When: Thursday, March 2nd, and Friday, March 3rd, 2023

OSC’s Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) facility
1224 Kinnear Rd.
Colombus, OH
This meeting will also be hosted virtually via Webex or Microsoft Teams

Hotel Info:

SpringHill Suites Columbus Columbus OSU
1421 Olentangy River Road Columbus, Ohio 43230

Agenda

Day 1- Thursday, March 2nd, in-person attendance only.

4pm-5:30pm: Steering Committee Meeting @ OSC

6pm-6:15pm: Introduction to the Midwest Research Computing & Data Consortium

  • Introductions for in-person participants

6:30pm-8:00pm: 

  • Orientation to goals
    • Group discussions

Day 2- Friday, March 3rd

8:30am – 9:00am: Introduction and Welcome (Winona Snapp-Childs, Indiana University; Karen Tomko, Ohio Supercomputer Center)

  • MW-RCD grant 
  • Program accelerator elements
  • Collection of participant demographics

9:00am – 9:40am: Ally Discussion (Todd Shechter, University of Wisconsin)

9:40am – Lightning Talks 

  • Brock Palen, University of Michigan 
  • Cicada Brokaw, Indiana University 
  • Jeremy Fischer, Indiana University

10:00am – Break

10:30am – Scientific Instrumentation and Cyberinfrastructure (Mike Warfe, Case Western University; Jane Combs, University of Cincinnati)

Presentation:  ‘Scientific Instrumentation and Globus’  Lee Liming, Director, Professional Services, Globus @ University of Chicago

11:00am-11:30am Panel:  Collaborative Implementation of Cryo-EM Cyberinfrastructure – CI Professionals and Researchers Working Together!

Panelists:  

  • Dr. Tom Seegar (panelist, Univ of Cincinnati, Cryo-EM Asst Prof Molecular and Cellular Biosciences) 
  • Dr. Xiaowei Hou (panelist, UC Cryo-EM Asst Prof Molecular and Cellular Biosciences), 
  • Kurt Roberts (panelist, UC Lead Research Systems Engineer), 
  • Larry Schartman (panelist, UC Mechanical Engineering, Retired)

11:30am – “Adventures in Communicating Value of RCD Investment”, Preston Smith, Purdue University

12:00pm  Lunch 

1:00pm – Regulated data panel (Brock Palen, University of Michigan) 

Panelists: 

  • Jake Utley (Oak Ridge National Lab) 
  • Kendall Blaylock (Mississippi State University)
  • Mike Navicky (Mississippi State University)
  • Eric Deumans (University of Florida)

2:00pm – Lightning Talks

  • Mike Collins, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Ben Fulton, Indiana University

2:30pm – Break

3:00pm – AI and Cyberinfrastructure (Karen Tomko, Ohio Supercomputer Center) 

  • Beth Plale (Indiana University, privacy)
  • Raghu Machiraju (Ohio State University, ICICLE)
  • Rob Kooper (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, AIFARMS)

4:00pm – Meeting close