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NSF Cyberinfrastructure Report Available Now (pdf)

Presentations and Workshop Notes Now Available

About the Workshop

This two-day, discipline-integrated workshop will examine the potential of cyberinfrastructure (CI) in chemical and biological systems as well as the requirements of the cyberinfrastructure to realize this potential.  The workshop will encompass chemical and biological processes, systems biology, pharmaceuticals and metabolic engineering and involve energy, environmental, nano- and bioscience perspectives in the process context.  The thematic area will be generally defined by industries, applications, processes, and systems primarily characterized by chemical and biological transformations and material, energy and information flows.

The workshop will foster collaboration across key dimensions of the cyberinfrastructure and chemical and biological systems combination.  These dimensions include technique and technical integration, academia and industry, infrastructure and application, current and future directions for the cyberinfrastructure, and current and future economic potential for the cyberinfrastructure.   The workshop will look across a broad spectrum of computation and networked-based technologies to make recommendations to the National Science Foundation on future research directions, and it will exemplify for the process and systems communities, the value of - and their role in - investing in the cyberinfrastructure and cyberinfrastructure -enabled research.

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are to:

• identify and exemplify major application impacts, directions and the potential for cyberinfrastructure as it pertains to chemical and biological systems

• identify and recommend research areas that aim toward the fulfillment of this potential

• identify associated areas of required emphasis with cyberinfrastructure, education and training, interdisciplinary development, and support and approaches to collaboration.

The results of the workshop will be summarized in a final written report to the NSF to be completed by Oct. 31, 2006.  The report will also be posted on this website and made available to the public.

The Organizing Committee

Chair:  Jim Davis, UCLA, Professor and Associate Vice Chancellor IT & CIO
(jdavis@oit.ucla.edu)

Stan Ahalt, Ohio State University, Professor and Director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center
(ahalt@osc.edu)

Frank Doyle, UC Santa Barbara, Professor and Associate Director Institute of Collaborative Biologies
(Frank.doyle@icb.ucsb.edu)

Larry Evans, Aspen Technology, Inc., Founder and former chairman of the board of Directors and Professor MIT
(larry@larryevans.net)

Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University, Professor and Director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making
(grossman@cmu.edu)

Sangtae Kim, Purdue University, Professor and Inaugural Director of the Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure, CISE, NSF
(kim55@purdue.edu)

Sponsorhip

The workshop is sponsored and organized in close cooperation with Maria Burka, Chemical and Transport Division and Bruce Hamilton, Bioengineering and Environmental Systems Division within the Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.