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Internet2 Days
Hosting an Internet2 Day
Working with university, affiliate and corporate members, Internet2
Days have been developed as campus-based events to demonstrate the
potential of advanced network applications. Internet2 Days provide
a program of speakers and hands-on experience with actual applications
being developed by Internet2 members to build interest among faculty
and staff at member institutions.
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Locations that Have Already Hosted Internet2 Days |
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Internet2 Day Showcases |
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Kentucky Internet2 Day
 Six Kentucky universities will participate in the first-ever statewideInternet2 live event on 27 October to showcase this emerging virtual educational tool. The program will demonstrate how Internet2 can be used in the classroom with two videoconference sessions connecting participants on six different campuses with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The event, called “Unbridling Kentucky: Connections in Education Using Internet2,” will take place in the William T. Young Library Auditorium at the University of Kentucky. The University of Louisville, Western Kentucky University, Eastern Kentucky University, Northern Kentucky University and Morehead State University will join the event on their respective campuses via Internet2 videoconference. A live webcast of the events will be available at www.ket.org/i2day. Read more about this event.
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Rutgers University
 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is hosting the first in a new series of campus events focusing on the impact of cyberinfrastructure on faculty and researchers. This five-location, videoconferenced symposium is entitled “Information Technology for Research: The Impact of National Directions in Cyberinfrastructure.” With presenters and attendees located throughout the country, Rutgers has enlisted support from technical staff on all three of its New Jersey campuses—located in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick—as well as staff from Internet2 and statewide NJEDge.Net organizations for this April 4th event. Additional technology support for the event is being provided by InSors, Lifesize, Polycom, and VBrick, which will also be presenting information about their products during the symposium.
According to Tom Grzelak, Rutgers’ associate director for research technology in the Office of Information Technology (OIT), “By having each campus as an origination point for part of the program, our goal is to increase the participatory nature of the event and thereby improve the experience faculty and researchers will have no matter which campus location they attend.” Three federal agencies—the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy—will participate in the day's activities via the the Internet2 office in Washington, D.C.
As a follow-up, organizers for the Rutgers event are planning to hold a BoF at the Spring 2006 Internet2 Member Meeting and share their insights on “How to Host an Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Event” with member meeting attendees. |
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University of Alaska Fairbanks
 The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) hosted an Internet2 Day on March 23, 2006. This day-long event featured demonstrations, presentations and concerts which highlighted new and innovative uses of the Internet via Internet2's advanced networks. The event featured welcoming remarks by UAF Chancellor Steve Jones, a speech by Senator Lisa Murkowski, and a Keynote Address by Internet2 President and CEO Doug Van Houweling. In addition, Internet2 and UAF announced that Alaska's statewide education network, AK20, will become the 35th state education network to connect directly to Internet2's nationwide high performance network.
Internet2 Arts and Humanities program manager Ann Doyle hosted a session providing an overview of Internet2 initiatives and applications, and throughout the day attendees had opportunities to learn about Internet2-based applications that span arts, sciences, humanities, and engineering disciplines.
Discussions were held on topics as varied as telematic performances and college theater using the web; natural resource management methods based on high quality digital data; a web-based tsunami computational portal; Internet-based forecasts of space weather; and digital audio archives for Alaska Native Languages.
The capstone to the day’s events was a special musical presentation
titled "Performance Beyond Space: Music and Dance on Internet2." This session included a masterclass demonstration and two world premiere performances. The concert featured musicians from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, the New World Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For more details about the high-quality music capture and delivery, please see the performance webpage. |
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University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire hosted an Internet2 Day on 3 November 2005. Held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Granite State Distance Learning Network, this full-day program included demonstrations, examples and presentations intended to demystify access to Internet2 and help stimulate new use. The event featured opening remarks by Dr Lyonel B. Tracy, Commissioner, Department of Education, and a letter from New Hampshire Governor John Lynch. Internet2 Arts and Humanities program manager Ann Doyle provided an overview of Internet2 initiatives and applications, and James Werle of Internet2's K20 Initiative spoke about the uses of Internet2 in the K-12 community.
Internet2 Day attendees had the opportunity to explore the wealth of learning experiences available through innovative applications that include interactive videoconferencing, remote instrumentation, and shared work environments, including a virtual trip to the Cincinnati Zoo.
Read the UNH press release. |
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New Jersey Institute of Technology
 The New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT) held an Internet2
Day on 22 April 2005. This daylong event showcased
the advanced networking capabilities of Internet2 and highlighted
ways it is being used by higher-ed institutions across
the US. The program opened with introductions by Dr.
Donald Sebastian, Senior Vice President for Research and
Development at NJIT, and David Ullman, Associate Provost
and CIO at NJIT. A keynote presentation by Charles Yun,
Internet2 Program Manager for Science and Engineering,
highlighted Internet2 advanced applications activities
in the science and engineering discipline areas. Jennifer
MacDougall, University of Pennsylvania and Applications
Coordinator for MAGPI,
provided perspectives on developing a regional research
and education community on Internet2. MAGPI is the gigaPoP
for NJIT and other research and education institutions
in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. NJIT connects
to MAGPI, which operates an OC-12 connection (622 Mbps)
to the Abilene
Network, via NJEDge.net (New
Jersey's Higher Education Network).
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University of Notre Dame
 The University
of Notre Dame Office of
Information Technologies (OIT) hosted an Internet2
Day on 6 April 2005. Notre Dame CIO Gordon Wishon
welcomed attendees and provided opening remarks, followed
by presentations by Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager
for Arts & Humanities Initiatives and Charles Yun,
Internet2 Program Manager for Science & Engineering
Initiatives. The Internet2 Day program also featured
demonstrations and presentations by Notre Dame faculty,
including a professor using Internet2 advanced networks
to conduct a cross-cultural class in two languages, in
real time and on two continents. There was also a
demonstration of a scanning electron microscope located
at the University of Michigan operated via remote control
over Internet2. Finally, attendees were treated to a
dual live musical performance coordinated over Internet2
between musicians at Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University. "The
event is designed to be both an enjoyable and functional
demonstration of how educators, including those at Notre
Dame, are using the technologies made possible by Internet2," said
Kevin Abbott, an educational technology specialist in the
OIT Educational Technologies and Services division, who
organized the event. Internet2 related activities continued
on 7 April, when Doyle and Yun offered private consultations
to Notre Dame faculty and staff on the use of Internet2
resources in classrooms and other learning environments.
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Texas A&M University
 Texas A&M
University (TAMU) hosted an Internet2
Day on 7 February 2005. This day
long event featured opening remarks by Richard
Ewing, TAMU Vice President for Research. Internet2 President
and CEO Doug Van Houweling delivered the keynote address.
The agenda also
included a presentation by Jim Williams, Executive Director
for Lonestar Education
and Research Network (LEARN). LEARN—a cooperative
effort of 31 institutions and organizations of higher education
in Texas—provides high bandwidth transport to national
networks and systems including the commodity Internet,
the National LambdaRail, Internet2's Abilene Network, and
TeraGrid. In the official
release announcing the launch of LEARN, Williams stated, "With
the realization of LEARN, the returns on investment for
Texas will range from lower cost and higher reliability
access to the Internet and Internet2's Abilene Network
to support for a state-wide educational Intranet for K-20
to service deployment for telemedicine and homeland defense." Other speakers at
the TAMU Internet2 Day included Ben Teitelbaum, Internet2
Program Manager for Voice and Integrated Communications.
Teitelbaum presented an overview of Internet2 advanced
applications activities.
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Univeristy of Arizona
The University of Arizona hosted
an Internet2 Day on 4 November 2004. The event featured
opening remarks by University of Arizona President Peter
Likins followed by an Internet2 overview by Doug Van Houweling,
Internet2 President and CEO. The agenda included presentations
by national and local experts on Internet2 applications in
the areas of arts, sciences, humanities, and engineering.
Among the presenters were Mark Ellisman, Director of the Biomedical
Informatics Research Network. Internet2 Day attendees
were also able to discuss videoconferencing, health
sciences/bioinformatics, grid computing, and educational/instructional
applications during breakout sessions.
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Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
 On
5 November 2003, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale (SIUC) hosted a Telecommunications
Open House and Internet2 Day to raise awareness of potential
applications of Internet2 technologies to many academic disciplines.
Dr. John A. Koropchak, SIUC Vice Chancellor for Research and
Graduate Dean, provided a welcome and introduction for attendees
at this day-long event. Charles
Yun, Internet2 Program Manager for Science and Engineering,
made two keynote presentations: an Internet2  overview
and an overview of Internet2 advanced networking applications.
In addition to the Internet2 presentations, the Telecommunications
Open House provided attendees with a look at how SIU campus
departments could take advantage of advanced videoconferencing
services and about services such as wireless networking, Voice
over IP, and unified messaging available at SIU. According to
David R. Bouhl, deputy director of Information Technology, “Our
goal for Internet2 Day is to bring information to the campus
to introduce the capabilities now available on campus to support
research and academia.” more...
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University of New Mexico Internet2 Day
The University of New Mexico (UNM) will host an Internet2
Day on March 28. The agenda
for this event includes presentations by Mary Kratz, Internet2
Program Manager for Health
Sciences Initiatives, and Ana Preston, Internet2 Program
Manager for International Relations. Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program
Manager for Arts and Humanities,
will participate via videoconferencing from Miami and host a
live master class between a violin fellow at the New
World Symphony in Florida who will receive instruction from
Prof. Felicia Moye at the University
of Oklahoma School of Music. Following the live demonstration,
the UNM audience will be able to pose questions to the Florida
and Oklahoma participants. The Attendees for the UNM Internet2
Day will include Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico
(who has been invited).
 Dr. Dale C. Alverson, Medical Director at the UNM Center for
Telehealth, will give a presentation on Project
TOUCH (Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community Health).
Alverson is co-PI of Project TOUCH, which just received an
additional $1 million to continue a fourth year of research
and development through a continuing federal grant under the
Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (OAT) within Health
Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Project TOUCH,
a multi-year collaboration between the Schools of Medicine
at the Universities of Hawaii and of New Mexico, was developed
to integrate advanced technologies into education and training.
Project Touch employs medical case scenarios as virtual models
to make learning of critical concepts relevant and translatable
to real-life application and deploys and distributes these
methods to remote training sites using the Access Grid and
Internet2 high-performance networks.
Dr. Timothy L. Thomas, a Research Scientist with the New
Mexico Center
for Particle Physics, will make a presentation on "Internet2
and The Grid: The Future of Computing for Big Science at UNM."
The University of New Mexico Internet2 Day will be netcast
using IP/TV and can be viewed by campuses that are multicast
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University of Maryland, Baltimore
The University of Maryland,
Baltimore (UMB) hosted an Internet2
Day on March 10, 2003. This Internet2 Day had a health
sciences focus and the
agenda featured presentations by Michael Ackerman, Assistant
Director for High Performance Computing and Communications
at the National Library of Medicine; Mitchell Schnall, Chief
of MRI at the Medical Center and Associate Chair for Research
in the Radiology Dept. at the University of Pennsylvania Medical
Center, and Robert Hollebeek, Director and Co-founder of the
National Scalable Cluster Project at the University of Pennsylvania.
Several administrators and researchers from UMB made presentations
also. Mary Kratz, Internet2 Program Manager for Health Science
Initiatives, gave an overview presentation of high-performance
networking applications in the health sciences arena.
Several of the presentations featured demonstrations
as well,  including
Next Generation Networking: Healthcare in the Fast Lane (by
Ackerman) and National Digital Mammography Archive on the Next
Generation Internet (by Schnall, Hollebeek, and Reuben S. Mezrich,
M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of Radiology at the UMB School of Medicine).
Gary Hollenbeck, UMB Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and
Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, demonstrated uses of distance
learning technologies in his presentation Access to the Instructor:
Internet2 Can Make This Possible. Hollenbeck was selected as
Teacher of the Year in 2002. Dr. Patricia Abbott demonstrated
real-time scientific collaboration with Dr. Charles P. Friedman,
University of Pittsburgh Center for Biomedical Informatics.
Dr. Abbott is the Coordinator of the Graduate Programs in Nursing
Informatics at UMB; her research is focused on data mining techniques
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University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame hosted an Internet2
Day on March 13, 2003. The agenda featured presentations by Steve Corbato, Internet2 Director
of Backbone Network Infrastructure, and Ann Doyle, Internet2
Program Manager for Arts and Humanities Initiatives, and also
included presentations by Dr Nathan Hatch, University of Notre
Dame Provost and other Notre Dame administrators.
.gif) The
University of Notre Dame Internet2 Day was netcast
via IP Multicast to locations that are IP Multicast enabled.
The Network Engineering group at Notre Dame is currently running
a pilot project with Cisco Systems IPTV; a broadband, IP-based
video delivery system. If you are using the Cisco IPTV client,
the content manager IP address you will need is 129.74.239.2
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Missouri Life Sciences Week
 Missouri
Life Sciences Week, 3-7 March 2003, focused on life sciences
and biotechnology with the goal of promoting communication and
collaboration throughout Missouri's scientific community and
beyond. Doug Van Houweling, Internet2 President and CEO, provided
introductory remarks at the opening session. Life Sciences Week
presentations were held in three different locations in Missouri,
with Internet2 providing interactive videoconferencing between
the three sites. In addition, Internet2 also netcast several
sessions for general viewing, including the March 7 panel discussion
"Science Education for the 21st Century" which was
presented as part of the Internet2
Virtual Briefing series. Life Sciences Week also featured
a virtual poster session for online viewing, in addition to
the live poster session at the MU campus. Gary Allen, Executive
Director of the University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium
and Chair of the Internet2 Veterinary Medicine Special Interest
Group, was one of the co-organizers for this event.
Missouri Life Sciences week was presented by the University
of Missouri-Columbia Molecular Biology Program and University
of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium, in partnership with
the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the Danforth
Plant Science Center. |
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