Workshop Purpose and Goals
- Develop a shared understanding of the current state of cyber-enabling instrumentation and identify future directions
- Identify best practices for cyber-enabling instrumentation
- Create a cyber-enabling instrumentation network
Desired Outcomes
- A shared understanding of the current state of cyber-enabled instrumentation programs
- Operational definitions for specific terms and phrases related to cyber-enabled instrumentation.
- Guiding principles for cyber-enabling instrumentation best practices.
- Familiarity with use of selected cyber-enabled instruments in research and instructional settings/environments.
- A resource document for cyber-enabled instrumentation in chemistry
- A cyber-enabling instrumentation network
- Priorities for future instrument cyber-enabling that best suit the broader chemistry community
- Action Plan
Workshop Agenda, Evening of July 16 through Afternoon of July 18, 2008
(last updated June 26, 2008)
July 16, 2008
Time |
Event |
Presenter/Participants |
7:00-9:00PM |
Reception and networking |
All |
July 17, 2008
Time |
Event |
Presenter/Participants |
7:30-8:30AM |
Continental Breakfast |
|
8:30-9:00AM |
I. Welcome and Agenda Review |
Allen Hunter,
Katherine Kantardjieff,
Elaine McClanahan |
9:00-9:45AM |
II. Current State of Cyber-Enabled Instrumentation |
Katherine Kantardjieff |
9:45-10:00AM |
Break |
|
10:00-11:00AM |
III. Challenges and Future Directions |
Prasad Calyam, Ashok Krishnamurthy
Ohio Super Computer Center Remote Instrumentation and Collaboration Environment
Bill St. Arnaud; CANARIE Green Broadband IT/Cyberinfrastructure
|
11:00-12:00N |
IV. Operational Definitions Break-out 1
· Introduction to Break-out
· Break-out Activity
|
Elaine McClanahan
Small Groups |
12:00-12:30PM
12:30-1:00PM |
Lunch
Working Lunch- Gallery Walk |
All |
1:00-1:30PM |
IV. Operational Definitions (continued)
· Review and Modify Definitions
|
Small Groups |
1:30-3:00PM |
V. Presentations — Showcase |
Chas Conway
MRFIL Group
Bioengineering Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Clyde Smith
SSRL Automation, Robotics and Remote Access to SSRL Beamlines
|
3:00-3:15PM |
Break |
|
3:15-5:15PM |
VI. Best Practices Break-out 2
· Introduction to Break-out
· Break-out Activity
|
Elaine McClanahan
Small Groups |
5:15-5:30PM |
VII. Wrap-up |
All |
July 17, 2008 (Evening Session)
Time |
Event |
Presenter/Participants |
| 6:00-7:30PM |
I. Cyber-enabled Instrumentation Demonstrations
- Chas Conway - MRFIL Group, Bioengineering Department, UIUC
- Clyde Smith -SSRL BlueIce
- Devon Cancilla - WWU ILN Project
- Gordon Renkes and Prasad Calyam - OSC’s Remote Instrumentation and Collaboration Environment (RICE)
- Donald F. (Rick) McMullen - Remote Access and Data Management for Crystallography using the Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA)
II. Continue Break-out #2 as desired. |
Prasad Calyam , Devon Cancilla, Chas Conway, Rick McMullen, Clyde Smith, Gordon Renkes
|
July18, 2008
Time |
Event |
Presenter/Participants |
7:30-8:30AM |
Breakfast |
|
8:30-9:45AM |
I. Best Practices Break-out 2 (continued)
· Break-out Activity
· Prepare Report-out |
Small Groups |
9:45-10:00AM |
Break |
|
10:00-11:30AM |
I. Best Practices Break-out 2 (continued)
· Report-out |
All |
11:30-12:00N |
Lunch (box lunch- anticipate working lunch) |
|
12:00-2:15PM |
II. Future Directions and Priorities Break-out 3
· Introduction
· Break-out Activity
· Report-out
|
Elaine McClanahan
Small Groups
All |
2:15-2:30PM |
III. Wrap-up |
All |
|
