Funded by the NSF Cyberinfrastructure (CI)-Training, Education, Advancement, and Mentoring (TEAM) program solicitation in 2005

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What is the CyberBridges Pilot?

• Funded by the NSF Cyberinfrastructure
  (CI)-Training, Education, Advancement, and
  Mentoring (TEAM) program solicitation in 2005
• 11 Awards were made for 250,000 each
• CI-TEAM 2005 was a demonstration program
• Expanded in 2006 to a multi-year implementation
  program
• CI-TEAM is increasing the effectiveness,
  penetration, and utilization of CI

http//www.nsf.gov/pubs/2005/nsf05560/nsf05560.htm

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CyberBridges Fellows 2005-06
1Cassian DCunha (student) and David Chatfield
(faculty) Parallel Computations for
Macromolecular Simulation Chemistry and
Biochemistry 2Tom Milledge (student) and Giri
Narasimhan (faculty) Unsupervised Pattern
Discovery in Protein Structures Computing and
Information Sciences 3Ronald A. Gutierrez
(student) and Eric T. Crumpler (faculty) Computati
onal Enhanced Mesh Design in Tissue
EngineeringMeasuring Wall Shear Stress in
Cell/Scaffolds Biomedical Engineering 4Alejandro
de la Puente (student) and Rajamani S. Narayanan
(faculty) Interplay between Random Matrix Theory
and Quantum Field Theory Physics
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Global CyberBridges, a U.S. implementation with
international Partners to improve the CI
training for a new generation of scientists,
increasing discovery rate for all domains.

• Partnerships / underserved groups
• The CyberBridges pilot project has shown that
  when a faculty member enters into a partnership
  with a graduate student and a CI research
• scientist, the results are compelling. FIU is
  the largest Hispanic Serving minority institution
  in the continental U.S., and the CyberBridges
• Ph.D. fellows are drawn from this pool.
• Link to cyberinfrastructure CyberBridges
  Curriculum Utilizes NSF funded CI
• Courses in Advanced Networking
  Grids/Distributed Computing combined with CI
  augmented dissertation level research projects
• OSG and US RE Networks support high performance
  computational demands of CB science engineering
  projects
• Previous/Expected outcomes
• CB impacts faculty research and teaching today,
  and the faculty of the future.
• Institutions across the U.S. can replicate the CB
  model of supporting CI by investing in graduate
  students by re-focusing institutional
  expenditures from IT support, to synchronous
  fellowships
• A new generation of scientists engineers
  capable of fully integrating CI into the whole
  educational, professional, and creative process
  of their diverse disciplines
• CyberBridges Fellows win coveted internship
  positions
• "Being a CyberBridges fellow strengthened my
  credentials for this position to help optimize
  software for bioinformatics applications on IBM's
  Blue Gene supercomputer system," said Milledge.
• "As a CyberBridges fellow, I was more competitive
  for the internship at the Abbott/Guidant
  Corporation in Santa Clara, California because I
  have proven my ability to apply high-performance
  computing to my biomedical research," said
  Gutierrez.

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• Request for Proposals to Global CyberBridges
• Graduate Fellowships for Science Engineering
  Ph.D. Graduate Students
• Informational Workshops at FIU
• Workshop 1 Friday, November 17, 2006 from 1230
  to 130 pm
• Workshop 2 Friday, November 17, 2006 from 130
  to 230 pm
• Workshop Location GL835 (Lunch included!)
• Proposals Due November 30, 2006
• 5,000 Stipend over Spring Summer 2007
• 4 Fellowships available
• Dont Miss this Opportunity!