*Daily sessions will run from 9AM until 5PM on Thursday and 9am until 4PM on Friday.

Goal

One major goal for this workshop is a clear discussion and path forward for recognizing barriers and opportunities for research and education as the fields of chemistry and allied sciences continue to adopt and develop cyber-based tools and technologies.

Speakers

Each day will begin with a featured keynote address. On Thursday we will listen to Professor Peter Murray-Rust (Dept. of Chemistry, Cambridge University) discuss his groups work, while on Friday we welcome Professor Jiawei Han (Dept. of Computer Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) who will present a lecture entitled, "Mining, Indexing, and Searching Graphs in Massive Bio-Chemical Data Sets".

The remainder of the workshop will be compromised of breakout sessions and 20 minute lectures followed by discussions on a range of topics relevant to Chemistry in the Digital Age. Invited speakers include Professor Geoffrey Fox (Indiana), Professor Jeremy Frey (Southampton), Dr. Kerstin Lehnert (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory), Professor Peter Turner (Sydney), Dr. Bill Town (Kilmorie Clarke Ltd), Carl Lagoze (Cornell) and others - including local Penn State participants from the Departments of Information Science and Technology, Chemistry, and Geosciences.

Tentative Event Schedule

Educational Focus

One important opportunity that we will address is the education of domain scientists (chemists, geochemists, chemical physicists, hydrologists, etc.) as computer and web experts, while also training IT scientists and technolgists as integrated chemical researchers. One area of special interest to the organizers is in the field of environmental chemical kinetics, encompassing interdisciplinary projects such as those currently found within the Penn State Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis, and expanding further into related fields of atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and green chemistry.

Anticipated Outcomes

The outcomes of this workshop will begin with increased collaborations within and beyond an already collaborative group, expanding our nucleus of researchers from PSU and the University of Southampton to include others from universities, national laboratories, and commerce. This group will then be well poised to anticipate and capitalize on Requests for Proposals (RFPs) from organizations such as the National Science Foundation along both education and research tracks. Examples of such RFPs include the DataNet Partnerships, the NSF IGERT program, the Centers for Chemical Innovation, and the Digging for Data Challenge.

Registration

To Register for this event, please fill out the Registration Form and email or fax to Adrian Weaver (aun3@psu.edu)/Fax (814) 863-8403.  Please register by 3 June 2009 to assist us in planning:  after 3 June space will be available on a limited basis.

Accommodations

Days Inn-Penn State
240 South Pugh Street
State College, PA 16801
(814) 238-8454

Group Code: CGCHEM

For more information please visit their site.

Workshop Support

This workshop has been made possible with the kind support of the Office of the Vice President for Research at Penn State, the Worldwide Universities Network, the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and the Eberly College of Science at PSU, the Penn State Institute for Cyberscience and the College of Information Science and Technology, and Microsoft Research.

For further information regarding this workshop, please contact Mrs. Adrian Weaver (aun3@psu.edu) or Professor Karl T. Mueller (ktm2@psu.edu)