Minutes from the Jan 27 10AM meeting on starting the seminars on scientific computing
Present: Richard Dubois, Henry van den Bedem, Vineet Rawat, Arno Candel.
Seminar details:
- Location: On-site at SLAC, ideally at Kavli auditorium
- Speakers: From all directorates at SLAC, and quite possibly from Stanford or other places, including companies, either local or remote (if no significant cost incurred to get the speakers here)
- Frequency: Bi-weekly to start off, maybe switch to monthly after a while, depending on speaker lineup and/or interest
- Local organizing committee: Led by Arno, with input from the Scientific Computing Steering Committee. These are the representatives of each directorate (http://www6.slac.stanford.edu/Directorates.aspx): ** AD: Arno Candel
- LCLS: TBD
- PPA: Richard Dubois and Norman Graf
- Photon Science: TBD
- SSRL: Henry van den Bedem
- Randy Melen represents the Computing Division and Office of the CIO, formerly known as Scientific Computing and Computing Services (SCCS)
- Funds: We will need financial support for coffee, cookies, etc. (to be served after the talks to promote discussions) and also for taking outside speakers to lunch etc. We agreed that the availability of these funds is critical to the success of this seminar series.
- Advertisement: Notices, Website - We expect to see a feature story on SLAC Today to announce the seminar series and the workshop. Each seminar will then be announced on SLAC Today, SLAC web calendar, and via posters, mailing lists, etc. Hopefully, there will be a strong unified presence for sci comp at SLAC's website in the future.
- Recordings: We agreed on the need for audio/video recordings. Live webcasts are not intended at this point.
Proposed time line for the first 5 seminars (each from another directorate):
- End of April (or as soon as Amber is here): 1st seminar, also promote the upcoming workshop
- Mid of May: 2nd seminar
- End of May: sci comp workshop
- Mid of June: 3rd seminar
- End of June: 4th seminar
- Mid of July: 5th seminar
- Summer break
- Fall: Resume on either a bi-weekly or monthly schedule
Actions:
- Arno to identify the remaining members of the seminar LOC and ask everyone to provide candidates for speakers for at least the first five seminars
- Arno to contact SLAC Today to start planning for a feature story on the seminars
- Richard to ask Persis about availability of funds for seminars
- Norm and Randy to remember and inform us about the reasons for the demise of the previous seminar series
- For later: Seminar recording availability, advertisement details, location reservation