The Indiana Geographic Information Council presented the David C.
Ford award for exemplary service, dedication, and accomplishment in
coordinating Indiana GIS to staff from University Information
Technology Services. The IGIC recognized UITS for providing free
online access to more than 17 terabytes of geospatial data to GIS
professionals and the general public through the Indiana Spatial
Data Portal and online map services.

For more information, see

http://uitspress.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10325.html

Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and extracting
knowledge from biological sequences and structures. The goal of
this Workshop is to present the latest research in high–performance
computing applied to bioinformatics.

The Parallel Bio-Computing Workshop will be held in conjunction
with the Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing
and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2009) in Wroclaw (Breslau), Poland,
September 13-16, 2009.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Bioinformatic databases
* Computational genomics and proteomics
* DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping
* Gene expression and microarrays
* Gene identification and annotation
* Molecular sequence analysis
* Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms
* Protein structure prediction and modelling
* Parallel algorithms for biological analysis
* Parallel architectures for biological applications
* System tools that support high performance bio-computing

Papers should be submitted by April 10, 2009. For more information,
please visit the PBC web page:

http://www.ppam.pl/pbc

*** Research Technologies Round Table ***

Dr. Craig Stewart
- Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute
- Associate Dean, Research Technologies
- Office of the Vice President for Information Technology

"NITRD reauthorization - current status"

NITRD (Networking and Information Technology Research and
Development) is the act that provides overarching coordination of
several federal agency's efforts in information technology research
and development. NITRD is currently up for renewal. The Science and
Technology Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives began
this process with a hearing on 31 July 2008. Also during July,
the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing and the Educause
Campus CyberInfrastructure committee held a workshop on integrating
university and federally-funded cyberinfrastructure systems.

This talk will relay the collective input collected from CASC and
Educause about the current status of national academic cyber-
infrastructure, and information on the development of NITRD
reauthorization legislature. Particular focus will be given to the
TeraGrid and the Open Science Grid (IU is a participant in both
projects), as well as the potential role of Science Gateways, Cloud
computing, and distributed file system approaches in the future.
This talk should be useful background for those who wish to offer
commentary on the NITRD draft legislation.

- When: Thursday, April 30, 12:30-1:30pm
- Where: IUB - IMU Maple Room, IUPUI - ICTC Room 497
- Live URL: http://tinyurl.com/cmn9s6
- Archive URL: http://tinyurl.com/buen9l

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John Seely Brown to guest lecture on IUB, IUPUI and IUSB campuses:
"Learning in the Digital Age"

John Seely Brown will discuss learning in the digital age at guest
lectures in Bloomington, Indianapolis, and South Bend. Brown is
currently a visiting scholar at the University of Southern
California and serves as an independent co-chairman for the
Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation. Formerly, Brown served as the
chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and the director of its Palo
Alto Research Center.

- Thursday, April 2, noon-1:15pm, Bloomington
- Grand Hall, Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center
- Buffet lunch will be provided starting at 11:30

- Thursday, April 2, 3-4pm, Indianapolis
- Ruth Lilly Learning Center Auditorium, Riley Outpatient Center
- Reception and poster session following, 4-5pm

- Friday, April 3, 9-10:30am, South Bend
- Lecture Hall, Wiekamp Hall
- In conjunction with the 2009 Annual Midwest Conference on the
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

More information:
http://www.indiana.edu/~sotl/event_full.php?coursesid=2681

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Lunch time with SysAdmins - Talk to the experts!

You're invited to stop by and visit with the system administrators
who run IU's supercomputers, Big Red and Quarry, two of the most
powerful supercomputers in the world. Ask questions, share ideas,
or just chat in an informal setting. This is an opportunity for
you to learn how these centralized research computing resources
can help support your work. The location changes each month.

* Monday, April 13th, 11:00am-1:00pm
* The Lobby of Informatics East, IUB

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Digital Library Brown Bag Series

All presentations are in Wells Library E174, from 12:00-1:00pm.
More info: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/education/brownbags/

* April 1, 2009
- IUB Libraries Video Streaming Service: A Technical Overview
- Jon Dunn, Mike Durbin and Brian Wheeler

* April 8, 2009
- Finding again: A survey of web rediscovery behavior
- Mark Notess

* April 15, 2009
- A Universal Workbench for Multimedia and Other Temporal Phenomena
- Don Byrd

* April 22, 2009
- Exploring the Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne:
Topic Maps and the Text Encoding Initiative
- John A. Walsh and Michelle Dalmau