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Annual Meeting Agenda November 2004

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- !!! Logistics
- Where: Lawrence, Kansas\\
- When: November 2-5, 2004 (Tues - Fri)\\
- Breaks: Morning and afternoon (coffee and sodas, maybe a few cookies or something) (15 minutes)
-
- !!! Agenda
-
- !! Monday
- * arrivals on Monday sometime
- * seek-exec planning dinner (8pm)
-
- !! Tuesday
- * Morning
- ** 8:00 Coffee (breakfast beforehand earlier at hotel or wherever)
- ** 8:30 Plenary
- * Lunch 12:00 (1 hour)
- * Afternoon
- ** Taxon
- ** KR
- * (Possible informal reception (5-7pm) at KUNHM)
-
- !! Wednesday
- * Morning
- ** 8:00 Coffee (breakfast beforehand earlier at hotel or wherever)
- ** AMS/Kepler
- ** Taxon/EcoGrid integration
- * Lunch 12:00 (1 hour)
- ** EOT working lunch (Bill identifies victims)
- * Afternoon
- ** EcoGrid
- ** SMS
- * Group Dinner: 7:00 pm
-
- !! Thursday
- * Morning
- ** 8:00 Coffee (breakfast beforehand earlier at hotel or wherever)
-
- *** Application integration of Taxon group
- **** How does taxon stuff integrate with EcoGrid, SMS, KR, etc to be useful to case studies?
- * Lunch 12:00 (1 hour)
- * Afternoon
- ** Technical needs for Ecological Niche Modeling case study
- * seek-exec meeting evening (dinner)
-
- !! Friday (until 3:30 pm)
- * Morning
- ** 8:00 Coffee (breakfast beforehand earlier at hotel or wherever)
- ** Technical needs for Biodiversity case study
- * Lunch 12:00 (1 hour)
- * Afternoon
- ** 1:00 pm Plenary?
- ** 3:30 pm meeting adjourns
-
- !!! Invited Guests
- * Gerald Guala
- * Sylvia Spengler
- * USGS folks?
- * Contacts with other ITR programs? Cypress, Yale, UMD
+ !!! Logistics
+ Where: KU Union, Biodiversity Research Center, & Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence\\
+ Hotel: SpringHill Suites Hotel, Lawrence\\
+ When: November 2-5, 2004 (Tues - Fri)\\
+ Local Arrangements: Lori Schlenker, 785 864-4540\\
+ Local Program: Jim Beach, 785 864-4645\\
+ Weather: [Historical|http://www.weather.com/weather/climatology/daily/USKS0319?climoMonth=11] [Current|http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USKS0319]\\
+ Local Buzz: [Lawrence Journal World|http://www.ljworld.com/]\\
+ [After Hours in Lawrence November 2-5|http://www2.lawrence.com/events/2004/nov/02/]\\
+ [University Calendar for November|http://www.ku.edu/~calendar/large.shtml?curr_month=11&curr_year=2004]\\
+
+
+ !!! Agenda
+
+ !! Monday, Nov 1
+ * Arrivals from Airport
+ * 8:00 PM Seek-Exec working dinner
+
+ !! Tuesday, Nov 2, Venue: KU Union and Biodiversity Research Center
+ * 8:00 Coffee, tea, continental breakfast food in JAYHAWK room all morning)
+ * 8:30 Opening Plenary: brief working group presentations and discussion of progress-to-date, expect about 20 minutes maximum for each working group (moderator: Jones)
+ ** Room: JAYHAWK (5th Floor, wireless)
+ *** Kepler (Jones)
+ *** SMS / KR (Bowers)
+ **** Williams, Villa/Krivov, Bowers, Ludaescher
+ *** Taxon (Kennedy)
+ **** Kennedy (TDWG exchange schema), Stewart (SEEK taxon database and services), Thau (GUIDs, KR)
+ *** BEAM (Pennington)
+
+ *** EOT (Romanello)
+ *** EcoGrid (Rajasekar)
+ *** Usability issues (Downey)
+ **** Downey (General Overview related to SEEK products and markets)
+ *** DISCUSSION
+ * 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
+ * 1:30 Afternoon Breakout Sessions (Coffee break mid-afternoon)
+ ** [Taxon|TaxonMtg_Nov2004], Room: INTERNATIONAL (5th, wireless) (Beach)
+ ** [Knowledge Representation|KRBreakoutNov2004], Room: CENTENNIAL (6th, wireless) (Schildhauer)
+ * 5:00 Finish
+ * 5:30 SEEK Demonstrations, Food & Wine Reception, Museum Explorations, & Election Results, Room: BRC Informatics Department, 6th floor Natural History Museum next to KU Union
+ ** Kepler (Jones)
+ ** Taxon Name Service (Stewart)
+ ** Ecogrid web interface (Tekell)
+ ** Open-demo time (all, in small clusters)
+ * Dinner at leisure, Downtown
+
+
+ !! Wednesday, Nov 3, Venue: KU Union
+ * 8:00 AM Coffee, tea, juice, pastries, etc. in hallway between PINE and WALNUT, 6th Floor)
+ * 8:30 Breakout Sessions
+ ** [AMS/Kepler|KeplerBreakoutNov2004], Room: Pine, 6th, wireless) (Jones)
+ ** [Taxon|TaxonMtg_Nov2004], Room: Walnut (6th, wireless) (Beach)
+ ** Extra room for breakouts: Governors (5th)
+ * 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
+ ** [EOT Working Lunch|EOTLunchNov2004] Room: Governors (5th), Bill Michener will identify participants)
+ * 1:30 Breakout Sessions (mid-afternoon Coffee Break)
+ ** [EcoGrid|EcogridBreakoutNov2004], Room: Pine (6th, wireless) (Rajasekar)
+ *** Grid Computing Polycom Teleconference, Room: Governors (with KU BRC Polycom Unit, wired Ethernet)
+ ** [SMS|SMSBreakoutNov2004], Room: Walnut (6th, wireless) (Ludaescher)
+ ** Extra breakout room: Governors (5th)
+ * 5:00 Finish
+ * 7:00 PM Group Banquet: Thai House, 700 block Massachusetts Street (east side), Downtown Lawrence (EtOH: out-of-pocket)
+
+ !! Thursday, Nov 4, Venue: Dole Institute of Politics, West Campus
+ * 7:30 AM Individual car and shuttle transport from hotel to Dole Institute of Politics
+ * 8:00 Coffee (free continental breakfast at hotel, breakfast bites at Dole Institute)
+ * 8:30 Plenary, Room: SIMONS CONFERENCE ROOM, wireless (Vieglais et al.)
+ ** Application integration of Taxon group ([see notes|TaxonIntegrationNotesNov4])
+ ** How does taxon stuff integrate with EcoGrid, SMS, KR, etc. to be useful to case studies?
+ * 12:30 PM Lunch Catered by Union to Dole Institute
+ * 1:30 Plenary, Room: SIMONS CONFERENCE ROOM, wireless (Pennington et al.)
+ ** Technical needs for [Ecological Niche Modeling|AHM2004MeetingNotes] case study
+ ** Technical needs for [Biodiversity|AHM2004MeetingNotesBiodiversity] case study (Pennington et al.)
+ * 5:00 Finish, transit to downtown, then dinner at your Leisure, Downtown Lawrence
+ * 7:00 Seek-Exec Dinner Meeting (No Leisure)
+
+ !! Friday, Nov 5, Venue: KU Union
+ * 8:00 AM Coffee, tea, juice, bagels, etc, KANSAS room 6th Floor
+ * 8:30 Kepler Breakout sessions
+ ** [Kepler Technical architecture|KeplerBreakoutNov2004], Room: KANSAS, 6th, wireless) (Jones)
+ ** [Kepler User interface design and feedback|UIBreakoutNov2004], Room: GOVERNORS 5th) (Pennington)
+ ** Possible Taxon Group Breakout - Biodiversity Research Center Informatics Conference Room (Stewart)
+ * 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
+ * 1:00 Closing Plenary, Room: KANSAS (6th, wireless) (No afternoon coffee break)
+ ** [Usability discussion|AHM2004Usability] (Downey)
+ ** Calendaring and other administrative business
+ * 3:30 Adjournment
+ * 5:30 and later, flights scheduled from Kansas City International
+
+ !!! Guests
+ * Elizabeth Blood, NSF, Confirmed
+ * Mike Frame, USGS/NBII, Confirmed
+ * Randy Butler, NCSA, Confirmed
+ * John McGee, USC, Confirmed
+ * Gwen Davis, Natureserve, Confirmed
+

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