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2025-03-18 ACCESS EAB Meeting Agenda & Summary

2025-03-18 ACCESS EAB Meeting Agenda & Summary

ACCESS EAB Meeting Date

  • 18th March 2025, Tuesday

Meeting Materials

Location:  Big 10 Conference Center

Address: 5440 Park Pl, Rosemont, IL 60018, United States

Remote Zoom Coordinates

  • Remote Attendees: Zoom invites will be emailed via Outlook and can also be found in the agenda below. In case of any issues, please reach out to Cindy Wong (cmw007@ucsd.edu).

  • Preparation

    • Please contact @Lavanya Podila or @Cindy Wong to setup a applications setup and testing, prior to the quarterly meeting.

    • You may only connect with an external microphone (puck, headset, microphone and speaker combo, earbuds etc.). Internal laptop microphones are discouraged, as they cause echo during calls and at times disable the call entirely. You may be asked to leave the web version if you join via an internal microphone; you may instead join via a telephone or cell phone. Please make arrangements to ensure you have an external microphone.

Participants

  • External Advisory Board

    • Al Anderson, Internet2/Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (remote)

    • Yanni Chen, University of Notre Dame (in-person)

    • Kaihua Ding, AstraZeneca PLC (in-person)

    • Richard Gerber, NERSC / Berkeley Lab (in-person)

    • Vivian Huangfu, San Diego State University (remote)

    • Gwen Jacobs, University of Hawai'i System (in-person)

    • Gretta Kellogg, Penn State University (remote)

    • Rebecca Lindsey, University of Michigan (remote)

    • Nitin Sukhija, Slippery Rock University of PA (in-person)

    • William Lai, Cornell University (ACCESS RAC Rep) (in-person)

    • Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (ACCESS RAC Rep) (remote)

  • Executive Council (EC)

    • Allocations: Stephen Deems (PI), Dave Hart (Co-PI)

    • Support: Shelley Knuth (PI)

    • Operations: Tim Boerner (PI) and Leslie Froeschl (Deputy Director)

    • Metrics: Tom Furlani (PI-remote) and Joe White (Co-PI)

    • Resource Provider: Jeremey Fischer (RP Chair)

    • ACO: Amit Majumdar (Co-PI), Chuck Pavloski (Co-PI), John Towns (PI), Lisa Kaczmarczyk (External Evaluator)

  • ACCESS Staff (2): Lavanya Podila (Program Manager), and Cindy Wong

  • NSF (remote): Sharon Geva and Purushotham Bangalore

Agenda (work in progress)

Times (CT)

Title & Speaker

 

Times (CT)

Title & Speaker

 

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM (30 mins)

Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM (15 mins)

Welcome - Introduction
Chuck Pavloski, ACO

8:15 AM - 9:15 AM (60 mins)

EAB Socialization Time
Elect a Chair & Co-Chair
EAB Members Only

EC Meeting
Location TBD

9:15 AM - 9:30 AM (15 mins)

Break

9:30 AM - 12:45 PM (3 hours 15 mins)

break for 15 mins in between

PY4 Plans from all Service Teams
30 minutes per Service Team

  • Allocations - Stephen Deems, PSC

  • Metrics - Joe White, Univ. at Buffalo

  • Operations - Tim Boerner, NCSA

  • Support - Shelley Knuth, Univ. of Boulder, CO

  • ACO - John Towns, NCSA

  • RP - Jeremy Fischer, Indiana Univ.

 

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM (45 mins)

Lunch

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM (15 mins)

Infrastructure Portfolio Expansion Standing Committee
Leslie Froeschl, Operations

1:45 PM - 2:45 PM (60 mins)

Update on the following:

  • Program-wide Goals, John Towns, ACO

  • Evaluations, Dave Hart, Evaluation SC Chair

2:45 PM - 3:45 PM (60 mins)

Open Discussion; Call to Action

 

Logistics

Hotel Information

Aloft Chicago: 9700 Balmoral Ave, Rosemont, IL 60018, United States

Book your group rate for ACCESS Quarterly Meeting

  • Start Date: Monday, March 17, 2025

  • End Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Hotel(s) offering your special group rate: - Last Day to Book : Tuesday, February 25, 2025

  • Aloft Chicago O'Hare for 175.00 USD per night

Book your group rate for ACCESS Quarterly Meeting

Individuals may cancel their reservation for no charge, 72 hours (3 days) before hotel arrival/check in time. Please note that we will assess a fee of one night room and tax if you must cancel after this deadline. An early departure fee of one night’s room and tax will apply if an attendee checks out prior to their checkout date.

Parking Options

Onsite Parking: Discounted parking - $15 per car, per day

Airport Shuttles

  • Rideshare services are also an option if you wish to use this method.


Actions

 

References

 

 

Contact Lavanya Podila lpodila2@illinois.edu or Cindy Wong cwong@sdsc.edu with any questions.

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