[Colloquium] Seminar Announcement: Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2) - TODAY!

[Ninfa Mayorga]

Computation Institute- Data Lunch Seminar (DLS)

Speaker: Phong Nguyen, Fermilab
Date: September 9, 2011
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location: The University of Chicago, Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue

Interactions in Understanding the Universe (I2U2)

Abstract:
Students today grow in a world rich with information and immersed in  
computers. However, opportunities to explore advanced physics research  
remain limited in the secondary school environment. I2U2 provides an  
online e-learning framework to bring real science data to the school  
community. The QuarkNet cosmic ray detector network, the Compact Muon  
Solenoid experiment at the LHC and the Laser Interferometer Gravity  
Wave Observatory experiment have all agreed to pool and share data in  
I2U2. We harness the power of the Swift workflow system to dispatch  
jobs to our local cluster and have longer-term plans to use the grid.  
Recently, we have begun to use HTML5 to provide rich and responsive  
client-side data interaction for some of our experiments.

Bio:
Phong Nguyen is the lead developer on I2U2. He received his BS in  
Computer Science from University of South Florida in 2006 and  
performed biological image processing in graduate studies. He also  
interned at Verizon in their electronic learning group. He joined the  
I2U2 collaboration at Fermilab in 2008.


Information: Lunch will be provided