Monday, August 5 – Gorsuch Commons Room 107, University of Alaska Anchorage
- 8:30am Registration and coffee
- 9:00am Welcome & Icebreaker
- Welcome, Dr. Aaron Dotson, UAA Vice Chancellor for Research
- 9:30am NSF Keynote and Welcome (CISE Research Expansion Landscape and Opportunities)
- Dr. Subrata Acharya, NSF Lead-CISE Research Expansion Programs
- 10:30am Lightning Talks
- 11:00am Break
- 11:15am Lightning Talks
- 12:00 noon Lunch
- 1:00pm NSF: National AI Research Resource Pilot Program (NAIRR) – remote presentation
- Dr. Sharon Geva, Co-Lead NAIRR Pilot Program Management Office, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CISE/OAC)
- 2:00pm Breakout Discussion, Challenges/Barriers for you to submit to NSF
- 2:45pm Report out
- 3:00pm Checklist for Success from NSF funded PIs
- Dr. Kanwalinderjit Kaur, CSU Bakersfield
- Dr. Sharma Thankachan, North Carolina State University
- Dr. Arghya Kusum Das, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Dr. Uttam Ghosh, Meharry Medical College
- Dr. Gokarna Sharma, Kent State University
- 3:45pm Break
- 4:00pm Divisional Updates
- Dr. Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Office of Advanced Cyber Infrastructure (CISE/OAC) – remote
- Dr. Jim Fowler, Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CISE/CCF)
- Dr. Michelle Rogers, CISE Expert (CISE/CNS and CISE/IIS)
- 4:45pm Questions for NSF
- 5:00pm Adjourn
- 5:30pm Optional no-host social event – Varsity Sports Grill, UAA Alaska Airlines Center
Tuesday, August 6 – Gorsuch Commons Room 107, University of Alaska Anchorage
- 9:00am Welcome, Small group discussions around proposal ideas
- 10:15am NSF: Budget Guidance – remote presentation. Slides, funding cancellation table, prior approval matrix.
- Janelle Gosey, Division of Grants and Agreements
- 11:15am NSF: ExpandAI – remote presentation
- Dr. Dillon Watring, AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow (CISE/IIS)
- 12:00 noon Working lunch with mentors and potential collaborators, discuss ideas for collaboration/proposal, overcoming barriers
- 1:00pm Report out, conclusions
- 1:15pm NSF open office hours
- 2:00pm Adjourn
Wednesday, August 7 (Optional) – Meet 10am in the bottom floor of the Engineering and Computation Building (ECB)
- Post-workshop visit by NSF CISE targeted toward local/Alaska participants. Activities include lab and campus visits, office hours, 1:1 meetings with administrators, and meetings with faculty, staff, graduate students, and researchers.