Interdisciplinary Strategic Issues in e-Science and Cyber-Infrastructure
Caltech, June 12 – 14, 2007
Workshop Agenda
The meeting will consist of 8 sessions, each 1.5 hours long and focused on a particular set of topics as listed below. Each session will have a designated moderator, who, along with a couple of other participants (“co-provocateurs”) will set the stage for a discussion with short presentations, lasting no more than 30 minutes total, followed by at least 1 hour of open discussion involving all participants. The meeting is intended to be interaction-heavy and powerpoint-light. Informal discussions will continue during coffee breaks and meals. The goal is to synthesize a common vision, rather than spend time in standard talks. The focus will be on the future of the field, and the emergence of new ways of doing scientific research.
All sessions will be in the Millikan Board Room, bldg. 32 on Caltech maps Tuesday, June 12: 18:00 – 20:00 Opening reception at the Avery House Library (bldg. 99 on Caltech maps)
Wednesday, June 13: 8:30 – 9:00 9:00 – 10:30 Coffee Session 1: Introducing the major workshop themes, goals and participants.
Moderator: G. Djorgovski. Co-provocateurs: D. Atkins, G. Johnson Themes: How are IT and computation changing fundamentally the practice of scientific research across all disciplines? What are the new challenges we all face? What is the emerging new computational science methodology for the 21st century?
10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30
Coffee Session 2: Methodological commonalities: data-driven science.
Moderator: I. Foster. Co-provocateurs: D. Van Dyk, B. Grossman Themes: Coping with an exponential growth of data volume and complexity. Sensor networks and other novel data generation mechanisms. New computational approaches; grids; databases; data mining, analysis, and visualization.
12:30 – 13:30 13:30 – 15:00
Catered lunch Session 3: Methodological commonalities: theory.
Moderator: E. Seidel. Co-provocateurs: J. Demmel, E. Mjolsness Themes: Massive numerical simulations and their interpretation; fundamentally computational approaches to theory; code validation. Creating novel formal frameworks for computational science.
15:00 – 15:30 15:30 – 17:00
Coffee Session 4: The view from computer science.
Moderator: P. Baldi. Co-provocateurs: R. Stevens, R. Bajcsy Themes: Computer science as an intellectual glue and universal framework, and its future developments. Synergy with, and feedback from, scientific applications.
18:30 – 20:30
Conference dinner (Caltech Athenaeum)
The Workshop Agenda, Continued
Thursday, June 14: 8:30 – 9:00 9:00 – 10:30 Coffee Session 5: New modes of scientific organization and collaboration, and educational needs.
Moderator: D. Atkins. Co-provocateurs: T. Finholt, A. Szalay Themes: The rise, development, and future interplay of virtual scientific organizations, and other new modes of scientific collaborations. Sharing tools and experiences. Educational issues and needs for teaching of computational science and thinking.
10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30
Coffee Session 6: Grand challenges and commonalities.
Moderator: M. Stalzer. Co-provocateurs: F. Berman, J. Crutchfield Themes: What are some Grand Challenge problems to guide future research efforts? What requirements and development needs do the problems have in common? How do the various stakeholders (scientific communities, industry, government) work together to meet these challenges?
12:30 – 13:30 13:30 – 15:00
Catered lunch Session 7: The emerging themes.
Moderator: T. Hey. Co-provocateurs: A. Goodman, R. Williams Themes: What are the key new ideas, issues, and trends which emerged during the workshop? Where are they leading us? What are the implied new (or anticipated) research and development directions, where the impact will be the highest?
15:00 – 15:30 15:30 – 17:00
Coffee Session 8: What next?
Moderator: L. Smarr. Co-provocateurs: D. Fay, M. Foster Themes: Defining specific mechanisms and practical steps to foster and catalyze interactions between different disciplines and across traditional organizational lines. Optimal mechanisms for effective public-private partnerships in this arena. Next steps.
17:00
Adjourn