CENVAL-ARC Symposium 2025 Agenda
Feb 28, 2025, Location: Zoom
| Time | Event |
| TBD | Introduction to UNIX (Event details will be sent only to those who answered “Yes” to the February 28 Introductory UNIX session. If you didn’t select “Yes” but would like to attend, please email cenval-arc@ucmerced.edu) |
March 6, 2025, Location: UC Merced Conference Center
| Time | Event |
| Hotel Check-in | |
| 5:00 - 7:00 | Dinner and Registration |
March 7, 2025, Location: UC Merced Conference Center
| Time | Event | Speaker |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Registration and Breakfast | |
| 8:00 - 8:20 | Welcome Remarks | Nick Dugan, UC Merced |
| 8:20 - 9:10 |
Overview on National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) |
Amy Apon, NSF |
| 9:10 - 9:35 |
Research Computing and Data (RCD) landscape Overview |
Sarvani Chadalapaka, UC Merced |
| 9:35 - 10:00 |
CENIC AI Resource (CENIC AIR), National Research Platform (NRP) |
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| 10:00 - 10:25 | Oklahoma Virtual Residency Program (OU VR) | Henry Neeman, Okalahoma University |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Morning Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC), Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Assessment | Patrick Schmitz, Semper Cogito |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | How to write good Cyberinfrastructure (CI) plans |
Patrick Schmitz, Semper Cogito |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | Faculty Plenary: Navigating between laptops and High Performance Computing (HPC) systems; Faculty experiences using HPC for research and instruction | Faculty Panel; Moderator: Jeffrey Weekley |
| 2:00 - 2:15 | Afternoon Break | |
| 2:15 - 4:00 | Using Open Science Grid (OSG) resources: Hands on training | Christina Koch, UW Madison |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | What's next for CENVAL-ARC | Sarvani Chadalapaka, UC Merced |
March 10, 2025, Location: Zoom
| Time | Event | Speakers |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Best practices in research software development | Derek Devnich, UC Merced |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Drop-in Open Science Grid (OSG) Office Hours | Christina Koch, UW Madison |
| Cyberinfrastructure Assessment (CI) Assessment Office Hours | Patrick Schmitz, Semper Cogito | |
| 1:00 - 2:30 | Track:1 AI/ML Training | Xiaoyi Lu, UC Merced |
| Track:2: Computational Chemistry | Liang Shi, UC Merced | |
| Track:3: Computational Physics | Kinjal Dasbiswas, UC Merced |
