Thursday, March 18, 2004
Access Grid Node Room located in the School of Education, Rm. 110 (ED in this Campus Map)
University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion, SD 57069
(Click here for directions)

Tentative Schedule

8 am: Day begins with informative sessions from the various national sites. More information about these can be found at the internet2 website. To date more than 38 sites have joined together to participate in the National Day.

7:45 AM - 8:00 AM Importance of Advanced Networks to Research & Teaching
Steve Corbató, Director, Backbone Network Infrastructure, Internet2

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Internet2 Overview
Gary Bachula, Vice President for External Relations, Internet2

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Collaboration Technologies Overview and the Internet2 Commons
Jonathan Tyman, Manager, Digital Video, Internet2 Integrated Communications and Connectivity
Ben Teitelbaum, Program Mgr. Voice & Integrated Communications Initiative, Internet2

9 am: Access Grid Node (AGN) Conference - Bioinformatics Seminar Topic Onto-tools. Advanced methods for the analysis of microarray data. Sorin Draghici (Wayne State University) and Purvesh Khatri (US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Bioinformatics Cell).

Break between 10-10:30: View displays and transition to the local celebration.

At 10:30 am: Local celebration a traditional Lakota blessing by Jerome Kills Small, this will mark the first broadcast out using the Access Grid Node at USD. A ceremony marking the event will incorporate other sites in South Dakota. These sites are linked through a partnership with the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Division of Basic Biomedical Research grant: South Dakota Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) has several partner sites through out SD to see the current partners http://www.usd.edu/brin/.

For more information about Mr Kills Small, the Institute of American Indian Studies (IAIS) or more general information about the Lakota Language studies and the Native American studies program please click on http://www.usd.edu/iais/faculty.cfm.

Break for lunch - The national celebration will be featured from 12-1pm for those interested. PLENARY: Networks and Middleware for Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Knowledge Communities
Daniel Atkins, Professor, University of Michigan

1 pm: Various national sessions will be featured information will be updated as needed. Other options include tours of specific USD facilities in the afternoon.

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Teaching Overview, and Case Studies on Using Internet2 to Teach
Franz Kurfess, California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

International Education - Singapore MIT Alliance
Vijay Kumar, Vice President for Information Services and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Team Teaching
John Mansfield, Laboratory Manager, North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Lab, University of Michigan

Bradley University and California State University, Los Angeles Screenwriting Course
Jeffrey Huberman, Bradley University

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Jazz Combo Performance

Manhattan School of Music; hosted by Columbia University

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Panel: Performing Arts
Ann Doyle, Program Manager, Arts and Humanities, Internet2
Benton Hess, Professor, University of Rochester
Thomas Knab, Director of Academic, Research, and Administrative Technology, College of Arts & Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Christianne Orto, Manhattan School of Music
Ramon Ricker, Director, Institute for Music Leadership, University of Rochester
Tom Snook, New World Symphony

Other national sessions can be found on the National Agenda website. Please note that these times are in EST.

Partial support for the development of the Access Grid Node at The University of South Dakota was provided through funds from: National Science Foundation/EPSCoR Grant #EPS-0091948, SD BRIN a National Institutes of Health (NIH) program through the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), and by the State of South Dakota.

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