May 7, May 23, and June 11, 2024 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT. Cybersecurity Workforce Data Initiative Workshops. Through these workshops, the public has the opportunity to provide input that will shape a possible future federal data collection on the U.S. cybersecurity workforce. Taking place in May and June 2024, these workshops will address three broad themes: Defining the Cybersecurity Workforce; Understanding the Knowledge Gaps: What do we need to learn about the cybersecurity workforce?; Aligning the Supply and Demand of Cybersecurity Professionals.

Student paper submissions due April 30, 2024 for the 52nd Research Conference On Communications, Information, And Internet Policy, September 20-21, 2024, Washington College Of Law, American University, Washington, D.C.

The 2024 MS-CC Annual Meeting is May 29-31 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. The MS-CC Annual Meeting is a gathering of your peers, practitioners, community- builders, advocates, and leaders from HBCUs, TCUs, and other MSI’s. Registration is free and travel support is available.

Student, Professional, and Institutional Development:

  • Nominations accepted through May 1, 2024, 11:59pm Pacific Time. PEARC Seeking Nominations for 2026 Conference Chair and Steering Committee Members. All members of the community are eligible to serve in these roles. Individuals can self-nominate or nominate another person as a potential Steering Committee Member-at-Large or PEARC 2026 Conference General Chair(s).
  • May 7, May 23, and June 11, 2024 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT. Cybersecurity Workforce Data Initiative Workshops. Through these workshops, the public has the opportunity to provide input that will shape a possible future federal data collection on the U.S. cybersecurity workforce. Taking place in May and June 2024, these workshops will address three broad themes: Defining the Cybersecurity Workforce; Understanding the Knowledge Gaps: What do we need to learn about the cybersecurity workforce?; Aligning the Supply and Demand of Cybersecurity Professionals.
  • Applications due May 15, 2024! Event: July 20, 2024. Providence, RI. PEARC24 Student Program. The SP begins two days ahead of the general conference. The SP activities offer skill development, mentorship and networking opportunities which will help students begin their journey into their careers and connect them to research computing and data (RCD) professionals and scientists within academia, industry and government.
  • May 21-23, 2024. Boulder, CO. RMACC’s 14th annual HPC Symposium. The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) is a collaboration among academic and research institutions located throughout the intermountain states. Our mission is to facilitate the widespread effective use of high-performance computing. Travel scholarship may still be available, please send an email to rmacc@colorado.edu with your name, institution, and a brief description of your request.
  • May 13-17 2024, U Oklahoma Norman campus. Linux Clusters Institute Workshop, Intermediate Cluster Supercomputer System Administration. If you have some experience as an HPC Linux system administrator and want to expand your skills, this is the workshop for you! In just five days you will: Strengthen your overall knowledge of HPC system administration; Focus in depth on file systems and storage, HPC networks, job schedulers, and Ceph; Get hands-on training and discuss real-life stories with experienced HPC administrators. Those who have attended an LCI Introductory Workshop in the past are especially encouraged to attend! Prerequisite: One year of experience with cluster supercomputer system administration
  • June 3-7 2024, Virtual. BaseCAMP 2024. Perfect for those new to IAM, looking to level up skills, or simply want to connect with peers. BaseCAMP is a path forward in the IAM journey where IT professionals can connect, share, and grow together.You and your team will: Learn essential IAM concepts, principles, and lingo; Gain insights on understanding your IAM environment, developing and managing IAM programs, and staying ahead of future trends; Get the basics on the Trusted Access Platform, federation, working with vendors, IAM analytics; Exchange ideas and experiences, build new relationships, broaden perspectives, and enhance professional networks. Participating MS-CC institutions can use code c85f5f when registering to leverage the $450 price.

 

Virtual Meetings, Webinars, and Recordings

  • April 30 at 4:00pm EDT. EPSCoR Live! This EPSCoR Live! session will be of particular interest to researchers and leaders within research administration in EPSCoR jurisdictions, who would like to learn more about the building EPSCoR research ecosystems through the E-CORE and E-RISE funding opportunities. 
  • Webcast. May 1, 2024. Virtual Q&A: EPIIC. The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) is hosting a question and answer webinar about the Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program's newest funding opportunity. In this session, program directors will answer questions from participants about preparing a proposal.
  • Webinar. May 2, 2024. COMPLECS: Parallel Computing Concepts. supercomputer architectures, the differences between threads and processes, implementations of parallelism (e.g., OpenMP and MPI), strong and weak scaling, limitations on scalability (Amdahl’s and Gustafson’s Laws) and benchmarking. We also discuss how to choose the appropriate number of compute cores or nodes when running your applications and, when appropriate, the best balance between threads and processes. No programming experience required.
  • Webinar. May 6, 9, 20, 2024, 4pm ET. AccelNet Office Hours: May 2024. Ask questions about the Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations program (AccelNet). Program goals are to 1) leverage prior NSF support for building research capacity towards activities that launch international research network of networks (NoN) that will lead to an accelerated advancement of an area of science after the award period and 2) recruit and foster a diverse and internationally competent US-based workforce trained in conducting and leading multi-team international collaboration.
  • Webinar Series, May 6-10, 2024, 1pm ET. What’s Up in the Cloud? Informal webinars intended to spur conversations about the cloud knowledge-skills gap among researchers. We’ll explore various topics throughout the week, including research computing, cloud security, and artificial intelligence. The week will conclude with final presentations from the CLASS Advanced Spring 2024 Cohort participants. These presentations will showcase the fantastic work done by these individuals as they develop a community playbook for design patterns in research cyberinfrastructure workflows.
  • Webcast. May 9, 2024 2pm ET. EducateAI and Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE:CUE) Webinar. The IUSE:CUE program aims to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers. EducateAI also supports the goals of the NAIRR pilot initiative.
  • Webinar. May 15, 1 p.m. ET. IAM 101 – The 2024 Edition. Get up to speed on Identity and Access Management (IAM) before InCommon BaseCAMP 2024! This webinar lays the groundwork for understanding IAM in the dynamic research and education landscape and tips and lessons learned around core principles, practices, and essential functions of a robust IAM program. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a newcomer to the field, this session will provide valuable insights to help you navigate the complex landscape of IAM. Plus, this webinar is the ideal primer for those planning to attend BaseCAMP 2024.
  • Webinar. May 16, 2024. COMPLECS: Intermediate Linux and Shell Scripting. In this session, we assume that participants are already comfortable with basic Linux operations such as creating, deleting and renaming files, and navigating between directories. Topics covered include the filesystem hierarchy, file permissions, symbolic and hard links, wildcards and file globbing, finding commands and files, environment variables and modules, configuration files, aliases, history and tips for effective Bash shell scripting.

 

Announcements, Opportunities w/Deadlines

  • Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce (RENEW). This initiative supports traineeships for students and postdoctoral researchers from non-R1 emerging research institutions and non-R1 minority serving institutions in areas relevant to SC programs. SC seeks applications to develop traineeships for participants from these institutions that involve conducting research in partnership with a DOE-affiliated institution, including DOE National Laboratories, SC user facilities, Bioenergy Research Centers, or DOE Isotope Program Production Sites.Pre-application required, due April 30 2024.
  • Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Computing in Undergraduate Education (IUSE: CUE). This program aims to better prepare a wider, more diverse range of students to collaboratively use computation across a range of contexts and challenging problems. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation focuses on re-envisioning how to teach computing effectively to a broad group of students, in a scalable manner, with an emphasis on broadening participation of groups who are underrepresented and underserved by traditional computing courses and careers. Full proposals due May 30 2024.
  • Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Mathematical Reasoning (AIMing). program seeks to support research at the interface of innovative computational and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and new strategies/technologies in mathematical reasoning to automate knowledge discovery. Recent technological advances have led to a surge of interest in machine-assisted mathematical reasoning from the mathematical sciences, formal methods, and AI communities.  In turn, advances in this field have potential impact on research in AI. Full proposals due June 3 2024.
  • Computer Science for All (CSforAll: Research and RPPs). This program aims to provide all U.S. students with the opportunity to participate in computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) education in their schools at the preK-12 levels. With this solicitation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) focuses on both research and research-practice partnerships (RPPs) that foster the research and development needed to bring CS and CT to all schools. Full proposals due June 4 2024.