July 13, 2007
Hosted by Northwestern University
| 9:00am | Welcome and Opening Remarks Linda Katehi, Provost, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lawrence Dumas, Provost, Northwestern University |
| 9:15am | The Midwest Region and the Knowledge Economy: A Roadmap to the Future James Duderstadt, President Emeritus, University of Michigan See also: |
| 10:00am | Creating a National Cyberinfrastructure for Science and Engineering Dan Atkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation |
| 11:15am | Enabling Collaborative Transformational Research: Some Key Factors in the Success of SURA Jerry Draayer, President, Southeastern Universities Research Association |
| 1:00pm | Breakout Sessions:
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The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) facilitates the widespread and effective use of petascale computing to address frontier research questions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at research, educational, and industrial organizations across the United States. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on behalf of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the lead institution for organizing and managing the GLCPC. © 2008 Board of Trustees University of Illinois.