NEESinc Meeting Documents

NEES Consortium, Inc. - 2nd Annual Meeting
San Diego, California

Program

WEDNESDAY - MAY 19, 2004

6:00-8:00 pm

Hosted reception with hoes d'oeuvres, sponsored by MTS Systems Corp. PI's of the Equipment Sites and the SI projects were available to disucss usage of NEES with potential researchers.

THURSDAY - MAY 20, 2004

7:15-8:15 am

Continental Breakfast & Meeting check-in

8:15-8:30

Opening of Meeting and Agenda Overview: Ian Buckle, President NEES Consortium

8:30-8:45

Welcome by NEES Consortium, Inc. Executive Director: Cliff Roblee

8:45-9:15

Welcome from NSF: Joy Pauschke, NSF NEES Program Director

9:15-9:45

The Shared Cyberinfrastructure Program: Sangtae Kim, Director, Division of Shared Cyberinfrastructure, Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, NSF
9:45-10:15

NEES Research Solicitations: Steven McCabe, NEESR Program Manager, NSF

10:15-10:30

NIED E-Defense: Toru Hayama, Executive Director, National Research Institute of Earth Science and Disaster Prevention

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-noon

NEES Equipment Site "Travelogue," Part I: Shake Tables (UB-SUNY, U. of Nevada-Reno, UCSD); Mobile and Field (BYU/UCSB, UCLA, U. of Texas - Austin [see lunch speaker below.])
noon-1:30 pm

 Lunch: Speaker, Kenneth Stokoe, University of Texas at Austin

1:30-2:30

NEES Committee Updates and Live Wireless Polling of Members: Andrew Neitlich
-- Education, Outreach, and Training: Thalia Anagnos, Chair
-- Finance: Craig Comartin, Chair
-- Data Sharing and Archiving: Andrei Reinhorn, Chair
-- IT: Cherri Pancake, Chair
-- Site Operations: Roberto Leon, Chair

2:30-3:00

Break

3:00-5:00

NEES Committee Meetings

6:00-7:30

Banquet
Guest Speaker: Luis Esteva, President, International Assoc. for Earthquake Engineering

FRIDAY - MAY 21, 2004

7:30-8:00 am

Continental Breakfest

8:00-9:30

NEES Equipment Site “Travelogue,” Part II: Tsunami (OSU); Large-Scale Structures (U. Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, Lehigh, U. Minnesota, UC-Berkeley, U. Colorado - Boulder); Large-Scale Lifelines and Geotechnical (Cornell); Centrifuges (RPI, UC-Davis)

9:30-10:30

Early Research Usage of NEES Equipment Sites
-- Cathy French
-- Roberto Leon
-- John Wallace
-- Sharon Wood

10:30-11:00

Break (w/ group photo)

11:00-11:45

Committee Reports
-- Education, Outreach, and Training: Thalia Anagnos, Chair
-- Data Sharing and Archiving: Andrei Reinhorn, Chair
-- IT: Cherri Pancake, Chair
-- Site Operations: Roberto Leon, Chair
11:45-1:15 pm

Lunch: Speaker, James Malley, President of SEAOC and Principal Engineer with Degenkolb Engineers
-- Keiichi Ohtani, NIED E-Defense Update

1:15-1:50

Community Input: Andrew Neitlich
Discussion and live wireless polling of the audience: Prioritization of NEES Consortium membership services, reactions to the first round of NEESR Solicitations/proposals, evaluation of this annual meeting, preferences for future meetings
1:50-2:30

Demonstration of New NEES IT Capabilities
-- Bill Spencer, System Integration Project
-- Tarek Abdoun, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2:30-3:00

Break

3:00-4:00

Building Bridges Between NEES and the Geoscience Community
-- Chaitan Baru, SDSC and GEON
-- Thomas Jordan, SCEC
-- William Leith, USGS and ANSS
-- David Simpson, IRIS and EarthScope

4:00-4:15

Closing: Ian Buckle, NEES Consortium, President



SATURDAY - MAY 22, 2004

8:30 am

Depart hotel for field trip to UC San Diego Equipment Site