CI in Research and Education - Building Partnerships for America's Future
Please join us on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, for CI Day at Penn State, a day long program for faculty, students, administrators, research associates, and IT staff to learn about and explore how research and education increasingly is being enhanced by integrated cyberinfrasturcture systems and services at Penn State and beyond.
Universities and colleges have long deployed advances in information technologies in support of research and teaching. Now leading-edge institutions are challenged to better integrate systems of advanced computing power, storage resources, data networks, visualization displays, research instrumentation and sensors; as well as related systems and applications software; security and support mechanisms; and the people who keep everything operational for the conduct of collaborative research and instruction. The aggregate of these inter-related systems and services has come to be called "cyberinfrastructure."
In this emerging world of increased connectivity, computational complexity, data availability, and collaborative opportunity; the ability to deploy diverse cyberinsfrastructure resources effectively is becoming requisite to addressing many grand-challenge problems facing our nation and the world.
Penn State CI Day will be a day-long program featuring representatives from academia, industry, government and the Penn State research community who are leaders in developing and utilizing CI resources or techniques within their respective disciplines. Our hope is that CI Day will serve as a catalyst for continuing conversation about cyberinfrastructure resources, opportunities and challenges for supporting and shaping research and education for the 21st century.
Mark your calendar and watch here for further program information as it becomes available.
CI Day at Penn State is co-sponsored by Penn State's Institute for CyberScience (ics.psu.edu) and ITS Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure (rcc.its.psu.edu) with funding from the National Science Foundation and the Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days Consortium (www.cidays.org).
