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The Coast-to-Coast Seminar and Remote Mathematical Collaboration

The Coast-to-Coast Seminar and Remote Mathematical Collaboration. Jonathan Borwein, David Langstroth, Mason Macklem, and Scott Wilson D-Drive, Dalhousie University Veselin Jungic IRMACS, Simon Fraser University. Outline. Describe Coast-to-Coast (or C2C) Seminar series

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The Coast-to-Coast Seminar and Remote Mathematical Collaboration

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  1. The Coast-to-Coast Seminar and Remote Mathematical Collaboration Jonathan Borwein, David Langstroth, Mason Macklem, and Scott Wilson D-Drive, Dalhousie UniversityVeselin JungicIRMACS, Simon Fraser University

  2. Outline • Describe Coast-to-Coast (or C2C) Seminar series • Discuss origin and development • Discuss benefits of remote seminar series • Detail additional upcoming seminars

  3. C2C Seminar • Structure: • 1-hour presentation • Held every two weeks • Alternating origin: East Coast/West Coast • Attendance through a number of remote sites located at various universities • Steadily increasing number of participating universities! • Wide range of Mathematical and Computational topics, intended for a broad mathematical audience • Speakers physically located at their local university, simulcast via AccessGrid to all remote locations

  4. C2C Seminar: History • Starting Point: • CoLab (Simon Fraser University): Designed to experiment with communicating mathematics in an interactive environment • Further Developments: • WestGrid: Shared computing resources between Western Canadian universities • IRMACS: New ambitious research institute at SFU • D-DRIVE: CoLab-style research lab at Dalhousie University (Halifax, East-Coast of Canada)

  5. SFU: CoLab (Collaborative Lab) 4 tiled touch-sensitive monitors

  6. WestGrid Stations Shared computing resources between Universities throughout Western Canada Goal: One ‘GridRoom’ (CoLab-style room) per university, to enable “in-person” collaboration between universities!

  7. IRMACS: Interdisciplinary Research in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences

  8. D-Drive: Dalhousie Distributed Research Institute and Virtual Environment

  9. C2C Original Test Locations “Connected” IRMACS (SFU) and D-Drive (Dalhousie)

  10. C2C Locations: 2006-2007 14 Different Universities “connected”!

  11. C2C Seminar: Past Talks • Learning Infrastructure and Content Authoring • Ron Fitzgerald (President, Math Resources, Inc., Halifax) • Computational Biology of Plants • Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz (Computer Science, University of Calgary) • Solving Checkers • Jonathan Schaeffer (Computing Science, University of Alberta) • The Inverse Protein Folding Problem • Arvind Gupta (Computing Science, Simon Fraser University) • The Riemann Hypothesis • Peter Borwein (Executive Director, IRMACS, Simon Fraser University) • Learning Strategies for Underachievers in Mathematics • Sherry Mantyka (Director, Mathematics Learning Centre, Memorial University of Newfoundland) • Mathematical Visualization and Other Learning Tools • Jonathan Borwein (D-Drive Director, Computing Science, Dalhousie University)

  12. C2C Sample Presentation: From D-Drive Presenter Video Presentation Video Remote Audience Video

  13. Camera Placement: Audience View of audience from behind camera

  14. Camera Placement: Presenter Back-left of lab Back-right of lab

  15. Technician’s Desk: D-Drive Local technicians at all sites in contact via messaging software

  16. C2C Sample Presentation: From IRMACS Local Presentation Remote Presentation Speaker Remote Audience Presentation Slides Local Camera Placement

  17. Additional Layout: IRMACS Presentation Camera Technician’s Desk

  18. Minimum Requirements for Participation • Webcam • Microphone (for questions) • AccessGrid (software for audio and video) • Local Technician (best-case scenario) • Participants can attend (or even present) from their own office!

  19. Technical and Organizational Details • Two recent publications outlining process of technical requirements and organizational lessons learned: • Borwein, Jungic, Langstroth, Macklem and Wilson, “The Coast-to-Coast Seminar”, Communicating Mathematics in the Digital Era, AK Peters, 2007 • Borwein, Jungic, Langstroth, Macklem and Wilson, “The C2C Seminar: Five Years of Experience with the AccessGrid”, High Performance Computing Symposium 2007 • Preprints for both are available in the D-Drive DocServer: http://docserver.cs.dal.ca

  20. International Collaborations Halifax: North America, South America, Western Europe and Africa Within 5-hours! Vancouver: North America, South America, Japan, Australia All same-business-day!

  21. How To Join! Contact David Langstroth dll@cs.dal.ca or Veselin Jungic vjungic@sfu.ca for more details!

  22. Acknowledgments • ACEnet, WestGrid, CFI, CANARIE • IRMACS, D-Drive • Canada Research Chair programme, NSERC, Killam Trusts • All participating universities • All of the C2C speakers

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