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The KY NSF EPSCoR is hosting this 1.5 day CI Assessment Workshop and inviting CI experts from the EPSCoR jurisdictions to help develop a collective plan for addressing the “CI gap” as it relates to EPSCoR territories.  The workshop is planned as a successor to last year’s CI workshop in Nashville and a precursor to discussion at the EPSCoR Annual Meeting in November.
  
There is a significant gap between EPSCoR and non-EPSCoR jurisdictions that is impacting our competitiveness in both research and economic development.  The theme of the workshop will be, "The CI Gap: How big is it and how can we close it?"  We hope to have participation from each EPSCoR jurisdiction and ask that attendees of the workshop be prepared to answer these two questions and prepare a brief presentation regarding their jurisdictional CI needs.  (Please reference the notes at the bottom of the agenda section, below, for additional details.)

We encourage the involvement of representatives from under-represented groups, including those from community colleges, tribal colleges and historically black colleges and universities, for example.  Limited support for subsidizing travel to the conference is available. (More information about travel support is available in the registration section below.)

(Tentative) Agenda:

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*We request that each jurisdiction represented at the meeting prepare a few slides to share your CI assessment and needs overview with the group (about 5-10 minutes).  This means we will need to notify you of others coming from your jurisdiction so that you can contact them and work on condensing your presentation.  We anticipate that needs and capabilities will vary but jurisdictional assessment points might include: networking; middleware and applications; high-performance computation; observation and measurement services; interfaces and visualization services; CI workforce assessment; and interaction with tribal and community colleges.  In addition, the participants at the TN meeting identified a number of challenges the EPSCoR jurisdictions face, which participants may want to address during their presentations.  These included: (1) lack of established standards for interoperability in key technologies; (2) the need for entry-level approaches for individual campuses to engage in national CI; and (3) the absence of widely known and well understood CI alternatives in the local area.

Please forward us your presentations by October 3rd to ensure they are included in the packet of conference materials and to minimize transition time between presentations.  Presentations should be mailed to: sysadmin@mx.ccs.uky.edu

Registration:
We’ll need you to let us know you’re coming by registering for the conference.  Please register ASAP to help us get an accurate count of attendees.  Note that a limited amount of travel support is available to subsidize participant travel to this important workshop. Please contact your local NSF EPSCoR office (show me the map: www.kynsfepscor.org/about.html) to inquire if travel support is available for you.

Please complete the following fields and then click submit to register.

Hotel Accommodations:
Lexington Hyatt Regency
401 West High St., Lexington, KY 40507
http://www.lexington.hyatt.com

- Hotel reservations must be secured by September 21, 2007 to receive the discounted rate of $119 per night.  Hotel reservations can be made online by linking to hotel’s reservation page for this event: http://lexington.hyatt.com/groupbooking/lexrlukcs2007  or by calling 800-233-1234 (or 859-519-4224 locally) and referencing the “EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Assessment Workshop.”
- Complementary shuttle service is available to and from the airport via arrangements with the hotel.  A courtesy phone is available near the baggage claim area at the LEX airport.  Service is available from 6am-midnight (other times must be arranged through guest services department at the hotel).  The Hyatt shuttle is a blue or grey van with white lettering that says Hyatt Regency Lexington.

Information Quick Reference:
- Conference Dates: October 15-16, 2007
- Flights:  Lexington, KY Blue Grass Airport (LEX) http://www.bluegrassairport.com
- Schedule arrivals for Sunday, October 14, 2007
- Hotel reservations must be secured by September 21, 2007 to receive the discounted rate of $119 per night.  Hotel reservations can be made online by linking to hotel’s reservation page for this event: http://lexington.hyatt.com/groupbooking/lexrlukcs2007  or by calling 800-233-1234 (or 859-519-4224 locally) and referencing the “EPSCoR Cyberinfrastructure Assessment Workshop.”
- Complementary shuttle service is available to and from the airport via arrangements with the hotel.  A courtesy phone is available near the baggage claim area at the LEX airport.  Service is available from 6am-midnight (other times must be arranged through guest services department at the hotel).  The Hyatt shuttle is a blue or grey van with white lettering that says Hyatt Regency Lexington.
- Maps and Directions Link: http://lexington.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/services/maps/

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