November 14-20, 2009
Super Computing annual Conference 2009 will be held at Portland, Oregon. Recognized globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC09 will feature the most interesting and innovative HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world. Visit SC09 Website

October 27-28, 2009
The 9th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop was held at Daejeon, Korea. GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organization that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. Visit GLIF website for more information 

October 5-8, 2009
The Fall 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting was held at San Antonio, Texas. Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70 leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international partner organizations. Visit Internet2 website.  Visit Caribbean Regional Interest Group Website

January 20-22, 2009
The 2009 EduCause Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, Participation and Collaboration: Social Learning for the 21st Century, to explore processes and practices focused on social learning and student success. Click here for more info

Super Computing 2009 Conference, Portland, Oregon, November 14-20, 2009
Super Computing annual Conference 2009 will be held at Portland, Oregon. Recognized globally as the premier international conference on High Performance Computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis, SC09 will feature the most interesting and innovative HPC scientific and technical applications from around the world. Visit SC09 Website.

Heidi Alvarez, Director of Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment, participated at the 9th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop Daejeon, Korea, October 27 - 28, 2009.
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, is an international virtual organization that promotes the paradigm of lambda networking. GLIF provides lambdas internationally as an integrated facility to support data-intensive scientific research, and supports middleware development for lambda networking. It brings together some of the world's premier networking engineers who are working together to develop an international infrastructure by identifying equipment, connection requirements, and necessary engineering functions and services.                                                                        Visit the Website.  View Heidi Alvarez presentation here.

Heidi Alvarez, Director of Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment, participated at Fall 2009 Internet2 Member Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 5-8, 2009.
Internet2 is a not-for-profit advanced networking consortium comprising more than 200 U.S. universities in cooperation with 70 leading corporations, 45 government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international partner organizations. Visit the Website for more information. 

New World Symphony on track for 2011 building opening
September 17, 2009, Miami, FL - The new world symphony's new home continues to sprout upon on Miami Beach and is about a year from completion, its president says.  Read full press release

Heidi Alvarez, Director of Center for Internet Augmented Research and Assessment, participated at the 12th  TRANS-EUROPEAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKING ASSOCIATION (TERENA) Networking Conference 2009
The conference was held in University of Malaga, Spain, June 8 - 11, 2009.  Visit the Website.  View Heidi Alvarez presentation here.

Julio Ibarra, Assistant Vice President of Technology Augmented
Research at FIU, participated at the 10th workshop of Rede Nacional de Pesquisa (RNP)
The conference was held in Recife, Brazil, May 25-26, 2009. Visit the Web site  View Julio Ibarra's presentation here

Julio Ibarra, Assistant Vice President of Technology Augmented
Research at FIU, participated in the annual meeting of the
Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking
(CCIRN)
CCIRN provides a forum for members to agree and progress a set of activities to achieve inter-operable networking services between participating international entities to support open research and scholarly pursuit. He provided the CCIRN with an overview of
AtlanticWave and ia description of ts achievements. Slides to the presentation are available here. For more information about the AtlanticWave, please visit the project web site at http://www.atlanticwave.net.   View the presentation here (4.7 MB PDF)

Florida LambdaRail Joins Forces with CiscoWave and UltraLight/PLaNetS
to enable the AtlanticWave and Brazil’s CMS Tier2 facilities to
participate in Super Computing 2008
November 18, 2008, Austin, TX, – Florida LambdaRail (FLR) joined
forces with CiscoWave (C-Wave), UltraLight/PLaNetS and AtlanticWave (A-
Wave) for the Super Computing 2008 event to enable Brazil’s CMS
distributed Tier2 facility to participate in the bandwidth challenge
competition. Read full press release

June 30 - July 2, 2009
The GCB international program is comprised of a series of geographically distributed projects each supported for a one year period with the goal of having the graduate students and their faculty advisors adopt longer term collaborative strategies. There is a technology transfer relationship between FIU and Calit2 at UCSD in order to realize the vision of team science at all levels of graduate and post-graduate education and research. Calit2 has worked with GCB to move collaborative and visualization tools developed by OptIPuter into a production mode. Now we are able to incorporate both a graduate student project and a summer workshop for GCB students at Calit2 at UCSD, CA.
More information is available at http://www.cyberbridges.net/calit2announcement.html

January 20-22, 2009
The 2009 EduCause Learning Initiative Annual Meeting, Participation and Collaboration: Social Learning for the 21st Century, to explore processes and practices focused on social learning and student success. In the ELI tradition, the annual meeting is a setting for interactive, hands-on learning and networking, with a variety of presentations, discussions, and workshops. Sessions will fall into one of three interest areas: learners, learning principles and practices, and learning technologies. The Meeting will be held in the Caribe Royale Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, Florida on January 20-22, 2009. For more information go to http://net.educause.edu/ELI091

Masoud Sadjadi Presentation
Heidi Alvarez Presentation


December 2, 2008
Ultralight / PLaNetS Tutorial Workshop will be held on December 2, 2008 and hosted by Florida International University. The purpose of the tutorial in Education and Outreach is to disseminate the capabilities and use of the PLaNetS services to support LHC data analysis and other applications. http://www.ciara.fiu.edu/ultralight/

October 29, 2008
Graduate Fellowships for Global Cyberbridges
Informational Workshop
Wed, Oct. 29th, from 1:00 to 2:00 pm at
FIU's Graham University Center, Room 1215 (Conference Room)
Click here for Workshop Flyer and Presentation http://www.cyberbridges.net/events.html
Click here for more about GCB http://www.cyberbridges.net/

October 13, 2008
The Caribbean Regional Emerging Networks will meet on October 13, 2008 as a side meeting to the Fall Internet2 Annual Members Meeting. The meeting will be held at the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more info http://international.internet2.edu/intl_connect/emergingnetworks_sig

JULY 23-24, 2008

Dr. Alvarez's presentation is posted as an attachment on the Internet2 Wiki site
Access Dr. Heidi Alvarez's CTU Presentation here

Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) in association with the Latin American and Caribbean Internet Addresses Registry (LACNIC) host the 4th Caribbean Internet Governance Forum Implementing the Caribbean Internet Governance Agenda: From Proposal to Policy in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, July 23-24, 2008.. Heidi Alvarez was invited to present on the Internet2 evolution and AMPATH – the high performance exchange point in Florida which is facilitating peering and network research between education and research institutions. A presentation on this topic would be of particular interest to the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network delegates and serve to sensitize delegates on the value of research and education networking. For more information go to http://www.ctu.int/events/cigf2008

July 20-21, 2008
CIARA is hosting a network planning group for the LSST telescope project at Florida International University on July 20-21, 2008.  For more information on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope go to www.LSST.org

PASI (Pan American Studies Institute) in Costa Rica has been scheduled for June 1-13, 2008

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For more information please contact Irene Perez at (305) 785-3809.

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