Community Building: A Mulitfaceted Approach

photo of fellows, alumni and DOE laboratory staff touring the NERSC computing center
A group of fellows, alumni and DOE laboratory staff tour the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2009

The DOE CSGF program builds community by focusing on the following areas:

  • High performance computing for computational science and engineering research
  • Career and professional development
  • Leadership development
  • Mentoring
  • Outreach

Community building occurs during activities at the DOE CSGF annual conference, at events around the country, at professional society meetings and through the use of online social media tools.

  • Annual conference opportunities include the HPC roundtable discussion and special seminars, talks and gatherings
  • Regional events include talks, visits to DOE laboratories, mentoring opportunities and social outings
  • Professional society meetings afford fellows and alumni the chance to attend other conferences and present their research
  • Wikis webinars and other social networking tools are used to create an online community that complements the connections formed in person
photo of DOE CSGF alumna Amber Sallerson-Jackson presenting her research at the 2008 conference   photo of fellows representing CSGF at SC2008
DOE CSGF alumna Amber Sallerson-Jackson presents her research at the 2008 annual conference in Washington, D.C.
  
Left to right: Fellows Miler Lee, Jeremy Lewi, John Evans
and Jeff Hammond represent the DOE CSGF program at
the 2008 Supercomputing Conference in Austin, Texas