Sept. 24-25, 2019

2019 Third National Research Platform Workshop

Please see presentations from the Sept. 24-25 event below.


Tuesday, September 24, 2019

TimeSession/Location
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:00 – 8:15 a.m.Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:15 – 8:45 a.m.Keynote: Loretta Moore, National Science Foundation, EPSCoR Section Head
Increasing Access to Cyberinfrastructure for EPSCoR and Other Under-Resourced Institutions Through Collaborative Partnerships, Personal Experiences and In-depth Immersion
8:45 – 9:30 a.m.Panel: Regional Research Platform Concepts: PRP, NRP Pilots, ERN, etc. (science enabled, workflows supported, organization)
Moderator: John Hicks (Internet2)
Panelists: James Deaton (Great Plains Network), Barr von Oehsen (Rutgers – Eastern Regional Network), Jim Kyriannis (NYSERNET), Tom DeFanti (Pacific Research Platform)
9:30 – 10:10 a.m.Panel: National Research Cyberinfrastructure Landscape: Matching Research to Resources
Moderator: Dana Brunson (Internet2)
Panelists: Lauren Michael (UW-Madison – OSG), Susan Mehringer (Cornell – XSEDE & Frontera), Kelly Rowland (LBL – NERSC)
10:10 – 10:30 a.m.Morning Break
10:30 – 11:15 a.m.Panel: Telemetry Across Research Networks
Moderator: James Deaton (GPN), 
Panelists: Ken Miller (Penn State), Karl Newell (Internet2), Brian Bockelman (Morgridge Institute for Research)
11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Panel: Emerging, Disruptive Research Workflows: Edge-to-Edge in Earth and Environment, Smart Communities, and Technology Testbeds
Moderator: Barr von Oehsen (Rutgers) 
Panelists: Ivan Seskar (COSMOS), Jayne Bormann (AlertWildfire), Joe Breen (POWDER-RENEW), Scotty Strachan (ESIP-Fed EnviroSensing)
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.General Lunch
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.Larry Smarr: Looking Back, Looking Forward
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.Panel: Research Network Facilitation in the Wild
Moderator: Lauren Michael
Panelists: Eric Peskin (Yale Center for Research Computing), Galen Collier (Rutgers), Ryan Harden (University of Chicago)
2:30 – 3:15 p.m.Panel: CIO Perspectives on Supporting Researchers and National Research Platforms 
Moderator: Melissa Woo (Stony Brook University)
Panelists: Damian Clarke (Alabama A&M University), Juan Montes (American Museum of Natural History), Carrie Rampp (Franklin & Marshall College)
3:15 – 3:35 p.m.Afternoon Break
3:35 – 4:15 p.m.Panel: Global Perspective 
Moderator: Jeffrey Weekley (UC Merced) 
Panelists: Jeonghoon Moon (KISTI),  Wallace Chase (REANNZ – remote participant), Francis Lee(SingAREN), Michal Krsek (CESNET)
4:15 – 5:15 p.m.Group Discussion & Wrap Up: What’s Next? 
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.Co-located Social Networking Event – NSF / NRP / The Quilt

Co-located Meeting Draft Agenda – NSF /NRP /The Quilt

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

TimeSession
6:45 – 8:00 a.m.Breakfast – NSF/NRP/ Quilt
8:15 – 8:30 a.m.Co-located Meeting of NSF / NRP/ Quilt
8:15 – 8:30 a.m.Welcome and Introductions: Dana Brunson, Internet2; Jen Leasure, The Quilt
8:30 – 9:15 a.m.Invited PresentationUniversity of Minnesota’s Cyberinfrastructure: Facilitating the Glacial Polar Center’s Research and Changing How We See Earth
Bernie Gulacheck, University of Minnesota; Charles Nguyen, University of Minnesota; Jim Wilgenbusch, University of Minnesota
9:15 – 9:35 a.m.Invited Presentation: Emerging Research Platforms: Securing Sensitive Data from Lab to Likes
Camille Crittenden, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute; Jeff Weekley, University of California, Merced
9:35 – 10:00 a.m.Invited Presentation: Fake Science: Challenges in Spotting Misinformation, Measuring Our Susceptibility, and Innoculating Ourselves to its Effects
Anita Nikolich
10:00 – 10:15 a.m.Morning Break
10:15 – 11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion:  Regional Networks Addressing Smaller Institutation Challenges in Networking Infrastructure and Research IT Resources
Wendy Huntoon, KINBER (moderator)
Brian Burkhart, OneNet; Steve Burrell, Northern Arizona University; Dhruva Chakravorty, Texas A&M University; Jim Griffieon, University of Kentucky; Doug Jennewein, University of South Dakota
11:00 – 11:45 a.m. Invited Presentation: Supporting Tribal Colleges and Universities
11:00 – 11:20 a.m. TCU CI Study, Al Kuslikis, American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
11:25 – 11:45 amBroadband in Indian Country, Jason Arviso, Navajo Technical University
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. General Co-located Lunch – NSF / NRP / Quilt
11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.AIHEC and TCU Serving Institutions and Regional Network Partner Lunch (open)
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.Designing End-to-End Network Cyberinfrastructure Through Integration and Innovation
1:00 – 1:20 p.m.Quad Chart for CC* Integration, Barr Von Oehsen, Rutgers University
1:20 – 1:45 p.m.Archipelago: Linking Researchers On Campuses and in the Cloud, Will Brockelsby, Duke University
1:45  p.m. – 2:45 p.m.Panel Discussion: How Regional Partnerships with National Performance Engineering and Outreach Initiatives are Enabling Science
Jen Schopf, Indiana University / EPOC (moderator); Larry Smarr, University of California San Diego / Calit2 / TNRP; James Deaton, Great Plains Network; Jennifer Oxenford, KINBER; Pankaj Shah, LEARN
2:45 – 2:55 p.m.Co-located Program Wrap-Up
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Break – NSF PI Workshop Concludes
3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Quilt Fall Member Meeting Continues – NSF PIs and NRP workshop participants who represent higher-education institutions are invited to attend.