2008 SECANT Workshop Agenda
Purdue University, October 30-31, 2008
Thursday, October 30
8:30 – 9:00 BREAKFAST
9:00 – 9:45 Welcome and Introductions
- Welcome by Susanne Hambrusch, [slides]
- Participants Introduction
9:45 – 10:30 SECANT a year later
Susanne Hambrusch, Chris Hoffmann, Mark Haugan, Tim Korb, [slides]
10:30 – 11:00 BREAK
11:00 – 12:00 Life Sciences Community Building Panel
Raj Acharya (Penn State, chair), Tony Hazbun (Purdue, Pharmacy) [slides], Daisuke Kihara (Purdue, Biology&CS), Haixu Tang (IU, Informatics) [slides], Peter Waddell (Purdue, Biology)
12:00 – 1:15 Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 Physics and Astronomy Community Building Panel
Bruce Sherwood (NC State, chair), Mark Haugan (Purdue), Rubin Landau (Oregon State) [slides], Dan Stinebring (Oberlin), Robert Swendsen (CMU)
2:30 – 3:30 Related Projects in the CS community
3:30 – 4:00 BREAK
4:00 – 5:00 CPATH Institutional Transformation Project
6:30 DINNER (Jane’s)
524 N. 4th St., Lafayette, IN
Friday, October 31
8:30 – 9:00 BREAKFAST
9:00 – 10:20 Birds-of-a-Feather Session
- Ruth Chabay (NC State), A study on reading and writing VPython programs to model physical systems [slides]
- Rubin Landau (Oregon State), BS Degree Program in Computational Physics and its Materials [slides]
- Jim Early (SUNY Oswego), Creating Educational Materials for Fellow Students with Similar Learning Styles [slides]
- Mark Urban-Lurain (Michigan State), CPATH CB: Computing and Undergraduate Engineering: A Collaborative Process to Align Computing Education with Engineering Workforce Needs [slides]
10:20 – 10:45 BREAK
10:45 – 11:45 The Next Generation of Scientists in the Workforce
- David Spellmeyer (CTO & CIO, Nodality), Computational Thinking as a Competitive Advantage in Industry
- Tom McMail (External Research, Microsoft) [slides]
11:45 – 12:00 Recap and summary
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
Location: LWSN 3102AB unless stated otherwise
