1. LIGO- GXXXXXX-XX-X GriPhyN Kickoff Meeting 2000.10.2LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 1 GriPhyN Outreach Program

2. LIGO- GXXXXXX-XX-X GriPhyN Kickoff Meeting 2000.10.2LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 2 UT Brownsville Newest component of University of Texas system (1992) Minority serving institution (> 85% Hispanic) Rapidly growing physical sciences department Close ties with LIGO: »Member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) »NSF grant to integrate research/education between UTB & LIGO »Students spend summers at LIGO Livingston Observatory (LLO) »Constructing Beowulf cluster (~64 node) for LIGO data analysis

3. LIGO- GXXXXXX-XX-X GriPhyN Kickoff Meeting 2000.10.2LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 3 Outreach/Education Coordinator New tenure-track faculty member at UT Brownsville Physicist (or computer scientist??) No teaching responsibilities during first 5 years Research experience in any of the following areas: »Data analysis of large data sets »Parallel or distributed computing »Computational physics (e.g., numerical relativity) Begin search immediately!

4. LIGO- GXXXXXX-XX-X GriPhyN Kickoff Meeting 2000.10.2LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 4 Responsibilities Technical support for GriPhyN software: »Installation instructions »User’s manuals »CVS repositories Point of contact for other interested universities: »Passive: assist when needed »Active: target other minority serving institutions –UT Pan American (HEP: CESR-CLEO project at Cornell) –UT El Paso (joint Master’s degree in physics) –Louisiana Tech (LIGO: seismometer data) –Southeastern Louisiana, Southern University (LIGO) –Others??

5. LIGO- GXXXXXX-XX-X GriPhyN Kickoff Meeting 2000.10.2LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville) 5 Responsibilities (cont.) Coordinate with LIGO outreach program: »Extend LIGO outreach at LLO to include GriPhyN Outreach web page: »Technical support information »Educational material »On-line analysis of real data Interface between physics and IT researchers: »Integrate LIGO data analysis at UTB into GriPhyN framework Others?? (Visitor program)