The objective of this proposal is to build on the success of the first NSF CyberBridges Workshop to bring together the community of NSF OCI CAREER researchers. The 2013 NSF CyberBridges Workshop will provide attendees with opportunities to seek out new collaborations, strengthen existing collaborations, encourage networking, and to provide feedback to NSF from the OCI CAREER community on how to further build the community of cyberinfrastructure researchers. The workshop, provisionally titled ?Participant Support for the 2013 NSF CyberBridges Workshop: Developing the next generation of cyberinfrastructure faculty for computational- and data-enabled science and engineering?, will feature keynote speakers from five critical areas of cyberinfrastructure: Visualization, Grand Challenges and Interdisciplinary Research, Computational- and Data- Enabled Science and Engineering, Education, High Performance Computing.
In 2010, the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure launched a new Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) program to support investigators working on interdisciplinary research in cyberinfrastructure and the application of cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering research. Over the past three years, approximately 50 CAREER awards have been made to researchers.
The first workshop for Office of Cyberinfrastructure CAREER awardees was held June 25-26, 2012, in Arlington, Virginia. The attendees, who were funded by the NSF OCI, BIO, CISE, ENG, HER, and MPS directorates, were selected from 24 institutions. Five keynote presentations were given by nationally and internationally recognized leaders in fields relevant to the use and development of cyberinfrastructure in science and engineering research. Each keynote presentation was followed by a discussion session with workshop attendees.
The workshop provided a venue for CAREER awardees to interact and to develop new collaborations with leading researchers and other CAREER awardees. As a result of this workshop, 55 potential new collaborations were identified by attendees. The workshop provided many opportunities for discussions among attendees and speakers. We received many positive comments from the attendees.
The results of the first NSF CyberBridges Workshop are available on the NSF website at the URL http://nsf.gov/attachments/126052/public/ACCICAREERworkshoptalk.pdf. The website for the 2012 CyberBridges workshop is at the URL www.cse.psu.edu/conferences/cb2012/.
The second annual workshop for the NSF Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) CAREER awardees was held July 15-16, 2013 in Arlington, Virginia. The workshop provided a venue for CAREER awardees to interact and to develop new collaborations with leading researchers and other CAREER awardees. The goals of the workshop were to: (1) encourage networking and discussion among awardees; (2) provide a forum to facilitate the discovery of new synergies and connections among researchers from the community; and (3) provide inspiration and motivation for new research through a series of keynote presentations by leaders in the areas of Computational- and Data-enabled Science and Engineering, Scientific Visualization, High Performance Computing, Education, and Grand Challenges in Cyberinfrastructure and Interdisciplinary Research. The workshop provided networking opportunities for attendees to seek out and gain potential collaborators, and included a poster session that allowed poster presenters to solicit additional interest from attendees. Thirty-one attendees and five keynote speakers attended the workshop. The attendees, who were funded by thirteen divisions, were selected from twenty-nine institutions. Sixteen of the attendees from the 2012 workshop returned for this year’s workshop. Five keynote presentations were given by nationally- and internationally-recognized leaders in fields relevant to the use and development of cyberinfrastructure in science and engineering research. Each keynote presentation was followed by a discussion session with workshop attendees. The final workshop report is available at the CyberBridges 2013 website at www.ccs.msstate.edu/conferences/NSFcyberbridges2013/.
