Fall 2003 Internet2 Member Meeting
Call for Proposals
Indianapolis, Indiana
October 13 - 16, 2003
The deadline for submitting proposals has now passed.
Please contact Laurie
Burns if you have questions regarding proposal submissions.
If you would like to request a side meeting (e.g, BoF, Working Group meeting,
Special Interest Group meeting, other open meeting, private closed meeting),
please send an email request to Kelly Fuqua.
The Fall 2003 Member Meeting Program Committee is now accepting proposals
for track breakout sessions at the Fall Member Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
You are encouraged to circulate this Call to others on your campus and in
your organizations, and elsewhere within the Internet2 member community.
Below is information on
Areas of Focus for the Fall Meeting
The Fall 2003 Member Meeting will focus on innovative applications and the underlying high-performance network infrastructures that enable them. Participants at the Fall meeting are expected to come from a wide range of communities and disciplines. Faculty members, researchers, scientists and applications developers will find the meeting valuable for exploring how advanced applications transform
many disciplines and research areas. Technical sessions on the development and evolution of high-performance network infrastructures will interest those from the national and international network engineering community, and discussions on critical issues facing the research and education networking community will appeal to the leadership of member institutions and organizations, such as chief information officers, vice-presidents for research, and other senior staff.
Suggested topics:
Topics of interest for the Fall meeting include:
- Case studies of applications or projects that incorporate advanced networks to enhance research, teaching, and learning, in areas such as
- arts and humanities
- collaborative learning environments and distribution of content
- grid computing
- remote instrumentation and management of data repositories
- telemedicine and tele-health
- others
- The development of cyberinfrastructure and implications for the research network community – examples of potential collaborations on new areas of research
- Collaborations between the scientific and networking communities to support key research areas (see examples at http://www.hpcc.gov/pubs/blue03/index.html)
- Reports on the status and future directions of secure advanced networks.
- Deployment of new middleware capabilities and their technical and policy impacts on campus communities
- Current issues in optical networking –
- examples of applications and research that require wavelengths
- impact on traditional IP networking architectures
- business models for deployment and operation of optical infrastructures
- Global collaborations for research outreach and practice, clinical practice, and teaching
- Collaborations between industry and higher education on development and deployment of advanced capabilities
Session content:
Sessions at the Member Meeting should address any or all of the following questions:
- What was the research, pedagogical, or technical problem being solved?
- How were stakeholders (faculty, students, corporate partners, etc.) engaged?
- What were the organizational issues involved in developing and implementing the project?
- What were the funding issues, and how were these addressed?
- How well did the project demonstrate the value of high-performance environments, and the value of Internet2?
- How was the project evaluated? What were the formative and summative metrics?
- If applicable, what was the application or project’s impact on local or regional economic development and technology diffusion?
Those interested in submitting a proposal for an application demo are encouraged
to submit a companion session proposal describing the process of bringing
the
application to fruition. Click here for the Call for Demos.
Track Definitions
Advanced Applications. The breakout sessions in this track include many examples of advanced applications and advanced uses of basic applications that are being used in a variety of disciplines to address particular research or instructional topics. These sessions will be of most interest to the applications leads among the membership, including researchers and scientists, faculty members and application developers.
Middleware. The breakout sessions in this track address current technical
developments in PKI, Shibboleth, directories,
medical middleware, and middleware for video. Deployment of middleware technologies
is also included. These sessions will be of most interest to the middleware
leads among the membership, and to chief information officers, applications
developers, and information and IT architects.
Network Engineering. The breakout sessions in this track will provide an opportunity for discussion of advanced network services, security issues, network infrastructure developments, end-to-end performance and performance measurement, and the network of the future. These sessions will be of most interest to the engineering and end-to-end performance leads among the membership, and also regional networking directors, network researchers, computer scientists, and chief information officers.
Relationships and Partnerships. The breakout sessions in the track will provide an opportunity to learn about regional partnerships in support, networking and connectivity for the broader educational community, industry/higher ed collaborations, and international collaborations. These sessions will be of most interest to a cross-section of the membership, including Internet2 executive liaisons, chief information officers and chief technical officers, vice-presidents for research, industry leadership, and federal leadership.
Evaluation Criteria
Proposals will be considered on the basis of the following criteria:
- degree of focus on collaborative work, case studies, and best practices
- inclusion of faculty and researchers (where appropriate)
- degree of anticipated interaction and information sharing; session is designed to promote discussion among attendees and
to advance work
- relevance to advanced networking and advanced applications; those things that are not possible or reasonable to do with
the commodity Internet
- demonstration of the value of Internet2 to its members and to research, teaching and learning
- degree to which session itself utilizes advanced and innovative technologies
- overall program quality and balance of topics
The Program Committee will select approximately 50 proposals to fill track
session slots. Session proposals that are associated with a related demo will
also be given priority in the selection process. The Program Committee may also
select some proposals for inclusion as poster sessions.
Track sessions are either 60 or 75 minutes in length, depending on the number
of speakers and the session content. If you have a short talk (10-15 minutes),
please submit it with a note indicating that if selected, it should be part
of a larger session rather than standing on its own.
Track sessions will be scheduled between the morning of Tuesday, October 14
and noon on Thursday, October 16. More information on the meeting schedule will
be available here in June.
Submission Information
Each proposal must contain the following:
- a title
- session abstract of no more than 200 words*
- at least one speaker name and affiliation
- desired track(s)
- intended audience(s)
- intended session format
- special technical requirements (e.g., specialized equipment, networking
requirements above 50Mbps. NOTE: session rooms can be equipped to accommodate
both local and remote presentations).
- permission to netcast your session if it’s selected for the program
and for netcasting
- a contact name and email address
*Abstracts for selected sessions may be edited as needed to conform to program
space and style requirements.
You may use the form at http://events.internet2.edu/2003/fall-mm/proposalsubmissionform.cfm
or submit the required information in an email message to Laurie Burns (lburns@internet2.edu).
Deadlines
Submission deadline: Monday, June 16, 2003, 5pm ET
Notification by: Monday, July 28, 2003
Preliminary program posted: Monday, August 11, 2003
Final program posted: Monday, September 8, 2003
Contact
Laurie Burns
Director, Member Activities
(lburns@internet2.edu)
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