The Quilt Fall Member Meeting
Hosted by Northern Lights GigaPoP
September 24 – 26, 2019
The Downtown Renaissance Hotel – The Depot
Minneapolis, MN
Agenda [PDF Version]
Meeting Rooms Map
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 – Pre-Meeting Sessions and Activities
| Time | Topic | Locations |
| 7:00 – 8:15 am | Joint Quilt / NSF / NRP Breakfast | The Conservatory |
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9:00 am – 12:00 pm (10:10 – 10:30 am |
FFG Meeting Gabriel Lopez (Sun Corridor) and Lance Neal (LONI), co-chairs
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WJ Quinn |
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9:00 am – 12:00 pm (10:10 – 10:30 am |
Services Working Group Ann Zimmerman (OARnet) and Greg Gray (UNL/Network Nebraska), co-chairs
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AJ Earling |
| Noon – 1:15 pm | Joint Quilt / NSF / NRP Lunch | The Conservatory |
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1:15 – 5:00 pm 3:15 – 3:35 pm |
FFG and Services Working Groups Combined Meeting
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AJ Earling |
| 5:30 – 7:00 pm | Evening Reception and Networking – Quilt / NSF / NRP (Light Appetizers and Cash Bar) |
The Conservatory |
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – The Quilt, NSF, & NRP Collocated Program
| Time | Topic | Locations |
| 7:00 – 8:00 am | Joint Quilt / NSF / NRP Breakfast | The Conservatory |
| 7:00 – 8:00 am |
Great Plains Network CC* CyberTeam Collaborations Breakfast (invitation-only) – breakfast will be served in hallway outside of meeting room |
Alexander Mitchell |
| 7:00 – 8:00 am | R&E Networking Collaboration on Wildfire and Environmental Monitoring Breakfast (Open)– – breakfast will be served in hallway outside of meeting room | AJ Earling |
| 7:00 – 8:00 am | Internet2 Community Anchor Program Breakfast (Open) – pick-up your breakfast in the general meal room and then join us | Zephyr |
| 8:15 – 8:30 am | Colocated Meeting of NSF/NRP/Quilt Welcome and Introductions Dana Brunson, Internet2 Jen Leasure, The Quilt |
Great Northern |
| 8:30 – 9:15 am | Plenary: University of Minnesota’s Cyberinfrastructure: Don’t Forget About Data and Facilitating the Polar Geospatial Center’s Research – Changing How We See Earth Bernie Gulacheck, University of Minnesota Charles Nguyen, University of Minnesota Jim Wilgenbus, University of Minnesota |
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| 9:15 – 9:35 am | Invited Presentation: Emerging Research Platforms: Securing Sensitive Data from Lab to Likes Camille Crittenden, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute Jeff Weekley, University of California, Merced |
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| 9:35 – 10:00 am | Invited Presentation: Fake Science – Challenges in Spotting Misinformation, Measuring Our Susceptibility, and Innoculating Ourselves to its Effects Anita Nikolich, Illinois Institute of Technology |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 am | Morning Break | Prefunction |
| 10:15 – 11:00 am | Panel Discussion: Regional Networks Addressing Smaller Institution Network Infrastructure Challenges and Regional Research IT Resources Wendy Huntoon, KINBER (moderator) Brian Burkhart, OneNet Steve Burrell, Northern Arizona University Dhruva Chakravorty, Texas A&M University Jim Griffieon, University of Kentucky Doug Jennewein, University of South Dakota |
Great Northern |
| 11:00 – 11:45 am | Invited Presentations: Supporting Tribal Colleges and Universities | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | Al Kuslikis, American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) |
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| 11:25 – 11:45 am | Jason Arviso, Navajo Technical University |
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| 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | General Collocated Lunch – NSF / NRP / Quilt | The Conservatory |
| 11:45 am – 1:00 pm | Cyberinfrastructure for TCUs Lunch (open) – pick-up your lunch in the general meal room and then join us for an informal conversation |
Alexander Mitchell |
| 11:45am – 1:00 pm | NSF FABRIC Project PI and Collaborator Lunch (open) – pick-up your lunch in the general meal room and then join us for an informal conversation | Zephyr |
| 1:00 – 1:45 pm | Designing End-to-End Network Cyberinfrastructure Through Integration and Innovation |
Great Northern |
| 1:00 – 1:20 | Barr Von Oehsen, Rutgers University |
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| 1:25 – 1:45 | Will Brockelsby, Duke University |
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| 1:45 – 2:45 pm | Panel Discussion: How Regional Partnerships with National Performance Engineering and Outreach Initiatives are Enabling Science Jen Schopf, Indiana University / EPOC (moderator) Larry Smarr, University of California San Diego / Calit2 / TNRP James Deaton, Great Plains Network Jennifer Oxenford, KINBER Akbar Kara, LEARN |
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| 2:45 – 2:55 pm | Colocated Program Wrap-Up |
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| 3:00 – 3:30 pm | Afternoon Break – NSF PI Workshop and NRP Workshop Concludes | Prefunction |
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 – The Quilt Member Meeting
| Time | Topic | Locations |
| 3:30 – 5:15 pm |
Refraction Networking and Research (open) J. Alex Halderman, Director of the University of Michigan Center for Computer Security and Society Michael Hull, President and Co-founder, Psiphon Inc. Michael Kallitsis, Research Scientist at Merit Network, Inc |
AJ Earling |
| 3:30 – 5:15 pm | Quilt Fall Member Meeting Continues – NSF PIs and NRP workshop participants who represent higher-education institutions are invited to attend | Great Northern |
| 3:30 – 3:45 pm | Northern Lights GigaPoP Welcome Louis Hammond, University of Minnesota |
Great Northern |
| 3:45 – 4:30 pm | Invited Presentation: Insights into Bridging the Rural Divide Angie Dickinson, Minnesota Office of Broadband Development |
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| 4:30 – 5:15 pm | Quilt Member Lightning Talks – touch base with Jen if you have a 5-minute topic | |
| 5:30 – 6:30 pm | Member Meeting Social Hour – Dinner on Own | The Shed |
Thursday, September 26, 2019 – Quilt Member Meeting
| Time | Topic | Locations |
| 7:00 – 8:15 am | General Breakfast |
The Conservatory |
| 7:00 – 8:15 am | Internet2 and Next Generation Infrastructure Platform Fee Breakfast (Open) |
Charles Frost |
| 8:15 – 8:30 am | Day 2 Welcome | Zephyr |
| 8:30 – 9:15 am | Invited Presentation: Telling Community Stories with Broadband Data Bob Ballance, Center for Internet as Infrastructure |
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| 9:15 – 10:00 am | Invited Presentation: Internet2 Community Anchors Program Update Stephanie Stenberg, Internet2 |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 am | Facilitated Discussion: Regional Networks and Community Anchors – what are the priorities in your states? |
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| 10:15 – 10:30 am | Break | Prefunction |
| 10:30 – 11:30 am | Invited Briefings (15-minutes each) New Member Services for Esports Wendy Huntoon, KINBER The CyberRISK (Regional Information Security Knowledge-sharing) Workshop Jean Davis, MCNC Securing Research at Scale: A Collaboration Between The Quilt and Trusted CI Dana Brunson, Internet2 Von Welch, Trusted CI/Indiana University UETN Citizens Broadband Radio Service(CBRS) Spectrum Experiments Jim Stewart, UETN |
Zephyr |
| 11:30 – 11:45 am | Wrap-Up and Preview of Winter 2020 Member Meeting | |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch – box lunches – either stay to enjoy or take with you | Prefunction |
Updated 9.20.2019