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ELI Web Seminar, July 20, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

Global CyberBridges (GCB): A Model Global Collaboration Infrastructure for E-Science Between the United States and International Partners

Special Guests

Heidi L. Alvarez
Director, Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment
Florida International University

Heidi Alvarez is the director for the Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment (CIARA) at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. Alvarez chairs the Internet2 Caribbean Special Interest Group, working with Caribbean nations to advance their emerging research and education networking initiatives. Alvarez is also the principal investigator for the Global CyberBridges CI-TEAM three-year implementation projects. She has served as co-PI for the AMPATH International Exchange Point since April 2000 and as co-PI for the Inter-regional Grid Enabled Center for High Energy Physics Research and Educational Outreach (CHEPREO) at FIU since 2003, as well as the Western Hemisphere Research and Education Network (WHREN)–Links Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) International Research Network Connections program since 2005. She also participates on the NSF UltraLight and PlaNets projects led by Caltech.

S. Masoud Sadjadi
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University

S. Masoud Sadjadi is an assistant professor in the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. He is the co-director of the Autonomic Computing Research Laboratory (ACRL), the leader of several projects under the Latin American Grid (LA Grid), and one of the co-founders of Global CyberBridges (GCB). He is also affiliated with the Research and Education for Undergraduates (REU) and the Communication Virtual Machine (CVM) projects at FIU. He has extensive experience in software development and with leading large-scale software projects. He currently leads several international research projects in the LA Grid and was co-chair of the program committee for IEEE ICNSC 2008. A member of the IEEE, Sadjadi is PI or co-PI of eight grants from NSF and IBM totalling over $3.5 million.

Summary

Julie Little, EDUCAUSE director of teaching, learning, and professional development, will moderate this web seminar with Heidi Alvarez and Masoud Sadjadi as they share the collaborative process behind Global CyberBridges, an NSF CI-TEAM project.

Global CyberBridges fosters a multidisciplinary environment to produce a new generation of scientists and engineers capable of fully integrating cyberinfrastructure into their research, education, and professional and creative processes to solve challenging problems in their disciplines. PhD-level students, working in globally distributed collaborative teams with international partners in China and Brazil, have established a fruitful network and published 19 peer-reviewed papers. Projects range from earth sciences, physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, and bioinformatics to computer engineering and computer science. Join us to learn how to replicate this program at your university.

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