International NetworksWorkshop
Lalit Hotel, New Delhi, India December 5 - 7, 2010
Download a copy of the workshop agenda Ver. 7.1 [MS Excel]- last updated December 2, 2010.
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| Timeslot | Item/Description |
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| 9.00 - 9.10 | Welcome from Indian Hosts N. Mohan Ram, Director General, ERNET |
| 9.10 - 9.20 | Lamp Lighting Ceremony |
| 9.20 - 9.30 | Introduction to the Workshop - background, objectives, and what we want to achieve from the workshop Jim Williams, Indiana University & ACE and TP3, Principal Investigator |
| 9.30 - 9.45 | Marjorie Lueck, Office of International Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation and introduction of Video address and announcement by Subra Suresh, Director, National Science Foundation Click here to download and view video announcement by NSF Director, Subra Suresh . |
| 9.45 - 9.55 | Welcome from Indiana University Brad Wheeler, Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, Indiana University |
| 9.55 - 10.10 | Theme Address Shri. Shashi Kant Sharma, Secretary, DIT, GOI |
| 10.10 - 10.20 | Address by Guest of Honour Shri. Kapil Sibal, Hon'ble Minister for Communications & IT, GOI |
| 10.20 - 10.30 | Vote of Thanks Dipak Singh, Director, ERNET |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning Tea |
| "Technology, Cyberinfrastructure, Networks and Advanced Communication Systems Session Chair: S. Ramakrishnan, former Director General, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) The aim of this session is to present the network infrastructure that is available to researchers today or will be available to researchers in the relatively near term (1-2 years). This session should prepare the researchers for their sessions regarding the required Cyberinfrastructure for their network-enabled collaborations. These are short talks <10mins each). Reference material (urls, printed material) should be available to supplement the overviews. View Presentation | |
| 11.00 - 11.10 | Current and evolving R&E network infrastructures in India Prof. S.V. Raghvan, Scientific Secretary to the Principal Scientific Advisor, Govt. of India |
| 11.10 - 11.20 | India's National Knowledge Network (NKN) Dr. B.K. Gairola, Director General, National Informatics Centre (NIC), Govt of India |
| 11.20 - 11.30 | ERNET N. Mohan Ram, Director General, ERNET India |
| 11.30 - 11.40 | TBD Gulshan Rai, CERT-In, India |
| 11.40 - 11.50 | Current and evolving R&E network infrastructures in the US Ana Preston, Internet2 |
| 11.50 - 12.00 | Taj - High-Performance Networking Facilitating US-India Science Collaboration Greg Cole, GLORIAD/TAJ Abstract View Presentation |
| 12.00 - 12.10 | TransPAC3 Jim Williams, Indiana University & ACE and TP3, Principal Investigator Abstract View Presentation |
| 12.10 - 12.20 | US National Science Foundation International Network Programs relevant to India Kevin Thompson, NSF |
| 12.20 - 12.30 | The World Bank's Role in Catalysing Advanced Networks for Learning and Knowledge Dissemination Michael Foley, World Bank, South Asia Region View Presentation |
| 12.30 - 12.40 | TEIN3 Dai Davies, DANTE, UK (remote presentation) View Presentation |
| 12.40 - 12.55 | Identifying key issues, challenges, obstacles, opportunities associated with the new network infrastructures Panel Session and participant Interactive process led by session chair - S. Ramakrishnan |
| 12.45 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 14.05 | Geosciences, Climate Change, Weather Prediction and Observing Systems Session Chair: Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California, San Diego Overview by session chair including collaboration and funding opportunities |
| 14.05 - 14.25 | Fostering India and US Geoscience Collaboration through iGEON: A cyber infrastructure for Geo Scientists Dr. Rajeev Wankar, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad Abstract View Presentation |
| 14.25 - 14.45 | Environmental Networks and Cloud Computing: Opportunities for Collaboration Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California, San Diego Abstract View Presentation |
| 14.45 - 15.05 | Potential for expanded exchange of earth observation satellite data for climate, weather and environmental studies Chris Elvidge, National Geophysical Data Centre, NOAA Abstract View Presentation |
| 15.05 - 15.25 | Satellite and ground observing systems for climate change studies –requirement for network enabled research collaboration K.V.S. Badarinath, Head of the Atmospheric Sciences Division, National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad Abstract View Presentation |
| 15.25 - 15.50 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15.50 - 15.55 | Astronomy, Astroinformatics and Astrophysica Session Chair: Dr. Dipankar Bhattacharya, Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics(IUCAA) Overview by session chair including collaboration and funding opportunities. View Presentation |
| 15.55 - 16.15 | Virtual Observatory - India Prof. Ajit Kembhavi, Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics(IUCAA) Abstract View Presentation |
| 16.15 - 16.35 | Astronomy With Massive Data Streams Dr. Ashish Mahabal, CalTech (remote) Abstract View Presentation |
| 16.35 - 16.50 | Transient Sources Sajeeth Philip, Inter University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics(IUCAA) Abstract View Presentation |
| 16.50 - 17.00 | Identifying key issues, challenges, obstacles, opportunities from Day 1 for action plan |
| 17.00 - 17.30 | A conversation with Marjorie Lueck, Office of International Science and Engineering, about National Science Foundation collaborative opportunities |
| 17.30 - 18.30 | Drinks, nibbles, and Demonstrations (Nighttime Lights, Climate Change, National Library of Medicine Resources) |
| 19.00 - 21.00 | Workshop Dinner - with String Quartet playing from Cleveland, Ohio, US - and performances by local Indian Dance Troupe During the dinner, and to celebrate our coming together for this workshop, there will be performances locally by Indian dancers and a remote performance by a string quartet from the Cleveland Institute of Music - a premiere U.S. conservatory. The Vera Quartet is thrilled to be performing one of their favorite pieces for the audience in India. Anne-Sophie LaCharite-Roberge, first violin, is a Senior from Quebec, Canada. Michelle Abraham, second violin, is an Artist Diploma student from Connecticut. Caitlin Lynch, viola, is an Artist Diploma student from Oregon. Katie Tertell, cello, is a 2nd year Masters student from Virginia. The quartet has been together for two years and participates in the Intensive String Quartet program at CIM Performing: String Quartet Number Three in A Major, Op.41; 4th Movement – Finale: Allegro Molto Vivace – Quasi Trio; by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) |
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| Timeslot | Item/Description |
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| Morning | Cyberinfrastructure for Medical Research Session Chair: Anil Srivastava |
| 9.00 - 9.10 | Welcome to day 2 Overview by session chair including collaboration and funding opportunities |
| 9.10 - 9.50 | caBIG® Cooperation for Cancer Care Dr. Hemant Darbari, Executive Director, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) and Dr. George Komatsoulis, Deputy Director, NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) Abstract View Presentation |
| 9.50 - 10.10 | Complementing Epidemiological and Clinical Research with Bioinformatics Applications Dr. Sheela Godbole, National AIDS Research Institute (NARI), Indian Council of Medical Research Abstract |
| 10.10 - 10.30 | National Library of Medicine Resources for Researchers Hemant Shah, MD, Senior Research Medical Informatician at the Henry Ford Health System Abstract View Presentation |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Morning Tea |
| 11.00 - 11.05 | Bioinformatics Session Chair: Prof. Indira Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi Overview by session chair including collaboration and funding opportunities View Presentation |
| 11.05 - 11.25 | Operonic structure of key metabolic pathways in cyanobacteria Prof. Pramod P. Wangikar, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Abstract View Presentation |
| 11.25 - 11.45 | Cyber-infrastructures for Genetic Design Automation Dr. Jean Peccoud, School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences, Virginia Tech Abstract View Presentations |
| 11.45 - 12.05 | Selection of data features for machine learning in the prediction of genome-wide protein:protein interactions Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, Hyderabad Abstract View Presentation |
| 12.05 - 12.25 | Systems Biology, Global Analysis, and Biomarker Target Identification Prof. Mathew J. Palakal, School of Informatics/Department of Computer & Information Science, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Abstract View Presentation |
| 12.25 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 13.55 | Nanotechnology and High Energy and Computational Physics Session Chair: Dr. P.S. Dhekne, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre(BARC) Mumbai Overview by session chair including collaboration and funding opportunities |
| 13.35 - 13.55 | Computational Nanoelectronics: Current Status & Trends Prof. V. Ramgopal Rao, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Bombay Abstract View Presentation |
| 13.55 - 14.15 | Atomistic Modeling and Simulation Tools for Nanoelectronics and their Deployment on nanoHUB.org Michael McLennan, Senior Research Scientist, the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University Abstract View Presentation |
| 14.15 - 14.35 | LHC-CMS Tier-2 Facility at the Tata Institute for Fundemental Research (TIFR) Prof. Atul Gurtu, TIFR LHC Tier 2 Facility, Mumbai (India) Abstract View Presentation |
| 14.35 - 14.55 | Computing and Networking Needs for Lattice Field Theory Prof. Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University Abstract View Presentation |
| 15.00 - 15.30 | Afternoon Tea |
| 15:30 - 16.30 | Discussion - where to from here? A panel led by four scientists, two from India and two from the US, and taking into account the contributions made during the workshop, and drawing on audience participation will debate and deliberate on ways to significantly enhance Indo-US network enabled collaboration. In doing so the panel and audience will try to identify key issues, challenges, obstacles, and opportunities needed for the development of action plans, and identify next steps and future deliverables. The output of this session will form the basis for the second part of the US-India Workshop, tentatively planned for October 2011 in Washington, DC |
| 16.30 - 16.40 | Summing up of workshop Jim Williams, Indiana University & ACE and TP3, Principal Investigator & N. Mohan Ram DG, ERNET India |
| 16.40 - 16.45 | Closing Remarks - Dipak Singh, Director, ERNET |
| 16:45 - 16:50 | Vote of Thanks ( Praveen Misra, Additional Director, ERNET) |
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