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NSF Cyberinfrastructure leader to keynote University of Utah campus CI Day

Event To Be Multicast Over Internet2 Network: On Friday, March 13, the University of Utah will host its first Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Day with the theme of "Enabling Research in a Data-Driven World".   The keynote speaker will be computational astrophysicist Edward Seidel, the director of the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Floating Point Systems Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University.  The title of his presentation will be "Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Science for Research and Education". Additional speakers will include William Michener of the University of New Mexico and Sayeed Choudhury of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries in addition to University of Utah faculty members Juliana Freire, Lewis Frey, and Valerio Pascucci.

Further information about this event is posted at: http://www.it.utah.edu/ci-day

With the potential interest in Prof. Seidel¹s talk ­ especially in view of the NSF's role in the federal economic stimulus package, the University of Utah will make the entire event available via IP multicast over the Internet2 Network.   The event will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. MDT (GMT-0600) with Prof. Seidel's lecture and discussion time scheduled from 9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.  The MPEG-4 video stream may be best viewed using the open source VLC media player software.  Client versions of VLC for most popular operating systems may be downloaded at no charge from: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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