SC07:Proposed list of institutions by region
From SC Education
Pacific Northwest
- Oregon State University
- contacts: Rubin Landau, Rozeanne Steckler
- Rubin has been a NCSI instructor and has published a computational physics education book recently
- Rozeanne is PI on a new CI-TEAM education project addressing tsunami wave tank experiments
- University of Oregon
- University of Washington
Richmond, Ca
- Contra Costa College
- contacts: Tom Murphy and team of students
- NSF ATE Center in High Performance Computing
- LittleFe outreach center
- MSI
- University of California: at Berkeley and at Davis
- California State University: East Bay, San Francisco, and San Jose
- 27 California Community Colleges in Bay Area
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Provided internships for CCC Faculty and Student teams
- Charlie Verboom: Head of CCC HPC Advisory Committee
- Laurel Egenberger: Runs Center for Science and Education
- NERSC
San Diego, CA
- There has been informal agreement to alternate between a downstate location such as San Diego and a central location such as San Luis Obispo
- National University
- contacts: Tom Maccalla, Arun Datta, and Jacquelin
- they contributed very actively to the NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- they are working with Navajo Technical College to explore on-line master’s and PhD degree offerings
- they identified a number of faculty interested in participating in the NSF proposal
- San Diego State University
- MSI
- contacts: Eric Frost, Kris Stewart
- participated in the NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- have hosted past NCSI workshops
- Eric Frost
- Univ. of California, San Diego
- contacts: Diane Baxter, Jerry Sheehan
- participated very actively in the NSF proposal
- SDSC (a TeraGrid HPC Center)
- CalIT2 site
- Champion: Diane Baxter
- University of California at Irvine
- Contacts: Kevin Franklin, David Goldberg
- co-leader of HASTAC effort among humanities, arts and social scientists
- will be hosting a Pathways workshop on humanities, arts and social scientists
- will commit to be involved 3 years
- CalIT2 site
- Champion: Kevin Franklin
- University of San Diego
- undergrad institution
- Mira Mesa College
- community college
- California State University, San Marcos
- undergrad
San Luis Obispo, CA
- There has been informal agreement to alternate between a downstate location such as San Diego and a central location such as San Luis Obispo
- Contacts: Ignatios Vakalis
- he is anxious to have a workshop in his region - he's stimulated a lot of interest in his own institution and others.
- will commit to be involved 3 years
- California Polytechnic State University
- Cuesta Community College
- Hancock Community College
- Santa Barbara City College (community college)
- California State Univ. at Monterey Bay
- California State Univ. at Stanislaus
Crownpoint, New Mexico
- EPSCoR state
- Tom Davis from Navajo Technical College will help recruit faculty from neighboring Tribal and non-Tribal Colleges
- Navajo Technical College
- MSI
- contacts: Tom Davis, Jared Ribble, Chris Yazzie, Todd Romero, Mark Trebian, Coleen Arviso, Jason Arviso
- Tom was co-PI on the NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- we held a pathways meeting at their site
- they are a LittleFe outreach center
- they want to be a model for other rural colleges and communities for ending the digital divide
- strong leaders among the Tribal Colleges
- have significant state investment to expand their computing and communications infrastructure
- they were Co-PIs on the NSF proposal
- an ambitious plan is underway to significantly expand the local infrastructure – the faculty and students are ready to participate in the HPC arena
- Champion within the region and within all Tribal Colleges: Tom Davis
- University of New Mexico
- MSI
- contacts: Barney McCabe
- working closely with Navajo Technical College
- a partner with Boston University in a BPC project
- an HPC center
- participated in the NSF proposal
University of Texas
- University of Texas at El Paso
- MSI
- contacts: Pat Teller
- Pat is SC08 Conference Chair
- Co-PI on the NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- many faculty signed on and were named in the NSF proposal across multiple disciplines
- Driving distance of New Mexico State, Univ of New Mexico and others
- Champion: Pat Teller
- New Mexico State University
- contacts:
- participated in the NSF proposal
- near Texas Advanced Computing Center, a TeraGrid HPC Center
Norman, Oklahoma
- EPSCoR State
- University of Oklahoma
- contacts: Henry Neeman
- annual Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium draws over 300 people
- has hosted highly successful NCSI workshops (2004, 2005)
- can host short version of workshop in conjunction with symposium (did this in 2003, had to turn away almost as many people as were able to fit in the room), so an additional workshop will be possible
- involves Research 1 university (OU; probably others)
- high likelihood of diversity of participants
- likelihood of good faculty and student participation
- many neighboring institutions to draw from (and a history of drawing participants from far away)
- nearby faculty have participated repeatedly in the past
- good balance of local and nearby faculty participation
- participants want to become instructors/leaders (and some past participants have done so)
- ability to support the program with local labor
- strong institutional/administrative support for campus effort
- committed to participate 3 years (or more)
- nearby HPC center (at OU)
- nearby instructor (Neeman has taught for 3 NCSI workshops, 2 LCI workshops)
- regional champion (Neeman)
- institutional champion (Neeman)
Waukegan, Nebraska
- EPSCoR State
- Little Priest Tribal College
- MSI
- contacts: Jan Bingen
- Jan has attended NCSI workshops and SC programs a number of times as well as NASA programs with her students
- they were participants in the NSF proposal
Iowa
- University of Iowa
- contacts: Shaowen Wang, Eric Shook, Jen Li
- TeraGrid users
- participated in the Pathways workshop at ANL
- University of Northern Iowa
- contacts: Paul Gray and a great team of students
- LittleFe outreach center
- Near Krell Institute
Chicago, IL
- Champions: Scott Lathrop, Mike Wilde
- Chicago State University
- MSI
- contacts: Nancy Grim
- hosted two workshops led by Bob Panoff led
- audience has included CSU faculty, local teachers, local community college faculty, and pre-service faculty and students
- committed to be involved 3 years
- Champion: Nancy Grim
- Governor's State University
- contacts: Claire Tang
- University of Chicago
- contacts: Mike Wilde, Ian Foster
- Southern Illinois University
- contacts: Phoebe Lenear in the College of Education
- Many MSIs and community colleges in the area
Indiana
- Earlham College, Richmond, IN
- contacts: Charlie Peck and a great team of students and staff
- LittleFe outreach center
- Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- contacts: Craig Scott
- a TeraGrid HPC Center
- has offered matching funds for LittleFe project
- working with MSICIEC (Geoffrey Fox, et al)
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
- contacts: Gary Bertoline, Nancy Smigiel, Gerhard Klimeck
- nanoHub in education center
- TeraGrid HPC Center
- Envision Center (vis)
- IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN
- contacts: Polly Baker
- vis center
Ohio
- Ohio Supercomputer Center
- contacts: Steve Gordon, Leslie Southern, Elaine Landwehr
- Co-PI on CSERD
- has hosted NCSI workshops
- GridChem leaders
- state-wide computational science education program led by Steve
- Steve has been a NCSI instructor
- HPC Center
- Champion: Steve Gordon
Buffalo/Rochester, NY
- University of Buffalo
- contacts: Russ Miller, Joaquin Carbonara
- strong computational science program
- hosting a workshop with Bob Panoff as speaker in spring
- Geneseo College
- contacts: David Meisel
- attended SC06 Education Program
- Corning Community College
- contacts: Matt Haas
- attended SC06 Education Program
- SUNY Brockport
- contacts: Osman Yasar
- computational science outreach center
- Near Cornell Theory Center – Margaret Corbit is on the committee and has an active outreach program with a vis emphasis
- Many SUNY schools from which to attract faculty
Pittsburgh, PA
- PSC
- TeraGrid HPC Center
Washington, DC
- Champions: Bonnie Bracey, Jesse Bemley
- Hampton University
- MSI
- contacts: Drs. Edmund Ndip, Arun Verma, Charles Bump (previous participants in NCSI Workshops)
- Howard University
- MSI
- contacts: Dr. Emmanuel K. Glakpe, Alfred Marcus
- participated in the NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- NCSI has worked with them
- Education partner on the LEAD (atmospheric sciences) project with NCSA
- Joint Educational Facilities
- contacts: Jesse Bemley
- LittleFe outreach center
- very effective informal science education outreach center
- Maryland Virtual High School
- contacts: Susan Ragan
- LittleFe outreach center
- hosted at Montgomery Blair High School
- connects with teachers throughout the state
- Susan has been a NCSI instructor and SC education instructor
- Champion: Susan Ragan
- Near NSF
- Near many MSIs and other colleges and universities
Raleigh-Durham-Greensboro, NC
- Champion: Bob Panoff
- Wake Tech
- contacts: Sylvia Harrison
- works with Shodor
- participated in NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- North Carolina Central University
- MSI
- contacts: Shawn Sendlinger, Marty McClelland, Garrett Love
- Co-PI on CSERD project
- works closely with Shodor
- participated in NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- Champion: Shawn Sendlinger
- North Carolina A & T
- MSI
- Historically Black College that fully articulated the CCC HPC and CS programs
- Contacts: Derrek Dunn (Department of Electronics and Computer Technology), Eve Andree (Collaborative Program Coordinator), Dr. Radha, Guoqing Tang (works with Shodor/NCSI)
- participated in NSF proposal
- committed to be involved 3 years
- near Shodor Education Foundation, Inc.
Newark, NJ
- Kean University
- contacts: David Joiner
- Co-PI on CSERD project
- LittleFe outreach center
- recently established computational mathematics degree (in second year)
- NJ Center for Science, Technology, and Mathematics Education
- Near NYC and many colleges and universities
