EOTPACI

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EOT-PACI
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The Education, Outreach and Training Partnership
for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
Ilya Zaslavsky, EC/CSE, SDSU
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• The mission of EOT-PACI is to develop human
  resources through the innovative use of emerging
  information technologies in order to understand
  and solve problems in education, science,
  business, government, and society.

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Structure of NPACI
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EOT-PACI Structure
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Leadership Team Roscoe Giles, Boston U. Greg
Moses, U. Wisconsin Richard Tapia, Rice U.
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Education
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Goal Support a national level systemic impact
on CSE education (k-12, undergrad,
grad/training, informal science)
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Education some remarkable projects
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• Chickscope
• students watch embryo maturing using magnetic
  resonance imaging (MRI) over the Web
• Chemviz
• visualization tools and curriculum for
  computational chemistry (quantum chemistry
  computations, web crystallographic databases,
  etc.)
• The WHY files
• explanation of science behind the news (NISE)
• Biology Workbench
• collection of computational biology tools and
  databases
• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
  PACI-wide
• Krell Institute
• Undergraduate Computational Science and
  Engineering Archive

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Learning Technologies
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Goal Develop, apply, and assess computational
tools that enhance learning
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Access Inclusion
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Goal Increase participation and success of
women, minorities and people with disabilities
in CSE and in PACI
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New Communities
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Goal Broaden the application base of the
nations HPCC infrastructure
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Evaluation
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Goal Provide for ongoing, external evaluation of
our education/outreach efforts
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Putting it all together
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• Developing the human component of the national
  metacomputing environment
• Leveraging EOT efforts across PACI
• Focus on scalable programs, national impact
• Systematic evaluation, dissemination of programs
• increasing diversity

www.eot.org/TTF
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Issues for discussion
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• What experiences of EOT-PACI partners look
  appealing to you (applicable in your curriculum)?
• Would you be willing to incorporate some proven
  (or unproven) approaches in your teaching?
• Do you want to contact any EOT-PACI partners for
  more information?
• Would you want to collaborate with them on
  education-related projects?
• Do you want to share your own experiences?