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[Steven Corbato <>]

NSF CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE LEADER TO KEYNOTE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CAMPUS CI DAY

Event To Be Multicast Over Internet2 Network

SALT LAKE CITY ­ MARCH 12, 2009 ­ On Friday, March 13, the University of
Utah will host its first Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Day with the theme
of "Enabling Research in a Data-Driven World".   The keynote speaker will be
computational astrophysicist Edward Seidel, the director of the Office of
Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the
Floating Point Systems Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy
at Louisiana State University.  The title of his presentation will be
"Cyberinfrastructure and Computational Science for Research and Education".
Additional speakers will include William Michener of the University of New
Mexico and Sayeed Choudhury of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries in
addition to University of Utah faculty members Juliana Freire, Lewis Frey,
and Valerio Pascucci.  Further information about this event is posted at:

<http://www.it.utah.edu/ci-day>
      
With the potential interest in Prof. Seidel¹s talk ­ especially in view of
the NSF¹s role in the federal economic stimulus package, the University of
Utah will make the entire event available via IP multicast over the
Internet2 Network.   The event will run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. MDT
(GMT-0600) with Prof. Seidel's lecture and discussion time scheduled from
9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.  The MPEG-4 video stream may be best viewed using
the open source VLC media player software.  Client versions of VLC for most
popular operating systems may be downloaded at no charge from:

<http://www.videolan.org/vlc/>

The media resource locator (MRL) for this event will be:

udp://@224.2.165.49:1234

Contacts: Mindy Tueller, 

 or Steve Corbato,


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