Below is a summary of the Survey of Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Programs that was conducted during November and December 2011. The full details of the survey can be found at: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/survey/summary/

The Great Plains Network Conference brings together network technology and cyberinfrastructure leaders from the region's top research and education universities to explore the critical technology challenges facing the industry. Once again the meeting will take place at Plaza Embassy Suites in Kansas City, MO. This offers an intimate and collegial setting for this year's Annual Meeting and also offers attractions that bring members to KC from all over the Midwest. This year's conference theme is the Nature of the University in a Highly Connected World.

Their mission is to re-invigorate the interest of our nation’s youth in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by producing and presenting the most compelling, exciting, educational and entertaining science festival in the United States. The main website can be accessed from this newsletter.

The sponsoring committee is seeking users, developers and community leaders to submit proposals to present at this event, based on your work with Globus technology. Submissions should be centered on Globus Online or Globus Toolkit and development of related technologies, with emphasis on unique capabilities and value delivered to researchers and other end users.

A program to provide students with an awareness of opportunities arising from the technology associated with the various aspects of cyberinfrastructure has been awarded by NSF EPSCoR. We are now seeking students from eligible colleges and universities within EPSCoR jurisdictions to participate in a year-long program designed to engage and prepare undergraduate and graduate students in learning about and using cyberinfrastructure (CI).

In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. The IEEE International Conference and Workshops on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, aim to bring together researchers who work on cloud computing and related technologies.

Mobile devices and Web 2.0 participatory applications have become pervasive, yet our educational system is still based on an outdated industrial age model. Let's reimagine what education can be in a world where learning is no longer confined to four walls and seven bells. Join in this thought-provoking conversation at the premier education technology leadership conference and celebrate CoSN'€™s 20th anniversary of preparing educational leaders to leverage technology and reimagine learning for today and tomorrow.

Informative meeting times are updated promptly and posted to the HPC User Forum website. US meetings as well as international meetings are shown on the site. Feel free to browse around!