AGENDA

Conceptualizing a Geospatial Software Institute (GSI)

Workshop 2: Geospatial Use Cases and Core Technical Capabilities

Dates: July 15-17, 2018

Location: BIG 10 Conference center, Rosemont, IL

Position papers are available here. Feel free to utilize our Live Discussions and Notes drive space (http://go.illinois.edu/GSI-discuss) for any comments, questions, or suggestions. Presentations can be found here (http://go.illinois.edu/GSI-workshop2-pres).

For remote participation in the case, you will not be able to travel to the workshop, we will have a video conference option (Meeting ID: 891806373) and Facebook Live Video will be available at https://www.facebook.com/pg/CyberGISCenter/videos/.

Our Twitter hashtag is #GSIfuture.

Sunday, July 15, 2018

Attendees are invited to attend the working dinner at Hofbrauhaus. Dinner will begin at 6:30 pm.

Monday, July 16, 2018

TIME	EVENTS	ROOM
7:00 – 8:00 am	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:05 am	Welcome Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8:05 – 8:45 am	Plenary (Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Use cases and science drivers of geospatial software in the era of big data and cyberGIS from the perspective of USGS, E. Lynn Usery, United States Geological Survey NASA and DARPA and Relevant Geospatial Use Cases and Technology, Chris Mattmann, NASA JPL &University of Southern California
8:45 – 9:15 am	Introduction NSF SI2-S2I2 Conceptualization: Geospatial Software Institute (GSI), Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
*Science Drivers and Use Cases*
9:15 – 9:45 am	Invited Talks (Chair: Dan Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) GSI and the Polar Case Study – Paul Morin, University of Minnesota SESYNC use case – Mary Shelley, SESYNC, University of Maryland
9:45 – 10:25 am	Keynote (Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Simulating Very Large Scale Spatial Systems Modelling Challenges & Software Systems, Michael Batty, CASA, University College London
10:25 – 10:40 am	Break
10:40 – 11:00 am	Lightning Talks (Chair: Jeff Carver, University of Alabama) Improving Access to Big Climate Data, Kyle Bocinsky, Montana Climate Office Governing the Subsurface: Squandered Opportunities, Debra Laefer, New York University Geospatial Intelligence Use Case, Alexander Sun, The University of Texas at Austin Ensuring best practices for computational reproducibility of long tail data in intensive geospatial scientific research, Tyson Swetnam, BIO5 Institute University of Arizona
11:00 – 12:15 pm	Open Discussion/Charrette (Chair: Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR/Unidata) What are the most pressing scientific questions in your domain? Are there opportunities for new data sources to inform scientific questions in your domain? For example, social media, sensors, etc. Which geospatial software tools need to be advanced to solve pressing scientific questions. Which geospatial data sources are most relevant and what problems might they help solve if new or improved software tools were available to work with those data? Groups Social Sciences (Ned English, NORC, University of Chicago) Geosciences (David Tarboton, Utah State University) Environmental Science and Engineering (Margaret Palmer, SESYNC, University of Maryland) Crosscutting (Chris Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California)
12:15 – 1:15 pm	Lunch
*Education and Workforce Development*
1:15 – 2:30 pm	Open Discussion/Charrette (Chair: Donna J. Cox, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) What are the key challenges and opportunities of education and workforce development that GSI should focus on? What deliverables and programs should GSI pursue to advance education and workforce development? What is the niche of GSI’s efforts on education and workforce development in the broad context of scientific software and data science? Charrette Leads Marc Armstrong, The University of Iowa Coline Dony, American Association of Geographers Michael Goodchild, UC Santa Barbara Karen Kemp, University of Southern California
*Core Technical Capabilities*
2:30 – 3:00 pm	Invited Talks (Chair: Fusheng Wang, Stonybrook University) CyberGIS – Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign A Cloud-based Science Gateway for the Geoscience Community – Mohan Ramamurthy, UCAR/Unidata
3:00 – 3:45 pm	Break
3:45 – 5:00 pm	Open Discussion/Charrettes (Chair: Dan Katz, NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) What are most compelling examples of core technical capabilities? How to advance and evolve such capabilities meeting the needs of pertinent communities? Groups Application Software (Peter Heinz Löwe, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)) Fundamental Cyberinfrastructure Software (Marlon Pierce, Indiana University) Geospatial Software (E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey) Integration, Interoperability, and Reproducibility (Tyson Swetnam, BIO5 Institute University of Arizona)
5:00 – 6:00 pm	Panel Discussion on Bridging Use Cases and Core Technical Capabilities Are there any significant gaps between the use cases and core technical capabilities that GSI should address? What does GSI need to do to address community needs and contribute to the national CI ecosystem? Panelists Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Lab (chair) Maggi Kelly, UC Berkeley Mark Korver, Amazon Web Services George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium Tapani Sarjakoski, Finnish Geospatial Research Institute Dane Skow, North Dakota State University
6:00 – 6:30 pm	Summarizing the day
6:30 – 7:30 pm	Working Dinner

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

TIME	EVENTS	ROOM
7:15 – 8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:00 – 8:10 am	Reflection on the first-day’s progress (Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
8:10 – 8:30 am	GSI Survey Analysis (Chair: Donna Cox, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Who are the users? What are their needs? Results from the GSI User Survey, Will Barley, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
8:30 – 9:10 am	Keynote (Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Array of Things: New Kind of Urban Instrument, Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago
9:10 – 10:10 am	Open Discussion/Charrette on Roles and Functions of GSI (Chair: Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) What use cases and core capabilities should GSI prioritize and why? What are the optimal processes and mechanisms for GSI to deliver its strategic leadership? What are the desirable roles and deliverables of GSI? Charrette Leads Chris Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California Reagan Moore, RENCI George Percivall, Open Geospatial Consortium Karthik Ram, UC Berkeley
10:10 – 10:30 am	Q & A with NSF Program Directors (Chair: Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Rajiv Ramnath, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
10:30 – 10:45 am	Break
10:45 – 11:00 am	Report back from Open Discussion/Charrette on Roles and Functions of GSI (Chair: Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
11:00 – 11:30 am	Lightning Talks (Chair: Anand Padmanabhan, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Software to Integrate Geographic Information Systems and Operations Research Capabilities: The Use Case of Unmanned Vehicle Logistics, Kevin Curtin, University of Alabama Carol Song, Purdue University Reproducibility as a Core Capability, Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Fundamental Visual Analytics Tools for Geospatial Big Data, James Wang, The Pennsylvania State University Parsl: A Python-based Parallel Scripting Library, Dan Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
11:30 – 12:30 pm	Workshop Synthesis – Plans for GSI (Panel) What are the most significant findings out of this workshop? What are the recommendations for next steps? Have we missed any major topics or issues that should have been addressed by the workshop? Panelists Shaowen Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Chair) Michael Goodchild, UC Santa Barbara Dan Katz, NCSA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Paul Morin, University of Minnesota Margaret Palmer, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center & University of Maryland E. Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey
12:30 – 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Adjourn