Annual Meeting Agenda November 2004

Logistics

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, Room: INTERNATIONAL (5th, wireless) (Beach)
• Knowledge Representation, 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, Room: Pine, 6th, wireless) (Jones)
• Taxon, Room: Walnut (6th, wireless) (Beach)
• Extra room for breakouts: Governors (5th)
• 12:30 PM Lunch (1 hour, Union Cafeteria, 2nd floor)
• EOT Working Lunch Room: Governors (5th), Bill Michener will identify participants)
• 1:30 Breakout Sessions (mid-afternoon Coffee Break)
• EcoGrid, Room: Pine (6th, wireless) (Rajasekar)
• Grid Computing Polycom Teleconference, Room: Governors (with KU BRC Polycom Unit, wired Ethernet)
• SMS, 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)
• 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 case study
• Technical needs for Biodiversity 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, Room: KANSAS, 6th, wireless) (Jones)
• Kepler User interface design and feedback, 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 (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