CENTRA 2 All-Hands Meeting Overview

April 12, 2017, Gainesville, Florida

All events take place at UF Hilton, except Dinner on April 12 which takes place at Thomas Center. Plenary sessions are held in the Century Ballroom. Breakout sessions are held in the Century Ballroom and in the following rooms: Dogwood, Live Oak and Hawthorne.

Final Agenda v01Apr2017 (PDF)

CENTRA 2 Program (PDF)

APRIL 9

Travel Day

APRIL 10

08:00 AM: Registration and Breakfast

08:30 AM: Flyby Session: Opening communications

Welcome remarks: John Harris (ECE Chair, UF, USA).

Presentation: "CENTRA: Objectives, Partners and Desired Outcomes", Jose Fortes, Fang-Pang Lin and Shinji Shimojo.

9:30 AM: Dive-in Session: Reports on Ongoing Projects

Session Chair: Renato Figueiredo.

Project review: "The AirBox project", L. J. Chen.

10:00 - 10:15 AM: Group Photo

10:15 - 10:30 AM: Break

10:30 AM: Dive-in Session: Reports on Ongoing Projects (continued)

Session Chair: Renato Figueiredo.

Project review: "The Visualization Alliance", Jason Leigh

Project review: "Data Handles and Provenance", Beth Plale

Project review: "New Directions for the Biodiversity Group", Jim Beach

Project review: "IT for Natural Disaster Management", Jason Haga

12:00 PM: Lunch at UF Hilton Albert's restaurant.

1:30 PM: Dive-in Session: New (Proposed) Projects

Session Chair: José Fortes.

Project review: "ASEAN IVO -- Software Defined System update", Hong Hoe Ong (tentative)

Presentation: "US Ignite and Smart and Connected Communities", Glenn Ricart

Presentation: "Science FreeWay: High Performance Data Transfer for Science Big Data in Korea", Woojin Seok

Presentation: "Dynamically Aggregating Smart Community Sensors, Edge and Cloud Resources with Overlay VPNs", Renato Figueiredo

3:00 - 3.30 PM: Coffee Break and Group Formation for New and Ongoing Projects

3:30 - 5.00 PM: Catch-a-project-and-group Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Session chairs: Elected leaders for each group.

Project groups meet and work in assigned breakout rooms.

5:00 PM: Free Flight Session

Unscheduled time for informal interactions and group work.

6:30 PM: Dinner (at UF Hilton Albert’s restaurant)

APRIL 11

7:30 AM: Breakfast

8:30 AM: Catch-a-project-and-group Concurrent Breakout Sessions

Session Chair: Fang-Pang Lin.

Brief project group reports (in plenary Century Ballroom).

Project groups meet and work in assigned breakout rooms.

10:00 AM: Break

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Project groups meet and work in assigned breakout rooms.

12:00 PM: Lunch (at UF Hilton Albert’s restaurant) and CENTRA Steering Committee Meeting

1:30 PM: Planning Session

Session Chair: Shinji Shimojo.

Brief project group reports (in plenary Century Ballroom).

Project groups meet and work in assigned breakout rooms.

3:30 PM: Takeway Session

Final project group reports (in plenary Century Ballroom).

4:30 PM: Closing Remarks and Announcements of Future CENTRA Events

5:00 PM: CENTRA Advisory Board and Steering Committee Meeting (members only)

6:30 PM: Dinner (at UF Hilton Albert’s restaurant).

APRIL 12

8:00 AM - 5:20 PM: SUNTOWNS (Smart UNIversity TOWNS) Workshop http://www.globalcentra.org/suntowns2017/

6:00 PM: Departure from UF Hilton to dinner location.

6:30 PM: CENTRA/SUNTOWNS Dinner (at The Historic Thomas Center 302 NE 6th Avenue Gainesville).

APRIL 13 (Advisory Board and Group Meetings are by invitation only)

Group meetings for CENTRA Visualization Alliance, Data Provenance and Identifiers and other project groups; CENTRA Advisory Board Meeting.

APRIL 14 (Advisory Board and Group Meetings are by invitation only)

Group meetings for CENTRA Visualization Alliance, Data Provenance and Identifiers and other project groups; CENTRA Advisory Board Meeting.

APRIL 15 (Advisory Board and Group Meetings are by invitation only)

Group meetings for CENTRA Visualization Alliance, Data Provenance and Identifiers and other project groups; CENTRA Advisory Board Meeting (possibly with PRAGMA members).