SC08 Education Program
November 15 – 18, 2008
Austin Convention Center
Austin, Texas

*Tentative agenda, as of 10/14/08

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Friday, November 14
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Registration and Welcome Reception, Omni Southpark Hotel, Lobby Foyer
Saturday, November 15
7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Ballroom D
8:30 am - 10:00 am Welcome & Opening Keynote, Ballroom E
  • Welcome: Pat Teller (SC08 General Conference Chair, University of Texas at El Paso), Paul Gray (SC08 Education Program Chair, University of Northern Iowa)
  • Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Education: Ed Seidel (Associate Director, NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure)
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm   Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: STEM and the Computational Science Initiative – Bonnie Bracey Sutton (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), Ray Rose (Mentornet), Manorama Talaiver (Institute for Teaching through Technology & Innovative Practices)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Physics: From Spreadsheets to Clusters – Robert Panoff (Shodor)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Computational Chemistry Education (Level 1, Beginner) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: Supercomputing in Plain English – Henry Neeman (University of Oklahoma), Charlie Peck (Earlham College)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Introducing Computational Science in the Undergraduate Engineering Curriculum – Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Ashok Krishnamurthy (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Steve Stevenson (Clemson University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Introduction to Scientific Visualization – Jana Lollis (North Carolina School for the Deaf), Jonathan Stuart–Moore (Shodor)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Many Biological Problems Can Be Taught from Desktop to Grid – Jeff Krause (Shodor)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Ballroom D
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Education Plenary Session, Ballroom E: Title TBA – Speaker TBA
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Pathways, Ballroom E: Pathways – Paul Gray (University of Northern Iowa)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Pathways – Bonnie Bracey Sutton (The George Lucas Foundation), Thomas Loughran (University of Notre Dame), Susan Ragan (Maryland Virtual High School)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Pathways – Dave Joiner (Kean University)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Pathways – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: Pathways – Charlie Peck (Earlham College)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Pathways – Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Pathways – Robert Panoff (Shodor)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Pathways – Eric Jakobsson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Jeff Krause (Shodor)
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm BOFS
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Education Poster Reception, Omni Southpark, Oaks Room
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Sunday, November 16
7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Ballroom D
8:30 am - 10:00 am Education Plenary Session, Ballroom E: Using the Next Generation of Information Technology to Launch a Process of Continuous Improvement in Education – Henry Kelly (Federation of American Scientists)
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Building a Mathematical Model from Experimental Data – Susan Ragan (Maryland Virtual High School), Scott Sinex (Prince George’s Community College)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: A Survey of Computational Physics – Rubin Landau (Oregon State University)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Molecular Visualization (Level 1, Beginner) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: MPI: Introduction and Advanced – Tom Murphy (Contra Costa College), Kay Wanous (University of Northern Iowa)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Introductory Modeling Examples for Engineers, Engineering – James Giuliani (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Steve Stevenson (Clemson University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Introduction of DEAF-STEM, Learning and Physical Challenges Education – Kent Robertson (Shodor)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Finding the Common Roots of Probability and Calculus: Applications to Modeling Population Dynamics – Eric Jakobsson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Ballroom D
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Mathematical Modeling using Real-World Data – Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Susan Ragan (Maryland Virtual High School), Scott Sinex (Prince George’s Community College)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Easy Java Simulations and the Open Source Physics Project (Part 1) – Mario Belloni (Davidson College), Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Molecular Modeling (Level 1, Beginner) – Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, and Grid Education, Room 8C: OpenMP: Introduction – Christian Trefftz (Grand Valley State University), Greg Wolffe (Grand Valley State University)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Intermediate Modeling Skills for Engineers: Image Processing Examples with MATLAB (Part 1) – Ashok Krishnamurthy (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: ASL-STEM Forum: Building Sign Language for Science and Technology through an Electronic Community – Richard Ladner (University of Washington)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Distributed Discrete-Event Epidemic Simulations with EPISIMS – Doug Roberts (RTI International)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: CMIST – Connecting Concepts Across the Curriculum – Jenda Domaracki (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center), Pallavi Ishwad (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Easy Java Simulations and the Open Source Physics Project (Part 2) – Mario Belloni (Davidson College), Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Molecular Modeling with WebMO (Level 2, Intermediate) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: Benchmarking and Tuning Methodologies and Tools for Parallel Programs – Paul Gray (University of Northern Iowa), Charlie Peck (Earlham College)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Intermediate Modeling Skills for Engineers: CFD Examples (Part 2) – James Giuliani (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
  • Distance Education, Room 9B: New Technologies for Distance Education – Kathy Hoellen (Clemson University), Suzie Medders (Clemson University)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Agent-Based Modeling of Disease Spread with MATLAB’s Parallel Computing Toolbox and gridMathemetica – Diglio Simoni (RTI International)
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm BOFS
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Exhibitors’ Party
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Monday, November 17
7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Ballroom D
8:30 am - 10:00 am Education Plenary Session, Room: Title TBA – Valerie Taylor (Texas A&M University)
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Collaboration Tools for K–12 eScience – Adam Frey (Wikispaces), Thomas Loughran (University of Notre Dame)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Digital Libraries and HPC Physics Education – Mario Belloni (Davidson College), Norman Chonacky (Yale University), Wolfgang Christian (Davidson College), Richard Gass (University of Cincinnati), David Joiner (Kean University), Rubin Landau (Oregon State University), Robert Panoff (Shodor)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Molecular Dynamics (Level 1, Beginner) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: Using TeraGrid and Edu-Grid Resources – Brad Armosky (Texas Advanced Computing Center), Scott Lathrop (Blue Waters and TeraGrid)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Intermediate Modeling Skills for Engineers: Mechanical Engineering Examples (Part 3) – Dan Warner (Clemson University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Title TBA – Speaker TBA
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: The Biology and Algorithms of Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Construction – Gloria Rendon (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Ballroom D
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Job Fair, Room TBD
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Turning Multivariable Models into Interactive Animated Simulations – Susan Ragan (Maryland Virtual High School), Scott Sinex (Prince George’s Community College)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: N-body Physics Problems Solved with Message Passing (Part 1) – Norman Chonacky (Yale University), David Joiner (Kean University)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Chemical Kinetics (Level 1, Beginner) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: Using Open Science Grid Resources – Alina Bejan (University of Chicago)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Using Parallel MATLAB to Solve More Complex Engineering Problems (Part 1) – Ashok Krishnamurthy (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Siddarth Samsi (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 9B: CUDA Introductions – Christian Trefftz (Grand Valley State University), Greg Wolffe (Grand Valley State University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Introduction to VoiceThreads for Teachers & Students – Kent Robertson (Shodor)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: One to Many and Many to Many Sequence Comparisons: BLAST-ing to Metagenomics – Ananth Kalyanaraman (Washington State University)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Advanced Models – Susan Ragan (Maryland Virtual High School), Scott Sinex (Prince George’s Community College)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: N-body Physics Problems Solved with Message Passing (Part 2) – Norman Chonacky (Yale University), David Joiner (Kean University)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Chemical Kinetics with Excel and Vensim PLE (Level 2, Intermediate) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: Modeling and Simulation – Andrew Fitz-Gibbon (Earlham College), Brad Johnson-Stalhunt (Earlham College)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Using Parallel MATLAB to Solve More Complex Engineering Problems (Part 2) – Ashok Krishnamurthy (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Siddarth Samsi (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Title TBA – Speaker TBA
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Pattern Discovery and Pattern Matching in Biological Sequences: Finding Meaning by Finding Motifs and Domains – Eric Jakobsson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Jeff Krause (Shodor)
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Birds of a Feather
  • BOFS, Room 10B: There is No More Sequential Programming, So Why Are We Still Teaching It? – Dan Garcia (University of California, Berkley), Tim Mattson (Intel Research), Charlie Peck (Earlham College), Wilf Pinfold (Intel Research), Paul Steinberg (Intel Research)
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Exhibit Hall Opening Gala
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Tuesday, November 18
7:00 am - 8:30 am Breakfast, Room 16AB
8:30 am - 10:00 am Conference Keynote, Michael Dell (Dell Computers), Ballroom
10:00 am - 10:30 am Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Discovering Data in the Classroom – Diane Baxter (San Diego Supercomputing Center), Jeff Sale (San Diego Supercomputing Center)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Stochastic Statistics in Physics – Norman Chonacky (Yale University), David Joiner (Kean University)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Chemistry Education Software (Level 1, Beginner) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: GNU,Intel, & TotalView Tools – Paul Gray (University of Northern Iowa), Charlie Peck (Earlham College)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Exploring Computational Science Projects for Undergraduate Engineers (Part 1) – Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), James Giuliani (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Siddarth Samsi (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Steve Stevenson (Clemson University), Dan Warner (Clemson University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: Introduction to Computational Science – Robert Panoff (Shodor)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: System Dynamics Modeling of Chemical and Enzyme Kinetics Using Vensim PLE, MATLAB, and GNU Octave – Jeff Krause (Shodor)
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch, Room 16AB
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Mash–ups for K–12 eScience – Tim Hardt (Washington High School), Jeff Sale (San Diego Supercomputing Center), Stephanie Stevenson (Fort Caroline Middle School)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Wave Problems in Quantum Mechanics (Part 1) – Richard Gass (University of Cincinnati)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Chemistry Databases (Level 1, Beginner) – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: GNU & Intel Scientific Libraries – Charlie Peck
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Exploring Computational Science Projects for Undergraduate Engineers (Part 2) – Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), James Giuliani (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Siddarth Samsi (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Steve Stevenson (Clemson University), Dan Warner (Clemson University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B: System & Agent Modeling for Learning and Physical Challenges Education – Robert Panoff (Shodor), Kent Robertson (Shodor)
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Enzymology in a Microphysiological Setting Using MCell and DReAMM – Joel Stiles (National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center)
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Parallel Sessions
  • K-12 Education, Room 10B: Collaboration Bazaar – Thomas Loughran (University of Notre Dame)
  • Computational Physics Education, Room 8A: Wave Problems in Quantum Mechanics (Part 2) – Richard Gass (University of Cincinnati)
  • Computational Chemistry Education, Room 8B: Computational Chemistry Education - Revisited – Clyde Metz (College of Charleston), Shawn Sendlinger (North Carolina Central University)
  • Parallel, Distributed, & Grid Education, Room 8C: SPRNG Introductions – Michael Mascagni (Florida State University)
  • Engineering Education, Room 9A: Exploring Computational Science Projects for Undergraduate Engineers (Part 3) – Steve Gordon (Ohio Supercomputer Center), James Giuliani (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Siddarth Samsi (Ohio Supercomputer Center), Steve Stevenson (Clemson University), Dan Warner (Clemson University)
  • Learning and Physical Challenges Education, Room 9B:Title TBA – Speaker TBA
  • Computational Biology Education, Room 9C: Behaviors of Biological Network Motifs and the Modular Nature of Biological Networks – Jeff Krause (Shodor)
5:00 pm SC08 Education Program Adjourns
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