Manuela Campanelli The University of Texas at Brownsville GriPhyN NSF Project Review January 2003 Chicago Education & Outreach Overview

229 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB GriPhyN Education and Outreach Program Goals Communicate the ideas of the computational and data grids to a diverse community of faculty and students, as well as the public at large. Incorporate faculty, K-12, undergrad and beginning graduate students at other institutions (in particular MSI) into GriPhyN research. Engage all GriPhyN senior personnel to lecture and mentor E/O activities, facilitated by an outreach coordinator anchored at The University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB).

329 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Outreach Strategy Develop a prototype outreach program at one site: –Critical mass of students and faculty required –Integrated research effort in CS and physics: UTB part of the LIGO production grid Extend this prototype to other MSIs –Increased MSI participation with iVDGL Engage all GriPhyN researchers to do outreach –Give talks, mentor more students, etc Work with other E/O programs –Share ideas, activities, workshops, etc Build external outreach component: –Web page development –Contact with Press, CS and Physics communities

429 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB GriPhyN/iVDGL Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) UT Brownsville (UTB) – Hispanic College and University, Brownsville (Texas) – 10,000 students, 90% Hispanic American >> 20, 000 within 5 years – Major role in LIGO research (LSC institution) – Computational resources: 96-node Linux cluster – iVDGL Tier 3 center – New resources: NASA University Research Center (URC) for Gravitational Wave Astronomy

529 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Extending prototype to other MSI Hampton University (HU) – Historically Black College & University, Hampton (Virginia) – 6000 students, mostly African American – QuarkNet outreach center – ATLAS research University Center – iVDGL Tier 3 center Salish Kootenai College (SKC) – Tribal College, Pablo (Montana) – 2000 students, 80% native American – LSC institution (LIGO research) – iVDGL Tier 3 center

629 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB GriPhyN/iVDGL outreach sites UF Wisconsin Fermilab BNL Indiana Boston U SKC Brownsville Hampton PSU J. Hopkins Caltech FIU FSU Arlington Michigan LBL Oklahoma Argonne Vanderbilt UCSD/SDSC NCSA Tier1 Tier2 Tier3

729 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB GriPhyN/iVDGL Outreach Work Team UT Brownsville: –Manuela Campanelli (coordinator, phys faculty) –Joe Romano (phys faculty) –Santiago Pena (phys grad student) –Sean Morris (phys undergrad student) –Jose’ Zamora (CS undergrad student) –Ariel Martinez (CS undergrad student) Hampton University: –Keith Baker (phys faculty) –Kenneth Mc Farlane (QuarkNet, phys faculty) –Howard Brown (phys undergrad student) –Donald Arnold (CS undergrad student) Salish Kootenai College: –Tim Olson (phys faculty) –Misty Cordier (CS faculty) –Scott Dupuis (Eng faculty) –2 phys undergrad students

829 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Student Participation at UTB Santiago Pena (physics, grad student), Sean Morris (physics, undergrad student) Ariel Martinez (CS, undergrad student), Jose Zamora (CS, undergrad student) Integrated Team of CS and Physics Students

929 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Progress: Student Participation at UTB –Linux cluster design, construction and administration –VDT installation, testing and documentation writing. –LIGO software installation and documentation writing –Worldgrid and LIGO-GriPhyN demos –Educational summer trips at several GriPhyN/iVDGL institutions (Fermilab, UWM etc) –SC2002 student volunteer program, distribution of Newsletter02 –Recently, also working on Web development –Helping other MSI in the Worldgrid! –(later talk by UTB students) :

1029 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB UTB Linux cluster `Lobizon’ Built by UTB students! Experience in bringing computing and physics into the grid. Grid-enabled with GriPhyN Software LIGO data analysis research

1129 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Web Site Development Basic educational material: data grids, physics expts., E/O activities etc. Technical support info: documentation, “how-to” guides for VDT installation and use. New undergrad student, Ariel Martinez, is updating this site. UTB Fall 2001

1229 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Annual Education & Outreach Meetings First E/O Meeting organized at UTB (March 2002) - Talks by ~5 GriPhyN/iVDGL researchers - VDT tutorial (Globus, Condor, etc) - ~50 local teachers & students, plus other MSI students - Talks by EOT-PACI, SDSS-Skyserver members - Inauguration of UTB Beowulf cluster - Local Press Events (TV, `Brownsville Herald’, etc) Next E/O meeting to be held at HU (May 2003) - Participation of local school and universities - Other MSI faculty and students - GriPhyN/iVDGL researchers - Talks by QuarkNet, EOT-PACI, etc Future Workshops and Tutorials (Summer 2004): - NASA-URC summer school and LIGO-GriPhyN tutorial

1329 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Other Dissemination activities Talks Over 200 talks by all GriPhyN researchers at various institutions, outreach meetings and conferences: Courses Grid concepts introduced Physics and Astronomy classes at MSI: 1.Skyserver, LIGO at UTB (Joe Romano), 2.Skyserver at SKC (Tim Olson) News to Public and Media : Articles by E/O coordinator: 1.Financial times (Germany, 2001) 2.Brownsville Herald (Texas, 2002) 3.Matters of Gravity Newsletter Trillium Data Grids NewsLetter 2002 …

1429 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Expanding the outreach effort (1) Collaboration of GriPhyN with related projects: Integrated GriPhyN/iVDGL/PPDG Trillium E/O effort –Example: Brochure developed by GriPhyN/iVDGL for U.S. Grid projects (next slide) iVDGL MSI participation in GriPhyN. Initial discussions with EU data-grid projects

1529 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Trillium Newsletter 2002

1629 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Expanding the outreach effort (2) 1.Skyserver Classes at SKC and UTB 2.GriPhyN-SDSS participation EOT-PACI meeting at SC EOT-PACI participation at GriPhyN/iVDGL E/O meetings 4.Joint telecons, mail lists, meetings 5.Exploring collaboration: QuarkNet at HU Collaboration with other outreach programs: EOT-PACI (Scott Lathrop), SDSS-SkyServer (Jordan Raddick)

1729 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Next Outreach Challenges Increase the participation of minority students (at all levels) working with GriPhyN/iVDGL researchers Integrate computer science and physics outreach, using grid tools in real physics applications Increase MSI involvement in Worldgrid Give more talks at under-served Institutions Enhance the collaborations with other E/O programs Work on annual Newsletter Organize annual Outreach Workshop, VDT Tutorial

1829 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Increasing Student Participation Mentoring Institutions (Spring 2003): 1.U Florida 2.Indiana U 3.Fermilab 4.U Chicago 5.UW Milwaukee 6.UT Brownsville NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU): Proposal for a REU supplement to support ~15 Students (semester or summer) at GriPhyN & iVDGL institutions. Remote Mentoring? GriPhyN/iVDGL researchers could act as remote mentors for students at MSI using collaborative technologies, e.g. Access Grid, VRVS, etc

1929 Jan 2003 Manuela Campanelli, UTB Summary Progress on several fronts: –Successful participation of minority students –E/O Web development –Annual Outreach Workshop/Tutorials –Annual Trillium Newsletter –Collaboration with other E/O programs –Many talks bring Grid message to new groups Next Challenges: –Use Grids for science applications. –Extend outreach to other MSI: more students (at all levels) and talks. –Enhance collaborations with other E/O programs.