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GriPhyN Education and Outreach

GriPhyN Education and Outreach. Education/Outreach Coordinator. UT Brownsville administration approved the hiring of a full-time tenure-track faculty member to serve as GriPhyN Education/Outreach coordinator Search began in November 2000

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GriPhyN Education and Outreach

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  1. GriPhyN Education and Outreach LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

  2. Education/Outreach Coordinator • UT Brownsville administration approved the hiring of a full-time tenure-track faculty member to serve as GriPhyN Education/Outreach coordinator • Search began in November 2000 • Interviewed top candidates from across the world with experience in gravitational-wave data analysis and/or numerical relativity • Offered the position to Manuela Campanelli (AEI – Potsdam, Germany) who accepted the position and will start at the end of August 2001 LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

  3. Education/Outreach Coordinator • Attended the Grid Forum Meeting in Amsterdam • Made contact with Mauro Draoli and Susanna Tosi (from European Data Grid project) to coordinate education and outreach activities among the various grid projects (DataGrid, EuroGrid, and GriPhyN) • Has close ties with Bernard Schutz and Ed Seidel (AEI-Potsdam, Germany) who are interested in the possible participation of the European gravitational-wave detector GEO-600 in future international grid projects (e.g., iVDGL) LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

  4. E/O at UT Brownsville • Education/outreach coordinator supported by GriPhyN funds for the next five years • Additional support to do LIGO-related research • 5 undergraduate and 1 graduate student are currently writing code for gravitational-wave searches • 4 students are currently involved in the benchmarking and construction of a 96-node Linux cluster • Students spend part of the summer at the LIGO Observatory in Livingston, LA participating in commissioning activities • Linux cluster is primarily for LIGO data analysis, but it can also serve as a test-bed for GriPhyN software • 1 student has recently installed and is learning to use Condor LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

  5. E/O at other institutions • ATLAS, CMS have education and outreach programs that we have not yet utilized for GriPhyN • SDSS (Alex Szalay, JHU and Jim Gray, Microsoft) are developing a web-based interface for accessing SDSS data • Designed for general public (K-12 audience) • Layered-content useful for professional astronomers • Easily extended to illustrate concept of virtual data • We all need to give talks at other colleges and universities to spread the news about GriPhyN LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

  6. Future plans • Design a GriPhyN education/outreach web page • Basic educational material about data grids, the four physics experiments, etc. • Technical support information (e.g., documentation, user manuals, installation instructions) for GriPhyN virtual data toolkits • Web-based interface for accessing real data, illustrating the concept of virtual data (SDSS, LIGO??) • Serve as point of contact for other institutions that are interested in learning about GriPhyN and want to use GriPhyN tools • Interact with E/O coordinators from other grid projects to organize efforts across the projects • Grid-enable UT Brownsville Linux cluster LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

  7. Future plans?? • Increase MSI participation in grid activities by constructing small clusters at these institutions • UT Brownsville: (HSI) connections with LIGO • Hampton University: (HBCU) connections with ATLAS • Salish Kootenai College: (AIHEC) connections with LIGO • Utilize Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program at GriPhyN institutions • Develop/modify existing courses to contain information about the grid • Leverage existing E/O activities (e.g., EOT-PACI, QuarkNet, ThinkQuest, SDSS SkyServer) • Others?? LSC Member Institution (UT Brownsville)

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